IF YOU AIN'T TALKIN' ABOUT HIM, HE AIN'T LISTENING

The Clinton "interview"----my take is that everything has always been about him. When the interview started to focus on what he did or didn't do about terrorism, he lost it because he could not absorb the possibility that the question had a broader context. What did he, and every president through Reagan, do about terrorism during the past quarter century. He can't think about all that because it would take the focus off him. He saw it as a personal attack at him; another right wing conspiracy to ruin his legacy; the smear patrol after poor innocent me period. He cannot "get" that everything this country has done or didn't do since Reagan cut and ran after 220 marines were killed in the Beirut barracks attack must be scrutinized. Whenever Clinton gets to pose before an audience, all he will display is his narcissism.

For a eye opening juxtaposition of Clinton yesterday and Clinton denying he "ever had sex with that woman," go here to Rodger Schultz. It's a confirmation.

Note his demeanor when he got to talk about his "foundation. He saw this part of the interview as an opportunity to pose and dissemble even about the fund raising to help people. Looking at the fund raising being done, it seems that the foundation is designed as much to help the donors as it is to help "poor people."

A look at what "help" the poor will receive from some of the self centered gazillionaires who were present as his fund raising will show the elitist and superficial Clinton pals at their finest, one of them posing as peacock on left after donating a billion dollars to stop smoking in Africa.

One gazillionaire woman who was torn about which problem to tackle, later settled on climate change, committing herself to work for energy conservation in the 150 high-rise buildings that her company manages in New York City.

The people who run Citigroup made a pledge to see how they can make money off the poor: they cumulatively committed to spend over $1 billion (of shareholder money, not their own) on microfinance programs that provide poor people with loans, savings and insurance. Not free insurance, just plain old profit making insurance. It goes on like this as the wealthy deem it necessary to preen before others by "donating" billions that belong to other people in order to make money from a different demographic. But even more importantly, they get to "look good" to the cocktail party circuit and society dinner dinner crowd. None of these "doners" will admit that they are just making one more investment that they hope will make them even richer and, in passing even more important and respected.

Clinton brings to mind Marlon Brando's definition of an actor: "If you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening." That's Clinton to a tee.