Word: pardoner
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...Clinton hasn't murdered anyone (although his most rabid enemies say he's not even past that), but like O.J., his very presence makes us all a little bit uncomfortable. We just wish he'd stay offstage. The Marc Rich pardon has been a moral tipping point for Clinton. Even those who have always defended him have become suddenly silent. His own Al Cowlings, Bill Daley, the former commerce secretary, criticized Clinton on the front page of today's New York times...
...some reason, the pardon has made even his staunchest allies question him. For those who consider him the Beelzebub of American politics, it's just par for the course. As Sophocles wrote, consider no man happy till you know his end. Consider no politician successful till you know how he leaves office...
...more than it hurts you. But because of his sheer tenacity; his absolute and unwavering refusal to just go away, already; his ability to bump real news stories from the front pages to the back of the papers, and, finally, because of the utter tawdriness of the Marc Rich pardon, we've named former president Bill Clinton our Person of the Week...
...eleventh-hour pardon of financier Marc Rich was received badly from the start, but this week, as House and Senate committees dissected Clinton's decision, the pardon emerged as both universally abhorrent and colossally stupid. Rich's ex-wife, Denise, spent the last two years of Clinton's administration pouring money into Democratic causes, including Hillary Clinton's Senate race, as well as Clinton's presidential library fund. Was it a direct quid pro quo for her ex-husband's pardon? Legally, the criminal intent is nearly impossible to prove. But it doesn't really matter - appearances alone...
...Arlen Specter and Bob Barr had their way with Clinton's dubious pardon back in Washington, the former president himself was plotting another brilliant p.r. move a bit further north. Tuesday, sources announced Clinton was abandoning his much-maligned quest for top-floor office space at a pricey midtown office tower in favor of a relative bargain in the heart of Harlem. Where General Accounting Office types and indignant Republicans had been up in arms over the midtown rental specs, Harlem's neighborhood boosters were beside themselves with glee - Clinton's presence on 125th Street was bound to invigorate...