Great Minds Think Alike?

I have always loved Camille Paglia's columns on Salon.com, and it was a shame when she took a several year hiatus a couple of years ago. She is one of the few columnists out there today that can effortlessly combine social and political commentary in the same piece of work. She's also one of the few prominent, liberal voices that has consistently criticized the Clintons for being complete sell outs to the progressive agenda, especially when it comes to putting action-to-words on feminist issues.

So imagine my delight when I saw her latest column entitled "Queen Hillary's Disruptive Court". Nice to see I "beat" one of my favorite authors to the punch by about 12 hours! She does make some very nice points that I neglected to mention, such as the comparison between what our political system calls debate vs. the truly great oration and debate required in the British Parliamentary system. I have long thought that we could have solved another Clinton political problem if we had been governed by a parliamentary system. Rather than go through the drama of impeachment in President Clinton's final years, he simply would have been requested to step down and been replaced by Al Gore. Think how much more traction Gore would have had in 2000 if he had his own record to run on, rather than the baggage of Bill's bimbo eruptions. There's no guaranteeing Gore's snickering during debates and wooden delivery style wouldn't have canned his presidential aspirations like they did in 2000, but perhaps Bush would have had fewer opportunities to score easy points talking about "taking a steam cleaner to the Oval office" and had to put his record up against Gore's.