Christopher Hitchens vs. Pat Buchanan Part 2: Socialism and Bill Clinton (1993)

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Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. (born August 15, 1935) is a lawyer and business executive in the United States. He served as a close adviser to President Bill Clinton and has become known as an influential figure in American politics.

"Morning in America" is the common name of an effective political campaign television commercial formally titled "Prouder, Stronger, Better" and featuring the opening line "It's morning again in America." The ad was part of the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign of Republican Party candidate Ronald Reagan. It featured a montage of images of Americans going to work and a calm, optimistic narration that suggested the improvements to the U.S. economy since his 1980 election were due to Reagan's policies and asked voters why they would want to return to the pre-Reagan policies of Democrats like his opponent Walter Mondale.

It is generally considered one of the most effective political campaign ads ever made, mainly for its simple, optimistic message. The phrase "It's morning again in America" is used both as a literal statement (people are shown going to work) and a metaphor for renewal.

In 1963, two influential moments in Clinton's life contributed to his decision to become a public figure. One was his visit as a Boys Nation senator to the White House to meet President John F. Kennedy. The other was listening to Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech (he memorized Dr. King's words).

With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S. F.S.) degree in 1968. He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, working as an intern for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. While in college he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Clinton was also a member of Youth Order of DeMolay, but he never actually became a Freemason. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi's National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc.

Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though as a result of switching programs and leaving early for Yale, he did not obtain a degree there. He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas. While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests, including organizing an October 1969 Moratorium event. In later life he admitted to smoking cannabis at the university, but famously said that he "never inhaled." He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens; Robert Jackson; William Waldegrave; Edwina Currie; Stephen Milligan; John Scarlett; William Blair; John Redwood and Gyles Brandreth.

During his time at Yale, Clinton took a job with the McGovern campaign and was assigned to lead McGovern's effort in Texas. He spent considerable time in Dallas, Texas, at the McGovern campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue where he had an office. There, Clinton worked with Ron Kirk, who was later elected mayor of Dallas twice; future governor of Texas Ann Richards, and then unknown television director (and future filmmaker) Steven Spielberg.


In an excerpt from his memoir, Hitch-22, published in June 2010, Hitchens wrote: "There was a time when I could reckon to outperform all but the most hardened imbibers, but I now drink relatively carefully." He described his current imbibing routine while he is working as follows: "At about half past midday, a decent slug of Mr. Walker's amber restorative, cut with Perrier water (an ideal delivery system) and no ice. At luncheon, perhaps half a bottle of red wine: not always more but never less. Then back to the desk, and ready to repeat the treatment at the evening meal. No "after dinner drinks"—​most especially nothing sweet and never, ever any brandy. "Nightcaps" depend on how well the day went, but always the mixture as before. No mixing: no messing around with a gin here and a vodka there."

On 30 June 2010, Hitchens postponed his book tour from Hitch-22 to undergo treatment for esophageal cancer.

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[CaledoniaJMR]

@baz2186 - Are you kidding? He has a sexy voice.

[radomu1]

haha, hitch makes a foreshadowing of the Lewinsky affair

[Craigmin]

@i3u7n5 How is Buchanan's point "interesting" in light of the recent bailouts?

[xxcrysad3000xx]

@ProperMuzik Bill O'rielly is now considered a paragon of culture and manners compared to the rest of the dregs on cable news, that includes most of the MSNBC cronies who make a point not to have intelligent people for discussion on their nightly broadcast--instead presenting opinion and bias as fact and rewarding the loudest and meanest with the prize of the next vacant TV slot.

[i3u7n5]

Interesting point Buchanan makes re: the redistribution of money in the form of "rewards" as he put it for people of lesser means or performing altruistic civic activities being a precursor to socialism. Fast forward to today - the moral inverse of this proposal of redistribution of wealth and rewards are issued to the agents of greed responsible for the current global economic crisis in the form of bailouts and bonuses. *That* form of socialism seems to perfectly agreeable to Washington.

[ThirstyDad65]

love them both, thanks for this

[knightschwartz]

The GOP sold its soul. With NAFTA, with amensty, with the war on terror.

[RightWingHunter666]

@ 4:49 - Lmao thats hilarious when he shows Hitchens that picture of the two young blond women with Bill Clinton.

[atheistkyo]

I love Christopher's voice.

[hugoegbert79]

David Cameron's government in the UK are trying to push a similar thing to this "Politics of Meaning" bullshit-they call it "The Big Society". I recognised it when Hitchens was describing it. Interesting that fraudulent political leaders come out with this fig leaf every now and then.

[gujjucheap]

for obvious reasons?.................... wow people were different back then