  I spent the day recuperating from a cold, and hence, catching up on my TiVo memory. Random and fortuitous, I picked two non-fictions documentaries to watch: last week's urlLink Frontline, the Jesus Factor and HBO's Monica in Black and White .
What resulted was a calculated comparison of two president's weaknesses. George W. Bush clearly traded his addiction to alcohol for religious fervor that many mistake for faith. Bill Clinton's weakness was--famously--women, or, perhaps more accurately, infidelity. The two programs together formed a more powerful message than either could be apart. I find myself wanting to bundle them on videos and share this experience with friends. Oh! What I wouldn't give to be listening to pundits pander about Mon's thong right now rather than Abu Graib.
We were such an innocent country then. We tarried over the big sentence the President said in angst and supposed ernst: I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Now, we focus on the tedium of the urlLink words in Bush's State of the Union speech in 03, as well as the tedium of the definition of torture and whether the US urlLink is bound to the Geneva Convention .
In my fantasies now, in the one debate we're likely to see between Kerry and Bush, Bush tries to blame all his mistakes on the Clinton administration and Kerry answers that if Republicans didn't have the FBI so tied up in intimidating Monica Lewinsky and investigating Clinton for six years, they might have had more time to gather intelligence. 
