  (playing now: NERD- Fly or Die) As far as I can tell, Bill Clinton's only profession was candidate. I'm 300 pages deep into My Life and most of the non-campaign talk feels like "stuff I did until the next campaign. " Don't get me wrong. I get the sense that this man was equal parts ambition and idealism. I suppose that dichotomy also defined the line between his most passionate supporters and his most vehement critics. David Pryor is mentioned a few times in the book. I think Senator Pryor brought politics to life for me. There wasn't a time in my life previous to meeting Senator Pryor that I can remember being passionate about much. Life was good and I was experiencing it. After I graduated from Tufts I was on the road with Goat and Mike, going to the conventions- the RNC in Philly and the DNC in LA.
I remember that I was still very skeptical about politics and politicians. Sometime in the fall of 2000 when UL was picked up by Harvard, I had the opportunity to sit down with him and Cathy McLaughlin. There is not a single moment that I can identify as when the Senator inspired me, it just happened over time. His character overcame my cynicism. Fellas, have you ever noticed how so many women look a lot better at work or on a regular day than when they get all dressed up to go out?
Too much makeup, too much hair. Men and women speak completely different languages. (now playing- Neptunes Greatest Hits) "I know that I'm carrying on. Never mind if I'm showing off. I was just frontin'. " - Pharrell Hip-Hop is doing big things right now. It probably would be hard to appreciate the growth in the genre if you just got into it. Lately, I've been taking time to re-listen to old CD's I bought in college/high school.
Somebody needs to take all the classic, artsy beats and throw modern day artists on them. E.G.- Kanye over Pharcyde's "Passing Me By. " "...and after 12th grade I went straight to college. " - DMC Mase- Clark Atlanta David Banner- Southern University, U Maryland (Masters level) Talib Kweli- NYU Lauryn Hill- Columbia University Ashanti- got into Princeton Will Smith- got into MIT Ludacris- GA State University DMC- John Jay University I was fairly disappointed by Fahrenheit 911.
It was definitely entertaining. Partisan loyalty aside, listening to the POTUS stumble over the obstacle course that is the English language is bunker proof. Most of the rest was hardly new information. Chappelle's "Black Bush" was better. I was a little surprised by the way Moore glossed over (read: completely left out) Saddam's troubled history in the region. The fact of the matter is that Saddam is a brutal dictator who killed his own people and tried to assassinate an American President. He is arguably more powerful than the world's other brutal dictators because he controls a sizable share of Earth's oil supply. Democratic leaders- to include President Clinton- supported action in Iraq. Clinton even went on record defending the Bush admin's claims of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities in Iraq.
I just can't believe that the POTUS flat out lied. I also can't support the way that he blew the international community off and rendered the UN useless. The UN doesn't need much help making itself useless though. I am still perplexed by their stance toward the Sudan. Here is a nation clearly in need of international intervention and support. Present day Sudan has a wide-ranging and very active slave trade. Moreover, the oil-rich Darfur region of the country is home to the Janjaweed militias that are slaughtering (at least) tens of thousands of innocent civilians and displacing far more. 
