http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2004/11/19/bill-clinton-buddhist-sage/ An Irreverent Look at the Glocalized World Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2004/11/19/bill-clinton-buddhist-sage/comment-page-1/#comment-3044 Josh Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:51:48 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2004/11/19/bill-clinton-buddhist-sage/#comment-3044 I was at the dedication of the man's library. I didn't hear much of his speech though because of the rain. On the tickets to get into the place it said you weren't allowed to bring umbrellas. Those sitting in our areas, the sections away from the stage, followed that rule for the most part and the few who disobeyed had their umbrellas confiscated. Those near the stage however, all seemed to have umbrellas. Why is that? My dad thought preferential treatment. I figured the people up front we're used to doing things in their interest and didn't heed the umbrella prohibition in the face of the weather forecast. Luckily a nice lady gave me a poncho, my dad wasn't so lucky. By the time Clitnon spoke my dad had finally caved into the chills and so we walked away and I became preoccupied, unable to listen to the man's words. What I've seen him say on television lately has been interesting though, a few times it seems like he reflects as he's answering, his eyes cast down before he speaks. I don't know if that's something he did while he was president or if it because of a freedom to act a different way now that he's no longer president. The other two ex-presidents gave funny speeches, and the current one gave a pretty boring one. But anyway, I'm gonna read the text of his speech some day and see what I missed out on. I was at the dedication of the man’s library. I didn’t hear much of his speech though because of the rain. On the tickets to get into the place it said you weren’t allowed to bring umbrellas. Those sitting in our areas, the sections away from the stage, followed that rule for the most part and the few who disobeyed had their umbrellas confiscated. Those near the stage however, all seemed to have umbrellas. Why is that? My dad thought preferential treatment. I figured the people up front we’re used to doing things in their interest and didn’t heed the umbrella prohibition in the face of the weather forecast. Luckily a nice lady gave me a poncho, my dad wasn’t so lucky. By the time Clitnon spoke my dad had finally caved into the chills and so we walked away and I became preoccupied, unable to listen to the man’s words.
What I’ve seen him say on television lately has been interesting though, a few times it seems like he reflects as he’s answering, his eyes cast down before he speaks. I don’t know if that’s something he did while he was president or if it because of a freedom to act a different way now that he’s no longer president. The other two ex-presidents gave funny speeches, and the current one gave a pretty boring one. But anyway, I’m gonna read the text of his speech some day and see what I missed out on.

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