In “Clinton’s `crimes'” (Voice of the people, June 22), letter writer David Valente touched on a point that I think is important when considering how much hatred is directed at former President Bill Clinton by the conservative radio talk show entertainers, their witless listeners and the Republican “leaders” who benefit from them.
Valente points out that Clinton is “a self-made man . . . born without a silver spoon in his mouth.”
I don’t think that the Republicans resent Clinton because he was self-made; I think they resent him because he was more than self-made.
Clinton came from an impoverished background and did what no Republican has been able to do: make the American dream more readily available to all Americans, not just a favored few.
I think Republicans realize that his accomplishments revealed the hollowness and fraud of their political rhetoric and created a continuing need to distract the public with their moral indignation at Clinton’s personal flaws.
