{"id":843,"date":"2004-08-30T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T15:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:09:35","slug":"my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2004\/08\/my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> That is, Bill Clinton\u2019s  <i> My Life <\/i> , which David Frum reviews in the Sept issue of  <i> Commentary <\/i> .  Frum offers the standard (and entirely correct) conservative complaints against Clinton, but commends his understated performance as ex-President.  Frum ends on this remarkably hopeful note (especially coming from someone like Frum): \u201cIn  <i> My Life <\/i> , Clinton talks about the process of maturation.  Like many members of his generation, he has been late to reach full adulthood ?Enot even being elected President quite got him there.  Now, at sixty, he may at last have arrived.  And who knows?  There may still be important work yet for this gifted man to do, especially if ways can be found to deploy his persuasiveness and charm in the service of his country on the world stage.  If that were actually to come about, the day might yet dawn when Americans of all political points of view would be ready to give this contradictory teller of this contradictory tale the affection and respect he has craved above everything else in life.\u201d   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is, Bill Clinton\u2019s My Life , which David Frum reviews in the Sept issue of Commentary . Frum offers the standard (and entirely correct) conservative complaints against Clinton, but commends his understated performance as ex-President. Frum ends on this remarkably hopeful note (especially coming from someone like Frum): \u201cIn My Life , Clinton talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That is, Bill Clinton&#8217;s My Life , which David Frum reviews in the Sept issue of Commentary . 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