Bill Clinton has unveiled his “gift to the future” (his own words). What is this gift, you ask? A $165m museum of himself! It contains 80 million items from his eight years in office documenting his “building of bridges from today to tomorrow, across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides” and other such buzzword-laden rubbish.

Clinton seems to be desperately clinging to his former glory and unwilling to gracefully step aside. He doesn’t seem to remember that he was impeached for misconduct in office, the incident of which is very briefly documented in his museum in an alcove entitled “politics of persecution.” Give me a break, Bill, if you want to see the politics of persecution you should go to your beloved People’s Republic of China and see what they do to Tibetan Buddhists.

The arrogance and pomposity of this man beggar belief. It reminds me of the old USSR, when apparatchiks competed to see who could get the most things named after himself. He seems to have a very mistaken sense of his own achievements, which as I recall were starting a recession, selling military secrets to China and failing to broker an effective peace in the Middle East. Get over yourself, Bill.

Clinton Says Library Represents His Hopes

To Bill Clinton, his newly opened presidential library represents what he tried to do in the White House and what he still hopes to do - build bridges. The main structure itself, a span of sorts, even carries that theme, jutting out over the Arkansas River.