“A flawed man with a very big heart”

Bill Clinton got an honorary degree from McGill and Beth Adams was there:

“What I think has persisted in Canada but been lost in my country, until the past ten years or so, when it’s slowly started to come back,” he said, “is a spirit of communalism – a sense that we need each other, and we need to move forward together.” That’s what his speech was about, at heart, and it was one of the best I’ve ever heard him give. I wish the religions could do as well as this at touching that flame of love and hope that, I believe, burns within each of us. Bill Clinton didn’t mention God, but it was a deeply spiritual speech, and I was not the only one with tears in my eyes as we stood to applaud at the end of it.

You should read the rest of this portrait of this “flawed man with a very big heart.” I, too, have been in a fairly small auditorium with Bill Clinton and I can tell you that the man is electrifying. And very well beloved.

Possibly related posts:

A rant

Time flies

A goddess poetics

An unreliable narrator

A perversely cruel press

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.