Schönes Stück von P.J. O'Rourke im Atlantic Monthly: <a href="www.theatlantic.com"">Was Clinton cool? Er berichtet von einem Interview des "ur-hip, echt-cool Rolling Stone" mit Clinton.

"The interviewers were Jann Wenner, who, as the founder and owner of Rolling Stone, had been the arbiter of what was hip and what was cool for twenty-odd years; William Greider, the hip leftish political journalist who had quit The Washington Post to prove to Rolling Stone readers how hip and cool engagement with practical politics could be; Hunter S. Thompson, hipness and coolness itself; and I. Never mind that by 1992 I was over the sixties, wore neckties by preference, and stared with dreamy transfixion for hours at the stock-market ticker rather than the lava lamp, and that my illegal drug of choice was a Cohiba. No member of the sixties generation ever fully recovers from hip and cool. (...) We asked him a question that we felt no other presidential candidate in the history of America had ever properly answered: "Who's your favorite Beatle?" There were four aspects - "avatars," we used to say - to the sixties. Each idea or event of the period seemed to have the nature of one of the Beatles: John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, or Paul McCartney. That is, everything in the sixties was either brilliant but troubled, earnest but flaky, stupid, or Paul McCartney. "Paul McCartney," Clinton said."