Clinton Library Dedication

Clinton Presidential Library

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (CNN) -- President Bush joined Bill Clinton and two other former U.S. presidents Thursday to dedicate Clinton's presidential library, a ceremony that also brought together celebrities from both Washington and Hollywood.

The library and presidential center has offered Clinton an opportunity to further define his legacy as the nation's 42nd commander-in-chief.

"This library tells a story about America in the last part of the 20th century," Clinton said, describing a nation exiting the Cold War and entering a world of information technology. The nature of government had to change as a result, Clinton said. "That whole story is here."

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I watched this dedication of the Clinton Presidential Library on tv today. It is amazing to see four Presidents of the United States on the same stage together. I thought to myself how they are people like everyone else and this country is just another piece of dirt on this rugged planet with unseen borders. "America" is a set of ideals that this group of people have led us under and ideals in which we believe. Ideals that thousands have died for and continue to die for.

There were many undertones to the dedication ceremony. Primarily, the tension between the two political parties of America and their foremost leaders.

That tension is why "America" is so wonderful. We fight and die so that we can have that tension. I hope it never goes away and these two parties continue to fight forever. We live and die in America so that a man or a woman can have an idea that is different from ours. At the end of the day, America chooses the best idea for that time and tips her hat to the other ideas for giving her an opportunity that many nations never get ... a choice.