Posted on 11/03/2005 12:05:49 PM PST by doug from upland
I never thought I would be defending Bill Clinton on FreeRepublic. Mark this date as an historic moment. Clinton might have actually told the truth.
From the text of his Rosa Parks funeral speech (which, of course, he managed to make about himself)
CLINTON: I remember, as if it were yesterday, that fateful day 50 years ago. I was a 9-year-old southern white boy who rode a segregated bus every single day of my life. I sat in the front. Black folk sat in the back.
When Rosa showed us that black folks didn't have to sit in the back anymore, two of my friends and I, who strongly approved of what she had done, decided we didn't have to sit in the front anymore.
(APPLAUSE)
It was just a tiny gesture by three ordinary kids. But that tiny gesture was repeated over and over again millions and millions of times in the hearts and minds of children, their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents, proving that she did help to set us all free.
In 1953, Clinton moved to Hot Springs and started school at St. John's Catholic. He then attended Ramble Elementary. He was nine years old when Rosa Parks defied the law on the bus.
I spoke with a very nice lady at the Hot Springs School District. Ramble Elementary has been replaced with a newer school, Park Elementary. The original Ramble building still stands and is a threatre.
There were no school buses. Kids either walked, were taken by parents, or took a city bus to school.
It was a diverse neighborhood. My source mentioned blacks, Lituanians, and Jews. Kids just seemed to all get along.
The source talked to another man in her office who, like her, grew up and went to Hot Springs schools at the same time as Bill Clinton. She and her friends would sometimes join the black kids in the back of the bus. She thought it was the right thing to do.
It is entirely possible that Clinton did join a few of his friends and sit in the back of the bus after hearing about Rosa Parks. Let's give him credit for a possible truth telling episode.
NOTE: He still, however, is a liar, a perjurer, a subornerer of perjury, an obstructor of justice, a threat to national security, a rapist, a threat to witnesses, a horrible and completely phony human being, and an impeached failed president with an evil and dangerous wife.
Yeah right. His lips were moving.
Exactly.
Who gives a flying fark if he actually told the truth for once?
OK, but what do you really think of him?
/sarc
Yeah - when I was 9 years old, that's what was on my mind. Civil Rights.
/snicker...
"NOTE: He still, however, is a liar, a perjurer, a subornerer of perjury, an obstructor of justice, a threat to national security, a rapist, a threat to witnesses, a horrible and completely phony human being, and an impeached failed president with an evil and dangerous wife."
Thanks, I was beginning to cry.........................
R O T F L M A O
Well, klintoon has got to start telling the truth sometime. This may be it...........
Awful lot of conjecture from a single source who may have heard the comments and is just covering for BJ
I was worried about the German Mark against the Dollar.
Sounds like his story of watching TV news of black churches burning in Arkansas, and weeping with rage.
Clinton and truth? Highly unlikely.
wouldn't it be a lot easier to track when he tells the truth than a whopper? There are fewer occurrences of truth.
Don't we know by now that if he can tell a lie and make himself look better he will in any situation presented? Most likely there is some element of truth in what he said, but more than 50% was an embellishment or an outright lie.
Low and behold! --- Pigs DO FLY!
I DO remember the incident he is describing. I recall him getting up and going to the back of the bus and thinking "that's really great of Bill". I was almost moved to do the same thing myself but, then again, I was all the way over in Wisconsin.
when bill was 9 years old the only thing on his mind was probably looking up someones dress to see what they were hiding
Better call Hannity. He's steppen' in it right now.
Say...dude? Hows about sendin' me some a dat dere righteous sh*t you is smokin'?
I call bullshit on this story.
BTW my mom sat in the back of the bus with black folks on her trip down South in 1950. Many right thinking people opposed the policies of the racist southern democrats.
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