Posted on 07/11/2007 10:57:05 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Did President Bush pull a classic Machiavellian move to outmaneuver Team Clinton over last week's Fourth of July holiday? In my opinion, the timing of President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison term was no accident.
The President was well aware that former President Clinton would be joining his wife on the fourth for her visit to Iowa in an attempt to raise her sagging poll numbers there. The President is also very aware of the former President’s own record on pardons. President Bush also correctly judged that Team Clinton would resort to defending their own pardon record as soon as the announcement of Libby’s commutation was made. Bill Clinton’s ego could not sit idly by while attacks on his pardon record were made. The Clintons fell right into this trap set by President Bush. The issue of Presidential pardons cannot help Madame Hillary’s White House ambitions.
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Nope.
He commuted the sentence when he did because Scooter was about to go to prison while awaiting his appeal.
Scooter is now a convicted felon (pending his appeal) and was fined a huge amount of money.
He will lose his law license.
IMO, the prison sentence was piling on, especially since he had to report before his appeal was heard.
.....”never straying from his principles”
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I guess they were his principles , b/c they sure as heck weren’t conservative principles.
His principle “stand” on issues such as the border, spending, and education ain’t based on conservative principles.
Her calves are sitting atop her pumps.
I think you should not THINK too much, especially for other people.
how do you know what the President thinks??
Sure, Bush strategy. That’s why he called Bill, his brother.
Are there really people who think Bush is this master genious, who’s every liberal move is a move of genious. I thought amnesty killed off the Bushbots.
Bush’s support for amnesty was a blunder the size of Godzilla, but it’s not the whole of his record.
I don’t know, I said I think.
Go have a drink.
I ddo’t know about a “fix” being in for the Pig in a Pantsuit.
It sure looks like she has an accomplice media to shill for her but the more she speaks, the less she says, and she will be outed as a vacuous slug with no moral character like her husband. Further the more Bubba gets out there into the spotlight the more the voters (even democrats) will realize that Hillary is just the wrong person for the job.
Bush didn’t ‘outwit’ anyone on this.
The Clinton’s are just completely and totally shameless.
“The Clinton’s are just completely and totally shameless.”
You’re very right on that count, but this time it backfired on them.
‘You’re very right on that count, but this time it backfired on them.’
Its just a small taste of what will happen if Clinton actually remains in the running and gets the nomination.
People forget, due in large part to the MSM not mentioning it, that her husband on his best day never acheived 50% of the votes for President.
Without Perot and PJB they’d be divorced, and long forgotten by one and all.
ROVE YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!!!
Sorry, that phrase seemed to go away after Harriet Miers.
Does anyone remember how up until a year or so ago, Bush played chess while the RATS played checkers? We all said it. The Conservative pundits said it.
All of a sudden, Bush went from being this evil genius that we all loved to the chimp that the RATS all hated.
Strategery turned into foolery. For five years he was brilliant and all of a sudden, poof!!!!
We seem to forget that this administration has been under fire from the day after the 2000 election. He wasn’t even in office and the left started hammering him. It has been non-stop torment by the left and the MSM for six years.
I think it is time we give him a break. He gave us six years of prosperity, reduced our taxes, pulled us out of a recession despite excessive Republican spending, gave us two very good conservative justices on the Supreme Court as well as fighting a war on terror the Democrats consider a bumper sticker slogan.
Sure he has made mistakes. Tell me a President who hasn’t?
Hey, so am I! Am I in good company or what????
If Bush outwitted anybody then it is by accident, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Bush’s presidency speaks for itself - as a conservative Im ashamed that I ever voted for him.
Thank you. I agree. I believe he is God’s man for this time in our history. He’s kept our country safe so far and he’s done what he said he would do. He was up front with all of it. God is pleased even if all we do nowadays is complain. I will NOT beat him into the ground, not even for immigration, because he’s a Christian brother and God really frowns on our doing that to another brother/sister.
>>Dubya is born in the sign Cancer, the same as the United States.<<
Well that explains everything!! Cancer folks love the hearth and home.
Seriously, a friend of mine called him a wimp today, and I gave her a short lesson on his tenacity.
No child left behind — for all of America’s children in failing schools
Medicare Drug Program — for the folks my and my friend’s age
Wanting to legitimize the illegals living here — because of his own personal feelings for marginal people (in the shadows)
All three programs were his initiatives going against the preferences of the members of the Republican Party, hardly the actions of a wimp.
“Never assign to a conspiracy what incompetence neatly explains.”
Hey, you stole my line! :-)
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