How Clinton exploited Oklahoma City for political gain

Washington Examiner ^ | April 18, 2010 | Byron York

[dr_who]

With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing Monday, former President Bill Clinton is playing a starring role in the liberal effort to draw what the New York Times calls "parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devastating attack and the political tumult of today." The short version of the narrative is: Today's Tea Partiers are tomorrow's right-wing bombers.

On Friday, Clinton spoke at a symposium on the bombing organized by the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, founded and run by John Podesta, the former Clinton White House chief of staff who also directed the Obama transition.  The theme of Clinton's remarks was that movements like the Tea Party, characterized by extreme right-wing rhetoric, could lead to political violence.  In the last few days, news accounts in the Times ("Recalling '95 Bombing, Clinton Sees Parallels"), Newsweek ("Hate: Antigovernment extremists are on the rise -- and on the march"), and ABC News ("Watch your words") drove home Clinton's point. "This is a legitimate thing to do," the former president said, "drawing parallels to the time running up to Oklahoma City and a lot of the political discord that exists in our country today."

[dr_who]

More more! The best part is at the bottom. I suppose that what BY is saying that if the GOP merely reacts strongly to what the current liar-in-chief does, they'll end up on the wrong side of the argument as far as the voters are concerned. I think that the GOP or at least some prominent Republicans have learned a little since then and are trying to bring the debate right back to the guy who whispers the accusations in the first place. Obama's tried to Oklahoma City us since day one, and he's used the usual WoT bureaucracy and rhetoric to search for ways to grab headlines and look for potential threats to exploit. Apart from outright lies about peaceful tea party protesters that his allies in the media have promulgated, he has little to show for it. Doesn't mean of course that the MSM won't try to tie the next villian/wacko that comes down the pike with the GOP (we know they'll try). And we certainly know the drill when December 2010 arrives. Obama and co are running on borrowed time right now.

[thethirddegree]

Clinto, the former Fornicator-in-Chief, needs to crawl back into the cesspool he emerged from.

[dr_who]

We were saying that in 1991.

[dr_who]

...unfortunately, the MSM is heavily populated with FoB’s. That’s why we have Secretary of State Clinton, formerly Sen-NY, for example.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Bill Clinton and his henchman, J. Reno, in burning down the Branch Davidian Compound and killing men, women and children violently and without justice, laid the groundwork for reciprocity that resulted in the Oklahoma City bombing.

History cannot divorce HIS responsibility for what resulted.

ampu

[Carley]

The lying pig chose to exploit the OKS bombing as a way to divert attention from WACO.

[IMR 4350]

Hillary ran the Waco operation, not Reno. The Clinton’s just used Reno for cover.

[Carley]

Ooopps........OKC bombing

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Good to remember that Hillary was the man behind
the attack, while Bill abused Monica.

“http://www.apfn.org/apfn/hillary_waco.htm";

[lionheart 247365]

Does clintoon remember the Waco torching and the innocent young lives lost there ??

[ArmyTeach]

I just love this! When protesters against the Bush administration carried protest signs showing Bush's bloody head on a pike (sounds like advocating the assassination of the president to me), that's ok. But now that we have a Democrat administration, free speech is bad unless it's their free speech. They intend to control the information flow on the Internet to control the debate. Yeah, right. Oh, and protests are now considered terroristic and a threat to the state... I saw this coming when I was in college.

[McGruff]

To quote your wife Bill,

[IMR 4350]

As First Lady, Hillary had no legal authority to order anyone to do anything. On top of that Reno let it be known the FBI had prior knowledge of the Davidians suicide pact.
Legally speaking, that means Hillary is as guilty of premeditated murder as David Koresh(sp?).

[dr_who]

It’s true that some of the left’s agenda could come back to bite them later. But in supposed havens for free speech such as universities, what really matters is the political views of the dean, his tenured entourage, and his contributors (first among them being the federal and state government bureaucracies) are.

[Ptarmigan]

Even if the Branch Davidians set the fire, the fire could of been stopped and lives saved.

[dr_who]

A few articles lately pointed out that a possible SCOTUS nominee was all for banning ROTC at government funded institutions like Harvard. But the decisions a judge makes can have unintended effects on seemingly unrelated cases. Just ultimately depends on how consistent the thinking of SCOTUS justices is.

[drypowder]

Hey Slick, remember when you turned the Army loose on American citizens in Waco Texas, thus murdering men, women and children of the Christian faith? How dare you blame the good American patriots for the poor gov official’s paranoia.

[dr_who]

People like Clinton succeed because when they dare, they get away with it.

[PhilDragoo]

Clinton got eleven points off OKCBomb.

Carlos Ghigliotti FLIR analyst would have shown 200 shots into building, died of "natural causes."

Reno used as cutout on Waco and Elian; Obama attempts to use Holder as cutout on KSM.

Fifty-one per cent likelihood of a false-flag pretext for national emergency; see also Napolitano definition of terrorist.

Every dictator needs a Janet.

[ArmyTeach]

Losing ROTC would be a real detriment to the armed forces, as large number of our officer cadre in the Army, Navy and Air Force are ROTC graduates. My understanding is that land grand colleges and universities are obligated by their legislatively established charter to offer ROTC. My daughter is a graduate of U of Alaska ROTC. UAF is a land grant school.