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Happy Clinton Impeachment Day 2012! Impeachment is Forever!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/19/2012 5:33:26 AM PST by kristinn

It's been 14 years since President Bill Clinton was impeached. Free Republic played a key role.

On October 31, 1998, Free Republic held the first online-organized national protest to call for Clinton's impeachment and removal from office. The rally was broadcast live on C-SPAN for over four hours. Speakers included a who's who of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

The rally can be viewed in its entirety online at C-SPAN

As the Senate trial drew to a close in Feburary 1999, FReepers came together online to design and fund a full page ad in the Washington Times urging the Senate to do its Constitutional duty by convicting and removing Clinton for committing perjury and obstruction of justice in office.


Thanks to Varmint Al for hosting the ad online..

More at the 2010 annual Impeachment Day post.


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KEYWORDS: billclinton; clintonlegacy; cultureofcorruption; impeachedpresident; impeachmentday; presidents; x42
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To: AFPhys; kristinn
FR was very ‘together’ in those days, and for the five or so years following.

Amen! I hardly recognize FR these days and rarely post anymore because of the acrimony.

Do you remember the USA v Clinton daily countdown thread?

21 posted on 12/19/2012 6:30:29 AM PST by LisaFab
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To: kristinn
kristinn,

I remember you were right in the thick of it. Thanks for all your hard work. He may not have been removed, but impeachment is forever.

22 posted on 12/19/2012 6:31:15 AM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: kristinn
And the feckless Republican Senate refused to have a "real trial"! That was the last straw for this life long Republican. It of course was simply the fore bearer of what the "party" was to become.

Good on the House, however.

23 posted on 12/19/2012 6:32:02 AM PST by ImpBill ("America, where are you now?" - Little "r" republican!)
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To: exit82

BOR has been pwned by the leftist freaks since at least his weird harassment suit in 2004.


24 posted on 12/19/2012 6:56:49 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Around the same time Chief Justice Roberts was pwned by the leftists over his shady South American adoption records....


25 posted on 12/19/2012 6:58:59 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: kristinn

I fondly remember seeing a bumper sticker: “We elected a president, not a sexual predator.” How fitting that this piece of trash can be remembered.


26 posted on 12/19/2012 7:02:03 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Progov

I am a strong believer in impeachment, which congress has mostly done for corrupt federal judges (14 of them), but should be far more willing to do.

The Constitution grants the House the power to impeach “The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States.” But only once has congress impeached a cabinet officer (William W. Belknap (Secretary of War)).

If there was a Republican senate right now, the House could immediately begin impeachment proceedings against Holder, Sibelius, Napolitano, etc. But there are lots of questions that need to be addressed, like “Can congress impeach a ‘Czar’ unapproved by the US senate?”


27 posted on 12/19/2012 7:06:47 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: kristinn
I added the exclamation point !


28 posted on 12/19/2012 7:08:17 AM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: LisaFab

Yes, I sure do. Some part of the change is due to our inability to post full articles nowadays. Having to go to another website ends up distracting from making comments here.


29 posted on 12/19/2012 7:14:24 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: AFPhys

My Congressman Florida District 1 Voted to Impeach him, Joe Scarbough


30 posted on 12/19/2012 7:16:24 AM PST by scooby321 (AMS)
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To: kristinn
kristinn,

I remember you were right in the thick of it. Thanks for all your hard work. He may not have been removed, but impeachment is forever.

31 posted on 12/19/2012 7:16:49 AM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: ImpBill
And the feckless Republican Senate refused to have a "real trial"!

YUP! The unanimous vote to call NO WITNESSES at the very start of the proceedings told me that the fix was in.

32 posted on 12/19/2012 7:30:32 AM PST by Roccus
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To: kristinn

Thank you for posting Kristinn! Fond memories of those days.


33 posted on 12/19/2012 7:41:30 AM PST by Jordo
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To: kristinn

Thanks for this reminder... I’m proud to have made the 6 hour drive down I-95 (seeing numerous cars with Freepers enroute) to be a part of that first march, joining fellow Freepers down on the Mall. I felt that each of us in that crowd of 4,000 was representing hundreds of thousands of others who hadn’t yet figured out what tyrants the Clintons were.

Hopefully, sanity will one day be restored to our Republic.


34 posted on 12/19/2012 7:45:35 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: kristinn

Kristinn, it’s difficult to remember all of the legal details, but as I recall, the Judge (who had some kind of relationship with Clinton prior) in the Paula Jones case in Little Rock refused to make her ruling until after the impeachment proceedings... Afterwards, she would rule that (or something like) Clinton suborned perjury in that case and granted Paula Jones some large (for Arkansas) monetary award. Clinton was later stripped of his law license in the state of Arkansas. I’m sure some Freeper can clean-up my spotty recollections but that’s the way Clinton made it through the Impeachment process — delay, obfuscate, and have friendly allies in the judiciary and, of course, the media.


35 posted on 12/19/2012 8:01:07 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: kristinn
Here he is upon being told the news.

36 posted on 12/19/2012 8:32:07 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: servantboy777

Makes me wonder if the whole Petraeus “scandal” weren’t exactly the same scenario, with him set up (not that he had to take the bait) so he could be blackmailed.

Cheers,
Jim


37 posted on 12/19/2012 9:33:20 AM PST by gymbeau (Free USA!)
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To: kristinn

December 19th - the one day where both parties put aside politics and did the Constitutionally right thing.

We shall not see such justice be done with Odinga in our lifetimes.


38 posted on 12/19/2012 10:17:36 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: kristinn

And look what his better half has done. Systematic Failures at her State Department that got 4 Americans killed including a US Ambassador. She was not qualified to be Secretary of State. Bill was not qualified to be President. The results speak for themselves.


39 posted on 12/19/2012 10:26:27 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: kristinn

Socks C. is with Buddy and is patiently awaiting a grand reunion.


40 posted on 12/19/2012 10:48:05 AM PST by Phil V.
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