Some people naively believe Bill Clinton lying under oath while in office is a scandal. It isnt. Not even Barbra Streisand thinks its a scandal.Tt’s part of the Democrats’ Creed. This is what Streisand truly believes. (hat tip Michael Kelly).
Streisand believes President Bill Clinton and has always believed him. She believed him when he said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him when he said he had “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Streisand believed him when he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when he reportedly says he did.
Streisand believes the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of celebrities and well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
She believes that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
The popular singer believes President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans. She believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Streisand believes Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. She believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Streisand believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46. She believes in no controlling legal authority.
Streisand believes Bruce Babbitt when he says that the $ 286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license and believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
She believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. and agree with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Barbra Streisand believes in the Clinton Standard of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.” She noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely” and believe that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the sole reason.
Streisand believes Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history and believe that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $ 35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses. She believes that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $ 250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
She believes that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Streisand believes Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it. That Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it and Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Streisand believes Lewinsky was fantasizing in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship.
She believes that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship; such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Streisand sees nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $ 40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president. Nor does she read anything into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
As an accomplished entertainer, Streisand believes the instructions Lewinsky gave Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Streisand believes as Hillary does that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
Good summary. Thank you.