Posted on 05/07/2010 1:21:12 PM PDT by cd jones
FOUR MORE YEARS? HERE ARE 40 REASONS TO SAY NO By Jeff Jacoby
Bill and Hillary Clinton want to extend their grip on the Executive Branch for four more years. I can give you 40 reasons to turn them down. In no particular order:
1. Joycelyn Elders.
2. According to the General Accounting Office, ethics investigations of the Clintons and their aides are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per month.
3. Eighty-six men, women, and children died in Waco, Texas, after FBI agents used grenade launchers to mount a CS gas attack on their compound.
4. ``100,000 more police on the streets.'' Seen them yet?
5. ``A tax cut for the middle class.'' Seen it yet?
6. Clinton went on national television and answered questions about his underwear.
7. The candidate: ``We're going to end welfare as we know it.'' The president: Vetoed two welfare-reform bills before finally, reluctantly, signing a third.
8. His pet scheme -- AmeriCorps -- pays college-age ``volunteers'' more than $7 an hour.
9. Webster Hubbell.
10. ``Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?'' -- Democratic US Sen. (and Medal of Honor recipient) Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.
11. The candidate: ``I think President Bush played racial politics with the Haitian refugees. I wouldn't be shipping those poor people back.'' The president: ``The practice of returning those who fled Haiti by boat will continue. . . . Those who do leave Haiti . . . will be stopped and directly returned by the US Coast Guard.''
12. His ``Cabinet that looks like America'' contained 14 lawyers and 10 millionaires.
13. Hillary's 1,342-page health care ``reform'' would have created 33 new federal agencies and 200 regional alliances, added $70 billion to the federal budget deficit -- and taken away your right to choose your own doctor.
14. Terrorists at the White House I: Yasser Arafat.
15. Terrorists at the White House II: Gerry Adams.
16. George Bush was right: Clinton did turn the White House into the waffle house.
17. The candidate: ``[Bush] hasn't fought a real war on crime and drugs. I will.'' The president: Slashed the Office of National Drug Control Policy; teen-age drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995.
18. First priority of his first week in office: gays in the military.
19. Hiked the tax on gasoline to its highest rate ever.
20. Shut down two of the four runways at Los Angeles International Airport so he could have his hair cut aboard Air Force One by Cristophe of Beverly Hills.
21. Cristophe's going rate: $200 per haircut.
22. George Stephanopoulos' explanation: ``The president has to get his hair cut like everybody else.''
23. Average per-capita federal tax burden, 1992: $4,153. 1996: $5,225. Increase: 25.8 percent.
24. Craig Livingstone.
25. Clinton calls the Defense of Marriage Act ``gay baiting, pure and simple'' -- and promises to sign it.
26. Midnight basketball: Your federal tax dollars at work.
27. Hillary's chats with Eleanor Roosevelt.
28. Clinton's 1996 budget proposal forecast $200-billion-plus deficits for the next seven years.
29. ``North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb'' -- Clinton administration, November 1993. ``[North Korea] already has as many as two nuclear bombs and is continuing to develop atomic weapons'' -- Clinton administration, April 1994.
30. Sent Jimmy Carter to cut a deal with the North Koreans: We agreed to give Pyongyang free oil, two free nuclear reactors, diplomatic ties, and increased trade -- and Pyongyang agreed to dismantle its bomb-making facilities in 10 years.
31. The Clinton tax increase on Social Security recipients hit 5.5 million retirees.
32. At the first sign of controversy, he walked away from Zoe Baird.
33. And from Kimba Wood.
34. And from Lani Guinier.
35. He chose to celebrate the 50th anniversary of V-E Day in Moscow -- Berlin's ally in invading Poland and starting World War II.
36. ``The [Arkansas state] troopers said they were often called upon to act as intermediaries to arrange and conceal [Clinton's] extramarital encounters. They say they frequently picked up and delivered gifts from Clinton to various women, and often drove Clinton . . . to meetings with women. `We were more than bodyguards. We had to lie, cheat and cover up for that man,' said Larry G. Patterson, a 26-year veteran state trooper'' -- Los Angeles Times, Dec. 21, 1993.
37. Hazel O'Leary.
38. Key Clinton adviser on ``family values'': Dick Morris.
39. The candidate: ``We should not reward China with improved trade status when it has . . . failed to make sufficient progress on human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre.'' The president: ``I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the annual extension of most-favored-nation trading status.''
40. Clinton argued in court that Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit should be postponed until he leaves office because he is on ``active duty'' as commander in chief.
There. Forty reasons to turn out the Clintons, and I didn't even get to Warren Christopher.
It’s distressing to be reminded of all the good reasons to vote against Bill Clinton (not to mention a 41st: he’d be the first President impeached in over 100 years: somehow I think his vote totals in 1996 might have declined a tad were voters aware of this prospect), yet he got re-elected anyway! Let’s hope voters have more common sense in 2010 and 2012.
one more oldie
source - unk
The Enemy Of All Free Men
I am your enemy, your nightmare and your destruction.
I am more powerful than the combined militaries of the world.
I have destroyed more men than all the wars of all nations combined.
I massacre millions of people each and every generation.
I have wrecked more homes than all other causes known to you.
I cause the downfall of the greatest civilizations in history.
I spare no one.
My victims are rich and poor, young and old, strong and weak.
I do not respect color nor creed.
Children shall know me to their eternal sorrow.
I cast my shadow over every thought of man.
I hide in unseen places and I go about my work silently.
You have been warned of my presence, but you do not listen.
I never sleep and I am everywhere you are.
You can not hide.
Illness, revulsion, disease and death follow me and are my friends.
I will give you nothing.
I will take everything you have and then seek more.
I will cause you to turn away from all you once believed in.
I will blind your eyes to the sins of your elected leaders.
I go where my master orders.
The Prince of Darkness alone sends me into your life.
Once allowed inside, seldom am I asked to leave.
America, won’t you please allow me to enter and give me rest.
I will remove all your worries and concerns.
I will take away any concern for individual responsibility.
I will bring you bliss.
I am your friend. I am Apathy.
42. Al Gore.
43. Janet Reno
Giving Al Bore an extra 4 years with way too much time on his hands most certainly was extremely detrimental to the public interest.
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