Posted on 06/18/2004 8:38:02 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
Is he trying to claim it was the right wing cabal who allowed bin Laden to escape?
Bubba doesn't hold a candle to the greatest writer of the 20th Century.
Enablers. This no review, it's a promotional press release. NO perspective, no distance, taking known habitual liar's word for everything. Who ever doubts that Monica was not the only bimbo during those years? And yet the Slimes treats the whole episode as something out of the ordinary. Let's wait for the reviews in the conservative press...
I will not, of course, purchase the book. I already know enough about the great forgotten one.
I am, however, awaiting one left-leaning review which I will get a kick out of reading. He is probably drilling through the self-congratulatory tome as we post.
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Nothing is ever his fault.
Our current president embodied the potential of a generation -- so many talents, so much charm, such great skill. But in the end, to what end? So much promise to no great purpose.
--- George W. Bush acceptance speech, 8-03-04
this should be about as exciting as Hitler's Mein Kampf
In all of the posts of articles about Clinton's book or his 60-Minutes interview, he conveniently omits the fact that his impeachment was not about the sex with Monica, but about LYING UNDER OATH. If any one of us were found guilty of this, we would most certainly be doing time.
Slamming Kenneth Starr and the VWRC for his troubles is a classic Rat tactic.
Most of the American people did not fall for that lie. He was impeached because he lied under oath and obstructed justice - plus a few more legal goodies - NOT for lying about his personal life!!!!!
"He said the affair was personally humiliating and almost cost him his presidency"
It wasn't the affair Billy, it was lying under oath. You never can bring yourself to admit that, can you?
I remember the contrived photo ops used to really irritate me: All the little minority children gathered around his feet as if he were their benevolent uncle. It seemed like he had one of those at least once a week. Remember Ron Brown's funeral when he was yukking it up with his cronies until he saw the camera was on him, the he went into head-hanging lower-lip-biting mode? Just happening to come across the little pile of stones during his solitary, reflective walk on the beach during the '94 D-Day memorial and then stopping and arranging them into the shape of a cross. Everything about him reeked of the fallacious.
The vaunted New York Times falls for the sleeping on the couch lie. We are being treated to what we had to endure during the years this thing held office: He states obvious lies and the media can't be bothered to insert even a hint of a qualifier indicating they have any doubt their Bill is telling anything but the truth.
As to this:
But he devotes only a sentence to the harrowing moments when he sent a Navy carrier near the Taiwan strait to stop China from missile tests meant to intimidate the island's voters before a crucial election.
Could it be he didn't want to dwell on the area where his activities are really suspect?
At the request of several Opinion, Inc. readers, we offer the complete text of the letters between Charlie Trie, fugitive Clinton fundraiser, and President Clinton about U.S. fleet movements in response to military pressure aimed at democratic Taiwan by the Chinese communist military.
The nature, text, and context of these letters have been virtually ignored by the Big Media.
The following letter to President Clinton from Charlie Trie was faxed by former White House aide Mark Middleton to the Oval Office on March 21, 1996 with a handwritten cover notation reminding the White House that "Charlie Trie is a personal friend of the President from LR (Little Rock). He is also a major supporter. The President sat beside Charlie at the big Asian fundraiser several weeks ago." Hours before this letter was faxed, Trie hand-delivered $460,000 in checks to the Clinton's legal defense trust fund. All these checks, plus an additional $122,000 in additional Trie-directed donations, were returned three months later because of evidence that they were forged and funneled to Clinton's slush fund by a Taiwan-based Buddhist cult.
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It's been getting commented about here as well as our noticing the fatuous media reporting it with a straight face, just as they always do with "him".
Brit Hume will probably wryly mention it with the appropriate cocked eyebrow and droll tone indicating he knows there's a big fat lie sitting there.
I do agree with you. But the truth remains the American people didn't want to see another President forced out of office. People did come to agree with the Democrats it was about sex and they thought impeachment was overkill. And didn't help Republicans that Starr's report seemed to focus more on Clinton's lurid sexual exploits than on his abuse of power.
Mr. Clinton has surprisingly little to say about his opponent in the 1996 election, Bob Dole
Bob Dole was one of the best things that ever happened to clinton.
He explained the sudden appearance of Mrs. Clinton's legal billing records in the White House residence as the product merely of sloppy record-keeping in Arkansas.
And again, the New York Times doesn't blink an eye. Why that sloppy record-keeping transported those records by invisible transponder waves and they landed smack dab in the living quarters of the WH. I'm glad that's cleared up!
With a better candidate, its possible Bubba might have been beaten. But no, Bob Dole had to insist it was his turn. To most Republicans, he was a representative of a time when the party's ideology could be summed up in getting along with the New Deal. And Clinton's appeal was he was gun shy and wouldn't rock the boat. The rest as they say, was history.
I saw Danny said that, too. Five stars out of five for a presidential memoir, said Dan.
Do ALL the presidential memoirs talk about their first "sexual stirrings"?
He describes his youth as "a fat band boy" and recalls that in junior high school, as he began to learn more about his mind and body, some of it scared him, including his first sexual stirrings
It does not strike me as presidential in the least.
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