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Fineman: Bill Clinton 'Almost Beloved'
Newsmax.com ^ | 3/11/05 | unknown

Posted on 03/11/2005 10:52:18 AM PST by beyond the sea

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To: dead

What's Howie smokin'?


61 posted on 03/11/2005 11:12:08 AM PST by griswold3
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To: gdani

I suppose we could consider him elected by Booth.


62 posted on 03/11/2005 11:12:12 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Captain Peter Blood
"I have just about had enough of this Love Fest between Daddy Bush and Clinton."

Amen. It's hard to shake the gnawing suspicion that these guys are masquerading as opponents, for the amusement of the American Electorate, when you see this disgusting Love-fest. Especially given the history between these two and Clinton's conduct towards W.

63 posted on 03/11/2005 11:12:16 AM PST by drt1
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To: areafiftyone
YIKES! Can you just imagine the lovefest if "god forbid" he dies? I had the most terrible thought when I heard slick was heading back under the knife; what if when Hillary runs for President, slick dies about a month before the election?
64 posted on 03/11/2005 11:13:14 AM PST by SF Republican
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To: beyond the sea
"I imagine it’s tough, even for Clinton’s enemies, to hate the guy anymore,"

Mr. Fineman, I find no difficulty in still disliking former President Clinton as a creep on the personal level, in condemning his un-presidential and disgusting conduct in office, his insane appeasement policies, and his appointments of unqualified political hacks and carpetbaggers.

I do find solace that after Bill Clinton, our country managed to elect a man who may well be counted among our great presidents, President George W. Bush.

65 posted on 03/11/2005 11:15:14 AM PST by snowsislander
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To: Alouette
So then how could he run for Vice-President on the Republican ticket in 1864?

He was selected by Lincoln to help keep Tennessee in the Union. After Lincoln was murdered, Johnson became President. At his impeachment trial in 1868, the Senate came within one vote of removing him from office.

66 posted on 03/11/2005 11:15:31 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Lazamataz

Howard should meet her in Egypt.


67 posted on 03/11/2005 11:15:33 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea
"I imagine it’s tough, even for Clinton’s enemies, to hate the guy anymore,". . .

From Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths
Still a Clinton hater. And loving it.

I don’t care how long it’s been since Clinton dragged his sorry carcass — and anything else he could swipe — out of the White House. I don’t want to forget the Clinton years. I don’t want to move on. I don’t want to put it all behind me.

I hate Clinton as ardently now as when he energetically defiled the Nation on a daily basis. I hate his wife, and his daughter, too. And I won’t be satisfied until everyone hates them as much as I do.

That, you may argue, isn’t feasible, despite the multitude of excellent reasons to hate them. My answer is that in a country that could elect a deceitful sleaze like Clinton, anything is possible.

For years I gave Chelsea a pass. After all, it wasn’t her fault that she was born into a family of crooks. She’s grown up now, though, and is her own person. So what did she do immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11th? She’s written that she was “expounding on the detriments of Bush’s tax cut as we approached Grand Central Terminal . . .” Quite clearly, she’s a developing basket case, one deserving the same scorn and derision as the unfit parents who inculcated her with socialist nonsense.

What are especially preposterous are Clinton’s incessant attempts to rewrite history. A few months ago he rounded up some of his bootlicking apologists and urged them to publicize all his supposed accomplishments as president. More recently, he permitted the Monica Lewinsky of newsmagazines, Newsweek, to interview him. Clinton claimed that giving Marc Rich, former regular on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List, was a mistake because — hold your breath here — “It wasn’t worth the damage to my reputation.”

His reputation? His reputation? What a knee lapper. Clinton’s got a reputation, all right. But it’s certainly not one that could be damaged. Here’s a guy who was:

Fined $90,000 for lying under oath and obstructing justice.

Forced to pay an $850,000 settlement in the Paula Jones lawsuit.

Disbarred in Arkansas. Prohibited from practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He ran the White House like a Motel 6 for Democrat fat cats. He took campaign contributions from Chinese communists. He entertained felons, including drug peddlers and arms smugglers, in the Executive Mansion.

Remember how the Clintons managed to get their hands on 900 FBI files they weren’t supposed to have? Or the puzzling reappearance of subpoenaed billing records?

Then there were the last minute pardons. Susan McDougal, Roger Clinton, and Clinton’s former secretary of Housing and Urban Development were pardoned. So were Weather Underground radicals, murderers, drug dealers, and a bunch of folks who stole tax dollars. Hillary’s brothers, seeing how well Roger Clinton was doing by peddling influence, jumped on the pardon bandwagon themselves.

And what of Clinton and terrorism? In 1993 bin Laden’s thugs exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring hundreds of others. In 1995 they bombed a military headquarters in Riyatdh, Saudi Arabia and killed five Americans. In 1996 they bombed military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and killed 19 Americans. In 1998 they bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 5,000 others. In 2000 they bombed the U.S.S. Cole and killed 17 Americans. What did Clinton do about all this? Not much. He was too busy lying, obstructing, denying, obfuscating, stonewalling, and, of course, traveling.

Clinton whines about how much money has been spent on investigating him. But how much would have been spent if he had only told the truth?

So much to hate, so little time. Yet there’s reason to think that finally, finally, more Americans are recognizing the true Clinton legacy.

A recent Gallup poll rated the last eight presidents in terms of job approval. In the poll, the first one taken since he left office, Clinton ranked sixth, ahead of only Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Not bad for a start. In the meantime, let the hating continue.

April 11, 2002

68 posted on 03/11/2005 11:15:44 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: beyond the sea

Another delusional LEFTIST MSM stalwart speaks!!!


69 posted on 03/11/2005 11:17:41 AM PST by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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To: dead

Yeah, Fineman is a pimp for the DNC and the left wing shills.


70 posted on 03/11/2005 11:17:44 AM PST by Fledermaus (I'm out of tagline ideas)
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To: MikeA; Petronski; martin_fierro
I can't believe that Howard Fineman in from the 'Burgh!

How insulting!

71 posted on 03/11/2005 11:18:25 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Snickersnee
Large hemlock, please. Leave the bottle. ----

LOL. Make that for two. ;-)

72 posted on 03/11/2005 11:20:00 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea

"Almost beloved" sounds to me like PC for "hated."


73 posted on 03/11/2005 11:20:09 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions Freely Dispensed as Advice)
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To: BenLurkin

What a great clip! I've never seen that famous show: Bill's walkin' an' talkin', laughin' & shuckin' & jivin', havin' fun--sees camera!--reaches for pearl onion, rubs eyes, begins sobbing, wiping eyes. No wonder Hollywood loves him.
Howard Fineman, reptile.
Bill Clinton, former US President*



*Impeached


74 posted on 03/11/2005 11:20:09 AM PST by tumblindice (Our Founding Fathers: all conservative gun owners)
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To: griswold3; dead
What's Howie smokin'?

Smokin' Bill .............. when he gets out of the hospital. ;-)

75 posted on 03/11/2005 11:21:48 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea
"I imagine it’s tough, even for Clinton’s enemies, to hate the guy anymore," said Newsweek's top political reporter...

Oh, we'll manage...

76 posted on 03/11/2005 11:23:10 AM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: snowsislander
I do find solace that after Bill Clinton, our country managed to elect a man who may well be counted among our great presidents, President George W. Bush.

... agreed.

77 posted on 03/11/2005 11:23:22 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: Veto!

To paraphrase an old song title: "It's thin line between beloved and behated."


78 posted on 03/11/2005 11:24:30 AM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: hollywood

should be "It's a thin line..."


79 posted on 03/11/2005 11:25:22 AM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: PISANO
Another delusional LEFTIST MSM stalwart speaks!!

Another delusional LEFTIST MSM kneepad owner speaks!!

80 posted on 03/11/2005 11:25:47 AM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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