Posted on 06/28/2005 8:13:42 PM PDT by CHARLITE
As it happens, during the course of the "The Truth" which is more "In Touch" weekly than "New York Times" Klein talks a bit about sex (which has been the topic of only walk-away headlines from the book).
It helps perpetuate the long-standing myth that the Bill Clinton impeachment trial was all about sex. It wasn't.
The sex and the lies and the depositions were all of Bill Clinton's making.
As my colleague Rich Lowry wrote in his book on the Clinton presidency, "Legacy" (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003) accusing Ken Starr of being obsessed with sex "was a little like attacking a bank examiner for being 'obsessed with fraud.'" He continued, "Starr couldn't help it that Clinton had happened to perjure himself over his sexual conduct during a deposition in a sexual harassment case." Clinton, as president, actually committed crimes. And, for that, the Founding Fathers stipulated punishment.
What crimes were Bill Clinton found guilty of by the U.S. House of Representatives as he became the second president in history to be impeached (but not removed from office)?
Providing "perjurious, false and misleading testimony" to a grand jury and of obstruction of justice "in an effort to delay, impede, cover up and conceal" evidence. As it happens, the 42nd president of the United States was, as former White House aide Lanny Davis has admitted, "within inches of losing the presidency." And that was of his own doing, not Ken Starr's.
It's hard to get around the "I" word, but try they will. Lowry summed up the work of the perpetual Legacy Repair Project: impeachment is "an indelible stain on his legacy that he and his defenders will spend all time railing against and futilely attempting to erase."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
good catch.
Yeah, two inches and a stained dress.
Gee, Martha Stewart was jailed for lying to the FBI. Gosh, Clinton sure should have been treated similarly if all "men" were truly created equal as our Founding Fathers stipulated and sacrificed much to defend and protect.
hush hush sweet (c)hoarette...somewhere on the beltwave of washington dc is a pile of dog shit.....it will call a major accident in the morning, run go tell papa....but first let papa run his fingers over you body like a good girl.......do like papa says....obey papa and mama....covet not thy neighbors hummee, have no other corporations before me....malcolm x understood the linkage between shakespearan language and the oh holy, oh holy, progranda book called the bible../used by King James to build his empire/...ho ho ho holy bible....and jesus was not blonde scandanavina either.....mental processes have been perveted for 200 years to suck blood out of men (bible does not include women)...god he...god he...he penis....worship that big salame......if only god was woman.....
this small louisiana town had a marquee outside of its church.....real men love jesus....that mexican vaquero who is going to ride into town someday and go into a rage....toss the money changers out of the temples....glad to learn that I am not a real man......me buddist...me hebrew....me islamic...address by mayor of town....false information has killed too many men....and a few women and children over the years...women and children dont count, for the bible only talks about he, he, he, he......
I'm sure your first FR post has a message...I sure can't decipher it.
And the lie was pleading innocent to the charges. I never could understand that deal.
Concerning Clinton, if that perjury charge had not jumped up so quickly, requiring Starr to bring an indictment, or whatever, under the Independent Counsel Act, Clinton would have been impeached on much more serious charges. The evidence room was full of stuff. The Democrats, no matter their protestation, were delighted to grab the "sex" charge and run with it to avoid the others.
Thanks, bitt!
Char :)
Lest Americans ever forget why the clintons, and all their enablers need to be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:
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