Posted on 11/11/2005 3:20:17 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton Decries His Impeachment In Speech At Hofstra
POSTED: 7:33 pm EST November 10, 2005 UPDATED: 9:14 pm EST November 10, 2005
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Former President Clinton said Thursday that his impeachment was "an egregious abuse of the Constitution" and asked if history judges him poorly because of his White House tryst with Monica Lewinsky, "How many other presidents do you have to downgrade?"
Speaking on the opening day of a three-day conference at Hofstra University examining his presidency, Clinton challenged a statement by noted historian Douglas Brinkley, who opined in a newspaper interview that Clinton would be deemed a great president were it not for his impeachment.
"I completely disagree with that," Clinton said. "You can agree with that statement, but only if you think impeachment was justified. Otherwise, it was an egregious abuse of the Constitution and law and history of our country."
Clinton, who was acquitted by the Senate of perjury and obstruction of justice at his 1999 impeachment trial, contended that the impeachment was not about what he called his "misconduct."
"Now if you want to hold it against me that I did something wrong, that's a fair deal," he said. "If you do that, then you have a whole lot of other questions, which is how many other presidents do you have to downgrade and what are you going to do with all those Republican congressmen, you know, that had problems?"
His remarks were cheered loudly by the audience.
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"How many other presidents do you have to downgrade?"
I believe that Billy did the downgrading on his own, (with help from ML)
As to the impeachment, I have not forgiven the spineless senators who supposedly held a trial, but refused to allow the house leaders to present the evidence that they had. Where is the justice in that?
If a dna test were run on bj and chelsea, my money is on NO MATCH. She is a hubble bubble.
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(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
This whore monger is never going to get it, neither will his loyal minions.
I know all Presidents age a lot while they're in office but he really looks awful.
Does this man's ego know no bounds?
The only people who use this word are lawyers when feigning indignation.
Allow???? ALLOW???? Klintoon-speak for Authorize/Order. He leaves a trail of slime behind him wherever he goes.
Him and Mary "the documents were real" Mapes should get together.
Add the Waco massacre, boy Elian's kidnapping at jack-booted-thug machine-gun point and drugged return to the prison nation, Billy Dale and the WH Travel office, blow jobs now commoner among the young, Flight 800, the Wye Accords, Somalia, twelve innocent night-shift workers murdered in the Khartoum Sudan missile raid of a anti-malarial and livestock drug plant ...
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"... contended that the impeachment was not about what he called his "misconduct."
Of course it WASN'T - IT WAS ABOUT LYING - after swearing to tell the truth. IT WAS ABOUT presenting FALSE EVIDENCE to the court (the affidavits which he coerced people to sign - after he wrote them).
LOSING YOUR LAW LICENSE IS A GOOD SIGN YOU DID SOMETHING BAD. AND BEING BANNED FROM BRINGING A CASE BEFORE THE USSC IS A GOOD SIGN YOU DID SOMETHING BAD.
But his continuing to dwell on it proves he remains totally immature.
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