Posted on 03/01/2006 1:00:23 AM PST by Westlander
WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton said the process by which the Bush administration approved a seaport operations deal with an Arab firm was "too secretive" and "too low-level."
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The 3000 9/11 victims were also unavailable for comment.
Regarding the article that is...and the million to follow.
Yo' Bill, I've got a secret to let you in on: Even your fans now realize all you really ever had to give them was charm. I know you want to be the next Jimmy Carter, but isn't there some housing you could nail together, or a dictator you can hug?
Bill Clinton and his wife are as dumb as they come. End of story!!!
What on *earth* do you have to do to make a former president of the USA quit seeking the limelite and retire into anonymity?
Most recently sighted beggaring around New Zealand on the fundraising speaking circuit opining on things of little interest to us.
Why does anybody care what Bill Clinton thinks anyrate? Hasn't he done enough damage already?
Low level, secretive,,,,by design...by democRATS! Get the whole story out.
Bill Clinton's tact runs at an extremely low level.
Did Ronald Reagan or George Bush ever make a habit of critiquing Clinton's policies while he was in office? Or did they let the elected President perform his job?
It's like them calling up Michael Isner about what Robert Iger is doing.
Or when Clinton, while he occupied the White House permitted the Chinese to operate several key ports.
But of course this is all Bush's fault.
"Therefore, the American people have wisely established a custom against allowing any man to hold that office for more than two consecutive terms. But every shred of power which a President exercises while in office vanishes absolutely when he has once left office. An ex-President stands precisely in the position of any other private citizen, and has not one particle more power to secure a nomination or election than if he had never held office at all, indeed, he probably has less because of the very fact that he has held the office." - Theodore Roosevelt
To be fair, George Bush did give his opinion on the Monica situation and Ronald just could not possibly speak about it for obvious reasons.
> But every shred of power which a President exercises while in office vanishes absolutely when he has once left office.
Behold the difference between Power and Influence. Of the two, Influence is the more dangerous.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely", as Lord Acton once postulated, but Absolute Influence causes others to do one's Dirty Work without getting one's hands dirty...
Clinton-at-large is an infinitely larger threat to conservative values than Clinton-in-office ever was or ever could have been. At least while he was President he was accountable to somebody.
Compulsory retirement-into-obscurity for ex-Presidents should become another wise American custom. Come to think of it, the same should apply to ex-NZ Prime Ministers!
Cheers mate, from DownUnder (NZ)
"DieHard the Hunter"
Clinton is so dishonest it makes my head hurt. CFIUS acted exactly the way they acted when Clinton was president.
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