Now They Tell Us

The New York Post ^ | Feb 20,2007 | John Podhoretz

[murdoog]

In a New York Times story, a conservative journalist named Chris Ruddy (who once long ago worked for this newspaper) declared that he and his boss, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, had changed their minds about someone who had preoccupied them in the 1990s: Bill Clinton.

"Clinton," said Ruddy, "wasn't such a bad president. In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick [Scaife] feels that way today."

[Types_with_Fist]

Reaaallllllly?

[EagleUSA]

The scandal-mongering may have stoked vast hatred of the Clintons, but it also gave Bill and Hillary the means to construct a plausible case for their supporters and the media that they were the subjects of crazed and unjust persecution...
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Oh yeah? I wonder if the ghosts of these people would agree??

http://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm

[JeeperFreeper]

I have for some time been suspicious that we have an oligarchy with a ruling class, a nomenklatura, running this country.Now, here comes the "conservative" money backing Hillary. If she is elected, we will have Bush I (4 years), Clinton (8 years), Bush II(8 years and Hillary (4 years). That's what- 24 years- with 2 families as Prezs?? What if Hillary gets a second term, then post -Hillary, Jeb Bush steps up for a term or two?? That would be about 36-40 years that the presidency is held by two families.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Funny, but all the things that might have led one to that conclusion [that Clinton was a good President] - pushing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, signing welfare reform into law, ending the genocide in Kosovo - were entirely in evidence during Clinton's presidency."

Not at all surprising that (the so-called conservative) Podhoretz would view pushing through NAFTA and siding with the Islamists in the Balkans as evidence of Clinton's competence as President.

[rhombus]

And finally, BUDDY, the Presidential Dog, killed when he was struck by a car after having escaped his kennel.

Didn't Boots, the cat get tossed too after they left the White House?

[popdonnelly]

"In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways"

He set a record for sex in the Oral Office that will never be beaten.

[bkepley]

At least Clinton was going to do what was politically expedient. I'd rather have that than a committed leftist if I have to have a Democrat as president. Plus his personal weaknesses weakened his presidency so that he couldn't be a strong Democrat even if he'd wanted.

[Mia T]

 So according to Chris Ruddy, circa 2007, the man he considered a murderous rapist, Bill Clinton, was a "pretty good president." Funny, but all the things that might have led one to that conclusion - pushing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, signing welfare reform into law, ending the genocide in Kosovo - were entirely in evidence during Clinton's presidency. The things that might lead one to think Clinton was a bad president - the failure to get Osama bin Laden or to respond more forcefully to the growing terrorist threat - are actually more apparent in retrospect.--John Podhoretz-NOW THEY TELL US: CLINTON-BASHERS' WEIRDEST TWIST

Podhoretz isn't saying--is he--that clintons did not rape and revictimize Broaddrick, or that the clintons' failure to confront terrorism isn't a clinton-sequel disqualifier--or that clinton and the wife didn't abuse power on a grand scale as documented in the Barrett report, (which--Catch 22--was gutted via their abuse of power thanks to Podhoretz's... and his media buddies'... and the government's... complicity)?

NEO-STALINIST

hillary clinton is our Putin.

To get a glimpse of her Stalinist proclivities, one need only go back to 2 July 2006. As the country prepared to celebrate its independence, missus clinton was applying the jackboot. Stealthily, almost subliminally.

It was clinton's response (by proxy (how else?)) to what was plainly in the field... and what was doubtless in her internal polls: Big problems ahead for the quondam shoo-in. The 'dump hillary' movement within the Democratic Party was getting traction.^{3, 4}

She dispatched longtime clinton operatives, James Carville and Mark J. Penn to the Washington Post to prop her up yet one more time. The Post Carville-Penn apologia was full of the usual clinton poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication, but that was not the real story. The real story was the headline: 'The Power of Hillary.'

'The Power of Hillary' had the whiff of raw FBI files and IRS audits. It had the stink of the clinton jackboot.

The message was clear: Be advised! Try to dump hillary and hillary will, quite simply, crush you.

As with Putin and other Stalinists, missus clinton's functional assassination weapons of choice are drummed up charges of tax evasion and character assassination, ⁹ not necessarily in that order.

The Barrett Report, paid for by The People and redacted by the DC mutual protection racket writ large—which is also, we note (and will remember), paid for by The People—documents the clintons' abuse of the IRS and other clinton abuses of power that were—and still are—routinely used to silence clinton critics.


FAKE OUT  

If functional assassination is a clinton staple, the reputation for assassination-in-fact is the clinton coup de grâce.

To make sure their repulation always precedes them, the clintons never miss an opportunity to spread the rumors around themselves. By repeating every allegation of clinton murder and mayhem—while affecting an incredulous air, of course—the clintons intimidate and silence their critics even as they marginalize the enemy.

The outrageousness of the clintons' crimes, actual and apparent, will always work to the clintons' advantage, making the disabling of these flagrant psychopaths all the more challenging.

But disable them we must.

For the children.

FROM:
STALINIST RISING?
HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER
(WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?)
by Mia T, 2.07.07

read more:
HAVE RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE, RUPERT MURDOCH AND CHRIS RUDDY REALLY JUMPED SHIP?
(AND WHAT ARE THE CLINTONS PROMISING THEM, ANYWAY?)

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

George Bush Sr., and former Canadian Conservative PM Brian Mulroney deserve all the credit (yes credit) for the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. They also set the wheels in motion for the NAFTA. Bush Sr. actually signed the agreement -- Clinton just had to get Congressional approval for ratification.

Newt Gingrich deserves much more of the credit for welfare reform.