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Charles Krauthammer: For Bill Clinton, there is no legacy (LEGACY? WHAT LEGACY?!)
Washington Post via Union Leader ^ | Sunday, Feb. 03, 2008 | by Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 02/02/2008 9:20:23 PM PST by jdm

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1 posted on 02/02/2008 9:20:25 PM PST by jdm
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As Dr. Krauthammer has said; "History is not only cruel. It is witty."

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2 posted on 02/02/2008 9:22:14 PM PST by Lurker (Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
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I thought the explosion of teens suffering from oral infections of syphilis was Bill (the Sink) Clinton’s legacy.
3 posted on 02/02/2008 9:25:45 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: jdm

Clinton earns an extra dollop of fawning, with the accompanying fringe benefits, because he is (a) charming and (b) not George W. Bush.

Charming? Hardly. He is a corrupt, and calculating narcis-sistic schemer.
No, it is because he is willing to continually bash the United States at every opportunity. This plays big in an envious world.

See fellow legacy-less perennial loser, Jimmy Carter.


4 posted on 02/02/2008 9:30:05 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Grizzled Bear
The Legacy…


5 posted on 02/02/2008 9:30:49 PM PST by bannie (clintons CHEAT! AAAALLWAYS!)
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To: jdm

Legacy? Sure, there’s a legacy. Bill Clinton is the only draft dodger and rapist elected President of the US. And he is the only elected US President to ever be impeached. Let us never forget his legacy.


6 posted on 02/02/2008 9:32:53 PM PST by Hoodat (The whole point of the Conservative Movement is to gain converts, not demonize them.)
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What gnaws at him is the verdict of history.

History will not be kind - his flaws will be known and his "charm" won't translate.

7 posted on 02/02/2008 9:38:23 PM PST by GOPJ (Robert Byrd, George Wallace,“Bull” Connor- all Democrat Racists - Clintoons added to list. 230FMJ)
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What legacy?

He did raise the meaning of the word "tawdry" to new heights.

8 posted on 02/02/2008 9:38:34 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Lurker

Hey, your web site is down!


9 posted on 02/02/2008 9:40:31 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: jdm

LEGACY

10 posted on 02/02/2008 9:49:02 PM PST by BigLittle (.jpg)
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Good article, but I have one quibble with it. Krauthammer states that it wasn't Clinton's fault that the 1990s were such an uneventful decade.

(Rant mode on)

Clinton's presidency was inconsequential because HE chose to make it so. Reagan's presidency could have been inconsequential. He inherited a nation with gas lines and 21% interest rates. The US was being embarrassed by a nutball Islamic dictator, and the Soviet Union was overthrowing small countries around the globe. He could have easily puttered around and fussed with economic policies that made little difference. He could have ignored the Soviet aggression and played it safe. He could have stuck his finger in the wind twice a day and done what the polls suggested. He didn't.

Ronald Reagan stood in Berlin and said, "Mr. President, tear down this wall."

Bill Clinton looked at the bombing of the Murrah Building and blamed talk radio.

Ronald Reagan dared to paint with bold strokes and build a legacy. Bill Clinton chose to be inconsequential because doing something bold involves risk.

11 posted on 02/02/2008 9:55:07 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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Excellent article.

Bill Clinton legacy is one paragraph. "Bill Clinton was the only elected President to be impeached because he lied under oath and to the Nation about having sex in the White House with a 22 years old intern called Monica Lewinski. Under his watch and because his cowardly behavior to deal with constant attacks by islamic terrorism we had 9/11/2001."

The man is the most shameless person in the world, you spit on his face and he tells you it is raining. A low life impeached President who walks around thinking he is George Washington.

13 posted on 02/02/2008 10:01:15 PM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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Yes he does have a legacy ... only elected President ever impeached, and a big change to the Manhattan skyline.


14 posted on 02/02/2008 10:01:19 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Agree. His most obvious legacy is that millions of young schoolchildren now know what the term ‘oral sex’ means. And they don’t really think it is actually sex of any kind. He has been an international embarrassment for years. He should go away and take his shrew with him. Legacy? He don’t have no other stinkin’ legacy!


15 posted on 02/02/2008 10:01:39 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: All; jdm

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NEVER FORGET

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The HILL & BILL Show’s true permanent LEGACY...

...will always be in their actively supporting Communist North Vietnam’s terrorist takeover of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Slamming down hard upon a once Free South Vietnamese people...

...a most horrid:

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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”..

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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With the HILL & BILL Show’s new push to takeover our precious Oval Office one last time, with our own Freedom directly at stake this time around in a new time of war...

...WHAT PRICE WE..?

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NEVER FORGET


17 posted on 02/02/2008 10:02:29 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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Bill Clinton’s legacy is a white stain on a blue dress.


18 posted on 02/02/2008 10:02:42 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: jveritas

Arrrrgh ... four seconds. Darn that “Preview”!


19 posted on 02/02/2008 10:04:32 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

The truth must be repeated again and again and again. So you did good.


20 posted on 02/02/2008 10:13:58 PM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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