Posted on 11/19/2008 1:24:15 PM PST by Kukai
With the Bush administration ending and the Obama administration beginning, it is worth pondering John McCain’s gracious concession speech, giving due consideration to the ways in which the political opposition behaved during the tenures of our last two presidents.
Even though President Bill Clinton governed as a centrist and most of his major accomplishments were ripped from the conservative playbook (balancing the federal budget, passing a major free trade act, enacting dramatic reforms of the country’s welfare program), he inspired a visceral hatred from the base of the Republican Party. Perhaps it was his draft dodging, his inveterate extramarital liaisons, or the fact that he was the first baby boomer president (and one who came to embody everything that traditionalists hate about the 1960s), but Clinton drove a great many conservatives to say and do stupid things.
There was The American Spectator magazine, which published a 7,000-word exposé documenting Clinton’s alleged involvement with a drug running, money laundering and weapons smuggling racket based out of the Mena airport in the backwoods of Arkansas. There was Indiana Rep. Dan Burton, who, in pursuit of his theory that the Clintons were responsible for the death of White House counsel Vince Foster, invited a group of reporters to watch him shoot a watermelon. What this accomplished — other than raising legitimate doubts about Burton’s sanity and proving that fruit explodes when struck by a fast-moving bullet — is anyone’s guess. The culmination of the Clinton hysteria reached its apex with his impeachment, when congressional Republicans launched a fruitless endeavor to kick a popular president out of office over deceptive statements he made regarding a sex scandal.
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You’ve posted a couple of similar article like this.
Welcome to FR. Why don’t you give us your opinion on how to treat a racist, marxist quisling?
They weren't fruitless, impeachment is what Clinton is most known for.
The left spent the last 8 years showing us how they want to be treated. It is only polite to oblige.
Obambi.
It’s NOBAMA’s fault. Get used to it.
The Obamanation. No peace, no conciliation!!!
Does the article go on to give GOOD reasons to support the almost Mr. elect?
- an alcoholic;
- illegitimate;
- stole the election;
- Hitler;
- a Nazi;
- a fascist;
- an idiot;
- an evil genius;
- a poor-person killer;
- a warmonger;
- a kicker of old ladies;
- a religious fanatic;
- a war criminal;
- Chimp
- Chimpy McHitler;
- Chimpeached;
When The Left apologizes or is punished for eight years of slander, libel and sedition, THEN I'll think about shutting up about The Obama, The Messiah, The One (piss be upon him).
Kookie appears to be a hit and run poster.
Continue to slam Obama for broken promises. The One promised to lower the sea level
What a steaming pantload of an article. I intend to treat obamalamadindong with exactly the same courtesy and respect that the libtards have treated conservatives.
You do agree that oba-messiah is bad for freedom and this country, right?
Pound them on substance. Never give an inch.
(We could do without the wild conspiracy theorizing, though....agree on that.)
IBTZ?
Complete waste of energy.
Gridlock is Good.
I kind of see his point, but didnt a few years ago. Clinton with restraints of a opposition R congress had a more successful 4 years than our beloved GWB (I know I will get hate replies on this.) After losing his congress in 94 he turned around politically, demonized Newt and his popularity went way up. He beat Newt politically with budget shutdown ,even though he was blocking balanced budget, and then he took credit for it after multiple vetos. It was very frustrating to see him take and get credit for stuff he just signed, after blocking.
Then we get our president GWB and congress and he is opposite as far as playing the media or having any PR strategy, decides to do big things including splitting own party, and does not have a decent neutralize the other side strategy (on Pelosi) and ends up despised with R party in ruin (right now) . Pelosi wisely kept the spotlight on GWB, with media help. We never made her the demonized Newt.
Conservatives won’t support a Chicago crook even though he may have lied very smoothly to trick his way into the presidency.
We will give him the same respect that Democrats gave presidents Reagan and Bush. What’s fair for the goose is fair for the gander.
LLS
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