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Clinton Library Plans to Bulldoze Slave Landmark
Newsmax ^ | 9/28/01

Posted on 09/28/2001 10:31:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Fans of America's "First Black President" are sure to be dismayed over plans to bulldoze a historic house built by slaves that had the misfortune to be located on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.

"An 1890s historic freight depot..., built by former slaves, is in impeccable condition and part of the historic train station and bridge Clinton has vowed to preserve," says U.S. News & World Report's "Washington Whispers."

But the Clinton Library team has nixed any idea to save the structure, saying it's too late to incorporate the depot into plans for his post-presidential shrine.

Local preservationists are crying foul and cite a Clinton Library Foundation document stating that one of its primary goals is preservation.

They warn that America's so-called First Black President will be remembered for "pushing to destroy one of the state's first black-built structures."

Hopes that Clinton would change his mind when he visits Little Rock next week were dashed when a spokesman in his Harlem office said he had no plans to tour the library site.


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Where is Sharpton or Jesse!
1 posted on 09/28/2001 10:31:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
To quote Nelson from the Simpsons: "Ha-Ha!"
2 posted on 09/28/2001 10:32:57 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: areafiftyone

3 posted on 09/28/2001 10:35:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: areafiftyone
The Clinton Presidential Library will be in itself a landmark of our time as slaves, 1993-2001.
4 posted on 09/28/2001 10:35:37 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: areafiftyone
OMG. We could have an absolute field-day with this.
5 posted on 09/28/2001 10:35:41 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: areafiftyone
I need to start praying that God helps me to stop hating the dirtbag and her husband. This hatred I have built up for the past 8 years for them and our gov.org and all liberals is not good for my soul.
6 posted on 09/28/2001 10:37:23 AM PDT by winodog
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To: Diogenesis
LOL - I haven't seen that one since the Lewinsky Scandal. Thanks :-)
7 posted on 09/28/2001 10:37:44 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: winodog
It keeps me warm.
8 posted on 09/28/2001 10:38:55 AM PDT by Chewbacca
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To: winodog
I know it may not be good for the soul but It's lots of fun! HE HE ;-)
9 posted on 09/28/2001 10:40:21 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
Most Clinton supporters are very mediocre people. If Clinton announced that they were going to destroy this landmark and replace it with a KKK monument that would be the site of an actual black lynching every day for the next 100 years, I think 99% of them would take no more than 2.8 seconds to convince themselves that it's a good idea.
10 posted on 09/28/2001 10:40:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: areafiftyone
ROFLMAO...but you know xxx42 won't catch any hell for this...the usually liberal lobbies that go looking for racial slights always bend over for him and hand him the Vaseline.
11 posted on 09/28/2001 10:41:32 AM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter
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To: areafiftyone
This is such a perfect metaphor for everything Clinton.
12 posted on 09/28/2001 10:41:44 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: winodog
man o man did you hit on my pet peive.....dot org's... sucking government money to undermine government is as dumb as loose borders and that godless question "How do you feel?" instead of what do you think .....
13 posted on 09/28/2001 10:43:33 AM PDT by cactusSharp
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To: deport, sinkspur, spectre, Miss Marple, JeanS, Irma, Teacup, Libloather
*Snort*
14 posted on 09/28/2001 10:52:21 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: kcvl, mountaineer, Southflanknorthpawsis, kattracks ,looscannon
You ought to enjoy this!
15 posted on 09/28/2001 10:53:16 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: areafiftyone
"Where is Sharpton or Jesse?"

Precisely.
Rev."Love-Child" should go to Little Rock immediately to negotiate with

The Evil Terrorist Librarians

FRegards....

16 posted on 09/28/2001 10:53:28 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: areafiftyone
This calls for a Slick Willie reprise:

From "Bill Clinton - Vast Bubba Cons"
(parody of "Bob Dylan - At Budokan")
:

WHEN I’LL BE GOING HOME
(parody of "Like a Rolling Stone")


Once upon a time I played the press so fine,
Gave the bums my time and my polls climbed,
When I didn't fume.
People'd call me names and say, "Beware y'all,
You're bound to fall."
I thought they were all just kin of Newt.
A few used to laugh and shout:
"Remember us when you're bangin' gals."
Now I don't talk so proud,
Now I don't go out in strange crowds.
I’m not about to be lousing up my next McMeal.

How will it feel?
How will it feel?
To be out on my own,
With no bad press to bemoan,
I’ll be a “Big Creep” I know,
When I'll be going home.

I've gone to the finest schools alright,
And when lonely don't you know I used to get off
By abusin' chicks,
And nobody's ever taught me how to behave and be discreet,
And now I'm findin' out I'm gonna have to get,
More elusive kicks.
I said I'd never go out on my bride,
With a mistress or tramp, but then I told them lies,
Since they snuffed out all my alibis,
I don't dare do it in back rooms now, nor with spies,
Nor be askin’ babes "Do you want to make a deal?"

How will it feel?
How will it feel?
To be out on my own,
With no bad press to bemoan,
I’ll be a “Big Creep” I know,
When I'll be going home.

I never really liked to be with all the clowns and hucksters in this town,
When they'd come around and do my dirty tricks on cue.
And I never understood that I ain't no good,
Or that I shouldn't gyp other people,
Nor let my bitch make news.
Been usin’ bribes and White House rooms for Democrats,
We carried on with and sold out to those Chinese cats,
Ain't too hard to discover that,
We're really just as red as them rats.
After they took from the U.S. every secret they could steal.

How will it feel?
How will it feel?
To be out on my own,
With no bad press to bemoan,
I’ll be a “Big Creep” I know,
When I'll be going home.

Been said of my people they're all a bunch of creeps still,
They're winkin', thinkin' they got it made,
Out takin' all kinds of precious graft and things,
But my goons’ll take care a’ those who sing,
They’ll all be goners, I say.
A few used to be so amused,
At our pollin' and crap and the language we abused,
I'm goin' to see Jim Carville now, he plans my news,
When he's got nothing, I've got nothing for you,
We were invincible, when we had our dark secrets well concealed.

How will it feel?
How will it feel?
To be out on my own,
With no bad press to bemoan,
I’ll be a “Big Creep’ I know,
When I'll be going home.

RealAudio sound clips at FreeSpeechRecords.com.
Available on Amazon.com.


17 posted on 09/28/2001 10:55:59 AM PDT by ravinson
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To: areafiftyone
From the title, I thought this was from "The Onion"! Too funny.
18 posted on 09/28/2001 10:56:43 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Howlin
heh heh heh
19 posted on 09/28/2001 10:59:37 AM PDT by Irma
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To: Chewbacca
Hey Chewie where have you been?

Oh no! Not the first black president? We all know he can remember when the black churches in Arkansas were being burned down, LOL. We found out later that was a lie. Bubba is a lie!

20 posted on 09/28/2001 11:00:38 AM PDT by Teacup
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