Posted on 10/16/2001 12:01:36 PM PDT by Liz
HAHAHAAAHAAA...sniff...HAHAHAHA
I'm sorry, I'm still laughing at that part about you being a conservative.
And in the case of Clinton, no, it counts for nothing.
I have respect for those who earn it (and I do not have to agree with every opinion they may hold). Since 9/11, all I have heard from him was "ME TOO!!" "I did it, too" II tried, but no one would help me." "I coulda done it, but the FBI was too busy investigating me" (Last I heard, he stopped many (most) FBI investigations in their tracks.
He is bloated...in his opinion of himself, in his supposed contribution to the country, in his worth to the world.
He is an ex-president who is trying to be someone important. Well bubba, I have one thing to say....BFD.
I hope to God his daughter doesn't have political aspirations......
By Liz Smith in New York When asked if he's seeking a movie career in Hollywood, Clinton just laughed and said jokingly, ``I'm looking at scripts right now. I'll do whatever they'll put me in.''
This is Clinton - he has done what anyone anywere has wanted him to do and be. Hillary plays a big roll in this.
Maybe we have now learned character does count.
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000, President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel, Clinton promised that those would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 7,000 people would be alive today
This question was raised on a radio call-in show. Without casting stones, it is a legitimate question.
There are two men, both extremely wealthy. One develops relatively cheap software and gives hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. The other sponsors terrorism.
That being the case, why is it that Clinton spent more money chasing down Bill Gates than Osama bin Laden?
And you are right. Clinton was never in the Oval office enough to do the nation's serious business, he was too intent on getting his sexual perversions satisfied in his washroom and in his hallway. Clinton was a media invented president. He was a dud as a human being and as a president, and his media friends are liars when they pretend he wasn't.
Get my point?
It seems us setting aside our principles aside for the sake of expediency, political or otherwise, is responsible for many of the problems we suffer today.
Besides, its not my fault that so many liberals are so morally adrift they can't discern the difference between a decent and just leader and a corrupt & perverted tin-pot politician. It's up to them to see the light, not me to accomodate their ignorance.
Like you, I was raised to respect certain offices -- like the Mayor of my city, the Governor of my state, and the President of the United States. I can remember my parents telling me that a person stood when a Governor or the President entered a room, and that if you applauded a President with whom you disagreed, you were applauding the Office and not the man.
Had Bill Clinton been a President with whose policies I disagreed (and I did), that would have been one thing.
I still could have respected him. He had, after all, occupied the highest office in our land.
But he actively dishonored the office itself.
He had a young intern give him a blow job in the Oval Office while he was on the telephone discussing troop movements in Bosnia.
He lied to the American People. Worse than that, he attempted to use his powerful intellect to disceive us. He played word games and manipulated the language. I'm sure he thought it was great fun -- having sex in the Oval Office and then showing the rubes how clever he was.
No, Bill Clinton deserves not respect. He deserves unending scorn.
The scorn he deserves is reserved for those who tarnish something that deserves respect.
That, I would guess, is why so many of us conservatives keep the issue of the Clintons alive. It is not simply that we disagrre with their polcies. It is that they actively dishonored something very special to all of us -- The Presidency of the United States.
We won't forget it.
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