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Still a Clinton hater. And loving it.
Oak Lawn (IL) Reporter ^ | 4/11/02 | Michael M. Bates

Posted on 04/09/2002 5:15:38 AM PDT by mikeb704

I don’t care how long it’s been since Clinton dragged his sorry carcass – and anything else he could swipe – out of the White House. I don’t want to forget the Clinton years. I don’t want to move on. I don’t want to put it all behind me.

I hate Clinton as ardently now as when he energetically defiled the Nation on a daily basis. I hate his wife, and his daughter, too. And I won’t be satisfied until everyone hates them as much as I do.

That, you may argue, isn’t feasible, despite the multitude of excellent reasons to hate them. My answer is that in a country that could elect a deceitful sleaze like Clinton, anything is possible.

For years I gave Chelsea a pass. After all, it wasn’t her fault that she was born into a family of crooks. She’s grown up now, though, and is her own person. So what did she do immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11th? She’s written that she was "expounding on the detriments of Bush’s tax cut as we approached Grand Central Terminal . . ." Quite clearly, she’s a developing basket case, one deserving the same scorn and derision as the unfit parents who inculcated her with socialist nonsense.

What’s especially preposterous are Clinton’s incessant attempts to rewrite history. A few months ago he rounded up some of his bootlicking apologists and urged them to publicize all his supposed accomplishments as president. More recently, he permitted the Monica Lewinsky of newsmagazines, Newsweek, to interview him. Clinton claimed that giving Marc Rich, former regular on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List, was a mistake because – hold your breath here – "It wasn’t worth the damage to my reputation."

His reputation? His reputation? What a knee lapper. Clinton’s got a reputation, all right. But it’s certainly not one that could be damaged. Here’s a guy who was:

Fined $90,000 for lying under oath and obstructing justice. Forced to pay an $850,000 settlement in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Disbarred in Arkansas. Prohibited from practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He ran the White House like a Motel 6 for Democrat fat cats. He took campaign contributions from Chinese communists. He entertained felons, including drug peddlers and arms smugglers, in the Executive Mansion.

Remember how the Clintons managed to get their hands on 900 FBI files they weren’t supposed to have? Or the puzzling reappearance of subpoenaed billing records?

Then there were the last minute pardons. Susan McDougal, Roger Clinton, and Clinton’s former secretary of Housing and Urban Development were pardoned. So were Weather Underground radicals, murderers, drug dealers, and a bunch of folks who stole tax dollars. Hillary’s brothers, seeing how well Roger Clinton was doing by peddling influence, jumped on the pardon bandwagon themselves.

And what of Clinton and terrorism? In 1993 bin Laden’s thugs exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring hundreds of others. In 1995 they bombed a military headquarters in Riyatdh, Saudi Arabia and killed five Americans. In 1996 they bombed military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and killed 19 Americans. In 1998 they bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 5,000 others. In 2000 they bombed the U.S.S. Cole and killed 17 Americans. What did Clinton do about all this? Not much. He was too busy lying, obstructing, denying, obfuscating, stonewalling, and, of course, traveling.

Clinton whines about how much money has been spent on investigating him. But how much would have been spent if he had only told the truth?

So much to hate, so little time. Yet there’s reason to think that finally, finally, more Americans are recognizing the true Clinton legacy.

A recent Gallup poll rated the last eight presidents in terms of job approval. In the poll, the first one taken since he left office, Clinton ranked sixth, ahead of only Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Not bad for a start. In the meantime, let the hating continue.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonscandals; crimes; legacy
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I get mail from Newsweek regularly asking me to subscribe and tear it up.

LOL! You mean they actually ask you to subscribe just so you can tear up their magazine??

21 posted on 04/09/2002 6:27:23 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
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To: prognostigaator
Well, if you want the truth, there were a whole raft of indictable crimes, but no one with the guts to indict him.
22 posted on 04/09/2002 6:28:53 AM PDT by Cicero
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To: mikeb704
Amen and Amen!
23 posted on 04/09/2002 6:29:59 AM PDT by sport
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To: chicago charlie
Your screen name gives you away - you hale from the home of corruption - Daley's Chicago, land of Jesse Jackson where corruption has been a way of life. Perhaps your standard is that if the evidence has been sufficiently well hidden or destroyed, there was no crime, but it is not history's.

It is not possible not to acknowledge that Clinton was a corrupt liar and still be considered a rational human being: those who defend Clinton fall into a very few categories (i) those who would tolerate anything, including rape, because he defends the feminist agenda or is the first "black president", (ii) those who personally profited from the corruption of his regime, (iii) those who do not believe in government of laws, not men, (iv) those who hate America and support our enemies or (v) the terminally stupid. Which category or categories cover you?

24 posted on 04/09/2002 6:31:12 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: grobdriver
As a society we have to live with the choices we have made. The second term of Clinton was the focal point of how bad our society has become. Hating, loathing, bashing, etc... is only a reflection on us, not Bill Clinton. You do not blame the monkey for shooting up the place when you gave him the machine-gun.This country needs a moral and ethical infusion from the top to bottom. Expecting such a change from Bush, or other run of the mill politico's is silly. I would pin my hate more-so on the media. They are the ones who have killed our society. Clinton was only a symptom. You give him way too much credit.
25 posted on 04/09/2002 6:31:57 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: CatoRenasci
I don't understand all your adjectives, but they sure look nasty. And, nasty brings to mind the Clintons. I agree with the author, I hate them too.
26 posted on 04/09/2002 6:32:33 AM PDT by raisincane
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To: mikeb704
Very nicely stated. I really like the part about the former First Brat.
27 posted on 04/09/2002 6:38:05 AM PDT by wjcsux
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To: mikeb704
My personal synoptic observation of "that time" = Sleazin's not the reason - it's the TREASON!
28 posted on 04/09/2002 6:39:09 AM PDT by MarineDad
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To: CT
Michael M. Bates is indeed a Freeper, and a fine one at that .... have a look at his profile and his website, which he calls, "Michael M. Bates - My Side of the Swamp"
29 posted on 04/09/2002 6:41:04 AM PDT by ErnBatavia
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To: CatoRenasci
hey at least nixon wasn't a traitor!
30 posted on 04/09/2002 6:44:54 AM PDT by longfellow
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To: mikeb704
I hate Clinton as ardently now as when he energetically defiled the Nation on a daily basis. I hate his wife, and his daughter, too. And I won?t be satisfied until everyone hates them as much as I do.

Well there is at least two of us

BOTOH I hate Hillary even more if that is possible
31 posted on 04/09/2002 6:48:16 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: chicago charlie
.... Clinton's administration may have been greatly "investigated", but that means little, as none of the investigations turned up proof of actual indictable crimes, and in the U.S., you are innocent until proven guilty.

13 posted on 4/9/02 5:51 AM Pacific by chicago charlie

The proof was there,Ray just ignored it and weaseled around it.

From his own lips, Ray stated that hillary,"Gave factually untrue testimony".

That is perjury by any other name.

As for bill, Ray weaseled around indicing him by saying something to the effect of since he admitted giving untrue and misleading testimony [perjury to anyone else] all would be forgiven.

If any other Freepers can recall Ray's exact words, please feel free to chime in.

When bill and hillary too for that matter get to hell they will have apologists there already defending them to Satan.

The only thing worse than the clintons are their apologists and aiders and abetors, for without them they could not operate and corrupt anything and everything that they come into contact with.

32 posted on 04/09/2002 6:49:10 AM PDT by sport
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To: mikeb704
BTW
You forgot to add the Broaderick rape and Wlley grope and lying about Flowers and the $50000 cattle futures and Travelgate and and etc etc etc
33 posted on 04/09/2002 6:52:05 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: mikeb704
Very nice rant...
34 posted on 04/09/2002 6:54:08 AM PDT by eureka!
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To: chicago charlie
Clinton's administration may have been greatly "investigated", but that means little, as none of the investigations turned up proof of actual indictable crimes...

Horsepoop.

Had the "injustice" department been run by someone other than a 'rat lesbian shill, or a 'nadless Rino more interested in "moving on" than in justice, say somebody like David Schippers, your buddy Klintoon would have been executed by firing squad for treason already.

35 posted on 04/09/2002 6:56:04 AM PDT by jimt
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To: jimt
Had the "injustice" department been run by someone other than a 'rat lesbian shill, or a 'nadless Rino more interested in "moving on" than in justice, say somebody like David Schippers, your buddy Klintoon would have been executed by firing squad for treason already.

You forgot to add had not the senate had a bunch of wimpy GOP senators ALL would have come out in the senate trial
36 posted on 04/09/2002 6:59:04 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: chicago charlie
One of the most vicious scandals that clinton created was travelgate. To lead people away in handcuffs on trumped up charges because you want to get your friends in to loot the department was the worst and the least known scandal. Mike Royko wrote a good column about it in the Sun-Times at the time. You should do a little search and see if you can find that article.
37 posted on 04/09/2002 6:59:46 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: mikeb704
Finally, we can use the word "hate" and Clinton in the same breath and not worry about that knock on the door from the Secret Service :~)

Oh, BTW about Chelsea. "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree".

She is a combination of the both of them; and that's a frightening prospect.

sw

38 posted on 04/09/2002 7:07:01 AM PDT by spectre
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To: raisincane
Clinton on the other hand was the chief corrupt boil on the body politic, the master prestidigitator and mountebank, the source of the putresence that permeated the government during his vile rule.

A prestidigitator is one skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler [legerdemain means sleight of hand...or... any artful deception or trick

A mountebank is 1. One who mounts a bench or stage in teh market or other public place and sells quack medicines; a traveling quack doctor. 2. Any boastful and unscrupulous pretender; a man of trickery and buffoonery; a charlatan.

putresence is a synonym for putrid (from which it derives) which means: 1. Decomposed; especially in ad advanced stage of decomposition; rotten; also, tending to decomposition or decay; stinkingly rotten. 2. Of, pertaining to, indicating, or proceeding from, a decayed state fo organic matter; foul; as a putrid smell. 3.a. Figuratively, currupt; noisome; foul; morally vicious. b. Slang Disagreeable; displeasing.
All definitions from Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition 1934, 1948.

See, the perfect description of Clinton!

39 posted on 04/09/2002 7:07:29 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: mikeb704
Mike, you forgot one thing about Klinton, pardons, and terrorism. Remember Klinton pardoned FALN terrorists for his wife's campaign? These terrorists were responsible for the death and injury to over a dozen people. And he wonders why people are saying he was soft on terrorism?
40 posted on 04/09/2002 7:07:52 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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