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TAKE THE BILL CLINTON QUIZ: Find the lies, exagerrations and misrepresentations.
WHITE HOUSE ARCHIVES

Posted on 03/01/2003 8:20:14 AM PST by Liz

White House Archives
William J. Clinton
Forty-Second President 1993-2001
Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas
Married to Hillary Rodham Clinton

During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare roles. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.

After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.

President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name.

He excelled as a student and as a saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician. As a delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President John Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. The encounter led him to enter a life of public service.

Clinton was graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas.

He was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas's Third District in 1974. The next year he married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. In 1980, Chelsea, their only child, was born.

Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until he defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race.

Clinton and his running mate, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore Jr., then 44, represented a new generation in American political leadership. For the first time in 12 years both the White House and Congress were held by the same party. But that political edge was brief; the Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994.

In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president.

In the world, he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking. He drew huge crowds when he traveled through South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and China, advocating U.S. style freedom.


TOPICS: Announcements; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: clintonhaters
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To: Liz
Who is Bill Clinton's father?
21 posted on 03/01/2003 9:12:38 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Good link. Same for Roger. His resemblance to Billy is striking.
Analyzing the Clinton boys' DNA would be a piece of work.
22 posted on 03/01/2003 9:27:28 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
Jesus said of him: He is "AUTHOR of all lies". Nothing else can be added.
23 posted on 03/01/2003 10:52:56 AM PST by Uncle George
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To: Liz
Find the lies

If his lips are moving, he is most likly lying.
24 posted on 03/01/2003 11:23:35 AM PST by AdA$tra (All we are saying ....is give war a chance!)
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To: AdA$tra
You mean like this?

" It all depends what the meaning of 'is' is."

25 posted on 03/01/2003 12:25:16 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
It is so much fun to watch the Democratic Party disintegrate. All I ask is they keep following the instructions from the Clintons because the irony of all this is, Clintons have done more to bring people to the Conservative movement.

To give you an example of their stupidity, our economy in the State of California is spinning toward crash & burn. The state is in complete control of democrats. Now, the people are very angry with Gov Dufus (Gray Davis) and are championing a recall to remove him from office. In the last election, Gov Davis only won three counties in the entire state of California; L.A., San Francisco and Imperial Valley. Now L.A and Imperial Valley are heavily hispanic. So what does our two nit-wit senators, Feinstein and Boxer doing? They are fighting the confirmation of Miguel Estrada. Where else can you get this kind of entertainment for free?

26 posted on 03/01/2003 12:51:40 PM PST by Two-Bits (God Bless our Country, Our Military and their families, and President Bush!!!!!!)
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To: observer5
That, and the fact that the Clinton administration "cooked" the books from the beginning.

Anyone can have a great economy when they make up numbers to accomplish their pre-determined goal!

27 posted on 03/01/2003 1:16:56 PM PST by Prov3456
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To: Two-Bits
Nice deconstruction, and realtime stories about Kali Dumbocrats graydavis and Chi-Di-Fi.

Kali Dummycrats - dead men walking.

28 posted on 03/01/2003 1:19:23 PM PST by Liz
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To: Uncle George

He can't escape the almighty, omnipotent eye.

29 posted on 03/01/2003 1:31:48 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
led him to enter a life of public service.

It should read: led him to enter a life of feeding at the public trough.

30 posted on 03/01/2003 3:24:35 PM PST by janetgreen
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To: mountaineer
Good Work!
I have long suspected that slick's mother, who was basically an Arkansas beer joint whor* had no clue who Bill's actual father was and the "died prior to birth story, etc." just evolved as politically expedient.
31 posted on 03/01/2003 4:39:41 PM PST by nomorecameljocks
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To: Liz
Well, I woulda bracketed "married" in that bio the way I just did-- in quotation marks!
32 posted on 03/01/2003 4:42:28 PM PST by BradyLS
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To: janetgreen
......extorting big bucks from the taxpayers so he and Hitlery can live in the lap of luxury..........
A penthouse in the LIEbrary, no less............
33 posted on 03/01/2003 4:45:51 PM PST by Liz
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To: BradyLS
Yeah, right. Married? In name only.
34 posted on 03/01/2003 4:46:52 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
Did you really have to use the word "pumper" while referring to Clinton?
35 posted on 03/01/2003 6:42:57 PM PST by TommyDale (Give us all a break.)
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To: Liz
They did not mention the warning to not bend over to pick up the soap in the shower when Bill Clinton is in the same city. I repeat, Do not bend over in the shower to pick up the soap, when Bill Clinton is in the same city.
36 posted on 03/01/2003 7:09:58 PM PST by punster
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To: Liz
<< William J. Blythe .....
Born August 19 1946 in Hot Springs, Arkansas ..... >>

First lies.

[That'll do -- enough already]
37 posted on 03/01/2003 8:47:50 PM PST by Brian Allen (This above all -- to thine own self be true)
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To: Liz
He hates USA! He wants to see it destroyed!
38 posted on 03/01/2003 9:45:34 PM PST by timestax
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To: Liz
Who wrote this load of crap? Carville? Or was it the impeached creep himself?

It leaves out the fact Osama bin Laden spent eight years training a worldwide network of terrorists, thanks to the fact Bubba declined Sudan's offer to extradite the terrorist mastermind to us.

Also left out all the 1990s corporate corruption we're only finding out about now, the 1990s North Korean lies we're only finding out about now, illegal campaign contributions from China and Indonesia, the mishandled Waco siege, the Elian Gonzalez machine-gun raid, the rape of Juanita Broaddrick, the assault of Kathleen Willey and company, skyrocketing drug use by the nation's children, the abuse of White House travel-office employees, the creep's own perjury and obstruction of justice, the 1999 pardons for FALN terrorists and the 2001 pardons for some of the biggest dirtbags to ever walk the face of the earth - one of them being the creep's own brother (who was arrested again just a few days after being pardoned).

I'm sure it was a good read for anyone wearing kneepads. However, it wouldn't survive for a second in the no-spin zone. I'm just glad it's the White House Archives and not the White House TODAY.

Voters gave Ronald Reagan a third term by voting overwhelmingly for his hand-picked Veep. The same cannot be said about bill clinton. Even voters in clinton's home state and gore's home state JUST SAID NO to more White House lies and corruption.
39 posted on 03/02/2003 2:50:46 AM PST by billclintonwillrotinhell
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To: TommyDale
You're right. Should have said Clinton couldn't be a McD's pickle-slicer.
40 posted on 03/02/2003 3:51:51 AM PST by Liz
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