Posted on 05/03/2003 9:07:28 AM PDT by doug from upland
Well, well, well. The man had who had his problems with Bill Clinton has a problem of his own.
What right did Bill Bennett have to condemn Clinton for rape? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for obstruction of justice? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for abuse of power? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for perjury and subornation of perjury? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for having his thugs intimidate witnesses? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for giving his "troubled stalker" intern girlfriend Top Secret Clearance at the Pentagon? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for submitting a false affidavit to the court? What right did he have to condemn Clinton for using government (i.e. paid by taxpayers) assets and people to facilitate his sexual compulsions? What right did he have to condemn the chief law enforcement officer for using attorneys, friends, thugs, and other government employees to fix a federal sexual harassment lawsuit and deny a citizen her day in court?
What right indeed! What a hypocrite. He has a serious moral problem of his own with gambling. The Book of Virtues, my butt.
So, let's dissect Mr. Bennett. It is said that he lost millions of dollars, maybe as much as $8 million dollars gambling. That's incredible.
Gambling is illegal. Oh, wait. There are certain places where it is legal like Las Vegas and Atlantic City? Okay, forget that one.
Bennett is a Catholic who preached every time he appeared on television that any gambling is a terrible sin and vice and that those who gamble are the lowest of the low. Oh, wait. I found out he didn't do that. Never mind.
Okay, then. The Catholic Church has determined that gambling is a mortal sin. Oh, wait. They haven't done that? From The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2413.) "Games of chance (card games, etc.) or wagers are not in themselves contrary to justice. They become morally unacceptable when they deprive someone of what is necessary to provide for one’s needs and those of others. The passion for gambling risks becoming an enslavement."
Okay, then. Bennett won money at times and didn't give any to his church. Oh, wait. The reports are that when he won, he tithed.
Okay, then. Bennett left his family and flew to Atlantic City every single weekend to engage in his vice. Oh, wait. Such was not the case.
Okay, then. Bennett cheated his business partners to pay for gambling losses. Oh, wait. There has never been a hint that he did that. Never mind.
Okay, then. Bennett would come home so angry when he lost that he beat his wife and verbally abused his kids. What? He didn't do that?
Okay, then. Bennett was always late on mortgage payments, almost lost his home, and his kids didn't have enough food to eat. Oh, I can't find that's true anywhere. Never mind that one.
Okay, then. Bennett was always surrounded by hookers in Atlantic City whom he made wear blue dresses so he could stain them while he was on official government business. What? He didn't do that either?
Well, there you have it. I guess I have made my case. What Bill Bennett did was as bad as rape, as bad as perjury, as bad as obstruction of justice, as bad as trying to fix a federal sexual harassment trial to deny a woman her day in court, and as bad as anything else Clinton ever did, including taking 900 grand from traitor Bernie Schwartz who sold missile technology to the Red Chinese that puts every child in this country in jeopardy from a ChiCom nuclear missile.
The only people who don't get this are you right wing whacko Clinton haters who will get down on your own kneepads to defend this terrible husband and father Bill Bennett. You on the right should be ashamed of yourselves. The next thing you will claim is that Scott Ritter, Jim McDermott, and George Galloway received money from Iraq, that Susan Sarrandon joined the effort to keep Dr. Laura off television, that pacifist Tim Robbins threatened to hunt down and physically hurt a reporter, and that Hillary Clinton recently gave a speech screaming at the top of her lungs and appeared to be insane. What? Stop. I don't even want to hear it.
What spin? He said he gambles and he said he's probably broken even. Doesn't sound like spin to me.
And frankly, waiting until he's read the stories makes a lot more sense than responding to them sight unseen.
Now...if we could just get Krintong to comment on Juanita Broaddrick...hmmm, maybe Hillary will have something about that in her upcoming book.
The best humor always contains a little bit of truth.
The Liberals are going to play this exactly as they did Trent Lott and the way they have tried to do to Santorum.
It's always worse when it's aConservative.
See Dewey's post.
While he did nothing while on the government job, this may be just the tip of personal problems that may have not been exposed yet. And his extolling on virtues may be compromised if such is the case. That is the problem.
Bennett has skated on thin ice. We don't know if he will be safe or fall through.
I've been to Vegas, too. I'm not a high roller, like Bennett, but I've gambled...and I can still pay the mortgage. Am I morally bankrupt? Nope.
This will either be a big problem for him, especially if it's the tip of the iceburg or will fall under it's own lack of further evidence to support it's a major problem.
But the amount of money claimed lost is staggering. And it's not something a moral person should/would be involved with. A few bucks here and there, well no problem. But the amount listed was a decade or two worth of salary for many.
The casinos don't give somebody the redcarpet treatment if they don't "donate" tons of money to the casino. Winners are usually sent on their way.
That was my feeling, too, but I wasn't sure how to spell it.
Thanks. ;-)
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