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ZOTTT! Ten reasons to read "The Clinton Wars"
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Posted on 05/14/2003 1:13:54 PM PDT by doggy in the window

Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars" has been serialized by Salon. Here are ten reasons why you should watch Salon's "commercial" and then read the installments. All of them (one, two, three, four, five).

1. He related a conversation he had had with Senator Alan Simpson, the Republican from Wyoming, who was retiring.

"You know there's nothing wrong that Hillary and I did in Whitewater," Clinton told him.

"Of course," Simpson replied. "We all know there's nothing there. It was just politics. And it just got out of hand."

2. Chief Justice Rehnquist...had been chilly and inexpressive toward the president throughout the morning. He was grim while swearing in Clinton to his second term, with Hillary holding the Bible. Now Rehnquist turned to speak to him. "Good luck," he said. "You'll need it."

"They're going to screw you on the Paula Jones case," Hillary said.

3. "The Washington bureau was like an outpost of the American Spectator," an ABC News correspondent told me. "Dorrance was in constant touch with Tripp. He was calling the shots. He kept opposing views off the air and put views supportive of Starr on the air."

4. "I saw decisions made on moral grounds that had nothing to do with criminal grounds," [Sam] Dash told me. "They believed that someone was a bad person, a sinful person, who ought to be punished for it. They distorted their judgment. Ken allowed his personal concepts of morality to interfere with the role of a prosecutor."

5. Jackie Bennett, Starr's deputy, promulgated a cult of toughness. He and his closest allies called themselves the "Likud faction," after the hard-line, right-wing Israeli political party, and dubbed others who did not always share their unbending fervor "commie wimps."

6. "We don't want to leave stuff out because it will look like we are concealing or not giving them all of the facts," he said. The Washington Post's Bob Woodward described Starr saying this as he "folded his hands and rubbed them together." Starr added, "I don't think we can remove all of the F-words." In its detail and tone, Starr was truly the author of the Starr Report.

7. In 2002, DeLay preached to the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Texas, that God was using him to promote "a biblical worldview" in politics, and that he had pushed for Clinton's impeachment because the president held "the wrong worldview."

8. Democratic leader Dick Gephardt delivered a stem-winder: "We are now rapidly descending into a politics where life imitates farce, fratricide dominates our public debate, and America is held hostage to tactics of fear and smear." The Democrats stomped and cheered and wouldn't stop, as if they could forestall the inevitable....The president of the United States was impeached.

9. "Henry," said [Sen. Ted] Stevens, "I don't care if you prove he raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead -- you are not going to get 67 votes." "The system doesn't work," Schippers muttered loudly.

10 When the videotape of Monica Lewinsky's testimony was played to the Senate on February 6, Senator Fred Thompson, Republican of Tennessee, walked out in disgust in the middle of Bryant's questions, muttering, "I can't take it anymore."


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1 posted on 05/14/2003 1:13:54 PM PDT by doggy in the window
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To: doggy in the window
Both Clintons should be hanged.
And so should most of their pets.
2 posted on 05/14/2003 1:18:16 PM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: doggy in the window
Of course, Blumenthal has been proven to be a 100% liar on these matters, so why should we believe anything in his book?
3 posted on 05/14/2003 1:19:52 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: doggy in the window
9. "Henry," said [Sen. Ted] Stevens, "I don't care if you prove he raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead -- you are not going to get 67 votes." "The system doesn't work," Schippers muttered loudly.

Ya gotta love democrats..........

4 posted on 05/14/2003 1:21:40 PM PDT by b4its2late (Despite the high cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?)
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To: Rodney King
doggy in the window
Since May 14, 2003

Welcome to FR, Sid.
5 posted on 05/14/2003 1:22:10 PM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: doggy in the window
WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC, SID!

YOUR BOOK WILL NEVER SELL.
6 posted on 05/14/2003 1:24:51 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: doggy in the window
Ah, doggy poop in the window. Here's a few questions:

1. If your daughter accused a politician of dropping his pants and trying to force oral sex, would you think it a "bad thing" and that she had a right to sue even if that politician became president?
2. If that same politician then lied under oath, would it be a crime in your mind?
3. Does the book mention Monica testifying that Clinton told her he was being blackmailed to allow a spy in the W.H. to keep spying?
4. Does it mention Clinton testifying under oath that he couldn't remember whether he had been offered illegal donations? Doesn't sound very bright for someone you libs believe has a 180 I.Q.

7 posted on 05/14/2003 1:26:09 PM PDT by techcor (Admin Moderator wannabe)
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To: doggy in the window
#8 - The time the Democrats walked out of the House.

Not unlike the losers walking out on Texas yesterday.
8 posted on 05/14/2003 1:26:25 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: doggy in the window
Welcome to FR.

Why should we believe Sid?

He lied to Anthony Lewis of the NYT about questions asked of him by Starr Grand Jury.

He lied to congress according to Christopher Hitchens, another lib.

More importantly, why should we do anything to promote a revenue stream at Salon, our favorite penny stock.

I'm certain this tome will join the others of clintonistas on the remainder racks in a few months. I'll read the choice tidbits while drinking a latte. And put it back on the rack.
9 posted on 05/14/2003 1:27:12 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: doggy in the window
Trash is trash ... I don't support people who write trash!
10 posted on 05/14/2003 1:27:45 PM PDT by CyberAnt ( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
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To: doggy in the window
How much is that dogma innuendo?
11 posted on 05/14/2003 1:29:45 PM PDT by FReepaholic
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To: doggy in the window
Top one reason to read "The Clinton Wars":

It’s the last book on earth and your television’s broke.

12 posted on 05/14/2003 1:30:04 PM PDT by dead
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To: doggy in the window
BTW, I would recommend "Dereliction of Duty" by Lt Col Buzz Patterson. It picks up where Gary Aldridge's book leaves off.

Now here's a book that will curl your hair.
13 posted on 05/14/2003 1:30:18 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: 4mycountry; Constitution Day; okchemyst

This one's easy.

;-)

14 posted on 05/14/2003 1:30:32 PM PDT by dighton (NLC™)
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To: dead
And you need to build a fire and take a cr@p?
15 posted on 05/14/2003 1:31:25 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: doggy in the window
Sid, nice to see ya! You finally get through those FBI files yet?
16 posted on 05/14/2003 1:31:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: doggy in the window; dighton
Sigh.
This one is easy, but the other is more deserving (IMHO).


17 posted on 05/14/2003 1:35:19 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Billthedrill
"In a funny way I think Washington almost cherishes Sid Blumenthal. He's like Snape in Harry Potter, always lurking somewhere in the background, nursing his dark plots and conspiracies. Washington just wouldn't be Washington without old Sid."
- William Powers of The National Journal
18 posted on 05/14/2003 1:35:41 PM PDT by dead
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To: tscislaw
That's pretty good!
19 posted on 05/14/2003 1:36:14 PM PDT by Arkie2 (TSA ="Thousands standing around")
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To: doggy in the window
"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"

Lest Americans ever forget why the clintons, and all their enablers need to be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765080/posts
The Clinton Files
various links | 10-08-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723210/posts
Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )
various links | 7-27-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/611951/posts
Hodgepodge O' Hillary
various links | 01-20-02 | backhoe
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/771000/posts
The Atomic Genie- what we have about North Korea's Nuclear program
various FR posts | 10-17-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

20 posted on 05/14/2003 1:36:27 PM PDT by backhoe (A nuke for every Kook ( NK, Iraq, Iran, Pak, India... )- what a Clinton "legacy...")
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