The Clintons Are Back [Rush Notes: This Article Doesn't Seem To Have Been Run By Any Paper Online]

Creator's Syndicate ^ | 5/14/03 | Susan Estrich

[William McKinley]

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SUSAN ESTRICH

FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2003, AND THEREAFTER

The Clintons are back.

Sidney Blumenthal -- much-hated former Clinton aide, ethically challenged former journalist -- $850,000 advance in hand, has a new book out on May 20, attacking everyone who ever attacked him or the Clintons, rehearsing once again the old right-wing conspiracy, every attack on them, answered. The right wing conspiracy revived, answered, again.

Hillary's book is next.

Could someone please tell these people to shut up?

The Democrats might have a chance of electing a new president if they could get the last one, and his defenders, to clear the stage. It doesn't matter if they're right or wrong. They should be history.

The Clintons suck up every bit of the available air. Nothing is left for anyone else. They are big, too big. That's the problem.

The 2004 candidates need a chance to get some attention, to rise to Clinton's level, which they'll never do so long as the likes of Sidney Blumenthal are playing into the hands of conservatives in insisting on debating the scandals of the 1990s.

Don't get me wrong. No one spent more time defending Bill Clinton than I did. Too much, according to most of my friends. But in a constitutional crisis, there was no choice. Enough is enough.

There's no excuse for a grown man to have an affair with an intern, whether his name is Bill Clinton or Jack Kennedy. What the former president did was wrong.

It's bad enough that Fox has given Monica Lewinsky a talk show. Of all the hundreds of women who could help find Mr. Personality, the last one on earth who's earned the right to do it is the Queen of Blow Jobs of the 1990s.

The Republicans shouldn't have impeached him for it, but he shouldn't have given them the ammunition. And we shouldn't still be discussing it.

Why are we? Or, to put it more accurately, why are they?

Not because it serves the interests of Democrats of the future.

It doesn't help Howard Dean, or John Kerry, or Dick Gephardt.

It makes George W. Bush look good.

It gets Sidney on TV shows. If the issue is ethics, no one has less than Sidney Blumenthal. He used to call me, during the Dukakis campaign, which I was running and he was supposed to be covering, to offer covert advice, which if accepted might result in better coverage. Much later, when I criticized him, he tried to get me in trouble with my editors. All the while, I was defending his boss. That's Sidney. He's Hillary's best friend. No wonder Republicans are delighted to see his return to the spotlight.

It raises money for their causes.

The Bill and Bob (Dole) show on CBS has proven to be a colossal bore. The ratings have fallen. Is anyone getting the message? I fear not.

Let's not mince words.

Hillary Clinton is never going to be president of the United States. There is no more divisive figure in the Democratic Party, much less the country, than the former first lady. And I like her. But many women don't. Even Democratic women. Even working women. Not to mention non-working, independent, non-political women. She can be a great senator. She's smart, hard working and effective. She is much respected among her peers.

But the more people talk about her as a future president, the more money Republicans raise. The more people talk about her as a future president, the less attention the current candidates, who might win, receive.

Revisiting the scandals of the past does no service to the Democrats of the future.

Bill Clinton is a brilliant man. But the more attention he gets, the more the Democrats of the future suffer. He would be the first to say this, if it weren't about him.

Enough with the Clintons. Please. Not for the sake of the Republicans. But for the Democrats ...

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[wideawake]

It's obvious that the Clintons and their lapdogs Terry McAuliffe and Sid Blumenthal have a direct conflict of interest with the rest of the Democratic Party.

They want Hillary as President in 2008 and they want a 28 year old Chelsea as a freshman in Congress by the same time.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm sure Clinton (pick which one, I don't care) will change his or her lifelong personality traits (craving personal power and attention over all else) because Susan Estrich has shown them the light.

[RJCogburn]

And we shouldn't still be discussing it.

Susan is correct.

We should be discussing real crimes, like Chinagate...which only has to do with national security, for goodness sakes. We ought to be discussing government corruption involving the last administration.

But we are not. AG Ashcroft, that sanctimonious fraud, has no interest whatsoever, to judge by his actions, or lack thereof.

[My2Cents]

The Republicans shouldn't have impeached him for it, but he shouldn't have given them the ammunition.

He was impeached because of obstruction of justice and perjury, Susan!

[fooman]

This article is beyond priceless

[D. Brian Carter]

Well, maybe, except for the "Bill Clinton is a brilliant man" comment, and a couple of others...

[flamefront]

PING - The actual Susan Estrich article Rush noted was notably absent yesterday from being published in all the printed or web-based syndicated outlets that normally post her columns nation-wide.

Let's not mince words.

Hillary Clinton is never going to be president of the United States. There is no more divisive figure in the Democratic Party ...

Bill Clinton is a brilliant man. But the more attention he gets, the more the Democrats of the future suffer. He would be the first to say this, if it weren't about him.

Enough with the Clintons. Please. Not for the sake of the Republicans. But for the Democrats ...

(Nice to see such infighting. Certainly it confirms more of the extremes to which liberal leftist fascist PC media bias goes.)

[Allegra]

The Clintons are back.

How can they be "back" when they've never gone away?

Just go away, Bill and Hill. Just go away.

[libertylover]

He was impeached because of obstruction of justice and perjury, Susan!

Not to mention trying to deny fellow citizen Paula Jones a fair day in court to air her grievances.

[fooman]

This is typical technique of damning with faint praise.

The dagger is out and that is why this article is being praised.

[flamefront]

This article originally posted on FR here (many comments there).

[an amused spectator]

PING - The actual Susan Estrich article Rush noted was notably absent yesterday from being published in all the printed or web-based syndicated outlets that normally post her columns nation-wide.

I'm going to go for the quote of the week:

"If it wasn't for FOXNews, Saddam and the mainstream American media would have our military on the ropes right about now."

[flamefront]

How about - "except for FreeRepublic" ... ?

[shortstop]

"This article originally posted on FR here (many comments there)." Thanks for the BUMP.

[Pylot]

Thanks for posting this. I heard Rush say this AM that this had been universally spiked and I was going to look it up to see what she had to say.

What she says is plain and obvious and true. Three things that are anethema to Dimocrats.

Bill Clinton is a brilliant man, so was Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. Not one of whom was more corrupt than our own Bill Clinton.

I have long held that Bill Clinton did more to sell assault rifles in the US than any one else could have. He probably scored a commission from the Chinese for each one they sold in the US.

Now, we have the ultimate benefit of Bill and Hillary boosting the Republican position more than any one else could. No money could purchase the damage the Clintons are imposing on their party daily.

You want a chuckle?? Hillary recently proposed that phone companies be required to auto route civilian inquiries to beneficial govenment programs for any person dialing 211. Turns out 211 is also police radio code for "robbery in progress".

[buffyt]

I really cannot stand Susan Estrogenwitch, but I did enjoy the part about telling the Klintoons to SHUDDUP! It was worth reading just to read that! LOL

[buffyt]

You are RIGHT! I keep saying that. Why aren't the Clintons, Reno, and Albore in PRISOSN already? Listened to DougFromUpland radio hour last night. He had as a guest John Bennett of the CLINTON CHRONICLES (Jeremiah Films). He investigated Clinton going back to Ark. He told of mysterious deaths (MANY) and doors being broken in, files stolen, among people investigating Billy Bubba Clinton.

The D*MN DemonicRATs were able to send serpent head Carville out there, along with willing DimWit women who were able to spin it as sex and lies about sex.... Geraldine Ferrero, Eleanor Clift, etc.... I kept thinking "Don't these DimWits CARE about our country!?!?!?!" As a cover up it sure beat WaterGate!

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

Hmm? Let's compare the current administration to the previous: