Posted on 06/13/2003 10:36:27 AM PDT by rs79bm
At last it can be told.
The mystery of why New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was willing to sacrifice her self-respect and her dignity to stay in a humiliating marriage to ex-President Clinton is a mystery no longer.
She did it to save America.
In her book "Living History," Mrs. Clinton recalls that after she learned about Monica Lewinsky, "I knew what I did and said in the next days and weeks would influence not just Bill's future and mine, but also America's."
"Bill's Presidency, the institutional Presidency and the integrity of the Constitution hung in the balance," Hillary recalls, as she fretted over what to do.
Meanwhile, Bill had his hands full dealing with the gravest national security threat in the nation's entire history. No, not Osama bin Laden.
Writes Hillary, "If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country."
Make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...make them go away...
Not surprisingly, Hillary got it exactly 180 degrees wrong. It is not the Independent Counsel's ability to abuse power that is to be feared, it is the Chief Executive's. Her staying with Bill and assisting him in evading justice should frighten us all.
From the lessons learned in Watergate and applied (just say "I don't recall.") during Bill's many scandals the Democrats "wrote the book" on evading personal responsibility. Of course, they required the complete cooperation of the lying liberal press, so it's no wonder they are fretting that right-wing reporting may eventually invalidate their carefully constructed playbook.
Oh will someone please gag me with a scimitar!!??
Big Brother in 1984:
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. WAR IS PEACE. LOVE IS HATE. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Hillary Clinton in 2003:
PERJURY IS INTEGRITY.
"I Stayed With Bill And All I Got Was This Lousy Senatorship"
I'm experiencing a peculiar phenomenon; I feel as if I am going to laugh and vomit at the same time.
Thank you J
I also have a "Triple Whammy". See below J
Is that the same principle as "destroying the village in order to save the village"?
Excellent point:
How Hillary Nuked Nixon (NewsMax, 10/1/98)
In July 1974, as the House Judiciary Committee was reviewing the tapes and earmarking Nixon's supposed crimes, two young staffers were assigned by the committee's chief counsel, Jerome Zeifman, to research the protocols for impeachment. John Labovitz and another young lawyer, just 26 years old with the ink barely dry on her Yale law degree, began the arduous task of poring over constitutional archives. Labovitz's partner was Hillary Diane Rodham.And research done by Labovitz and Rodham became the roadmap for three articles of impeachment reported out of the House Judiciary Committee that promptly destroyed any remaining congressional support for Nixon. Before the full House vote on the articles of impeachment, three senior Republican senators apprised Nixon of the handwriting on the wall. The Nixon presidency ended on Aug. 8, 1974.
The House Judiciary Committees former chief counsel, Jerome Zeifman, waited 22 years to unleash his bombshell, which would reveal that the deck was stacked against Nixon by none other than the wife of the man who now faces a similar fate. It was Hillary Clinton who rigged the proceedings against the 37th president, as Zeifman revealed in a little-noticed passage of his 1996 book, "Without Honor: The Impeachment of President Nixon and the Crimes of Camelot."
Zeifman quoted his own 1974 diary, which reports that just four days after Nixon resigned "John Labovitz came to my office and apologized for having participated to some extent to conceal from me the work that was being done. Some months ago, he and Hillary lied intentionally to me and told me there were no drafts of proposed rules of procedure for the [Nixon] impeachment inquiry."
The New York Daily News noticed this earthquake confession, and sought Zeifman's elaboration on the historic subterfuge perpetrated by our current first lady. The Daily News reported:
If the United States was going to topple its own president, rules were important, Zeifman told us Friday. "Suppose we were going to have the World Series next week and suddenly one of the team managers says, 'We want to change the rules to two strikes and you're out.'"
That's basically what [Hillary] Clinton and Labovitz did, Zeifman claims. In other words, they drew up new impeachment protocols to replace those in existence since Jefferson's day -- and then denied it. Congress -- and the country -- would have been completely polarized if it had seemed Nixon was being railroaded out of office with new rules, Zeifman said. (New York Daily News Feb.12, 1996)
Nixon was likely guilty of the Watergate cover-up. But Ruth's memo to Jaworski shows there really wasnt any "smoking gun" evidence of it.
And that's likely why Hillary Diane Rodham, who regarded Nixon as "evil," according to Clinton biographer David Maraniss, had to discard impeachment rules in place for two centuries in order to nail her quarry.
The problem is that in Hillary's world view, the future of America and her future are inseparable. They are the same.
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