Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

1-4-02 | Mia T

[Mia T]

Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

By MIA T

 

 

HAPPAQUA, N.Y., Jan. 4 -- The clinton-PR-machine-generated report of the death of Buddy, the impeached ex-president's chocolate Labrador, raises more questions than it answers. The report states: "Buddy playfully took after a contractor leaving the Clinton home about noon and was struck by a sport utility vehicle on Route 117 at the bottom of Old House Lane...Neither Mr. Clinton nor Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton were [sic] home at the time. The only comment they will make on the matter is by way of a statement issued by Mrs. Clinton's office: 'My best memory is that I did not have any involvement in that death.'"

The report fails to explain how Buddy was able to wrest from the strong arm of the Secret Service and negotiate the multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed retrofits that were installed to make the poorly located suburban house safe for the universally despised former first couple. The report also fails to include a timeline detailing the whereabouts of the clintons on the day of the death. The clinton report's indictment of a sport utility vehicle (SUV) has caused incipient whispers of a vast left-wing conspiracy and the ever-expanding list of dead adverse clinton witnesses to fill the Senate cloakroom.

 

 

Buddy was a 1997 'gift' from a 'benefactor' who subscribed to the notion: "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," particularly sage advice for a DC couple forever mired in scandal and antipathy. Whether Buddy also subscribed to that notion was questioned as recently as last January when he entangled himself in the impeached ex-president's legs, dropping clinton to the pavement; clinton insisted at the time that there was no malevolence involved, that they were simply playing a game of fetch. clinton refused to say who was doing the fetching. (see BILL & HILL & BUDDY & HELEN, Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS )

 

 

The White House reported that the clintons' first First Pet, Socks, a cat, "greeted the canine acquisition with a hiss previously reserved only for Ken Starr." Because Buddy remained Socks' nemesis throughout the clinton dog days, Socks was eventually exiled to Virginia, to the suburban home of Betty Currie, former clinton subornee and sex scheduler. At the time, clinton observed: "I made more progress in the Middle East than I did between Socks and Buddy." Retrospectively, it is clear that clinton's characterization was incorrect.

 

 

Buddy web sites quickly exploded in cyberspace. (Socks web sites, too, he would add.) Mrs. clinton, a long-time adherent of synergistic exploitation, "authored" an instant book about three groups favored for exploitation by the clintons: dogs, cats and children. "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" was published by the clintons' personal agitprop-and-money-laundering machine, Simon & Schuster. (see Is hillary clinton's $8M "book advance" a Peter-Principle artifact?)

Although Chappaqua locals share the national repugnance for the clintons, their feelings never spilled over to Buddy. "The big highlight for people was, 'I just saw Buddy,' never mind Mr. and Mrs. Clinton," said Christine Meyer, owner of Wags and Whiskers here.

[medic]

Very good, thank you. Had to feel sorry for that dog- he needed a GOOD home with real people, not those two.

[Churchillspirit]

Thanks for the clarification.

Buddy was a beautiful dog. Sad.

[Mia T]

 

 

Buddy

1997-2002

[aristeides]

I read today -- I think in the Washington Times article on Buddy's death -- that Bill and Hillary were vacationing together in Acapulco at the time of the accident. Can that really be true?

[Mia T]

I read today -- I think in the Washington Times article on Buddy's death -- that Bill and Hillary were vacationing together in Acapulco at the time of the accident. Can that really be true?

44 posted on 1/4/02 1:13 PM Pacific by aristeides

 

 

If true, it evokes memories of another clinton mise-en-scene: a pair of middle-age-spread rubes fake-dancing on the beach just days before Monica-gate broke,

 

[Leisler]

I still have nightmares of the photo-op they had on the beach in Marthas Vineyard. Him in his hugh shorts and Panama hat, her in equally hugh one-piece whith those NFL size, cheesepocketed....It's dinner time, I won't go on.

[Leisler]

..."Tipper Gore, speaking yesterday afternoon through spokeswoman Sally Aman, said: "What happened is we've been having construction on the house and Coconut got out ..."

GORE'S BEST FRIEND?

Inside the Beltway has learned that D.C. animal-control authorities recently received an emergency call from a guard posted at an entrance gate outside Vice President Al Gore's mansion on Massachusetts Avenue.

The officer, apparently with the uniformed division of the Secret Service, told the authorities that a sick dog had been lingering around the vice president's property, and could they please send somebody out to pick up the pooch.

The animal-control people arrived and quickly determined that the dog, a poodle, required immediate emergency veterinary care.

According to our source, who works in veterinary medicine, the dog was suffering from "maggot infestation of the muscles, resulting from an open, untreated wound."

The dog, it turned out, belongs to the family of Vice President Al Gore.

The dog was transported to Friendship Animal Hospital in the District, a 24-hour facility that provides emergency care under director Dr. Peter Glassman.

"No, I have no comment," Dr. Glassman said when we contacted him yesterday.

Earlier, an employee in Dr. Glassman's office said the staff was under "strict order" not to discuss the case.

"I told my staff not to comment on anything that goes on here," Dr. Glassman said when we repeated the charge.

A D.C. animal-control official also confirmed our story earlier this week but said that agency is also "under a gag order." The employee said any official comment would have to come from Mary Healey, executive director of the Washington Humane Society.

Reached yesterday, Ms. Healey confirmed: "We had received a call to pick up a dog in the vicinity of the vice presidential property and we responded to the call. We located the dog; I believe it was a poodle . . . named Coconut. The dog was apparently injured in some way.

"Our normal procedure . . . is to transport such an animal to Friendship Animal Hospital, and that was the end of the road for us."

Ms. Healey said she didn't believe Coconut carried a name tag, but she confirmed that authorities were able to determine at the scene that the dog did have an owner and was not a stray.

Our initial source said the guard who reported the dog's condition to authorities "claims not to have realized the dog belonged to the Gores, but the animal-control people think he was just trying to get the suffering animal some help without jeopardizing his job."

Tipper Gore, speaking yesterday afternoon through spokeswoman Sally Aman, said: "What happened is we've been having construction on the house and Coconut got out, and was missing for a couple of days. It's an amazing dog. She's 16 years old. It had been outside the grounds and found its way home, and that's when it was discovered."

She said the dog, after its surgery, was nursed back to health by the Gore children.

It could not be determined whether the Gores had reported the dog missing.

[sarcasm]

[Churchillspirit]

Lovely dog; lovely picture. Thanks.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

As usual, totally delightful. Please, Mia, never stop skewering the Adolescent Sociopath and his deatheating companion.

[Mr. Bungle]

"For God's sake, get a life.

By most measures, "having a life" includes a grasp of sarcasm, and perhaps on a good day, even a recognition of satire.

Get crackin' there, sparky.

[Doctor Raoul]

Hillary patted down Buddy and found he was wearing a wire.

Socks The Cat is currently in the Witness Protection Program having turned "State's Evidence" against Bill and Hillary.

[river rat]

Death just seems to hang like a black cloud over the Clintons... To be near them is to risk death.... Even their two dogs couldn't escape the "spell"

Do you also object to the "point" being made, that perhaps the deaths from terrorism can be directly traced to inaction or ineffective action by the Clinton Clymers Administration?

Poor Buddy - was simply a victim of the same inattention to details, that rendered the Clinton administration impotent. No man or animal is spared!
Semper Fi

[pray4liberty]

Very good, thank you. Had to feel sorry for that dog- he needed a GOOD home with real people, not those two.

Can you imagine what torture it must have been for Buddy, smelling those two? He must have got too expert at sniffing out blue dresses and crusty black pantsuits...Ugh...

[Consort]

The dog's days were numbered when Hillary found out that Buddy was a perfect match for donating internal organs to her. Obviously, she needed one and Buddy "volunteered".

[from occupied ga]

The most serious questions it raises are:

Did Buddy like cheese? and

Was Buddy frightened by a moose?

[ffusco]

I hear buddy's brain is missing and horns were heard coming from the grassy knoll disputing the single SUV theory

[hillary's_fat_a**]

...Him in his hugh shorts and Panama hat, her in equally hugh one-piece whith those NFL size, cheesepocketed....It's dinner time...

Ham hocks comes to mind....

[mavoca-la]

It was discovered today that the story that "Buddy," former President Clinton's dog, died as a result of being hit by a car was a hoax to obscure the true cause of death: -- Buddy is now known to have curled up on Hillary's lap and froze to death.....