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Texan storm drenches Clinton parade
TimesOnline ^ | 11/18/04 | Roland Watson

Posted on 11/18/2004 6:00:10 PM PST by pissant

A FIERCE storm blowing in from Texas rained mercilessly on Bill Clinton’s parade yesterday. The crowning moment of the former President’s efforts to shape his legacy was all but washed away as 25,000 people huddled and shivered in the driving rain that accompanied the dedication of his $165 million (£90 million) presidential library.

Mr Clinton looked crestfallen as the Presidents Bush, senior and junior, President Carter, a large train of diplomats and politicians from around the world and a crowd larger than most Arkansas towns were soaked.

When Bono and The Edge from U2 opened their brief headlining set with the line, “When the rain comes, you might as well be dead”, Mr Clinton looked as if he agreed. Neither did it help that his wife appeared unwilling to share her umbrella with him. It took the elder President Bush, the man Mr Clinton defeated in 1992, to lift the spirits with a series of warm-hearted memories about one of the most gifted politicians he said he had come across. “Trust me, I learnt the hard way,” he joked.

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To: pissant
God not only has a sense of humor, He also has a sense of justice.

Rain on clintbilly's parade was an example of both.

41 posted on 11/18/2004 6:40:44 PM PST by mombonn ( ¡Viva Bush/Cheney! Dukakis and Kerry are the matching bookends of the Bush era.)
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To: garykelly

Hey buttmunch, go pack fudge with your "partner" to relieve your anxiety.


42 posted on 11/18/2004 6:41:17 PM PST by pissant
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To: garykelly

You can make your claims a hundred times; but it won't make them true.

You can shout your lies loudly, but they will still be silly lies. ;)


43 posted on 11/18/2004 6:41:25 PM PST by bannie (Jamma Nana!)
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To: pissant

I believe God controls the weather. Bush's Texas had a storm that was driven straight to clinton's Arkansas, the exact spot where bubba's dedicating his Hall of Lies that he built on land "acquired" by clintonesque thuggery, at just the right moment.

Makes sense to me.


44 posted on 11/18/2004 6:42:23 PM PST by GretchenM
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To: garykelly

Another fine example of the mentally deranged. Yah, you. Go get therapy or something, HAHAHAH.


45 posted on 11/18/2004 6:42:43 PM PST by myvoice
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To: dalereed
Too bad it didn't rain quite hard enough to wash his library down the river.

Maybe that's why he had the double-wide put up on stilts.

46 posted on 11/18/2004 6:48:21 PM PST by jackbill
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To: wewon
I was really sick at my stomach listening to my president drone on about the qualities of a rapist.

My stomach is to weak to be a politician. You got to fight nausea while saying all that stuff. Our president need to be there so the event didn't turn out to be a Democratic field day,

47 posted on 11/18/2004 6:51:38 PM PST by oyez (¡Qué viva la revolución de Reagan!)
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To: GretchenM

I can't help but laugh. The Libs have always said Clinton could defeat G.W. I contend the Texan storm drenching Clinton was a sign. ROFL!


48 posted on 11/18/2004 6:56:32 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: pissant

Well, if it came from Texas then CLEARLY it is George Bush's fault.


49 posted on 11/18/2004 7:04:47 PM PST by Dubya_gal
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To: Twinkie

On November 24, 2001 former DEMOCRATIC congressional aide Chris Matthews told former DEMOCRATIC congressional aide Tim Russert (AND his nationwide TV audience) on MSNBC that former DEMOCRATIC pollster Pat Caddell had said, "The Clintons -- they're 'white trash,' and I can say that because I'm from Florida."
-- more where that came from ( http://freedomkeys.com/slimeball.htm )


50 posted on 11/18/2004 7:05:14 PM PST by FreeKeys ("Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims..." -- Donald Boudreaux)
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To: pissant

"The forcast was for sunny skies. But the rapist brings a dark cloud with him. I think there was a character on the Flintstones or the racing cartoon with Penelope Pitstop that always had a rain cloud above him."

Joe Brfsplk - Li'l Abner always brought bad luck.


51 posted on 11/18/2004 7:06:51 PM PST by Western Phil
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To: pissant
Neither did it help that his wife appeared unwilling to share her umbrella with him.

Well, when you won't share a bed/home with your spouse...

52 posted on 11/18/2004 7:07:49 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: pissant
"A FIERCE storm blowing in from Texas rained mercilessly on Bill Clinton’s parade yesterday "

"God has a sense of humor"


and, GOD bless Texas.

53 posted on 11/18/2004 7:29:00 PM PST by hoot2
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To: pissant

Neither did it help that his wife appeared unwilling to share her umbrella with him.

Gee, her husband has heart surgery and she wouldn't hold an umbrella for him in the pouring rain?

Now that's a biotch!
She must be hoping for pneumonia.

Billy sure looks bad, heck Jimma Carter looks as good and
he's what 90?


54 posted on 11/18/2004 7:34:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: myvoice
"It was a beautiful day today, don't you think? ;) "

Thank you LORD for the rain; you always know our needs.
And the farmers thank you too.

55 posted on 11/18/2004 7:35:01 PM PST by hoot2
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To: pissant
Neither did it help that his wife appeared unwilling to share her umbrella with him.

They may be referring to this picture.

 


56 posted on 11/18/2004 9:00:48 PM PST by Nail
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To: bannie

now, now---guilty feelings are not permitted on FR---(just a joke, son)


57 posted on 11/20/2004 3:26:34 AM PST by cmotormac44
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To: Nail

Picture tells a thousands words. Cheating Bill left out in the rain. Even his daughter would rather share her umbrella with another man. A real man, at that. One who doesn't cheat on his wife and one who does not engage in sexual activity in the White House with young tarts.

Whenever I think of Bill Clinton in the White House, I picture empty pizza boxes scattered around with Monica under Bill's desk pulling his pants down while cruise missiles sail into empty tents in Afghanistan and Sudan. Then I think about the Twin Towers falling down in New York City a few years later on account of Bill's incompetence and dereliction of duty and I get angry.

BTW, Where was Al Gore with his two umbrellas?

58 posted on 11/20/2004 3:42:36 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Red Sox Win The World Series...And Bush Wins Re-election Too!)
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To: SamAdams76
I don't know about Gore's umbrellas, but I'm reminded of the wonderful Bush umbrella pictures.

Unlike his democratic contender, he didn't need to beat up the secret service agent over his. Happens to all of us. 

 

 

more bush umbrella pictures  here

59 posted on 11/20/2004 7:40:49 PM PST by Nail
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