Posted on 11/03/2005 12:05:49 PM PST by doug from upland
I never thought I would be defending Bill Clinton on FreeRepublic. Mark this date as an historic moment. Clinton might have actually told the truth.
From the text of his Rosa Parks funeral speech (which, of course, he managed to make about himself)
CLINTON: I remember, as if it were yesterday, that fateful day 50 years ago. I was a 9-year-old southern white boy who rode a segregated bus every single day of my life. I sat in the front. Black folk sat in the back.
When Rosa showed us that black folks didn't have to sit in the back anymore, two of my friends and I, who strongly approved of what she had done, decided we didn't have to sit in the front anymore.
(APPLAUSE)
It was just a tiny gesture by three ordinary kids. But that tiny gesture was repeated over and over again millions and millions of times in the hearts and minds of children, their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents, proving that she did help to set us all free.
In 1953, Clinton moved to Hot Springs and started school at St. John's Catholic. He then attended Ramble Elementary. He was nine years old when Rosa Parks defied the law on the bus.
I spoke with a very nice lady at the Hot Springs School District. Ramble Elementary has been replaced with a newer school, Park Elementary. The original Ramble building still stands and is a threatre.
There were no school buses. Kids either walked, were taken by parents, or took a city bus to school.
It was a diverse neighborhood. My source mentioned blacks, Lituanians, and Jews. Kids just seemed to all get along.
The source talked to another man in her office who, like her, grew up and went to Hot Springs schools at the same time as Bill Clinton. She and her friends would sometimes join the black kids in the back of the bus. She thought it was the right thing to do.
It is entirely possible that Clinton did join a few of his friends and sit in the back of the bus after hearing about Rosa Parks. Let's give him credit for a possible truth telling episode.
NOTE: He still, however, is a liar, a perjurer, a subornerer of perjury, an obstructor of justice, a threat to national security, a rapist, a threat to witnesses, a horrible and completely phony human being, and an impeached failed president with an evil and dangerous wife.
and moonbats too
I think it was all in his mind. Kind of like lusting in your heart.
That still doesn't prove that Bill Clinton actually did what he said he did and for the reasons he said it. When I was nine I went to the back of the bus too because it was the coolest place to sit.
Sorry. In a court of law, this doesn't prove the case.
I would bet he heard of a some kids doing this and claimed it as his 50 years later.
Did Clinton take a city bus to school?
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner.
You are absolutely correct. With Bill Clinton it's always about Bill.
According to the woman at the school district, who grew up going to these schools, the kids either walked, had their parents drive them, or took the city bus. Of course, they could have also ridden a bike.
"and therefore what he described COULD HAVE HAPPENED. "
Exactly. "Could of" does not prove that it did happen.
Slick Willie is all too clever. Just cause he lined his ducks in a row stilla ain't proof that he was telling the truth. For all we know, he stole some other 9 year old's story.
Show me a picture. Now that's proof.
"Hot Springs schools at the same time as Bill Clinton. She and her friends would sometimes join the black kids in the back of the bus. She thought it was the right thing to do."
The fact that someone, of unknown age sat in the back of the bus with some black people, does not suggest that KKKlinton did it, or if he did, that he did it because of Rosa Parks. Because it was physicslly possible for KKKlinton to sit in the back of a bus is not evidence that he did so.
If you were black and 9 yrs old at the time, you might have had that on your mind.
Come on...he was just sitting back there in the hopes of picking up those hot black chicks.
Sad isn't it? I'm so used to every story coming out of his mouth to be a self serving lie, that I'm shaking my head in disbelief.
Wasn't his family rather rough and redneck? He might of done it to spite his maw and paw, not because he gives a sh*t about civil rights.
Clinton's problem is that once everyone in the world knows you are a self-serving liar, anything you say will be questioned.
I remember 1968. I was 7. I used to get my ass repeatedly kicked by a group of negro boys on my way to school. I allowed them to kick my ass in order to show solidarity with the civil rights movement. By the time I was 12 I was kicking their asses. Affirmative action only lasted 5 years for me.
:-P
Good grief, everyone. Read the headline. I didn't say this was proof that he was telling the truth. I said he may be telling the truth. I couldn't prove it 100% that he was lying.
One thing we all know is true. Bill only cares about Bill.
Duh...
Has anyone else mentioned how so many of the politians skipped out of Rosa Parks funeral before it was over?
I say that is just plain rude, no matter how long it lasts.
Am I wrong?
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