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.
I remember, as if it were yesterday, that fateful day last week when I was window shopping in Hot Springs and saw the "Billdos". Batteries not included.
Hey, he was right to sign the Welfare Reform bill. It was right to sign the Violence Against Woman Act, but he shouldn't have exempted himself from it.
See my post #179. It had to be a bike or by foot.
Well actually, he probably walked to school UNTIL that fateful day when ROSA PARKS refused to give up her seat. From then on he took a bus just to support her.
See my post#179
How much of what he said is the truth we will never know. Did Babe Ruth really call his shot? Maybe. Only he really knew.
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That makes it twice...I'm sure he told Monica "Go baby...this'll only take a minute."
So he's a "Minuteman"?
Agree, but this is not confirmed. See my post #179. Maybe we are assuming it was a city bus going to school. As is obvious, it is doubtful Clinton needed a bus to take him 3/4 of a mile to school every day. He did say at the funeral that he took a bus every day of his life. LOL.
The Babe did hit a home run, but did Clinton take the bus? LOL.
Where are the two other boys that decided to move to the back of the bus with him? Dead now? Possibly. Never existed? More likely.
There is nothing in this article that proves Clinton told the truth with that story. And without proof, i have to presume it is a lie.
With a carbine, not a rifle.
Hey Clinton is a joke and always has been and always will be. Nothing about him is real. Not his parentage. Not his marriage. Not his grand jury testimony. He is the poster boy for reduction in standards of civility. I believe that he was basically raised as white trash and instead of trying to rise above it, he and Hillary choose instead to try and bring the rest of us down to his sleeze level.
LOL. Yeah, him and his two friends. You can always prove Clinton is telling a lie. It just takes a little effort to prove it.
See my post #179. It is a lie.
according to hannity this afternoon, arkansas schools didn't intergrate until 1957. clintons school was all white
in 1955. could this be another lie...
I'm sure Clinton was quite the precocious 9 year old, but he and his friends "strongly approved of what she did?" I find that a bit, shall we say, hard to swallow.
But the same city bus could have taken kids to their segregated schools.
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