The Clinton Albatross - Bill’s not exactly a fireman. He may instead throw gasoline on the fire.

National Review Online ^ | December 20, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

[InvisibleChurch]

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[N. Theknow]

Two very good things could come out of this election.

1. BJ Clinton can remind everyone of the Clinton mendacity and that the 90's were not neccessarily the good old days, in turn, (pun intended) he and HRC, Her Royal Cankleness, may wind up in the dustbin of history.

2. Obama having the light shined on him, which will go in one ear and out the other, might just drag The Oprah, The Big Zero, down with him.

[Bob]

The true legacy of Bill Clinton:

1) A tanking economy
2) A war that only one side was fighting (not us)
3) 100 dead Americans, incinerated in an armor attack in Texas

I usually break down your point #2 into a few items:

2a) Ignored first bombing of the WTC
2b) Ignored the bombings of two African embassies
2c) Ignored the bombing of Khobar Towers
2d) Ignored the bombing of the USS Cole
2e) Turned Mogodishu into a charlie-foxtrot with a disastrous outcome

And a few more items:

4) The 'repatriation' of Elian Gonzalez
5) His (unfortunately) unsuccessful impeachment

(There are probably a few more that I've forgotten as well.)

[CholeraJoe]

Most firemen I know are better hung and more courageous than the Bent One.

[txrangerette]

Good article.

And it doesn’t even mention the second worst Clinton gaffe of all (the first being his claim that he opposed the Iraq war all along) - his claim that President Hillary would send him and former President GHWB on a world trip to shore up support for the new government and disavow the George W Bush foreign policy.

Only to have Bush 41 issue a statement saying he’s very proud of his son’s foreign policy and had never even discussed such a thing with Bill Clinton.

Ouch...

[TomGuy]

Bill cannot always distinguish truth from fiction.

Hill has the same malady, what with the tale of her namesake Sir Edmund and her tale of Chelsea jogging Manhattan and, as the Twin Towers fell, stopped at a payphone to call Mother Hillary to complain that Bush's tax cuts caused the towers to fall.

[TomGuy]

Bill cannot always distinguish truth from fiction.

In fact, it seems many of the presidential wannabes from both parties suffer from the same maladay.

[TomGuy]

Bill also claims that Hillary has already been “vetted”

We saw that coming when Hillary was on her book tour. Some of us posted several years ago that, when she does run, she will claim she has already been vetted to quell the dirt-digging.

[rod1]

We need to get the mesage to Hill, Bill, Penn and Wolfie that she’s been vetted when FR says she’s been vetted....and not before.

[alwaysconservative]

I understand that at the recent event with Magic Johnson and Bill, Hillary was almost an afterthought. And I share VDH’s suspicions whether Bill really wants Hillary to win. Her “legacy” would immediately outstrip and dwarf his simply on identity grounds alone, before she accomplished one single thing.

His not-so-helpful public comments about her divulging how she “whined” about how hard campaigning was, claiming that it would be a “miracle” if she wins Iowa, and rabidly unintellectual defense of her on gender grounds, do not make for what I (or other normal people) would consider “support”. This is truly a bizarre relationship, and I would feel sorry for her that Bill is the best she can do, except that she poses such a grave threat to the concept of liberty and the continuity of the American dream that there is no room for sentimentality or misplaced sympathy.

[alwaysconservative]

I agree that there is no need for cariacature; simply putting up her own record (and reminding people of the records she refuses to divulge) should be enough to remind people why these two should never be let near the White House again.

Someone pointed out that Hillary’s own Christmas commercial about giving the “gifts” of all her failed ideas and programs could be a devastating negative ad if run by the pubbies if they added just one line at the end: “Wouldn’t it be nice if the gifts she decided to buy weren’t bought with someone else’s money?” LOLOL!

[RipSawyer]

Most firemen I know are better hung and more courageous than the Bent One.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The firemen I know are real men, Bill Clinton is still a boy.

[libs_kma]

"Hill has the same malady, what with the tale of her namesake Sir Edmund and her tale of Chelsea jogging Manhattan and, as the Twin Towers fell, stopped at a payphone to call Mother Hillary to complain that Bush's tax cuts caused the towers to fall."

Not to mention when the Beast went to join the Marines....thats classic Beast right there.

She learned to lie about the absolutely stupid stuff from the slickmeister "I-thought-it-was-time-I-go-sit-in-the-back-of-the-bus" himself.

Klintoons are beyond disgusting.

[hillarynot]

Two comments:

I’m also convinced he is trying to sabotage her candidacy. His ego couldn’t take being second fiddle(r).

It also amazes me that Clinton lovers continue to claim how great the stock market was during his administration and ignore the fact that the stock market bubble burst in April 2000 (7 months before the election). The technology bubble was partially due to Y2k hype and had nothing to do with Clinton. He balanced the budget by decimating the military.

[kabar]

It is interesting that the Clintons stress Hillary’s “experience,” but they only use it against Obama. Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, and Biden have far more experience than Hillary. So by that criterion, she is inexperienced.

[DuncanWaring]

He balanced the budget by decimating the military.

Actually, he never balanced the budget. The National Debt has increased every single year for the last fifty years - since the middle of the Eisenhower administration.

The Feds nearly broke even with the fiscal year ending Sept 2000, but even in that year were still roughly $20 billion in the hole.

[Sig Sauer P220]

If Hillary had been properly “vetted”, she’d be wearing an orange jumpsuit at Leavenworth right now.