Posted on 04/09/2002 5:15:38 AM PDT by mikeb704
I don’t care how long it’s been since Clinton dragged his sorry carcass – and anything else he could swipe – out of the White House. I don’t want to forget the Clinton years. I don’t want to move on. I don’t want to put it all behind me.
I hate Clinton as ardently now as when he energetically defiled the Nation on a daily basis. I hate his wife, and his daughter, too. And I won’t be satisfied until everyone hates them as much as I do.
That, you may argue, isn’t feasible, despite the multitude of excellent reasons to hate them. My answer is that in a country that could elect a deceitful sleaze like Clinton, anything is possible.
For years I gave Chelsea a pass. After all, it wasn’t her fault that she was born into a family of crooks. She’s grown up now, though, and is her own person. So what did she do immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11th? She’s written that she was "expounding on the detriments of Bush’s tax cut as we approached Grand Central Terminal . . ." Quite clearly, she’s a developing basket case, one deserving the same scorn and derision as the unfit parents who inculcated her with socialist nonsense.
What’s especially preposterous are Clinton’s incessant attempts to rewrite history. A few months ago he rounded up some of his bootlicking apologists and urged them to publicize all his supposed accomplishments as president. More recently, he permitted the Monica Lewinsky of newsmagazines, Newsweek, to interview him. Clinton claimed that giving Marc Rich, former regular on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List, was a mistake because – hold your breath here – "It wasn’t worth the damage to my reputation."
His reputation? His reputation? What a knee lapper. Clinton’s got a reputation, all right. But it’s certainly not one that could be damaged. Here’s a guy who was:
Fined $90,000 for lying under oath and obstructing justice. Forced to pay an $850,000 settlement in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Disbarred in Arkansas. Prohibited from practicing law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He ran the White House like a Motel 6 for Democrat fat cats. He took campaign contributions from Chinese communists. He entertained felons, including drug peddlers and arms smugglers, in the Executive Mansion.
Remember how the Clintons managed to get their hands on 900 FBI files they weren’t supposed to have? Or the puzzling reappearance of subpoenaed billing records?
Then there were the last minute pardons. Susan McDougal, Roger Clinton, and Clinton’s former secretary of Housing and Urban Development were pardoned. So were Weather Underground radicals, murderers, drug dealers, and a bunch of folks who stole tax dollars. Hillary’s brothers, seeing how well Roger Clinton was doing by peddling influence, jumped on the pardon bandwagon themselves.
And what of Clinton and terrorism? In 1993 bin Laden’s thugs exploded a bomb in the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring hundreds of others. In 1995 they bombed a military headquarters in Riyatdh, Saudi Arabia and killed five Americans. In 1996 they bombed military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and killed 19 Americans. In 1998 they bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 5,000 others. In 2000 they bombed the U.S.S. Cole and killed 17 Americans. What did Clinton do about all this? Not much. He was too busy lying, obstructing, denying, obfuscating, stonewalling, and, of course, traveling.
Clinton whines about how much money has been spent on investigating him. But how much would have been spent if he had only told the truth?
So much to hate, so little time. Yet there’s reason to think that finally, finally, more Americans are recognizing the true Clinton legacy.
A recent Gallup poll rated the last eight presidents in terms of job approval. In the poll, the first one taken since he left office, Clinton ranked sixth, ahead of only Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
Not bad for a start. In the meantime, let the hating continue.
Slick Willy has, uniquely among American presidents, earned the opprobrium with which he is regarded by honest men and women. He should be shunned and ignored, his rantings should go unreported and he should be consigned to the ash heap of history in the same way Tricky Dick was for so many years. The difference is that Nixon had real accomplishments that permit a balanced assessment of a complex, haunted character. Clinton was one dimensional, an Elmer Gantry in politics, a latter day Bryan without principle, a Huey Long without a white suit, a Savanorola without piety, an evil man without precedent in American history, a sure sign that the Mandate of Heaven is insecure.
Only in the eyes of the law. I say they are guilty. The clintons cannot be innocent until they stand trial. They are only presumed innocent until then. ....and if after a trial, there is nothing in law (yet) to prevent anyone from claiming their guilt. Example, O.J. is Guilty! maybe not in law, but in public opinion..
The standard for civil liability, as OJ Simpson has discovered, is must lower, a preponderance of the evidence.
The most galling thing about Slick and his minions is that they openly and overtly lied, destroyed evidence and intimidated witnesses with threats of, and actual, governmental assault such as IRS audits. AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT!
Don't try to even suggest that the Clintons are not criminals -- they are just extraordinarily successful criminals. That does not earn them any more respect. They are scum.
Agreed, but I hold out no hope of that happening.
The visceral loathing of the Face Biting Rapist is something HE EARNED over time as he systematically slimed the White House with sordid personal scandals, habitual lying, total disregard for the rule of law,and unprecedented acts of corruption.
Sorry Charlie,
I understand where your going with this, but by this line of reasoning, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were innocent because they were not tried in a court of law.
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