Posted on 09/02/2002 7:59:36 AM PDT by ex-Texan
Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush
More evidence that ex-president Clinton is actively working behind the scenes to undermine President Bush emerged this weekend, with the revelation that the wording of a caustic attack on Bush delivered by Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe last month was personally reviewed and approved of by the ex-president ahead of time.
"Ever the master political strategist, Clinton also regularly dispenses advice to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, his longtime friend," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday.
"Before McAuliffe delivered a blistering attack on the Bush administration's economic policies last month, the party chairman had Clinton review the speech," the paper added.
The Clinton-orchestrated McAuliffe address, delivered at the party's Las Vegas convention on Aug. 10, raised eyebrows for the harshness of its rhetoric, which included the claim that the Bush White House had cynically tried to manipulate the 9-11 tragedy for political advantage.
The next day the Washington Post reported:
"Although Democrats once claimed to stand 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with Bush on the war, McAuliffe threw away that script by accusing the president of using 'September's tragedy to explain away' the reappearance of federal budget deficits and saying that Bush had 'cynically made 9/11 the cornerstone of the Republican strategy for 2002.'"
In his Clinton approved address, McAuliffe also skewered the Bush economic record, telling the Las Vegas crowd, "Every time this economic team opens its mouth, markets shudder, currencies collapse and Americans watch their 401(k)s dwindle."
The Clinton-McAuliffe speech even attacked Bush on the scandal front, signaling that the ex-president has no qualms raising ethical questions about opponents despite his own record of wall-to-wall scandal while in office, not to mention his repeated disavowals of "the politics of personal destruction."
"To paraphrase a Republican hero, Mr. President, tear down this stonewall," McAullife railed, in reference to Bush's refusal to approve the release of records from the Security and Exchange Commission's probe into his old oil company Harken Energy.
Another campaign message pushed by Clinton is beginning to creep into the campaign rhetoric of Democrats, the Journal-Constitution said; that a Democratic majority in Congress is the best "check" on the Bush White House.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton touted the importance of a congressional check on Bush on Friday, as she described her visit to U.S. soldiers injured in Afghanistan who were recovering at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center.
With her husband at her side, Clinton told a crowd at the New York State Fair that President Bush should seek congressional approval before launching an attack on Iraq that could result in more U.S. casualties.
"I have personal faces I can put on this debate, and I want to be sure that the president comes with his arguments and information and evidence and that we debate it, and then as a nation we'll stand behind the decision," Mrs. Clinton advised.
It seems to me that is exactly what they are now.
A Senate Office and another in Harlem isn't the same as an Oval Office.
Oh yeah, You are excused.
This is rich considering this witch urged Clinton to use the military to push his scandals off the front pages. I don't recall they ever consulted congress. These two are evil incarnate, power mad, and totally self involved.
This is why if the perp walks of corporate wrongdoers lets the politically motivated bad guys continue to hold onto their cash, Clinton will have plenty of the mother's milk of politics. Can't just blindly let them 'move on.'
The S&L crisis was nothing compared to what has happened.
Who is even connecting the dots very well on all the failed govt-regulated industries being the entangled leftist mess?
I could be wrong though. Or they could be changing that rule while we type......LOL.
It's true that old soldiers never die, they just simply fade away.
But the statesman thing to do for former Presidents is to fade out of the limelight. But Clinton is not a statesman.
YES! If the Clintons are not "taken out" (criminal prosecution)of the loop, they WILL "overthrow" (Prevent re-election) GWB.
If WJC can break the code by assaulting the sitting President then GWB should be able to unload with both barrels at his predecessor. If GWB does not, he's dead meat for a second term.
No, it invovles thousands of state legilators all over the country. The constitutional machinery is very well insulated from manipulation by a small group of politicians or even large masses of uninformed people. If you consider the first ten amendments as being part of the initial ratification of the US Contitution, there have only been 17 amendments in 215 years.
Never has this nation had such a vindictive ex president both before and after. They want control of the Republic for Socialism and the demise of the Constitution, I honestly think they want America leveled to a Third World status just as the World Summit is trying to do. The Democrats in this country are not paying attention to what their leaders are shoving down their throats and it is poison.
No. In order to be elligible to run for Vice-President, one has to be elligible to run for President. The 22nd amendment makes him ineligible for either position.
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