Clinton Blasts GOP 'Destruction Machine'

NewsMax.com ^ | 12/04/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Ex-President Bill Clinton, who collected FBI files on political opponents, targeted witnesses against him with IRS audits and hired private detectives to intimidate his ex-girlfriends, complained Tuesday that the Republican Party had a political "destruction machine."

"They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University.

The ex-president charged that "extreme right-wing elements in the media" were responsible for smearing Democrats on national security issues, saying he was particularly dismayed by attacks on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.

"What was done to Tom Daschle was unconscionable, but our refusal to stand up and defend him in a disciplined way was worse," he complained.

Clinton's own defense while under attack during the Monica Lewinsky scandal including recruiting private detective Anthony Pellicano, who was arrested two weeks ago after a dozen FBI agents discovered plastic explosives and hand grenades in his Los Angeles office while executing a search warrant in a witness intimidation case.

Four days after the Lewinsky scandal broke in January 1998, an old boyfriend reportedly located by Pellicano painted her as a stalker, claiming she had once boasted, "I'm going to Washington to get my presidential kneepads."

Other Clinton defense tactics included launching IRS audits into sex accusers Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Elizabeth Ward Gracen, as well as rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick.

Sex assault accuser Kathleen Willey had her children threatened by name by a stranger who approached her on the eve of her Paula Jones testimony, in a case of witness intimidation that has never been solved.

In his recent book "On the Road with Hillary," longtime Clinton advance man Patrick Halley admitted that he regularly hired "goon squads" to break up demonstrations against former first lady.

While the ex-president did not publicly counsel Democrats to return to the strong-arm tactics he perfected over his thirty year political career, he was plainly upset that an "increasingly right-wing and bellicose conservative press" was now free to criticize his administration, legacy and party without fear of governmental retribution.

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[Bonaparte]

LOLOL! Mr. "Blue Dress" lectures the rest of us on taking "principled" stands. Gotta love it, especially coming from the only elected president who has ever been impeached, suspended from the bar, fined by the bar, and forced to pay Paula Jones $800,000.

[goldstategop]

Its just like Bubba to accuse his foes of doing what he's been doing all along. The presidential felon doesn't know when not to remain silent. Considering the crimes he's committed and the politics of personal destruction that's become the means by he and his party have divided and weakened America and left it exposed to its enemies, it takes chutzpah to blame the GOP for not engaging the same bottom barrel approach to politics the Democrats are too familiar with. Keep it up please Bubba; you keep making the case quite effectively for why the Democrats shouldn't be trusted with running the country again as long as you and your sleazy and criminal brand of politics are their official face.

[goldstategop]

hehehe... only Clinton could get away with the blasting the GOP as though being the country's only impeached President was a bad dream.

[goldstategop]

My my my.... this from the fellow who along with Hitlery has FBI files on every one in Washington power circles alive and dead during their two terms in power and who to this day they've never returned to the federal government. Knowledge is power and when it comes to being a low class Tony Soprano this guy is full of it.

[Publius6961]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I'll be back to comment as soon as I do a little research on the concept:

"The politics of personal destruction"

Something like ummmm... Deny, delay, ???, destroy...

[weegee]

"They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University.

He needs to see his wife more often. Hitlery has her own brownshirts, the teamster goon squad that assaults protesters and dissenters at her public appearances.

[ewing]

Bombs away!

[weegee]

Anyone have the text of this speech? It sounds like an instance where he should be saying "I I I, ME ME ME" as he and his cronies perpetrated all of the political machinations that could be imagined.

[Minutemen]

DESTRUCTION MACHINE VS THE SEX MACHINE!

[ImpBill]

". . .sigh. . ."

My sentiments exactly!

[Helms]

Last Dog Dying Alert!

[Pagey]

"...he (Billy Jeff) was plainly upset that an "increasingly right-wing and bellicose conservative press" was now free to criticize his administration, legacy and party without fear of governmental retribution".

He must be off his medication again. Conservative Press my ___. I love the "without fear of Gov't Retribution" part too. As if he thought Al was going to win and he'd never be on the receiving end of "Grueling Truths" again. STILL LOL! It must drive him crazy,(literally) knowing he created the world we live in today and allowing 9/11/02 to occur.You can bet he's about angry about everything, and surely he will stay that way. (Anyone would if you lived a life such as that skunk)

[Kay Soze]

Of Course they have a destruction machine.

Hans Blix should tag,seal and catlog the President that sodomoised a young girl with a cigar in my White House.

Clinton is a weapon of mass destruction.

[Eva]

It was alot more than enlisting the liberal media to support your agenda (scandal control was the only agenda). It was killing the careers of any media people who dared cross the Clintons. Read the old 1997 article that Opionion Journal reprinted tonight to remind yourself of Clinton's first attack on the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

[fire_eye]

Fire_eye Applauds Demoncratic Self-Destruction Machine...