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30 Sec that Seemed Like 60 Min: clinton Pats Own Back for Bush's Certain Military Success
wcbs880.com ^ | 3.17.03 | Mia T

Posted on 03/17/2003 3:11:00 AM PST by Mia T

The 30 Seconds that Seemed Like 60 Minutes:
clinton Pats Own Back Preemptively for Bush's Certain Military Success

By the time I left office, tough sanctions, inspections and air strikes had left him far weaker than he was in the Gulf War, as I think we'll see if there's military action.

bill clinton

 

We must remember that these dueling wan Joes, this CBS-Simon & Schuster farce of farce, is first of all, the latest incarnation of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme.

Not unlike the clinton -- uh -- presidency itself, this mind-numbing clinton conceit has made it to its second installment…barely.

In it, we see an impotent, cowardly, twisted fool (It was the TERRORISM, stupid!), lacking all restraint, as is his wont, patting himself on the back… shamelessly… again… this time pre-emptively… before the first bomb is even dropped, attempting to steal the credit for Bush's certain military success.

I wonder… will he also take credit for the WMD used against our troops or our cities, WMD that were developed during his feckless, corrupt, mephitic tenure?

Will the delusional utter failure ever take credit for his own legacy?

And speaking of feckless, where did the myth of clinton's oratory skills originate, anyway?

His content is banal, his delivery, wooden.

So wooden, in fact, that the all-too-familiar rapist smirk that reveals hillbilly (the marriage was ordained by etymology) lower teeth, now seems a permanently fixed policy statement…

Megan's Law writ large… or small, depending on your resolution. Poetic justice.

Dole And Clinton Debate The U.N.

Week 2 Of New 60 Minutes Segment

 


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(CBS) (NEW YORK) In the second in a series of two-minute debates for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes, former President Bill Clinton and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole differ on the United Nations. Following is a transcript of their March 16 contribution:

SENATOR DOLE: People make jokes about the U.N. but it's hard to top the real thing.

Until just last month, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was scheduled to chair the U.N.ís disarmament conference. Even France couldn't stomach that.

And how about the UN's Human Rights team being edited by Moammar Khadafi's Libya? And, can you believe, last summer Syria chaired the Security Council?What's next, a Saudi Arabian Conference on Women's Rights?

Can we really count on the U.N. to defend the civilized world?

President Bush has given it every chance, and it buckles every time.

The US and its allies should act on their own. President Clinton, you didn't seek U.N. approval in 1998. What's changed?

Isn't it time to create another role for the U.N.? Somebody suggested luxury Manhattan condos. That's not a bad idea. I hear you're looking for one.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Senator, I know your crowd is for privatizing Social Security, so I'm not surprised you also want to privatize the U.N.

No one says the U.N. is perfect, but perfect or not isn't it good for America -- in a war against terror -- to have allies?

Yes, it can be frustrating -- like when I had to work with a Republican Congress.

But the U.N. has already passed a strong resolution on Iraq. And while legally, President Bush doesn't need another one, wouldn't it be better to have one, adopting Prime Minister Blair's disarmament deadlines?

That might cause Saddam to disarm without military action. At least we'd have more support if invasion comes.

SENATOR DOLE: I just don't agree.

Our troops are in harmís way. Waiting for the U.N. to make up its mind is not worth risking American lives.

You had eight very long years to work with the U.N. to disarm Iraq, and Saddam is still there and still has his weapons.

That doesn't make any sense to me.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Come on senator, when I was President, you didn't say we should invade Iraq.

By the time I left office, tough sanctions, inspections and air strikes had left him far weaker than he was in the Gulf War, as I think we'll see if there's military action.

No question: he must be disarmed. But let's do it in a way that unites -- not divides -- the world and gives us a last chance to avoid a bloody conflict.

(MMIII, Viacom Internet Services Inc. , All Rights Reserved)

A Fish Rots from the Head

Investor's Business Daily

 

 

Ijaz, an admitted Clinton supporter who helped negotiate these opportunities to nab bin Laden, said, "The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening."

 

Ijaz says that three months before bin Laden's men blew up the USS Cole in Yemen, he "brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings (in Tanzania and Kenya)... But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer."

 

Clinton's apparent boredom with vital information extended beyond Sudanese intelligence officers to his own intelligence officers. His first CIA director, James Woolsey, couldn't get a meeting with Clinton in the two years he served. Woolsey left the Clinton administration disgusted with its slovenly approach to national security. ...

 

To hear Clinton now say "We must do more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists" is thus beyond farce. He had numerous opportunities to reduce that pool, and he blew it.

 

The pool, in fact, grew larger on Clinton's watch, as he spent his final days giving pardons to drug dealers, Puerto Rican terrorists and Marc Rich, a fugitive who topped America's most-wanted list.

 

NEW AUDIO!

Hear the Bill Bennett epilogue

 

In this light, Clinton's order to the CIA that it not use "unsavory characters" to collect information pushes irony to its outer limits.

 
hillary clinton blames better half for terrorism
(SHE knew, "you know," nuttin')

Meet the Press, 12-09-01

 

Mia T, 12-09-01

 

 

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.*

-GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

 

 

Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational.

Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize."

When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months.

It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion.

If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years.

And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton covertly cooked the books even as he assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists.

It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power.

It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue.

I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

 

 

 

*George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

 



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NOTE THE CBS--SIMON & SCHUSTER CONNECTION

 

Viacom

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs; Hillary is getting $8 million dollars for hers, for a total of $20 million. Not bad for a couple that for eight years swore under oath they couldn't remember anything.

--anonymous

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton

A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory

 

by Mia T, 1-29-03

link to movie

 HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster

by Mia T

 

Hillary Clinton's equal and inapposite reactions seem to be, at first blush, instances of the immutable First Law of The Betrayed and Humiliated Wife: Outdo the errant hubby's doxy...at all cost.

Thus, Vanity Fair's glamorous Marilyn-Monroe spread of Monica's digitally reduced spread was answered by Vogue's lushly Elizabethan, gauzy-focus, hindquarter-cropped-pleated-and-flounced, Queen-Hillary-for-President cover.

And now we have Hillary Clinton doing a Martha Stewart, who herself, is purported to have been "done" by the aforementioned errant rogue (notwithstanding the plain fact that Martha is more well-known for her tarts than for being one).

Seems Hillary Clinton is now writing a book titled "An Invitation to the White House" in which she will follow the format of the Martha Stewart classic, "Entertaining", claim multifarious Martha-Stewart talents and wrap her indecorous and corrupt, backwoods, backroom style of White House "entertaining" in Martha-Stewart elegance and purity. (NB: Written years before Martha ImPloded.)

"The Clinton White House has been noted for the...innovation of its events," said Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Schuster's Trade Division, the book's publisher.

Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, added that the book will focus on how the Clintons have "advanced the availability" of the White House by increasing the number and diversity of people; that it will "highlight the access that the Clintons have given to more people, more types of entertainment..."

It should be emphasized that it was without even a trace of irony or the slightest smirk that both women related the above.

On closer inspection, Hillary Clinton's bizarre behavior is more than simple Ivana Trump-eting. It is vulgar, compulsive, shameless, smarmy, contemptuous, demagogic, megalomaniacal, in-your-face naked clintonism.

It is one thing for the frumpy, chipmunk-cheek, huge-hindquarter fishwife to insinuate her image -- albeit Elizabethan-shrouded and low-res-clouded -- onto the cover of Vogue; but it is quite another for the corrupt harpy to trumpet White House access even as new charges emerge of the clintons' rapes and other predations, of the clintons' corrupt quid-pro-quo arrangements with a menacing and motley assortment of drug dealers, gun runners and nuclear weapons makers.

For Hillary Clinton to vaunt White House access just as the clintons' China treason is becoming increasingly, patently manifest to all requires a certain level of contempt for the people and for the country that is uniquely clinton.

Thank heaven for small favors...

Or as the real Martha Stewart would say,
"That is a good thing."


1 posted on 03/17/2003 3:11:00 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Thanks for the giant waste of bandwidth on tripe trash!
2 posted on 03/17/2003 3:13:44 AM PST by D. Miles
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To: Gail Wynand; looscannon; Lonesome in Massachussets; Freedom'sWorthIt; IVote2; Slyfox; Registered; ..
MIKE LUCKOVICH'S VERSION

TRANSLATION:

 
 

3 posted on 03/17/2003 3:18:07 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Thanks MiaT, awesome, as always!
4 posted on 03/17/2003 3:19:43 AM PST by StayoutdaBushesWay
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay
thx ;)
5 posted on 03/17/2003 3:21:37 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
excellent. thank you Mia T
6 posted on 03/17/2003 4:20:01 AM PST by glock rocks (pray for our men and women in harm's way. God bless America)
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To: Mia T
Good morning, thanks for the ping
7 posted on 03/17/2003 4:21:47 AM PST by firewalk
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To: D. Miles
Too bad you don't recognize the work of a genius even when it bitch slaps you. YOU were the one who clicked on the article to read it and then you whine. Pathetic.

Great work as usual, Mia. Thanks. :)
8 posted on 03/17/2003 4:43:16 AM PST by pyx
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To: Mia T
Morning Mia. Thanks for your work!
I enjoy them all but have never said hello and/OR thank you!

9 posted on 03/17/2003 5:28:03 AM PST by KalDot (Support America and our Troops!)
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To: Mia T
Thank you!

A question rippling through your delightful collage: "Will the Clintons ever realize what they really are...?"

As I watch their Greek-tragedy-in-slow-motion, I am reminded of the comments of one of Hitler's secretaries, Traudl Junge, who typed his last testament in the bunker before the cyanide and .30 caliber personal 'final solution.' She noted that he went to the grave believing the final Jew-hating screed he wrote. This is a characteristic of the utterly degenerate mind - they will never, never see.

Regardless of what is revealed, the Clintons will never admit wrong and will always have small nuclei of true believers in the sick cells of their political world. If we are graced by God, they will shrink to relative insignificance. If not, they will metastasize and destroy us. So many in the body politic of our republic are either ignorant of or indifferent to the crimes and intentions of Bubba Rex and Hillary Regina.

To put this in the Christian context of Paul to the Romans, such sociopaths are 'given over to a reprobate mind.' The Clinton spectacle is far from over and we have yet to see the end of their reprobate minds. More a sad commentary on us, rather than them. America has had 'Clintons' around since the beginning. They just never got so far. Sigh.
10 posted on 03/17/2003 6:04:19 AM PST by esopman (Blessings on Freepers Everywhere)
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To: glock rocks
thx :)
11 posted on 03/17/2003 7:02:54 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: BeforeISleep
Good morning to you. :)
 

Q ERTY9

BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

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President's Remarks
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This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage...

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we dread the days of mourning that always come.

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.)

 

State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush

 

 



12 posted on 03/17/2003 7:05:22 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: KalDot
thank YOU. :)

THE INTERMINABLE clintons
It's time to take out the trash...
A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...
NEW AUDIO! Hear the Bill Bennett (PARDONGATE) epilogue .
 
 
hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin
 
THE UNSTATED MESSAGE OF THE POWELL EVIDENCE
 
Another mistaken 'conceptzia'
WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER CLINTON
(INDEED, IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO SURVIVE THE FIRST ONE,)
 
WAS AL QAEDA THE TARGET OF A TAKEOVER BY IRAQ?
 
Utter-Failure clintons Concoct Left-Wing-Radio Scheme FIG LEAF
Flower Children Fall for the 2 Self-Evident Thugs & Opportunists Yet Again
(Liberals have always had problems figuring out causation)
 
 
THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992
 
How to get rid of the clintons in 3 easy steps
 
the logic of pathologic self-interest
 
Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office -- 03.17.03 update
 


13 posted on 03/17/2003 7:11:46 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: esopman
thx :)

 

Thou art arm'd that hath thy crook'd schemers straight.
Cudgel thy brains no more, the clinton plots are great.

Mia T, On Neutered and Neutering
by Mia T and Edward Zehr (EZ)



The only way they can win is to convince people that we're space aliens.

bill clinton

With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
Of life at once untie.

Antony and Cleopatra V, ii, 304-05

 

June 9, 1999

 

Peggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly.

Killing.
Killing insidiously.
Killing as they pose and pander and feel our pain.

My only complaint is with Peggy Noonan's title.

The Mad Boomer, doesn't begin to capture candidate clinton considered separately or even taken as the self-anointed "twofer," permanently conjoined at that cavity conspicuously empty except for ego, that place where brain and soul and guts and heart normally reside.

This is not to say that she -- that they -- are not both quite mad and of that self-indulgent, arrogantly, ignorantly solipsistic age sandwiched flatly between yesterday's innocence and tomorrow's insouciance. Rather, it is that their madness and their boomerism don't even begin to explain their noxious influence: The cloying, internally inconsistent clinton calculus. The unspoken clinton threats. They permeate the atmosphere like a coiling miasma, choking off all freedom.

Even in New York.
Especially in New York.
When she wrote "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus hardly had in mind this pair of mutant, deadly, twisted aliens.

So forget Arkansas-Illinois carpetbaggery and standard issue muckraking. The clintons are aliens of quite another sort. They are extrinsic, not of this world. They are inhuman. They are dehumanizing.

You may recall that the first act of this story of two degenerates maintained by iterating idiots, farce of farce ad infinitum, was generated quite by accident by iterated AlGoreRhythm, who, it should be noted, is now himself the object of iterated calculation by said degenerates who want iteration 2004 all for themselves.

And thus the odd bit of bloody Gore in Act II: The ugly sight of a corrupt, bottom-heavy hillary self-impaled on the horns of a Treason-Dilemma- masquerading-as-a-Third-Term-Dilemma-masquerading-as-a-Senate-stampede, for example, or bill's recent unsolicited, underwhelming Times interview on the Gore candidacy.

Act I was called "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Ostensibly the tale of the wife of a bloodthirsty crime boss who finds romance with a bland bookseller between courses at her husband's restaurant, it was in fact the Thyestean and moveable -- yet unmoving -- feast of hillary clinton at her husband's sham restitution. (Note the reciprocity. The sham restitution in Act II is all hillary's.)

Food, color coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism were the exotic (if mostly horizontal) fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern memoir which passed as ancient fable about nouveau riche rapacity.

Not for the faint at heart, Purple Hearts or queazy stomachs, this depiction of the gross debasement of America was heavily peppered with irony and dark humor throughout.

Although she baked no cookies, didn't do illicit land or cattle deals and stood by no man, hillary clinton starred in the triple role of the Cook, the Thief and his Wife. Her lover was played at once vaporously and in workmanlike fashion by the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, with Janet Reno, between her stints rendering intermittent injustice for the Husband, as the reliable stand-in. Sidney Blumenthal was the stand-in for the Cook and Craig Livingstone the stand-in for the Thief. The last-minute addition of Christopher Hitchens as the snitch was a stroke of absolute genius notwithstanding its cerebral accident, its predictable-if-perfect pitch and its facile alliteration.

Although Act I had no rating, the new clinton soccer-mom directive will require a photo ID for any viewer without independent proof of illegal alien DNC <-> DNA sequencing.

In Act II, rabid anti-clinton voters, roughly 33% of the U.S. populace according to as-yet-unpodded pollsters, become increasingly aware that they are disappearing in droves and being replaced by alien pod replicas which have their physical attributes but lack all anti-clinton affect.

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

THE ALIENS

 


14 posted on 03/17/2003 7:28:19 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay
We wouldn't be poised for war today if Bill Clinton had done his job. Everything he did points at his self-indulgence over matters important to the people and the nation. Bill Clinton and his mate put this country in harms way with their willingness to rape, pillage and plunder all things American.

Great Post per-usual Mia-T!

15 posted on 03/17/2003 9:03:04 AM PST by yoe
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To: Mia T
By the time I left office, tough sanctions, inspections and air strikes had left him far weaker than he was in the Gulf War, as I think we'll see if there's military action.

Gawd, it was bad enough when he was jerking off into the Oval Office sink, but now he's doing it in front of millions on 60 Minutes...

16 posted on 03/17/2003 9:04:57 AM PST by dirtboy (Render yourself invisible to the media - attend a Rally for America today!)
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To: Mia T
BTTT
18 posted on 03/17/2003 9:16:56 AM PST by hattend
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To: Mia T
Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.

Lest we forget ...............

January 10, 2001

Bill Clinton: The French Years

By PATRICK WEIL

PARIS: Dear President Clinton:

As you prepare to move out of the White House, you are no doubt wondering what you will do next. Perhaps you assume that your time as a president has come to an end, that you must now move on to other, less attractive, alternatives. I have good news for you: You may have the opportunity to be president of France.

Under Section 5 of Article 21-19 of the French civil code, citizens of states or territories over which France has ever exercised sovereignty or extended a mandate or protectorate may apply immediately for naturalization, without the normal five- year residency requirement.

Arkansas, where you were born, was once part of French Louisiana. And as a naturalized French citizen, you would have the same full rights as all other French citizens. That includes running for the presidency. Our next election is scheduled to take place in May 2002. The front runners, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac, have been obvious candidates for such a long time that many French citizens are looking for a promising outsider. The media have been asking about a likely "third man" in recent opinion polls; your name didn't come up, but that's only because almost nobody knows that you could soon be eligible.

Of course, to become a citizen, you must fulfill a few legal requirements. You will need an official residence in France. (Paris is probably less expensive than Chappaqua.) And you will need to speak French. (Pas de problème: Political French is filled with words that are familiar to you. "Election." "Globalisation." "Récession.") But you will be happy to know that France will not require you to renounce your American citizenship.

Mr. President, if elected, you would find the French presidency affords many advantages. Should you have a majority in the Parliament, you would enjoy much more power than as an American president. Should your opposition win a majority in the Parliament and make your life difficult, you would not have to tolerate it for long. At a time of your choosing, you could dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections. I bet you would have liked to do that with the last United States Congress. And you could be reelected every five years without end. There are no term limits for the French presidency.

You should know that as head of the French state, you would be required, now and again, to utter rather harsh words about America. The United States is a close ally of France and Europe, but also the main economic rival. Like most politicians, however, you will not have to mean what you say. You need only appear to be standing up to the Americans.

There remains only one problem: You will have to apply soon. The time- lag for processing a naturalization application is almost as long in France as it is in the United States. Of course, the French naturalization service could choose to honor you with an expedited processing of your application — just as they do with top soccer players or other athletes before important international championships.

If you do end up facing delays, I suggest you remind French officials of the words of Marcel Prélot, the French senator who introduced the law that now enables you to become France's next president: "I pray that the Senate make a generous gesture, that it tell those who come from a land which was once French, that France their mother considers them as having been her children, and that at the instant they want to return to the fold, they will be entirely welcome."

President Clinton, welcome to Paris!


http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/10/opinion/10WEIL.html

haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

19 posted on 03/17/2003 9:49:08 AM PST by NYer (Kyrie Eleison)
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To: NYer
Très bon!
Aussi:
"C'était le TERRORISME, stupide," traître, prostituée, slut, menage à trois, cigare, viol, le treason, abus de puissance, poltronnerie, imbécile, manque de justesse, échec total, corruption, pro quo de quid, psychopath, megalomaniac, narcissist, népotisme, hillbilly, tirette-levé, pas de deux, demagogue, néo-fasciste

20 posted on 03/18/2003 5:55:32 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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