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History Will Not be Kind to Clinton
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 6/29/04 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 06/29/2004 1:16:31 AM PDT by kattracks

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To: backhoe

Backhoe, do you have a link for this question?

If one hits a hornets nest w/ a baseball bat, one gets a predictable result.

The Arabs firmly believe our nation is ANTI Arab ... my question is this:

Why, given the Arabs history of going nuts against America relating to Israel, would the PRESIDENT of the USA, who had an endless supply of women of all backgrounds, choose a Jewish girl to have an affair with? Why? Talk about taking a media ball bat to Arab sensibilities. Talk about providing MOTIVATION!

The real question is this ... why is so little ever, ever written about the impact in the Arab world of one stupid chick and one stupid president named Monica and Bill ....

I bet a LOT has been written about it .... in Arabic.


21 posted on 06/29/2004 4:28:06 AM PDT by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon.htm)
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To: backhoe
The number of files varies wildly, though at the time the number I heard was around 500. Still, considering that the information usually contained in FBI files is raw data (could be anything: wildly unsubstantiated rumors, personal attacks, anything and everything anyone might say about you), having that information fall into the hands of your political enemies...er, opposition could be a problem.

So many ways to blackmail. Blackmail to change a vote, to look the other way, to vouch for the character of the Clintons before Congress...the list is long. But then so was the list of scandals, -gates, etc. the Clintons dumped on us.

Of course, the Clintons said it was all a mistake and that no one looked at the files. I believe they published a list of the names of the people whose files were taken. And, of course, no one of any consequence had their files taken. Yeah, right...

I am amazed by two things Clinton: that we, as a nation, survived him and his crime family and that he remains so wildly popular.

22 posted on 06/29/2004 4:31:29 AM PDT by GBA
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To: GBA
I am amazed by two things Clinton: that we, as a nation, survived him and his crime family and that he remains so wildly popular.

Me, too.

The highest "official count" of FBI files was the Wall Street Journal's 1,100. I have the article somewhere in my scrapbook, but no link handy.

The highest wild-assed guess I ever read about was 3,100 on some obscure website I visited.

And yes, since the files contain virtually anything anyone might say, guess, speculate, or even fantasize about a subject, without correction, they can be quite damaging.

I mean, say my neighbor tells an agent I molest goats, he records that, without comment or corroboration... how in Sam Hill do you counter something like that, in writing, on an official-looking "report?"

23 posted on 06/29/2004 4:38:19 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: mathluv
Didn't . . . Charles Colson . . . , one of the Watergate guys, get prison for ONE FBI file?
Sure did - that's what got him motivated to start a prison ministry. In a Republican administration, one felony count is a cause celebre; in a Democratic administration it's really no big deal by the time the next election comes around.

24 posted on 06/29/2004 4:39:30 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Facts? We're objective journalists - we don't NEED no stinkin' facts!")
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To: backhoe
You don't correct it...at least, not in the eyes of Joe and JoAnne Public once the news hits the newspapers.

Btw, yes or no, have you stopped molesting goats? ;)

25 posted on 06/29/2004 4:41:31 AM PDT by GBA
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I was Newted, I was stressed, I was Tripped,
I was Drudged, I was Starred, WOE unto me,
I'M BUSTED


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26 posted on 06/29/2004 4:42:50 AM PDT by Jackie
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To: GBA
Btw, yes or no, have you stopped molesting goats? ;)

Actually, it was that nice-looking sheep over there... and they say sheep can remember up to 10 friendly faces for two years...

27 posted on 06/29/2004 4:44:47 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: kattracks

28 posted on 06/29/2004 4:58:21 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Knees in the breeze)
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To: kattracks

How can Charles make the argument that impeached Clinton was successful, but resigned before being impeached Nixon was not? Nixon was also re-elected.


29 posted on 06/29/2004 5:11:35 AM PDT by Coop (Freedom isn't free)
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To: martin_fierro
New York Times review

The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.

In many ways, the book is a mirror of Mr. Clinton's presidency: lack of discipline leading to squandered opportunities; high expectations, undermined by self-indulgence and scattered concentration. But the very lack of focus and order that mars these pages also prevented him from summoning his energies in a sustained manner to bring his insights about the growing terror threat and an Israeli-Palestinian settlement to fruition.

"My Life" has little of  classic's unsparing candor or historical perspective. Instead, it devolves into a hodgepodge of jottings: part policy primer, part 12-step confessional, part stump speech and part presidential archive, all, it seems, hurriedly written and even more hurriedly edited.


'Destroyed' Lewinsky Speaks Out on Clinton Memoir
Lewinsky in a statement released today, countered President Clinton's Book "My Life." I have had enough! This whole experience has left a bitter taste in my mouth and I can't stomach any more. I feel as if I am getting the shaft, that this ugly matter has come to a head and blown up in my face. This may be a load to handle, but when things are hard, that is when I am at my best. I have faced hard things in the past and I know what is coming. I will meet the challenge the only way I know how: head on. I have licked bigger things than this before, and I will again. No one will ever be able to say that Monica Lewinsky isn't a finisher, that she quit before the job was done. I will work non-stop and fight this blow by blow, until I am wiped clean of this dirty affair. I will not be stained by it. As for Bill Clinton, I hope he gets a stiff penalty. Thank you. - Lewinsky is seen in Washington in this July 28, 1998 file photo.

30 posted on 06/29/2004 5:12:41 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: Happy2BMe
the lewinsky paragraph is priceless!

LOL funny

31 posted on 06/29/2004 6:17:21 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: kattracks

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"CHARLES the K" is the best Political Commentator on the entire FoX News Channel.

(Guests on 'Special Report with BRIT HUME' ..wheelchair & all)

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32 posted on 06/29/2004 6:27:49 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: jmeagan; IncPen; mplsconservative; sport; risk

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NEVER FORGET


...TWA Flight 800 went down the very night before CRAIG LIVINGSTONE was to appear on National TV to tell the U.S. Senate, Under Oath, that HILLARY was the one who hired him to get her FBI Files on Republicans in Congress or to Plead the 5th against self-incrimination instead.

...Starting that morning ..which Event did you see 24/7 TV Disaster Coverage of on your TV's and which Event got CANCELLED out of respect for those newly killed in a burning Jetliner Crash the night
before..?

...Thought so ...for the CLINTONS Lifetime M.O. has always been:


'It's the TV, Stupid, no matter WHO pays for it'


NEVER FORGET

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33 posted on 06/29/2004 6:40:37 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: backhoe

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.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629


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34 posted on 06/29/2004 6:46:13 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: Republic

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RONNIE gave all = We have it all

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3466








RANDALL's 'MANSIONS' = RONNIE's D.C. Funeral Hymn..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3520

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35 posted on 06/29/2004 6:51:05 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: kattracks

The Best thing about the Clinton Presidency

Clinton has been busy hyping his new book "My Life." The best thing about the Clinton Presidency is that it will be forgotten by history, a mere footnote. If it weren’t for an eccentric billionaire he wouldn’t have had even that much. Absent Ross Perot’s help there is no chance that Clinton could have beaten President Bush (41) and it is questionable if he could have even beaten the inept candidacy of Senator Robert Dole.

Without any major accomplishments the only note worthy event will be impeachment. By his demonstrated lack of respect for the Truth, the Rule of Law and the Judicial Branch of our Government, Clinton may have inadvertently achieved a minor historical legacy. No wonder he claims in the recent 60 Minutes interview that he will always wear impeachment as a badge of honor.


36 posted on 06/29/2004 7:30:01 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: kattracks
History Will Not be Kind to Clinton

You can't run a presidency based on the evening news cycle and expect to get anything done. The Clinton presidency was so succinctly summed up by the Time magazine cover "The Incredible Shrinking Presidency". Once Clinton was gone, and unable to control the nightly news cycle, everyone was saying "Wow, there really wasn't much substance to that administration." The Clinton presidency will be remembered as a wasted 8 years in which Billary relished the power of being in control, and wasted the presidency by being drunk with power.

37 posted on 06/29/2004 8:09:06 AM PDT by Space Wrangler
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To: kattracks; oldglory; MinuteGal; JulieRNR21; Luke FReeman; gonzo; sheikdetailfeather; Hannity; ...

"...His great failing was foreign policy." ~ Krauthammer

Brilliant deduction --- but in 1992, that's what Rush said it would be:

Rush Limbaugh 10/17/02:

"...When Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the themes "putting people first" and "it's the economy stupid," hammering George H.W. Bush for spending too much time in foreign policy, I said:

'You wait. When the history of this guy is written, his reputation and legacy are going to be done in by foreign policy snafus and nightmares because he was openly disdainful of it.'

He's a masterful spinner, so he blames the current administration for all the problems he left us. But that doesn't change the fact that this is his legacy, or that we confronted the North Koreans with evidence that they'd built nukes and forced them to admit it.

The bottom line is, before Clinton came to office, Pakistan and India did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. Before he came to office, Red China was unable to target American cities with nuclear warheads. Now they can. Before he came to office, North Korea did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. And while he was in office, he did nothing to stop Iraq from its nuclear weapons development."

The above was excerpted from this item, copied in full below:

Clinton & Carter Entwined In Embrace of History
October 17, 2002
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/cold/oct_17_clinton___carter_entwined_.member.html

What we have in North Korea is another monumental Clinton administration screw-up dropped into George W. Bush's lap. We are only now beginning to see the real damage that the Clinton administration inflicted on this country and its position in the world. The examples run from September 11th to North Korea, from the Chinese being able to orbit ICMBs and put multiple warheads on each, all the way through to a newly nuclear India and Pakistan.
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[] Those of us who thought that Clinton's legacy would be corruption and sleaze were only half right. It's going to be far worse. All those treaties, bilateral agreements and Rose Garden ceremonies were the actions of an appeaser that have seriously damaged our national security. I think Clinton just didn't want to face problems. He didn't want to do anything to stop his supposedly roaring economy, so he presided over a "nothing" administration.

When Bill Clinton ran in 1992 on the themes "putting people first" and "it's the economy stupid," hammering George H.W. Bush for spending too much time in foreign policy, I said, "You wait. When the history of this guy is written, his reputation and legacy are going to be done in by foreign policy snafus and nightmares because he was openly disdainful of it." He's a masterful spinner, so he blames the current administration for all the problems he left us. But that doesn't change the fact that this is his legacy, or that we confronted the North Koreans with evidence that they'd built nukes and forced them to admit it.

The bottom line is, before Clinton came to office, Pakistan and India did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. Before he came to office, Red China was unable to target American cities with nuclear warheads. Now they can. Before he came to office, North Korea did not have nuclear weapons. Now they do. And while he was in office, he did nothing to stop Iraq from its nuclear weapons development.
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At least When Hitler Invaded Poland, Neville Chamberlain Admitted His Mistake

Clinton simply followed in the footsteps of another foreign policy luminary, the Nobel Appease Prize-winning Jimmy Carter. Carter ran to North Korea almost without permission, and saved Clinton from having to make a decision. (See audio link below.) Have you ever noticed that the left loves anti-American dictators like North Korea's and Cuba's and the PLO's, but they can't take pro-American dictators like the Shah of Iran?

Some of this stuff is just laughable. February 5, 2002's New York Times recounted Bill Clinton speaking after dinner one night at the Waldorf-Astoria at the World Economic Forum. "On North Korea, I have a totally different take," he said. "I figure I left the next administration with a big foreign policy win." Oh really? Clinton also gave a September 2000 speech at Georgetown where he claimed that stopping the proliferation of WMDs was his "very top priority."

You can hear me read more fanciful claims from Clinton's speech in the audio link below – such as claiming he'd kept Saddam completely in check with the embargo. That embargo is Swiss cheese! Why, the U.S. State Department has even caught Saddam exporting food - and you people blame the sanctions and not the dictator for starving his people! These people take any excuse to look at evil and not see it. So when Jimmy Carter called and said that Kim Il Sung was a cool guy, Clinton jumped at the chance to pass more impotent UN resolutions or sign another meaningless piece of paper.

[Click on link to read more]


38 posted on 06/29/2004 8:10:22 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: nutmeg

read later


39 posted on 06/29/2004 8:11:27 AM PDT by nutmeg (Bush 2004 - Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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To: nutmeg

read later


40 posted on 06/29/2004 8:11:32 AM PDT by nutmeg (Bush 2004 - Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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