Now you listen to me . . .
Posted on 09/05/2004 12:06:33 AM PDT by doug from upland
A LETTER TO AMERICA by Bill Clinton (ghostwritten by DFU)
When one faces his mortality, things that were murky can become clear. No one likes to think of his mortality, but suddenly I have been forced to do so. I must use this opportunity to set the record straight.
First, to my family, Chelsea and Hillary, I love you very much. I couldn't have been blessed with a better daughter. Hillary, throughout all the rocky times, I really have loved you. Because of my weakness of character, I cheated on you hundreds of times. You knew that. Now I have to say it to the rest of America. I hope you can forgive me. By the way, it is time for you to resign your Senate seat, stop fooling people, actually try to develop a conscience, and do some real good for people. Don't pretend you are helping them just so you can gain ultimate power.
I was so weak that I could not resist doing what I had to do for power. I lied. I cheated. I broke laws. I destroyed people's lives. I took money from Bernie Schwartz to keep him out of jail. I wanted to be re-elected so much that I would not take a chance of rocking the boat and fighting Islamic terrorists. That and the technology sale to China are my biggest regrets.
I really did turn the White House into a whore house. I defiled the office. For that I am sorry.
To those who supported me, I don't quite how to say this to you. I used you, lied to you, and manipulated you. I got you to believe things that were preposterous on their face, but you believed in me anyway. At times I laughed and joked with Hillary that I could sell ice cubes to Eskimos. I made fools of you. I'm sorry.
To James Carville, Paul Begala, and Lanny Davis, I knew I could get you to do anything if you got to go along for the ride. I regret that I put you in a position where you had to compromise everything and literally give up your souls to defend me.
Part of my problem that I had never faced before, I must admit now. I have had a serious problem in my life with cocaine. To some extent, it accounted for my bizarre behavior. The doctors have told me that it has affected by heart. If I make it through this, it will be my crusade to speak out every day and everywhere against the awful scourge of drugs. I will be donating all proceeds from MY LIFE and future speeches to help those who have been affected by drugs.
To Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones, I am more sorry than you could ever know. It happened just as you said. To you and all the other women, I am sorry for what I did to you and that I allowed my hatchetmen to do what they did to you. Hillary was in charge, but I could have stopped her. Although I don't deserve it, I ask for your forgiveness.
To those on the other side of the political aisle, you might not believe your eyes. You are not the bad guys. The vast right wing conspiracy was created by Hillary and I to discredit you. I had to divide this nation to save myself. We should have been able to have fair discussions and disagreements but I couldn't let it happen that way. In fairness, some of you guys made up some ridiculous stories. I never ordered anyone to be killed. But a lot of bad guys with huge monetary interests did kill people in their misguided effort to protect me. Vince, from wherever you are, I am sorry. You killed yourself over the tained blood and other scandals we dumped on you with which you couldn't live. You were perhaps the most decent of those with whom I worked. I regret that your body was taken to the park and dumped.
Monica, I hope you can go on with your life and it is both happy and professionally fulfilling. Your dad should have gone after me instead of Ken Starr. I'm sorry, dear.
That brings me to you, Ken Starr. I know you are a man of great decency. You actually went very easy on me. What I did to you and allowed my surrogates to you was beyond cruel. I am morally weak, and you are morally strong. I wish I would have had such strength. I wan't defending the Constitution; I was defending myself. To you and the House Managers who were doing their duty, please accept my apology.
Members of the armed forces, it took me a long time to realize that you all better men than me. Forgive me.
If the Lord allows me to make it through surgery, I promise that I will try to be a real Christian instead of the phony one I played.
To to rest of my fellow Americans, I can never undo all the damage I did. During the remaining years I am given, I pledge to try to set the record straight and to try to end some of the partisan bitterness for which I am so responsible.
God bless you all, and thank you for your prayers.
William Jefferson Clinton
Impeached 42nd President of the United States
If only.....!
WOW! What a fantasy! I'm sure we'll see something just like this from Bubba real soon.
Dear Doug:
"The thing I most regret is that my waste of a life has allowed those pesky Republicans to control the House, the Senate and the White house for the first time in, well, a long, long time.
Maybe if I hadn't have been such a louse, I would have had a different legacy, but after beating Dole in 96, every time I supported a candidate, he would lose. Talk about the "Kiss of Death".
But now I am stuck with this legacy, I've helped elect more Republicans that Ronald Reagan.
I don't know if that was your intention, but I had to smile a few times.Well written.
You really had me going until I got to the I'm sorry part, then I knew it was a joke.
This is not a joke. He is facing his mortality and this is what he needs to do to try to make things right.
Great picture. That is the real face of Bill Clinton. I have the feeling he is reading this and directing his finger and rage directly at me.
I for one doubt it. CGTGOC...
Do you seriously expect a psychotic, pathological liar to repent, even is he was really on his deathbed?
That reminds me of a great story told by Dick Morris. I'm pretty sure it was a State of the Union Speech, possibly in 1998. As Morris was writing it in his office, Clinton took the pages as they were finished and wrote them in his own hand. He then took total credit for the speech as if he had written the whole thing. Tell you what, Bill, if you say these things, I will gladly let you have all the credit.
I don't expect it. Just trying to be helpful.
That was too much.
He's got Mussolinis mouth.
We can dream can't we.
It'll be a plus if the pile of crap hangs on until at least, oh, say, February.
You mean per year, right?
I hear 'ya . . . Gives me the willies!
It'd be fantastic if he would sign your letter, btw. He'll need a major change of heart though before he ever does that, lol! But who knows? I might happen. God works in mysterious ways.
I could see him ordering me (or most any of us) to be dragged outside and shot. I don't think he'd lose any sleep over it, that's for sure.
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