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Clinton: Impeachment Not Serious
NewsMax.com ^
| Aug. 16, 2005
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 08/16/2005 3:49:02 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Ex-President Bill Clinton said Monday that he had to assure world leaders that there was nothing seriously wrong with America after the Congress impeached him in 1998.
"During that time, a lot of world leaders would ask, 'What is going on? Is this serious?'" he told New York magazine.
"I kept assuring them that nothing bad had happened to America," he recalled, "but that we periodically went through spasms."
Interviewed while traveling in Africa, the ex-president claimed, "Africans saw [my impeachment] for exactly what it was: an abuse of power."
"They got it here," he insisted.
The magazine noted that "seven years later, the ordeal of his impeachment still has a vibrant, ever-present life in Clinton's mind."
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To: Carl/NewsMax
"Indeed I did . . ."
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posted on
08/16/2005 4:29:09 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Interviewed while traveling in Africa, the ex-president claimed, "Africans saw [my impeachment] for exactly what it was: an abuse of power." Do any governments in Africa outside of South Africa have a mechanism to impeach?
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posted on
08/16/2005 4:30:20 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Oh really?? Then why were you DISBARRED, you filthy lying pile of Arkansas pig scat?!
63
posted on
08/16/2005 4:32:20 PM PDT
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: Carl/NewsMax
Good ole slick, still doesn't know his ass from his elbow!
64
posted on
08/16/2005 4:33:38 PM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(What do you like best about your life?)
To: lepton
"They got it here." Got it where? What does that even mean?
Anyway, a lot of us conservatives were saying at the time he should be impeached not so much for the sex related lies and all that garbage, but for failing to act to protect America from terrorism and other threats. Now we are being proven right. But Clinton's flunkies will never admit to reality.
65
posted on
08/16/2005 4:34:42 PM PDT
by
TNCMAXQ
To: lepton
Of course, in many African countries, an abuse of power is standing operating procedure -- hardly a negative at all.
66
posted on
08/16/2005 4:36:23 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: DeeOhGee
Obstruction of justice (in a sexual harassment lawsuit no less!) is hardly a something to sneeze at.
67
posted on
08/16/2005 4:45:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BenLurkin
Of course it's not, but there were so many more serious and substantive things the GOP could have nailed him on.
68
posted on
08/16/2005 4:46:22 PM PDT
by
DeeOhGee
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
To: Carl/NewsMax
69
posted on
08/16/2005 4:47:35 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Let's try that again --
Me, me, me, me, me!!
70
posted on
08/16/2005 4:48:22 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Africans saw [my impeachment] for exactly what it was: an abuse of power." YEAH, Billy Boy, and that's the reason they are still 3rd World Countries.....cause they're still stupid.....
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posted on
08/16/2005 4:53:05 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Our military......the world's HEROES!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
Webster: "Spasm": "a sudden violent and temporary effort or emotion"
Sorry, Slick --- It ain't temporary --- You got impeached forever!
72
posted on
08/16/2005 4:53:48 PM PDT
by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
To: Carl/NewsMax
"Africans saw [my impeachment] for exactly what it was: an abuse of power."
Oh, only the enlightened of the Dark continent would understand their brethren, our first black president...
Sha-eezzzz. please make my head stop spinning.
To: My2Cents
74
posted on
08/16/2005 4:58:21 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: llevrok
Remember that hillaryrodhamclinton told us that billyblytheclinton was MINSTERING to the li'l tramp.
75
posted on
08/16/2005 4:59:08 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: RedStateRocker
The only thing that went thru spasms was Clintons Johnson.
To: Carl/NewsMax
How do you become a "world leader" and not understand our impeachment process both legally and historically?
Oh, I guess you get a minority of the boobs and fools to vote for you like Clinton did.
77
posted on
08/16/2005 5:02:51 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I wish those on the Left would just do us all a favor and take themselves out of their misery.)
To: Carl/NewsMax
"seven years later, the ordeal of his impeachment still has a vibrant, ever-present life in Clinton's mind."Wasn't *serious* was it? I bet he doesn't think of it...much. It's killing him. He'll never get over it and he'll never be able to go back and change it. No matter what he does...but it's not serious...much...
BWHAHAHAHA!!!!!
To: Republic
79
posted on
08/16/2005 5:07:19 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: Carl/NewsMax
"I kept assuring them that nothing bad had happened to America," Once a liar, always a liar.
80
posted on
08/16/2005 5:10:24 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
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