AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, JEANINE PIRRO et al. CONCERNING HILLARY CLINTON

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Jeannine Pirro = Bernadette Castro with a law degree.

Jeannine Pirro = Bernadette Castro with a law degree.--Clemenza

You're not suggesting that Jeanine's a sleeper, are you? ;)
Seriously, the analogy breaks down as to opponent, anyway. clinton is no Moynihan. To the contrary.
Yesterday, Daniel Patrick Moynihan died. Today, the clintons are arrogating his soul. Hardly surprising. In 1999, the clintons were not at all shy about seizing his still-warm senate seat.
One has merely to recall the Jefferson double-helix hoax to understand that posthumous misappropriation is, for the obvious reason, the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation….
Standard-Issue clintonism
If misappropriation of Jefferson's alleles hinged on a broken line of descent, misappropriation of Moynihan's endorsement depends on a broken line of dissent. Like Sally Hemmings' progeny, Moynihan's later acquiescence is of dubious lineage
Mia T
Moynihan Myths

Moynihan proffered one of the more incisive operant definitions of clintonism: "defining deviancy down."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan. American Scholar (Winter 1993)

"Well, how would you imagine that we would have got ourselves in the situation we're in now? We have a crisis of the regime. You cannot have this kind of conduct as normal and acceptable and easily dismissed unless there is a great effort to do so. And if, in addition to what we know, there are things we don't know, that will make it worse."

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.)
commenting on Lewinsky et al.
ABC's "This Week," Sept. 6, 1998

"I should think not. If it's so, it represents a disorder."

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.)
when asked if Clinton could survive if the Lewinsky allegation was true
New York Post, Jan. 26, 1998

[I will] have none of the "it-isn't-so-much-the-sex-its-the lying" [argument].

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.), ibid.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., also opposed censure, saying Congress should carry out its constitutional duty and decide whether Clinton should be held accountable for impeachable offenses in connection with his affair with Monica Lewinsky or other matters.

Censure unlikely, Lott says, as Congress awaits Starr report
By Jim Abrams
Associated Press

"[T]he critical subject for the politics of the years ahead," [is] "redefining the character issue for the post-Monica era.… There's a sort of absence of character which has been the quality of this administration."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Corporate Character: The Humanities and the Businessperson

In the Senate, only Moynihan has called for Clinton's impeachment. …For now, White House and party strategists appear unworried by the criticism they have heard from various Democratic senators and members of Congress. Rather than view the criticism as part of a mounting wave of disillusionment within the party, these strategists are weighing the authors of the criticism one by one: Moynihan and Kerrey, they say, have never liked Clinton, so their remarks are personal.

"Everyone will be punished"
BY JONATHAN BRODER
Salon

"We have so many things coming on in the world that we have to be ready for and be able to deal with. This [the President's dilemma] is a distraction which is doubly dangerous because of the world's situation." [Moynihan then ticked off the dangers, which included the building of nukes by North Korea and biological weapons by Iraq.]

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D.-N.Y.)
commenting on Lewinsky et al.
ABC's "This Week," Sept. 6, 1998

COLOR COMMENTARY, Sept. 17, 1998:

D-New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (NY) recently spoke about the international effects of the President's problems on ABC's This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts (Sept. 6, 1998). "We have so many things coming on in the world that we have to be ready for and be able to deal with. This [the President's dilemma] is a distraction which is doubly dangerous because of the world's situation." Later in the broadcast, Moynihan and syndicated political columnist George Will enumerated some of these particular global trouble spots, mentioning Russia's current crisis, the use of ballistic missiles in North Korea, the economic situation in Japan, the potential for military conflict and the building of biological weapons in Iraq, and the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

A few weeks ago, we were reminded of the continual danger lurking in Iraq when U.N. Weapons inspector Scott Ritter resigned claiming that the Clinton administration had interfered with at least six inspections since 1997 in an attempt to avoid conflict with Saddam Hussein. It is difficult for a weakened President to deal decisively with a foreign military threat. Hussein has repeatedly proved to the world that he has no respect for democratic processes and will cooperate only in the face of force. He has continually tried to take advantage of weakness. The United States' current state of weakness has made the world more susceptible to Iraq's potentially destructive actions.

Just a few weeks ago, the world received a violent reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism as U.S. embassies in Afghanistan and Kenya were bombed. Immediately following his testimony before the Independent Counsel, the President ordered counter-attacks against bases of the organization responsible for the embassy bombings. The timing and justifiability of the attacks was immediately questioned by some members of Congress, the news media, and many Americans. People thought it was possible that Clinton ordered the bombings to divert media attention from the Lewinsky affair.…the terrorists who committed these bombings and terrorists contemplating future acts were sitting at home watching the United States unsuccessfully trying to project an image of unity and competence. The United States only opens itself, and the world, up to more acts of terrorism when it seems not to know how to deal effectively with terrorist situations even when it knows who the perpetrators are.

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Can someone tell me why then, did Moynihan endorse Hillary Clinton for his Senate seat? Why would he say (paraphrased) . . "Oh, I think she'd make a TERRIFIC Senator!"

I clearly remember him making that remark, and I wondered at his apparent disassociation of her from the indivisible partnership that she and Bill Clinton had and have. After the total debacle of "their" administration, how could he have wished to do anything less than retire both of those to the ash heap of history? Oh, I do agree he seemed firm on Clinton's debauchery, which was so complete that both Clintons, as I said, sensibly should have been put out to pasture. Hillary reeked from all the scandals. Surely Moynihan knew that he was handing them just the big stepping stone of "career advancement" they needed in NY.