Posted on 03/03/2006 7:07:54 PM PST by Mia T
DICK MORRIS: CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI
bill clinton made page one of Al Jazeera today. A schizophrenic mix of schadenfreude and agitprop, it was the story of an impeached ex-president of America trashing America--to standing Os--in the Arab state of Dubai--in the middle of a war zone--only several hundred miles from the American troops.
And, to rub it in, the traitor pocketed no less than $200,000 from the enemy for his troubles.
Having failed to snare the Nobel Peace Prize by ignoring terrorism, clinton has apparently decided to intensify his America-bashing on foreign soil, the method employed by Jimmy Carter to great (if somewhat belated) effect.
(The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.)
Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish pose (although not without bird problems of another sort).
Yet another example of the clinton conflation ploy, (see SCHEMA PINOCCHIO: how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor), this variant allows "clinton, the construct" to hold two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously, thereby enabling the missus to avoid in '08 the trap that repeatedly ensnared the ever 'nuanced' Kerry in '04.
Do you now understand how stupid the clintons think you are?
This legacy confab is in and of itself proof certain of clinton's deeply flawed character, and a demonstration in real time of the way in which the clinton years were about a legacy that was incidentally a presidency.
Madeleine Albright captured the essence of this dysfunctional presidency best when she explained why clinton couldn't go after bin Laden.
According to Richard Miniter, the Albright revelation occurred at the cabinet meeting that would decide the disposition of the USS Cole bombing by al Qaeda [that is to say, that would decide to do what it had always done when a "bimbo" was not spilling the beans on the clintons: Nothing]. Only Clarke wanted to retaliate militarily for this unambiguous act of war.
Albright explained that a [sham] Mideast accord would yield [if not peace for the principals, surely] a Nobel Peace Prize for clinton. Kill or capture bin Laden and clinton could kiss the 'accord' and the Peace Prize good-bye.
If clinton liberalism, smallness, cowardice, corruption, perfidy--and, to borrow a phrase from Andrew Cuomo, clinton cluelessness--played a part, it was, in the end, the Nobel Peace Prize that produced the puerile pertinacity that enabled the clintons to shrug off terrorism's global danger.
C-SPAN asked noted presidential historians to rank the American presidents1 along the following ten dimensions: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with congress, vision/setting an agenda, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within context of times.
bill clinton emerged as middling in most dimensions; he was surpassed in others by a settled mediocrity (Carter) and a putative failure (Nixon). In moral authority, bill clinton was rated dead last.2 He did fairly well in public persuasion, not a surprising finding given the volume of snake oil he managed to peddle during his putative presidency.
"It's NOT the economy, stupid!"
Clinton's best scores were on the economic management and pursued equal justice for all dimensions. However, both of these results are meaningful only insofar as they redound to the moral authority dimension: they are wholly based on clinton fraudulence, cooked books and black poses, respectively; and clinton's shameless Rosa Parks eulogy last week assured us that the insidious brand of clinton racism is alive and well during these tiptoe years of what the clintons hope will be their interregnum.
Note that although Brinkley doesn't place much importance on the economic management dimension--he argues that the economy variable is not durable over time--he fails to recognize that the evaluation of the clinton economy by the historians is erroneous to begin with.
Note also that C-SPAN historians found no evidence of clinton "greatness" irrespective of his moral-authority deficit, contrary to Douglas Brinkley's claim made at the clinton revisionist confab3.
(NOTE: My later research has revealed that Brinkley's qualified mention of clinton "greatness" was not a claim but rather a polite guest's white lie about an abject loser. Instead of taking the AP report at face value, one must carefully parse Brinkley's actual words and especially note the subjunctive construction.)
MIDDLING
If 9/11 taught us anything, it is that presidential character and moral authority count, and count most.4 If the variables are properly weighted, bill clinton will always come out dead last.
That is, unless Americans are dumb enough to make the same mistake twice.
Mia T, 11.10.05
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by Mia T, 11.17.05
id you see it? More to the point, did the American press?
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by Mia T, 11.11.05
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Twenty presidents rank higher than bill clinton and 20 rank lower. But this placement assumes equal weight for each of the dimensions. And therein lies the flaw.
Historian massages clinton numbers, ego + legacy at revisionist confab
C-SPAN historians find no clinton "greatness" irrespective of moral-authority deficit
by Mia T, 11.14.05
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I'm not playing with semantics. What did you mean then?
Tonight.
Yes, Tibet, where the Dalai Lama was the head of state.
Queen Elizabeth head of the anglicans was involved with 911,khobar towers, uss cole, arnold klinghoffer, munich, embassy bombings, marine barracks lebannon, homicide bombers, 7 day war, ieds iraq, zarqawi beheadings....etc etc?
Just dang. What the heck else will I learn here?
Howdy doody was a muslim cleric?
Ha ha. Ooookey dokey.
Interesting analyses.
It's well-known (not news) that Islam does not provide for a theoretical separation of "culture", "religion", and "government".
In reality, all the other religions or religious movements mentioned by cornpone have also not made that separation at one time or the other in different places.
So, what's your problem with Queen Elizabeth? You don't want her to be head of the Church of England, or what?
Better send her a note, eh!
Mingo is taught on several different websites.
President Bush has threatened to veto any congressional attempt to block the deal, warning that it would risk alienating a key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf.On Thursday, Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, told reporters, "I intend to do everything I can do to kill the deal."
Either our representatives trust the Commander in Chief or they don't.
If not then the WOT is over and we had better gather ourselves in and make amends with those we have offended. This isn't an argument about how much more the feds will pick our pockets it's about our war time foreign policy. It concerns the heart of the region where the war emanated from to boot. A command falls apart when every decision is questioned and war cannot be successfully waged under this kind of disarray.
>>>It's well-known (not news) that Islam does not provide for a theoretical separation of "culture", "religion", and "government".
Nor does the Ark of Hope. And they are the ones that wagged the dog's tail.
muawiyah,
I gave you your due. However the facts are that other cultures, other than Islam, pursued a course of conquest based on a social concept of manifest destiny weakly supported by religion as all peoples do in ascendency. The difference with Islam is that it believes its ascendency is not supported by God but demanded by it. There is no other way for them.
That's news to me. I think I did encounter a website with Biblical scripture written in Mingo. Hard to understand the dialect. Is that what you're telling me about my response? If so, sorry. ; )
kaliphate
Early Mongol conquests also included the imposition of Buddhism on the conquered people ~ check Afghanistan.
You owe the fact that you are Christian or Jewish to Moslem missionaries who began turning around that sort of thing by converting the Mongol cutting edge to Islam.
This really slowed them down (quite possibly by confusing their minds with the Sharia)
I'm really surprised more Freepers are not aware of the place of militant, conquering Buddhism in the course of human history.
Okay...I watched it again...and here's my way out conspiracy theory...
Rove found out about all of the trips that Clinton was making to Dubai...and all of the gifts to his library and the big $$$$$$ for speeches, the scholarships, etc...
SOOOOOO..they purposely let this Dubai thing go through, knowing it would get blown out of proportion, and then they would see if Hillary was on HER side or Bubba's side..
LOL
He came out for the port without disclosing his status. And then there's her quick maneuver....
The clintons are playing a cute game here. As I said above, it's yet another example of the clinton conflation ploy. This variant allows "clinton, the construct" to hold two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously, thereby enabling the missus to avoid in '08 the trap that repeatedly ensnared the ever 'nuanced' Kerry in '04.
"The Simpsons" cartoon has, over the years, used numerous examples of Mingo.
Maybe I misread; but didn't Cornpone clarify this point by adding 'westernization'.
I think that meant he was distinguishing between history and religion now.
That was my interpretation.
Dick is waking up! (ROTFLMAOPMP)
This is unbelievable. Concerning the bent one, it's in his character to be a traitor. They should be called the Teflon Don's, it fits them more than John Gotti.
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