Posted on 02/25/2007 3:48:18 PM PST by blam
Clinton Fights to Keep Impeachment Taboo
After Spat, Campaigns Know to Expect Swift Reprisal for Any Hint of the Scandal
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 25, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.
With a swift response to attacks from a former supporter last week, advisers to the New York Democrat offered a glimpse of their strategy for handling one of the most awkward chapters of her biography. They declared her husband's impeachment in 1998 -- or, more accurately, the embarrassing personal behavior that led to it -- taboo, putting her rivals on notice and all but daring other Democrats to mention the ordeal again.
Hillary Clinton was at her most popular when her husband's dalliance with an intern was publicly revealed. (1998 Photo By Robert Reeder -- The Washington Post)
"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction," senior Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Friday, when asked whether the impeachment is fair game for Clinton's opponents. Earlier in the week, Wolfson dismissed references to President Bill Clinton's conduct as "under the belt."
But the reality, of course, is that the impeachment was conducted very much in public.
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its amazing how she can just issue these sweeping orders - and the media and any democratic opponent just falls in line and obeys.
"Hillary, as the wife of a previously impeached former President..."
You forgot to mention that Hillary is also the wife of a rapist.
Hillary is "putting a little ice on that" in a hurry.
Okay guys, the woman just told us what to do. Climb to the mountaintops and scream "impeachment" until she crawls away.
"alleged Rapist" would be the proper legal term...
It's going to be kind of difficult to keep Monica, Etc. quiet, given that, by a beautiful stroke of timing, next January will be the 10th Anniversary of everything breaking - so there will be a lot of talk about it, right in the middle of her campaign, whether Hillary likes it or not.
Censorship is Hillary's middle name.
an impeached rapist at that.
How many "I'm sorry, I can't recall" answers was she allowed in the hearing chaired by Dan Rostenkowski and the ways and means komiteh?
This woman and her husband lie so easily that even rich lefties like Geffen are appalled by it!
Or below the belt... we all know where Monica liked to spend her time.
1. The Dems might go along with that. I think there's a good amount of other people who probably won't. [Cough, cough.]
2. Not to put too fine a point on it, even if we went along with it (which we won't), that leaves a lot of stuff as fair game. I think if I were her, I might rather declare (for example) my investment prowess off limits than my husband's impeachment. He's not running, see.
She is a shrill ignorant leftist, a ruthless person, no respect for the military or law enforcement, a vile left wing partisan, screwed up health reform, a socialist, fired innocent travel workers and had them prosecuted to bring her cronies in, Rose law firm cover up artist, hid subpeoaned records, threatened her husband's victims, screamed "vast right wing conspiracy" when in fact he was guilty, used the term "jew bastard", is anti-semitic, campaign finance scandals, etc.
is someone going to start talking about what is really wrong with HER?
What a tyrant. This is her kind of leadership.
I left out turning $1,000 into $100,000 overnight without risking any of her own money. The FBI files. Please, this woman is a horror lets focus on her wrongdoing and wrong headedness.
The Rodhamites are looking for that 1 % to 2 % sympathy vote that could be associated with attaching Bubba's impeachment to her campaign. These people can be identified by their subscriptions to the Sunday NYT.
Impeachment really has little to do with Hillary. If anything, it paints her as a sympathetic victim (if that's possible). If she's overly sensitive about that, maybe it's because part of the liberal fantasy about a Hillary presidency is the thought of Bubba back as "co-president" again. As the unelected spouse the next time, Bill can whore around as much as he wants and nobody can impeach him over it.
I don't think it will be much of an issue with Hillary's campaign. She shouldn't waste too much political capital trying to keep it quiet.
Letter to Dear Abby
>> Dear Abby:
>>
>> My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from
>> The beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything.
>> What's worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so
>> humiliating.
>>
>> Also, since he lost his job five years ago, he hasn't even
>> Looked for a new one. All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise
>> Around and bullsh#t with his buddies while I have to work to pay the
>> bills.
>>
>> Since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to
>> Like me and hints that I may be a lesbian.
>>
>> What should I do?
>>
>> Signed,Clueless
>>
>> Dear Clueless: Grow up and dump him. Good grief, woman.
>> You don't need him anymore. You're a United States Senator from New York. Act like one!
Don't forget most of the Republicans in the name of bipartisanship which people in the real world know as utter stupidity and cowardice.
And the wife of the man who was disbarred for 5 years and fined close to $100,000 for lying under oath in a federal court proceeding.
'spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of angering the Clintons'
What the heck gives Arkansas trailer trash that kind of power over everyone in this country?
Do those people who apparently live in fear that Hillary will do something bad to them, not realize that is the very thing that needs to be exposed?
I cannot believe it even when I read comments like these -
just what we need running this country, a post-menapausal woman who keeps lists of everyone who has done ANYTHING she doesn't like - and people are actually considering voting for her.
We get what we deserve, and so far the country has seen whining, threatening, bigoted people leading the country - if leading is even the right term. Thanks everyone who let the dems take the majority. I hope the next several years are worth it to you.
I'm OK with that. Hitlary wasn't impeached.
Lets talk a lot about Hillary endorsing, in order to get power, old men (impeached hubby) committing adultery with young women just barely out of their teens.
.....and don't forget when you enter into Arkansas, there is a sign that say 'sex offender' William Jefferson Clinton.....
...Well, Its' not so amazing
they're all Hillary's' bootlickers.....not "one honest journalist"amongst them.
We FReepers have watched your legacy We FReepers have recorded your legacy. We FReepers will teach your legacy - AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!
IOW, criticism of Hitlary and/or the truth about her is mean and anyone who would engage in it would kill a puppy.
I wonder what her projectile of choice is now that there aren't many ash trays around any more.
This is just like they treated Ted Kennedy's "driving booboo" going into the 1980 elections.
She is the wife of a rapist which I will never forget.
Except for the moonbat loonie left, who wants a President who is a doormat and will tolerate ANYTHING un-seemly just to retain or gain power and poll numbers?????
Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton has made her bed and deal with the devil and now threatens anyone who would try to dislodge her from that miserable, tattered, filthy, sodden, grave she has dug for herself......she's going down....sounds like it to me!
This three letter abbreviation covers several volumes of misfeasance and criminality.
No problem, concentrate on her instead .. Rose records, revolting temper, FBI files, cattle futures, her role in fundraising from Chinese and so on. Plenty to go around !
The Clintons are nothing but low-life crooks, no matter what they try to do to their image.
More to the point would be the scandals Hillary herself had a direct tie to--like Travelgate, the cattle futures bribe, the Rose Law Firm records mysterious disappearnace, the FBI files.
There are so many that it's hard to remember them all--and that's ignoring others where she was better at covering her involvement (Vince Foster? Waco?)
And that's ignoring other issues of character--her coldness and nastiness as a person, her proclivity for lying, her remarkable number of "I can't recalls" when put under oath, her abuse of public servants like the secret service, etc.
She herself said when you vote for them, "you get 2 for 1". Her commandment not to mention anything truthful about 1/2 of her presidential candidacy is not the law of the land.
This is too rich. The authoress of "the politics of personal destruction" is using her mafia tone again. I am enjoying every moment watching this b*tch self-destruct.
I hope these compilations of truths will make you copy, paste and send the following to everyone in your address book. Everyone better open their eyes and pay attention!
In case you had any doubts about how truly malevolent, radical and vulgar Hillary is, these quotes reveal the reality. They have been compiled from thirteen different books and some from Hillary's speeches or interviews. Read 'em and vow to pass this on to everyone you know!
"Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise."
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 - Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day, 1991)
"You sold out, you mother f**ker! You sold out!"
From the book "Inside" by Joseph Califano, p. 213 - Hillary yelling at Democrat lawyer.
"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-qaida in particular."
(Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a 'great' commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.)
"I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter."
(TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999 - Hillary at a White House function, proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace")
"F**k off! It's enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good morning."
"You f**king idiot."
(From the book "Crossfire" p. 84 - Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.)
"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!"
(From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 - Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)
"Get f**ked! Get the f**k out of my way!!! Get out of my face!!!"
(From the book "Hillary's Scheme" p. 89 - Hillary's various comments to her Secret Service detail agents.)
"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I say, Okay!!!?"
(From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 - Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.)
"Many of you are well enough off that [President Bush's] tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
(Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco ; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)
"Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!"
(From the book "The Survivor," by John Harris, p. 382 - Hillary in her 2000 Senate campaign)
"Where's the miserable c*ck sucker?"
(From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5 - Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer)
"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
(Was posted on Hillary Clinton's senate.gov web site on 1/28/05)
"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!"
(From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72 - Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)
"A right-wing network was after his presidency...including perverting the Constitution."
(To Barbara Walters about the Republicans who impeached her husband; 20/20, ABC 6/8/2003.)
"Son of a bitch."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 259 - Hillary's opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq just days before her highly publicized trip to Iraq)
"What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!"
(From the book "The Survivor" by John Harris, p. 99 - Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House)
"I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum."
(C-Span, 1/19/1997 - Hillary complains about the mainstream media, which are all conservatives in her opinion)
"Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't f**k her here!!"
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 - Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally)
”You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being” -Hillary Clinton
(From the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55)
"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."
(From the book "The Agenda" by Bob Woodward, ch. 14)
"We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West."
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 119 - During her 1993 commencement address at the University of Texas)
"The only way to make a difference is to acquire power"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 68 - Hillary to a friend before starting law school.)
"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 20 - Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)
"I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe "
Hillary in 1996" From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 - Hillary in 1996)
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This ill-tempered, violent, foul mouthed, hateful and abusive woman wants to be your president and have total control as commander-in-chief of a military that her party so openly and proudly admit they detest. No thanks, my country cannot afford to let the trashy traitorous Clintons near the White House again!
Please read my post #43, cut and paste it in an email and send it to all in your address book. Emails have a way of taking on a life of their own and we need to continue spreading the word about this very real vile enemy of our country.
If this country' precious freedoms are to survive, she must be defeated.
This is insane.
No, this is exactly why MRS BILL CLINTON wants to permanently erase memories of the impeachment: she knows she has to have Bubba help her win the White House and then govern, but so long as he's wandering the halls, there are the ghosts of thongs and interns to contend with.
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THE MISDIRECTION The real reason hillary clinton is a fatally defective candidate--
WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END ALSO:
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"Earlier in the week, Wolfson dismissed references to President Bill Clinton's conduct as "under the belt."
As I recall, "under the belt" is where Monica met Bill. Time after time.
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