You can tell the man who boozes,by the company he chooses ...
and the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Posted on 09/13/2007 10:32:56 AM PDT by jdm
You can tell the man who boozes,
by the company he chooses ...
and the pig got up and slowly walked away.
The poem by Clarke Van Ness warns people that they will be judged by the actions of those with whom they choose to associate -- and even a pig has enough sense to walk away from disaster. Hillary Clinton has a big problem with her associates, and it's self-inflicted. Lost in the Norman Hsu shuffle, the news that Hillary has asked former Clinton national-security adviser Sandy Berger to join her campaign should cause even more questions about her judgment and her ethics:
The more experienced Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has relied largely on her husband and a triumvirate of senior officials from his presidency—former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former national-security adviser Sandy Berger (who tries to keep a low profile after pleading guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges of taking classified material without authorization).
Berger didn't just commit some technical violation, either. He went to the National Archives on behalf of Bill Clinton as part of the investigation of the 9/11 attacks. While there, he deliberately hid highly classified material in his socks to avoid detection and dropped them under a trailer on a break. Later, he retrieved the material and took it home, and wound up destroying the evidence while his nation tried to find as much material on Clinton-era counterterrorism efforts in order to better protect ourselves in the future.
Given that despicable behavior, what political candidates would ever associate themselves with Berger again? Even John Kerry dumped Berger when the crime came to light. He knew better than to associate himself with someone who obstructed an investigation into the worst attack on American soil -- a man who may have covered up actions which would have proven embarrassing to Bill Clinton, and a major stumbling block to the presidential aspirations of his wife.
We now have two examples of Hillary Clinton associating herself with people of low character and criminal behavior. Unlike the pig in the song, Hillary not only has not removed herself from the gutter, she seems to be encouraging the ethically challenged to join her there. How many more of these characters will we discover in the Hillary campaign? How many more will the Democrats need to see before ending the sleaze train?
Richard Miniter has more personal recollections of Berger's efforts to keep the Clinton errors quiet. He also ends with a very pertinent question:
My informed sources suggest that what Berger destroyed were copies of the Millennium After-Action Review, a binder-sized report prepared by Richard Clarke in 2000—a year and half before the 9-11 attacks. The review made a series of recommendations for a tougher stance against bin Laden and terrorism. There are 13 or more copies of this report. But only one contains hand-written notes by President Bill Clinton. Apparently, in the margin beside the recommendations, Bill Clinton wrote NO, NO, NO next to many of the tougher policy proposals. ...
Did she bring him aboard to reward him for his criminal destruction of classified material? Or did she sign him up because of his stellar record in fighting bin Laden in the late 1990s?
To ensure his silence.
Truly disgusting. They have no shame.
Great title.
If she wins(God forbid) her Cabinet and all appointments will a who’s who of Clinton I idiots
The title of this thread has me in stitches!!
I expect nothing less from Hillary.
This is gonna make a great campaign ad....
Another Bush Administration failure: not putting Sandy Burglar behind bars for the rest of his life.
LOL
Doesn’t it stink!
Will the Burglar make him “disappear” too? Aren’t her union goons more up to that type of task?
Outstanding title!
Do the Clintons associate with ANY upstanding folks?
Or are they all pieces of crap like Berger?
If Hillary! wins, that means Captain Stockstuffer will be granted another security clearance. Just what this country needs. / sarc.
That wasn’t a failure at all. Anyone who has any doubts about the one-party rule in this country should remember that Berger’s plea deal included a stipulation that he’d lose his national security clearance for a period of time that just so happened to expire in 2008.
And because they have some more dirty work for him to do.
Hsus And Socks, Blue dresses, Pants suits and Goodwill underwear. Soon they’ll have a whole new closet full of skeletons...........
Don’t mean to diminish the criminality of what Sandy Burglar did, but there are much more serious criminal acts of the Clintons and associates (including violent ones) to which the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye. You are right, it has been a major failure.
yep
Hillary might also want to hire William Jefferson (D-Louisana) to be the campaign treasurer. He will keep the money safe...and be sure that it is distributed properly.
Ask Hillary this question also....”Does she support the National Socialist Party?”
Who else would join her campaign?
Ping.
What? She needs some of her competition’s secret documents stolen?
Another Witch alert ping!
How can you disparage her that way? Don't you know that she's Bill Clinton's moral compass? He famously said so himself.
One difference is that although numerous unpunished crimes were committed during clinton’s time in office, Berger committed this crime while President Bush was in office.
I have some problems with Bush’s decision to sweep all the earlier clinton crimes under the rug. But in this case, we are talking about his own administration—his national security archives people, his FBI, his Justice Department.
The president’s job is to enforce the law. He, and his appointees, conspicuously failed to do so.
Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham! (Someone at FR came up with that recently during a come up with a bumper sticker for Hillary thread)
FReepers are slipping. Reply #27 before a ping to Allegra.
Maybe she hired Burger to put a cap in Hsu?
I don't recall ABC News tell me their "analyst" was working for a Democrat presidential candidate?
Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The president’s job is to enforce the law. He, and his appointees, conspicuously failed to do so.”
Well said and please see my post #38!
This stuff makes me hopping mad.
Exactly this title was too funny..... also I think socks was the name of their cat... they loved the cat so much they gave it to Bettie Currie...when they left the White House..
This clown lost his security clearance. If she becomes the Demons choice. She will be entitled to security briefings which are classified I believe which she shouldn’t be allowed to share with this clown.
“a willing suspension of disbelief.”
I know this will be difficult to accept for all and may throw civilization back a thousand years (and me into a dungeon) but that really explains a lot. Bill could have been an average guy. No exceptional virtues, no exceptional faults. Instead he became the most corrupt President in history. He followed her instead of his heart.
You think Hillary will be able to “deny” she knew Burglar had any bad raps on him like she is trying with HSU?
Don't go dragging Mr. Hanky into their sordid pile!
The Clintoons are probably more dangerous to America than al Qaeda is.
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