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Experiencing the Clintons' revisionism
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/18/7 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 12/18/2007 8:07:15 AM PST by SmithL

"No experience matters," former President Bill Clinton told PBS' Charlie Rose last week. "I mean, in theory, we could find someone who is a gifted television commentator." But to elect such a candidate - read: Barack Obama - president would be to "roll the dice."

Thus Bubba framed the Democratic primary as a contest between a handsome but empty Obama and a Hillary Clinton who often touts her 35 years of experience. Clinton also took the opportunity to talk up the possibility of a John Edwards win in Iowa.

Neither Clinton saw much virtue in experience in 1992 - when the Arkansas governor was challenging the very experienced President George H.W. Bush. Now HRC is running as the experienced Democrat. She's the nonincumbent incumbent.

With 35 years' experience, no less.

Hillary Clinton has been in the U.S. Senate for seven years. Before that, she spent eight years as first lady - and she did more than pick out the drapes. Mrs. C had a role in many Clinton initiatives, including as chair of her husband's failed health-care reform task force.

Still, her most valuable political skill was to neutralize her husband's "bimbo eruptions." In 1992, she appeared with her husband on "60 Minutes" as he admitted to straying in his marriage, but denied having an affair with singer Gennifer Flowers - a false denial, it turns out. In 1998, Hillary Clinton blamed the Monica Lewinsky story on a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Somehow those 15 years have expanded like dog years into "35 years fighting for what I believe in." That is, Clinton's political years include her 15 years as a corporate lawyer, her three years as a law school professor, as well as her tenure as first lady of Arkansas. . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton2008; copresident; impeachedpresident; nothirdterm; piaps

1 posted on 12/18/2007 8:07:15 AM PST by SmithL
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2 posted on 12/18/2007 8:08:57 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: SmithL
DOG YEARS!!! LOL!

Hillary put ALL her effort into Bimbo Eruptions with her SECRET GESTAPO tactics against those women!! LIVES were DESTROYED.

3 posted on 12/18/2007 8:10:07 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SmithL
a false denial

Describes the Clintoon years very well.

4 posted on 12/18/2007 8:18:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL
Old enough to remember this baby as Hillary's territory

chair of her husband's failed health-care reform task force

Also know that she revised the results of the teacher competency test in Arkansas --> 50% of minorities failed; 40% of other teachers failed... Hillary reported that ONLY 10% of the teachers failed. Who was hurt -->The children of Arkansas.

5 posted on 12/18/2007 8:24:07 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: SmithL
Hillary does have experience with

Shady land deals.
Cattle futures.
Firing people ... as in travelgate.
Making Rose law firm billing records disappear.
Dispatching staff, within minutes of learning of Vince
Foster's death, to clean out his office files.
Collecting hundreds of FBI files on potential, or existing, adversaries.
Etc., etc., etc...

6 posted on 12/18/2007 8:27:49 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: Ann Archy
Hillary put ALL her effort into Bimbo Eruptions with her SECRET GESTAPO tactics against those women!! LIVES were DESTROYED.

Hillary's big claim to fame is that she was Leader of the Goon Squad? Might be why she doesn't want to release all the information about her "8 years of work" in the White House -- oh, yeah, the up-stairs maid worked 8 years in the White House too. Wonder if we should elect her?

7 posted on 12/18/2007 8:28:46 AM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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To: GOPJ

Laura Bush has the same experience!! Barbara Bush only has 4 years of Presidential experience, but she has CIA head exp. and RNC exp. and her Father in Law was a Senator, so she has that exp. also! Barbara Bush for PRESIDENT!


8 posted on 12/18/2007 8:31:52 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: GOPJ

Better yet...NANCY REAGAN for PRESIDENT!! Plus Nancy has UNION PRESIDENT EXPERIENCE and GOVERNOR EXPERIENCE!! And nancy’s FATHER was a DOCTOR so she has MEDICAL experience!!


9 posted on 12/18/2007 8:33:16 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SmithL
Who's more experienced? the clintons can spin it any way they like but the simple truth is that Obama has more years experience as an elected official than the witch has.

That's a FACT

End of discussion

10 posted on 12/18/2007 8:40:45 AM PST by Wil H
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To: Ann Archy
NANCY REAGAN for PRESIDENT!! Plus Nancy has UNION PRESIDENT EXPERIENCE and GOVERNOR EXPERIENCE!! And nancy’s FATHER was a DOCTOR so she has MEDICAL experience!!

BINGO! Nancy would make the best President. Air Force One can fly her to Washington for the announcement - maybe the pilot's wife can do the flying. The wife's experience is the same as the husbands - right? Or that's what the Clinton's want us to believe.

11 posted on 12/18/2007 8:43:36 AM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Is Her Thighness speaking at a Hamas rally? What’s with all the green?


12 posted on 12/18/2007 8:49:59 AM PST by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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To: SmithL

I heard the Hildabeast repeat the “35 years of experience” on her sunday morning rounds, and no one called her on it.


13 posted on 12/18/2007 8:51:37 AM PST by frankenMonkey (101st Army Dad)
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To: TornadoAlley3

What’s with all the green all of a sudden? Could it be that Hillary is ashamed of the U.S. colors and wanted to suck up to the Environazis?


14 posted on 12/18/2007 8:54:26 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: SmithL
Clinton Family Experience Highlights

Missing files from the Rose Law firm.

Hillary’s Sworn Court Affidavit:
I do not recall / I can not recall - 21 times
I do not believe - 9 times
I have no knowledge / I have no Firsthand knowledge / I have no Personal knowledge - 7 times
It is possible / it is quite possible that I had / it is possible I may have - 4 times
I simply don’t know / I don’t know - 4 times
I do not know how / I do not know what I may have spoken - 3 times
I have no specific recollection - 2 times
I may have expressed the view - 2 times
I cannot identify - 2 times
I do not know for certain / I do not know how - 2 times

Secret Gestapo meetings run by Hillary to ram socialized medicine down the throats of the American people.

Handwritten note from Vince Foster note advising Hillary that he was ending their romantic affair, with the word "KILL!" scribbled in red across the note.

Talking points memo titled, "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Other Media Strategies for Blaming the GOP for Bill's Sexual Perversion."

Draft manuscript for book, "Bill's Confession: I did Not Have Sex with That Woman!" with forward by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Memo to Hillary with the words, "Canceled! Thanks to that creep Ken Starr!" recorded in Bill Clinton's handwriting.

Book entitled "Oral Sex for Dummies" with Bill Clinton bookplate on the inside cover.

Size 22 blue dress bearing the "spot heard 'round the world."

Canceled check in the amount of $850,000 countersigned by Paula Jones.
Memo section notes, "This is not an admission of guilt."

Bill Clinton's "Little Black Book," listing hot African-American bimbos in Little Rock, Washington, D.C., the United Nations, and the entire continent of Africa.

Orders from the United States Supreme Court and Arkansas State Bar barring Bill Clinton from practicing law because of perjury and obstruction of justice.


15 posted on 12/18/2007 9:29:29 AM PST by Iron Munro ( (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.))
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To: TornadoAlley3

"When you people told me that you had a lot of 'green', this isn't what I was thinking when I showed up..."

16 posted on 12/18/2007 10:28:10 AM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Ann Archy

Clinton/Gore destroy the lives of those in their way to getting what they want.

The Clintons lied about the White House travel office staff to have an excuse to fire them and hire their friends’ agency.

The Gores pretended to give a damn about “obscenity in music” so that they could position themselves for a 1988 run at the White House (which turned into a 1992 VP role).


17 posted on 12/18/2007 10:30:20 AM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: All

If you haven’t viewed the Clinton Chronicles, you really don’t understand the lust of power and the circle of people around the Clintons to protect them...check it out on YouTube. Put in search and watch the whole tape...it will knock your socks off at how large the protective circle around these two is...a lot of reason why nothing ever sticks. The MSM is very much included...all documented! They are evil to the core.


18 posted on 12/18/2007 1:25:11 PM PST by cousair
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To: GOPJ
The wife's experience is the same as the husbands - right?

In that case, Chelsea must be qualified for VP???

19 posted on 12/18/2007 3:26:09 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: varon
In that case, Chelsea must be qualified for VP???

Well - - she did spend 8 years in the White House...

20 posted on 12/18/2007 8:52:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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