It's a breathtakingly ignorant stereotype, of course - but none too surprising from a man whose chief experience of armed combat consisted of avoiding it.OUCH! Now that's gonna leave a mark.
Posted on 07/08/2008 6:02:55 AM PDT by teddyballgame
Bill Clinton may be the master of the underhanded political slap - but can't he at least refrain from smear ing an entire class of his country's war heroes in the process?
Including, inferentially, de facto Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Sadly, self-restraint is not the thing that Bill Clinton does best; it would require just a bit too much honor from America's reigning embarrassment-in-chief.
"It's like if you know anyone who's ever a POW for any length of time," the former president opined in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend, "you will see that [they] go along for months or even years and then something will happen that will trigger all those bad dreams."
Better keep an eye on those former prisoners-of-war, in other words - you never know when they might snap.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It’s like if you know anyone who’s ever a POW for any length of time,” the former president opined in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend, “you will see that [they] go along for months or even years and then something will happen that will trigger all those bad dreams.”
Right Bubba!....you in the white house triggered nightmares!
yes its much better to elect someone like him who snaps his pants for interns...jeeze where do i sign up for someone stable like bill..
Bill Clinton... still a low-life piece of sh**.
Clintigula has become a parody of himself.
Bubba is a walking caricature of himself.
Slick Willie is a running joke.
Billie-Jeff isn’t taken as a serious statesman, even after being POTUS for 8 years, he is such a joke.
When is his interview in Hustler magazine coming out?
a list of
two-faced
u.s. presidents
must surely count
bill and hill at the top.
The amazing thing he said this at an event for Nelson Mandela who spent time in prison! I guess ol’ Nelson could snap at any time.
Clinton’s temper is legendary. His anger is volcanic. Even he knows it. That’s missing, though, in the punditry’s analysis of his statement - the part that I’ve heard so far, anyway.
Awkward isn't the word ... Mandella himself spent 27 years in a SA prison on isolated Robbins Island not far from Cape Town.
It's a breathtakingly ignorant stereotype, of course - but none too surprising from a man whose chief experience of armed combat consisted of avoiding it.OUCH! Now that's gonna leave a mark.
Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark ... I wonder what the hell instructers in Arkansas were teaching children in the '50s?
Yeah right. Let's elect the Manchurian candidate. How anyone can see this as an attempt by Clinton to hurt Obama is beyond my comprehension. You must be living in a parallel universe.
you never know when they might snap...... a thong
Bubba took one too many ashtrays to the head.
As is McCain’s.
Please give me the strength to restrain myself and not say what I am feeling, lest I be banned from FR and the Secret Service kicketh in my front door.
Amen.
Hey Barry say it with me “that’s not the Bill Clinton I knew”
The Stain® has told this Mandela story many times:
This is the first time the asshat has injected the P.O.W. reference ... he knew exactly what he was doing.
“then something will happen that will trigger all those bad dreams.”
Yeah, I get recurring bad dreams about the Clinton years every time Bubba the Liar opens his mouth.
There’s a reason Clinton never got the vote of 50% of the American electorate.
Krinton knows his political viability is rapidly approaching 0 degrees Kelvin, so now that he no longer has to pretend to be civil he just let’s it fly wherever and whenever he feels the urge. Not completely unlike someone who’s so old that they don’t care if they fart in public any more.
How ever much the RNC is paying Bill Clinton, it’s not enough. This guy is a gold mine!
Romania had the Ceausescus, America has the Clintons.
If there is any true cosmic justice, the latter will enjoy the same fate as the former.
I like how the media-types have all decided that Ol’ Bill is suffering from Pump Head, because he used to be so brilliant and now he is such a doofus.
What the Round-Heeled Media fail to acknowledge is that Bill Clinton was always a doofus, and they were just covering up for him, before.
I find it really interesting that he is beginning to physically look like what he is, a caricature of a "dirty old man."
I sure hope he doesn't end up like Mussolini.
X42 describing the lunacy he, Jimmeh Cahtah and others have displayed since leaving office and going on a global, anti-American rampage.
Klintoon’s legacy is a stained blue dress. And it upsets him to no end that he can’t change that.
“It’s a breathtakingly ignorant stereotype, of course - but none too surprising from a man whose chief experience of armed combat consisted of avoiding it.”
“OUCH! Now that’s gonna leave a mark.”
Better put some ice on that Bubba.
Very appropriate reference to Ceausescu. Here's another example of American Executive excrement who should share a similar fate as his new pal pictured above.. Funny how the islamo bad stuff starting happening to this country on Jimmah's watch.
It sure as heck wasn't a good place to be knowing what SA prison wardens were like, especially for "non-white" political prisoners and I suppose it depends on the definition of torture ... however, priosners were not subjected to prolonged beatings and what we would commonly consider to be torture.
Robben Island is about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Town. I could see it out of my bedroom window as a kid.
How ever much the RNC is paying Bill Clinton, it’s not enough. This guy is a gold mine!
RNC can’t have much moola, regardless klintoon IS a gift from the Karma Cops.
Saw another post about that MD80 was a “gift” from hitlery. Ossamma Obbamma sure has a great support cast, maybe he was too busy gettin in on Chi-town graft to pay attention to Arkanacide.
Bite your tongue!
Somebody, give that POS a microphone!
It does keep McCain front and center, and hurt Barack. And it slams McCain as a potential kook, too. He is clearly bitter over his wife’s decision (forced) to ‘suspend’ her campaign. He seems to dislike both McCain and Obama, perhaps he wants to discredit both and hope his wife will suspend the suspension of her campaign and rush in to ‘save’ the election, haha. I wouldn’t put it past them to consider it.
‘Hey Barry say it with me “that’s not the Bill Clinton I knew”
Let’s fix this: “Hey Hussein, say it with me “that is the Bill Clintoon I knew.”
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Oh, and throw in the EIC emeritus, Jimmy Carter. They make quite a pair, don't they.
Robben Island
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No where in my post did I imply Nelson Mandela was tortured while being held prisoner on Robben Island. I did a Google search prior to my earlier post and the response can be seen above. Although I haven't visited Robben Island I have visited Cape Town, SA. Robben Island was clearly visible from our hotel balcony.
He was re-arrested in 1961, and held in Pretoria Central Prison from 1961-1964, during the Rivonia Trial. Sentenced to life in prison, he spent a total of 18 years in 2 stints (the longest of which was 13 years) on Robben Island (1964 -1982).
In 1982, he was moved to Polsmoor Prison and, subsequently, to Victor Verster Prison until his release in 1990.
The details have been chronically misreported for years. We can both agree that he spent a ridiculously long time on Robben Island and in prison, generally.
To me, the most remarkable aspect of Mandela's persona, is that most of his "White" associates in Umkhonto we Sizwe and the ANC were Jewish. In fact, one of his associates when he founded Umkhonto we Sizwe, was Arthur Goldreich who had learned guerrilla tactics during his time in Israel. Yet Mandela openly supported Yasser Arafat and Muammar Ghaddafi, in their "struggle".
But that's another subject ... it's odd to think, though, that I walked along the beach front to school every day of my life, with Sea Point on one side and the ocean and Robben Island on the other absolutely oblivious of what was going on in my own (then) country.
Anyway, back to work. Have a good one!
That you see is the reason I ran away like a sissy to England. I knew I would be President some day and didn’t want to have those “episodes.” It was for the Country don’t you know.
McCain’s temper is beside my point.
My point is, how asinine of the volcanically angry Clinton - after himself being President for eight years and never himself even serving in combat much less a POW - start commenting that we’d better be wary of a POW’s anger issues, in the context of a Republican POW presidential candidate.
And how typical that the media would fail to mention these relevant facts.
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