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Bill Clinton: Six Months to Live (Globe Magazine, on sale now at your local supermarket)

Posted on 08/02/2010 7:39:54 AM PDT by Maceman

Saw this headline this morning while in the check-out line:



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To: laweeks

I couldn’t agree more. All the attention paid to the wedding this past weekend compared to how the media relatively ignored the Bush daughter wedding was sickening. Personally, I’d rather see footage of attractive people than anything Clinton.


41 posted on 08/02/2010 8:18:43 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Actually, the have revealed countless true events first. Some being; “Rock Hudson and Liberace had AIDS”, Patric Swayzee’s cancer, Tiger Woods affairs, and lots and lots of other events.

I never read them, but I cannot help but notice the headlines jumping out at the Checkout line at Wal-Mart. And later, the story hits the mainstream, pretty close to what they were saying.

42 posted on 08/02/2010 8:19:12 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: secret garden

“Personally, I’d rather see footage of attractive people than anything Clinton.”

. The media this weekend tried to pass her off as gorgeous, but every time I look at any picture of Chelsea, all I can think of is Howdy Doody on steroids. Whatever plastic surgery she’s had these past 20 years as been rejected by her body. And I’m being kind.


43 posted on 08/02/2010 8:24:30 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: indylindy

What did PIAPS wear to the wedding? I am sure she looked like a large pile of it.


44 posted on 08/02/2010 8:26:23 AM PDT by Rannug ("When you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." JFK)
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To: Maceman

I didn’t like Clinton as President BUT, I do feel that he did in his heart have the interest of the nation foremost... moreso than the current occupant of the White House.

Prayers for recovery and health to him.


45 posted on 08/02/2010 8:28:22 AM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Maceman; Jimmy Valentine

Yo bro


46 posted on 08/02/2010 8:31:05 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Victory or Death)
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To: svcw

He was ordered by Chelsea to lose weight for the wedding. I wonder if he even had to try?


47 posted on 08/02/2010 8:32:48 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: Maceman
This was last month at the World Cup

Doesn't look too sick to me...

48 posted on 08/02/2010 8:33:19 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Rannug

It was a very large and flowing green flock repleat with bat wings and cleavage showing.


49 posted on 08/02/2010 8:33:34 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

**Two “Rags” you should never pay attention to. The Globe and The Star.***

Back on August 9, 1974, I was at the Farmer’s Market in Bloomfield NM. There at the checkout counter was THE STAR and the headline for he week was....JEAN DIXON SAYS NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN! in super big letters.
That was the week Nixon had resigned.

Ten years later, our local paper here decided to carry Dixon’s horoscope page and wrote a glowing list of her “prophecies that came true”. There listed was a claim she had predicted Nixon’s resignation.

I immediatly wrote a letter to the editor exposing this sham. The leter was printed but they also printed the horoscope page till Dixon’s death.


50 posted on 08/02/2010 8:34:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: 9YearLurker
"Or was the publicized request a cover for the weight loss?"

Good thought. Hummm?

51 posted on 08/02/2010 8:35:36 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: BCR #226
I didn’t like Clinton as President BUT, I do feel that he did in his heart have the interest of the nation foremost

Are we talking about the same Bill Clinton? Perhaps you've forgotten:

1) Clinton’s own words show his often expressed innate hostility to, and utter contempt for, the core principles of the American founding:

``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993

``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett

“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995

2) Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security. Here is just one of many possible examples:

It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets. Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.

The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.” Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.

3) On two occasions, Clinton used military action for the specific purpose of distracting the American public from the fallout of the Lewinsky affair: •

On August 20, three days after Clinton finally admitted publicly to the Lewinsky affair, the news media was poised to focus on that day’s grand jury testimony by Monica Lewinsky. That same morning, Clinton personally went on national television to gravely announce his bombing of a Sudanese “chemical weapons factory,” and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. It was the first time most Americans ever heard the name of Osama bin Laden. The factory bombing in Sudan killed an innocent night watchman, but accomplished little else. It later was proven that the plant was making badly needed pharmaceuticals for people in that poverty-stricken part of the world, but no chemical weapons.

Several months later, the U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, stated: "...the evidence indicates that the facility had no role whatsoever in chemical weapons development." Kroll Associates, one of the world's most reputable investigative firms, also confirmed that there was no link in any way between the plant and any terrorist organization. As for the Afghanistan bombing, it failed to do any damage at all to bin Laden or his organization. Clinton’s action was accurately characterized by George W. Bush when he said right after 9-11: "When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.”

Clinton’s pointless and murderous military actions did not make Americans safer that day, although they did destroy an innocent life, and for all the good they did certainly could have been delayed in any case. But they did succeed in diverting media attention from Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony for a 24-hour news cycle, which was the main point. So I guess, they weren’t a total loss. •

On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."

Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.

The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.

Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”

Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.

4) Clinton’s reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security:

Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was “only about sex.” But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.

To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?

What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America’s real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?

Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.

I have plenty more that I could say about Mr. Clinton, but you get the idea. (Don’t even get me started on the war crime in Kosovo.)

52 posted on 08/02/2010 8:35:43 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: smokingfrog

I vote for Haiti..........


53 posted on 08/02/2010 8:36:58 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: KansasGirl

For the most part she was right, but maybe your Mama never knew the klintoons.


54 posted on 08/02/2010 8:37:56 AM PDT by dusttoyou (Remember come November)
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To: truthandlife

Well you can’t really judge health by a glowing bulbous nose. :O


55 posted on 08/02/2010 8:38:26 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Maceman
We are all gonna die........

Rapist's should die quicker though........

The guy is a scum-bag....If the world was right...he would be in jail right now.

56 posted on 08/02/2010 8:39:22 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Truth29

happen just before the November elections and generate a sympathy Democrat bounce...

Aaaah, the ole “dead crat” bounce?

He hasn’t looked well, the suit at his daughter’s wedding
just hung on him. Every one commented about him being
hung and he just said, “Yup, I know.”


57 posted on 08/02/2010 8:42:51 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: BCR #226
"I didn’t like Clinton as President BUT, I do feel that he did in his heart have the interest of the nation foremost..."

Bill Clinton's interests were exclusively limited to Bill Clinton. There were a few occasions where his interests overlapped those of the nation, but that should not be mistaken for his having put the interests of the nation first.

58 posted on 08/02/2010 8:43:31 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: BCR #226
Oh please.....

You think selling secrets to the Red Chinese is a heart warming gesture of his love for the United States.

The guy is a narcissistic scum bag...don't kid yourself.

Geesh.............

59 posted on 08/02/2010 8:47:34 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I've always believed Bill Clinton would succumb to either a social disease or the wrath of an angry husband or father.
60 posted on 08/02/2010 8:48:55 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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