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Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library (Waaahhh)
AP Politics ^ | Tue Jul 22,12:24 PM ET | DAVID HAMMER

Posted on 07/22/2003 1:07:13 PM PDT by Lance Romance

Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library
Tue Jul 22,12:24 PM ET
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By DAVID HAMMER, Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton 's $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency.

 

"As long as he's talking, we'll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from rewriting history," says John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York who rode Ronald Reagan 's coattails to victory in 1980.

LeBoutillier and his partner, Houston businessman Richard Erickson, plan to call it the Counter-Clinton Library. They say the museum here and one planned for Washington will look at such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the last-minute pardons, even damaged White House furniture.

"We already hear he's going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president," LeBoutillier says. "And we'll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him."

The two partners hope to open their place the same day that Clinton's opens in November 2004. They say they will need $5 million. LeBoutillier says thousands of donations have come in and the average one is $72, but he will not say exactly how much has been raised so far.

Dick Morris, the Clinton strategist who resigned in a sex scandal, has pledged stacks of his insider documents, as has Gary Aldrich, the former FBI agent who wrote a best seller about Clinton's scandals.

"We think people will want to come out of the Clinton Library and head immediately down the street to us to get the rest of the story," LeBoutillier says.

In recent appearances, Clinton said that the big picture of his presidency is being obscured and that his library will set the record straight.

The designer of the Clinton museum, Ralph Appelbaum, said the place will deal with Clinton's impeachment, but will focus on how Clinton policies smoothed the political and technological transition into the 21st century and fostered unprecedented economic growth.

LeBoutillier — who once called the late House Speaker Tip O'Neill "fat, bloated and out of control, just like the federal budget" — says Clinton's library will require immediate rebuttal in a way that libraries of other scandalized ex-presidents do not.

"Reagan, Nixon, that's the past," he says. "The problem is Clinton's still young, he's the most powerful force in Democratic politics, and he would like nothing more than to erase the past so he can return to the White House with Hillary."

Skip Rutherford, president of the foundation paying for Clinton's library, says he had hoped for a political cease-fire.

"The haters don't have to like or agree with Clinton, but they need to acknowledge that only 43 men have done this — reached the pinnacle," he says. "I think they need to move on with their lives."


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To: socal_parrot
The difference is, most of the other ex-presidents had the dignity to shut the hell up and butt out of everyting
21 posted on 07/22/2003 1:23:12 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Giving Cathryn Crawford The Bird Since 2003)
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To: Lee Heggy
Not to mention an adult bookstore.
22 posted on 07/22/2003 1:24:00 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Lance Romance
I can think of some great guest speakers ... Hugh Sprunt, Terry Reed, Miguel Rodriguez, Jim Norman, Charles Hayes, L.D. Brown, General Bentin Partin, Chris Ruddy, Carl Limbacher, James McDougal (oops, he's dead), Patrick Knowlton, Rom Brown (oops, see James McDougal), Congressman Bob Barr, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Ed Timperlake, Gary Aldrich, Jerry Parks (oops, see Ron Brown). That ought to be a good list for the first week.
23 posted on 07/22/2003 1:24:18 PM PDT by tang-soo
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To: Chad Fairbanks
The difference is, most of the other ex-presidents had the dignity to shut the hell up and butt out of everyting

The difference is, most of the other ex-presidents had the dignity to shut the hell up and butt out of everyting

24 posted on 07/22/2003 1:25:25 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Lance Romance
"The haters don't have to like or agree with Clinton, but they need to acknowledge that only 43 men have done this — reached the pinnacle,"


Yeah, and only two of the 43 have been impeached, Dummy!



25 posted on 07/22/2003 1:25:25 PM PDT by Lockbar
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To: Lockbar
Bubba never reached a pinnacle. The only thing he ever reached was a climax.
26 posted on 07/22/2003 1:26:29 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Quatermass
The one about the running shorts is hilarious.
28 posted on 07/22/2003 1:30:08 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Quatermass
An oldie, but still a goodie....


29 posted on 07/22/2003 1:31:41 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Tagline!)
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30 posted on 07/22/2003 1:32:18 PM PDT by backhoe (DemocRats- dangerous when in power, nutty when not...)
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To: ml/nj
Is it true that Hillary has a wing at the Clinton Liebrery?

I don't know, but if she does, don't give her another one...it scares me when pigs fly.

31 posted on 07/22/2003 1:33:43 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: Lance Romance
Clinton hater? Who they callin' Clinton hater?
32 posted on 07/22/2003 1:34:00 PM PDT by clintonh8r (I hate clinton)
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To: Paul Atreides
ROFL!
33 posted on 07/22/2003 1:34:12 PM PDT by b4its2late (I am a partisan. Part right and the other part right.)
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To: ravingnutter
Is it true that Hillary has a wing at the Clinton Liebrery?

You can bet it will be the left one if she does....

34 posted on 07/22/2003 1:38:09 PM PDT by Aeronaut ("He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool...shun him.")
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To: Quatermass
Can you please make that cartoon larger? It's great, but I can't read all the frames. Thank you.
35 posted on 07/22/2003 1:39:23 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Lance Romance
I think I counted the word "haters" 3 times in this unbiased, middle-of-the-road, and non-political, AP story.
36 posted on 07/22/2003 1:41:14 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Paul Atreides
Nice! wish I had thought of that.
37 posted on 07/22/2003 1:42:02 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Lance Romance
History is history. Telling it like it was is what a museum is supposed to do. It the Clinton supporters don't like it to bad!
38 posted on 07/22/2003 1:43:54 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: finnman69
"The exhibit will also include a full-scale replica of the Oval Office..."

Is Stainman-Slick going to make a semen contribution to the carpet for accuracy sake?

God, that man was/is disgusting!

39 posted on 07/22/2003 1:44:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Kill the evil-doers.)
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To: finnman69
A 110-foot-long Timeline presents a substantive history of the day to day work of the President...

If the timeline were accurate, fellatio would dominate 80% of the bell curve.

40 posted on 07/22/2003 1:48:06 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Kill the evil-doers.)
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