Posted on 04/04/2002 4:57:14 AM PST by kattracks
Poor, persecuted Bill Clinton. So misunderstood. Everybody's always picking on him.<!ENDSUMM!>
Take that pardon of accused tax evader Marc Rich, a fugitive from justice, which was granted (along with 176 others) just hours before Clinton left the presidency in January last year. The ex-wife of this commodities trader (who was also accused of illegally trading oil with the people holding American hostages in Iran in 1979) just happened to have given hundreds of thousands of dollars toward the library to house Clinton's presidential papers. The pardon is the subject of federal and congressional investigations.
Clinton now tells Newsweek magazine the pardon was ``terrible politics'' and ``wasn't worth the damage to my reputation.'' There ``wasn't a shred of evidence that it had been done for any improper motive.'' He was angry that he got ``mugged one more time on the way out the door.''
Clinton hasn't learned a thing, and frankly his schtick is so predictable it's getting to be less infuriating than boring. Every decision is political, justified by how it is perceived, not by what is right, expedient or prudent. Nothing can be said straightforwardly; everything is cast in lawyer-lingo of what evidence is available. (Which always brings up: What is he hiding?) And any criticism of what he has done has no connection with the deed but arises from the malice of his opponents.
The man sounds like he's still campaigning - for a hug from Oprah
That's because he had the paper shredder working on overtime.
....Which is why I hope he keeps flapping his lips in self-serving Newsweek interviews. I love the fact that he keeps repeating his lies and putting his moral bankruptcy on display for all to see.
Apparently he's never heard the axiom, "When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging."
Brilliant observation! Very true.
I love how greedy these idealistic 60's types are and how they lecture Republicans on Enron greed. Ridiculous.
And for once, he actually has told the truth. He regrets it because he perceives it to have tarnished his "legacy." He doesnt regret it because it was wrong and inexcusable.
As he carried stolen paintings and furniture from the White House.
Bill Clinton: Scandal Man Walking.
That in itself is a laugh.
Still beating Clinton: Gary Aldrich explains why 'permanent right wing' won't quit
and
The Rube Goldberg Clinton Rehabilitation Project by Ann Coulter
Why this curious formulation? I think they know their supporters are either brain dead, or indifferent to the reality of their wrongdoing. They are supplying a phrase to their supporters to be repeated. It is third party defenders who would respond to allegations by saying "it hasn't been proven," not the parties directly charged.
So the Clintons, with their mastery of propaganda skills, are just supplying phrases that can be repeated by those who wish to defend them, not seriously trying to defend themselves. They are trying to take advantage of the phenomenon once referred to by one of their supporters - a lie repeated often enough becomes truth: a statement truly worthy of the late Dr. Joseph Goebbels. They are mounting the only defense they can: multiple repitions by supporters of the false statement "there is no proof" will leave the generally uninformed public with some vague recollection that true charges were somehow in dispute, and therefore can be ignored as uncertain - even though no refutation was ever supplied, only a general inapposite statement, a false statement, that "nothing was proven."
Does he also regret pardoning the Puerto Rican terrorists?
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