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"These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them they go straight to blame," Clinton said in the interview. "Now you know, I didn't blame his father for Somalia ... I didn't do that.

Ah, but you would have if you could have, you mendacious little c#*ks%@k&r. But you can't, because you know that it's just another one of your lies. And as Christopher Hitchens rightly said of you, there's "...no one left to lie to."

By the time he took office, the food aid mission to Somalia was winding down. It officially ended along about April of 1993, iirc. Then a bunch of UN people got ambushed by Mohammed Farah Aidid's "technicals", and Clinton sent in the Rangers without the armor to back them up. The daylight ambush of the Rangers in October of that year was the inevitable result. He did this. That's why the father of a Medal of Honor winner refused to shake his hand at the awards ceremony.

Bill Clinton cannot escape his past. As an historian, I know this to be an ironclad truth. In his autobiography, Bill Clinton may be his own best hero. In the pages of history, however, Clinton will get an altogether different treatment.

A more narcissitic, selfish little man has never held the Presidency, at least to my knowledge.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Oh, and one last thing while I am on a rant. The White House response was perfect. They refused to get into a food fight with Bubba. Rather, they used aikido and "bent as a reed in the wind". Pointing out that they would rather not engage in partisan rhetoric, the White House deftly informed the public that they would rather look forward than backward.

The gentle scolding of Bluto was spot-on. It's like pulling the fangs out of an attacking mountain lion with one deft stroke.

Very well done on the White House's part. It is to their credit that they recognize that all Billy wants is a fight so he can act as the champion of his party. When Bluto doesn't get to fight, he doesn't get to play the self-pitying victim or the "Comeback Kid". What the White House did was akin to capturing Saddam Hussein with a squad of female Military Police. No Martyrdom for Billy!

The humiliation of it all!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

I'm pretty up to snuff about what happened in Somalia, good job btw, what I would like to hear more about,

"And one of the people who stopped our attempt to stop Enron accounting was made chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ( news - web sites)," Clinton said. "That is a fact; an indisputable fact."

Anybody?

Bill Clinton cannot escape his past. As an historian, I know this to be an ironclad truth. In his autobiography, Bill Clinton may be his own best hero. In the pages of history, however, Clinton will get an altogether different treatment.

Unless the biographer is plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin. For the future, I hope that some objective, balanced political historians will be out there, and that they all won't be products of left-wing university history departments.

Well, but.....Clinton is single handedly restoring the reputation of Warren Gameliel Harding if only by comparison....that at least is something.

Regards,

And as Christopher Hitchens rightly said of you, there's "...no one left to lie to."

As this Time article shows, David Schippers first coined the phrase........

But no Republican, not even Ken Starr, cut through the President's mortar as efficiently as David Schippers, a Democrat hired by Hyde as majority counsel. In an angry, sarcastic and merciless presentation delivered in a penetrating Chicago twang, Schippers drilled holes in Clinton's words, deeds and character, arguing that the President had lied repeatedly under oath, obstructed justice by helping Lewinsky get a job and encouraged everyone around him to do the same. "He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the U.S. There's no one left to lie to."