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Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush
News Max ^ | 9/3/2002 | Staff

Posted on 09/02/2002 7:59:36 AM PDT by ex-Texan

Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush

More evidence that ex-president Clinton is actively working behind the scenes to undermine President Bush emerged this weekend, with the revelation that the wording of a caustic attack on Bush delivered by Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe last month was personally reviewed and approved of by the ex-president ahead of time.

"Ever the master political strategist, Clinton also regularly dispenses advice to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, his longtime friend," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday.

"Before McAuliffe delivered a blistering attack on the Bush administration's economic policies last month, the party chairman had Clinton review the speech," the paper added.

The Clinton-orchestrated McAuliffe address, delivered at the party's Las Vegas convention on Aug. 10, raised eyebrows for the harshness of its rhetoric, which included the claim that the Bush White House had cynically tried to manipulate the 9-11 tragedy for political advantage.

The next day the Washington Post reported:

"Although Democrats once claimed to stand 'shoulder-to-shoulder' with Bush on the war, McAuliffe threw away that script by accusing the president of using 'September's tragedy to explain away' the reappearance of federal budget deficits and saying that Bush had 'cynically made 9/11 the cornerstone of the Republican strategy for 2002.'"

In his Clinton approved address, McAuliffe also skewered the Bush economic record, telling the Las Vegas crowd, "Every time this economic team opens its mouth, markets shudder, currencies collapse and Americans watch their 401(k)s dwindle."

The Clinton-McAuliffe speech even attacked Bush on the scandal front, signaling that the ex-president has no qualms raising ethical questions about opponents despite his own record of wall-to-wall scandal while in office, not to mention his repeated disavowals of "the politics of personal destruction."

"To paraphrase a Republican hero, Mr. President, tear down this stonewall," McAullife railed, in reference to Bush's refusal to approve the release of records from the Security and Exchange Commission's probe into his old oil company Harken Energy.

Another campaign message pushed by Clinton is beginning to creep into the campaign rhetoric of Democrats, the Journal-Constitution said; that a Democratic majority in Congress is the best "check" on the Bush White House.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton touted the importance of a congressional check on Bush on Friday, as she described her visit to U.S. soldiers injured in Afghanistan who were recovering at Washington's Walter Reed Medical Center.

With her husband at her side, Clinton told a crowd at the New York State Fair that President Bush should seek congressional approval before launching an attack on Iraq that could result in more U.S. casualties.

"I have personal faces I can put on this debate, and I want to be sure that the president comes with his arguments and information and evidence and that we debate it, and then as a nation we'll stand behind the decision," Mrs. Clinton advised.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: arkansastrash; billclinton; clinton; clintonattacksbush; mcauliffe; strategysession; strategysessions; terrymcauliffe; thedirtbagisback
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To: varon
We are talking about someone who used influence to avoid the risks associated with military. A man who's ventures into the private sector were all unprofitable, unethical and/or criminal. His tenure in public life is marred with no successes and monumental disaster, but he left others to clean up after him. To dodge responsibility for the damage he caused he simply lies and calls failure success. He never was held accountable for his despicable behavior. It twists the mind to think that the truth is unknown to so many.
61 posted on 09/02/2002 9:53:32 AM PDT by Theyknow
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To: tomkat
i'd wager there's at least one patriot out there unwilling to allow that to happen ...

Truer words were never spoken...........

62 posted on 09/02/2002 9:54:37 AM PDT by varon
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To: connectthedots
Indict McAuliff, already. He is worse than any corporate bigwig when it comes to committing fraud afgainst stockholders and he did it for political reasons as well.

28 posted on 9/2/02 9:07 AM Pacific by connectthedots

I suspect that if the Arkansas Hillbillies continue with the smear campaign, Global Crossing and Terry McAufful will undergo EXTREME Investigation for Insider Trading, Stock Malipulation and Illegal Loans. Terry may soon learn what being a close friend of the Clintoons is all about. I say keep running your mouth Terry and soon you will be broke and wearing a Jump Suit much Like Mr. McDougal wore! Of course that is all IF GW allows it.

63 posted on 09/02/2002 9:54:57 AM PDT by Area51
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To: umgud
Even Hillary wouldn't be so stupid to give WJC that much motivation to have her killed.
64 posted on 09/02/2002 9:55:35 AM PDT by justshe
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To: justshe
I made the same arguemnent several months ago.
65 posted on 09/02/2002 9:56:37 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Area51
Even if Congress won't investigate Global Crossings, the SEC has started its' own investigation. I seriously doubt this is a coinky dink.
66 posted on 09/02/2002 9:59:08 AM PDT by justshe
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To: ex-Texan
Clinton Orchestrated McAuliffe Attack on Bush.

I doubt that even if scumbag read my statement he could care less about what I think, since he now belongs to the ages, he's still the most arrogant and foul human being since Hitler, Togo, Stalin and 'fill in the blanks'.

I still get a lot of enjoyment repeating in a public forum, where there are many other Patriots, how I feel about him and that old woman that is laughingly referred to as his "wife".

67 posted on 09/02/2002 9:59:20 AM PDT by VOYAGER
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To: ex-Texan
GWBump
68 posted on 09/02/2002 10:03:44 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: ex-Texan
Ever the master political strategist, Clinton also regularly dispenses advice to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, his longtime friend

It's no secrect that McAuliffe remains Clinton's slave, he does what he's told. Clinton is drowning in his battle for a legacy and "attempts" such as this are efforts to improve the feeble odds. McAuliffe is putting the gun to his own party for donations as a way around soft money limitations and deflecting Gore's biggest donors to the party for Hillary in 2004. Now he's in Vegas trying to convince the world that 9/11 was Bush's fault.

69 posted on 09/02/2002 10:21:18 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: umgud
Can Bill constitutionally run as VP on the same ticket with Hillary? Would she allow him to thinking he might cement her chance to become prez?

Cripes!! I hope not. My blood ran cold when I thought of it.

70 posted on 09/02/2002 10:28:18 AM PDT by cardinal4
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To: Libertina
Libertina said: Still breaking every rule of presidential decorum - par for the course. Oh how I wish the people in his state had been able to warn us and that Perot hadn't been such an *ss. Oh well, we're in the fight now.

The good folks in Arkansas did try to warn us Libertina, however our liberial news media wouldn't show what they were saying and what all had happened in Ark.

The only way their voices were heard was from "talk radio". They were telling about klinton using drugs and his brother Roger...about all his women...(Gennifer Flowers was telling about klinton telling her to lie about their affair & she told of all his other women)...we knew about folks that turned up dead who knew to much about the klintons...

Here's just a few of the things we knew about before he was elected...thanks to "talk radio" and the local folks:

They said the only good thing about him running for President was he wouldn't be thier Governor anymore.

(1) Conspired with David Hale and Jim McDougal to defraud the Small Business Administration of $300,000.

(2) Used State Police for personal purposes.

(3) Abused his position as governor to extort sexual favors from employees.

(4) Directed State Police to fabricate incriminating evidence against political opponents: Steve Clark, Terry Reed, and Larry Nichols.

(5) Knew about drug importation and distribution by a friend and campaign contributor, Dan Lasater.

(6) Allowed drug money to be laundered through ADFA.

(7) Appointed and protected Arkansas Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak who repeatedly obstructed justice by declaring murders as "suicides" or "accidents...like the boys on the railroad tracks!"

(8) Has never accounted for his actions during 40 days behind the Iron Curtain during the Vietnam War.

We heard all about this from the good folks that had been scammed:

Excerpt from "Partners in Power", Roger Morris, Page 376

Advertising in publications like Mother Earth News and targeting low-income retirees and senior citizens looking for pleasant rural property to live out their years, the Clintons and McDougals always made a point of offering what seemed to first glance the most attractive terms. "Poor man's real estate financing", as a local lawyer called it, the deals appeared to be the Whitewater application of Diamond Jim's "populist banking" or Bill Clinton's own perennial claim to be a champion of consumers.

Elderly couples on fixed incomes might buy lots for low or token down payments, with no credit checks or appraisals and only modest monthly installments at low interest. Many did just that.

They were generally retired blue-collar workers from Texas, Missouri, or Oklahoma, as well as Arkansas, husbands and wives planning to build a small fishing cottage or a place where grandchildren could come.

Commonly they used the bulk of their savings for money down and barely scraped together monthly payments. It was they who provided much of the $300,000 that Whitewater collected in lot sales between 1979 and the summer of 1990. But what began as a modest dream often ended in painful nightmare.

Behind the Whitewater advertising lure was the fine print of a harshly punitive real estate contract. If the elderly buyers defaulted on their monthly installments for more than thirty days they found that all their previous payments were classified merely as "rent" and that they had no equity in the land AT ALL, regardless of how much they had put down or paid in.

The results could be devastating. Clyde Soapes, a grain-elevator operator from Texas, put $3,000 down and faithfully made 35 montly payments of $244.69 to the Clintons and McDougals, altogether just short of the $14,000 price of the lot. When he fell desperately ill in 1987, however, he could no longer make his payments and quickly lost the land and all his previous investment.

Soapes was a typical case. More than half those who bought Whitewater lots from the future president, his wife, and their extravagant partners would lose their land and all their equity payments. Partial records showed at least 16 different buyers paying in more than $50,000 and never receiving property deeds.

Meanwhile Whitewater carried on a flourishing traffic in repossessions and resales, selling some lots over and over when aged buyers faltered or when someone else simply came along and unilaterally bought out the purchasers and took the land by completing the payments.

Typically, Clyde Soapes's planned fishing retreat was resold to a couple from Nevada for $16,500, then taken back again after only a few payments, and resold to yet other buyers - all for the same middling but pitiless profit wrung from the struggling and the old. "That is clearly not a very consumer-oriented method of selling at all", an American Bar Association real estate expert would say.

Others were less delicate. "They screwed people left and right", said a local businessman who watched the sales.

"Taking advantage of a bunch of poor old folks on a land deal ... The future President and the First Lady. That ought to be the REAL Whitewater scandal".

We never heard anything about these things from ABC....NBC....or CBS...who should have been reporting on all the dirty dealings happening in Arkansas!!

71 posted on 09/02/2002 10:30:49 AM PDT by Ready2go
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To: hflynn
I pray to God you are right.

Red

72 posted on 09/02/2002 10:31:07 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever
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To: Geezerette
"I have always believed that the clintons are tools of the Devil. They are completely possessed and have demonic power and protection that boggles the mind!!"

Unfortunately, the power they wield was given to them, by ourselves. The American electorate foolishly let these craven criminals into office. The Clintons have cynically manipulated law and the system in their grasping for power and to escape justice.

Now it is up to us to end their reign of corruption. The demonic element is their lack of ethics and conscience, and their ultimate agenda. We must fight them harder than they can abuse their office and position with the public. They have given us the means to do this, we must continue to make ALL of the Clinton scandals and crimes common knowledge, and thereby necessarily disobey Bush's admonitions to adopt a "new tone." The Clintons must forever be branded with the lies, fraud, corruption, and Federal crimes they have committed. We are doing our part here to make sure knowledge of those crimes remains widely publicized, and must continue to do so until they are no longer a threat.

73 posted on 09/02/2002 10:35:58 AM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: ex-Texan
Henceforth, any article mentioning Terry McAuliffe, should have his name xxed out and Clinton's name substituted or added on. If it's done often enough and also used in any mention of McAuliffe,on talk radio-the connection might start to resonate.Clinton has such parasitic qualities-microbiologits should name their newest amoeba after him.
74 posted on 09/02/2002 10:36:04 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: austingirl
Possessing the largest egos known to man and seemingly having non-Divine protection, I fear for our country if they remain in government.

Even Hitler's luck ran out after a while.

(steely)

75 posted on 09/02/2002 10:36:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: larry h
Clinton is determined to get back into the White House by any means necessary.

Remember the movie Seconds? Using that technique, he can replace any President-elect, Democrat or Republican, who resembles him in any way and serve out two more terms. He won't even have to campaign.

76 posted on 09/02/2002 10:40:02 AM PDT by Consort
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To: wife-mom
IMO, Bush has nobody but himself to blame for what Bill and Hillary! are doing to him and to us.

I agree...if Bush wanted to play a little hardball he could easily have both Clintons scurrying for their rat holes. (No offense to rats intended)

77 posted on 09/02/2002 10:40:51 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: ex-Texan
Imagine this dirty witch visiting injured soldiers and then exploiting them AGAINST their Commander in Chief.
78 posted on 09/02/2002 10:43:11 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: sibb1213
Do you really think conservatives will sit at home and not vote in 2004 when they KNOW what the alternative to Bush is? I essentially did that and I'll never do it again. I voted for Perot in protest and look what we got. And now we have that same corrupt man who "won" on 43% of the vote that first time commiting treason by underminding the leadership of his country all over the world. And the media helps him along with the project. If core Republicans despise Bush and his so-called moderate approach so much, maybe they could help him along by giving him a more conservative Congress...NOT by dumping him thru' their votes for Brown or Buchanan or not voting at all and ending up with Little Tommy or Queen Hillary as our dictators in the White House.
79 posted on 09/02/2002 10:44:21 AM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: rdb3
Bush Senior said nothing when he was out of office. That dignity helped W. become president. I think the Democrats are making fools of themselves with their vicious attacks.

Hillary lusts for more power. It shows. I doubt whether she will get much farther than a run at 2008. We should not relax our guard but I think she is fading already. She is in the Senate and they know how to shoulder someone aside. Look at how Dole made her husband look like a cheap suit. Nothing was obvious. Dole even said nice things about her, but the Democrat program went nowhere in the Senate until the enthronement of Trent Lott, a "movement conservative."
80 posted on 09/02/2002 10:44:56 AM PDT by Chemnitz
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