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You caught me again.
clinton:
"There isn't a shred of evidence..." ---from
DECLARATION
OF SONYA STEWART The
president, still suffering from a raspy voice, and
ordered by his doctor to rest his vocal chords,
carried a briefcase as he strolled to the waiting
helicopter to return to Camp David. He wore a leather
jacket and was followed by an aide
... Clinton
reviewing inaugural plans, Helen Thomas,
29-NOV-1996
15.
Mr. Grafeld told me, referring to Judicial Watch's
allegations that Commerce Department trade mission
seats were sold in exchange for campaign
contributions, that "(Judicial Watch Chairman and
General Counsel) Klayman is right on target"
but
that he believes that the trade mission issues were
"only the tip of the iceberg -- that the really big
money went towards Presidential access."
Mr.
Grafeld indicated to me that he believes that Ms. Moss
was asking for political contributions in exchange for
seats on Commerce Department trade missions, likely
at the direction of Hillary Rodham Clinton,
In fact, there were effectively no security procedures
at the Commerce Department to ensure that sensitive
and secret documents and/or any documents which might
evidence criminal activity stayed in the building. The
purported letters referenced by Mr. Grafeld and
Nolanda Hill could easily have "left the building"
absent sufficient procedures to secure them.
WASHINGTON,
Nov. 29 (UPI) -- President Clinton [upon
the discovery of the body of Barbara Wise in the
Commerce Department offices] briefly
interrupted his Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Camp
David Friday with a quick trip to the White House to
gather data...and then returned to the mountaintop
retreat.
connect the dots, Helen...
My name is not Helen. LOL
(Why else
would a REPUBLICAN donate a fortune to
Democrats?)
That line about Denise Rich was one that was another treasure-trove for us word parsers: "As far as I know, the Rich's are Republicans!" As far as he knew? Geeesh! Note that he did NOT say that he thinks they really are Republicans, just that the possibility exists that he thought that perhaps they were. What a bunch of dopes he must think we are...
Hey, add this to your list of delightful phrases...I'd live to see what Mia does with it!
Nixon: "I am not a crook."
Clinton: "There is not a shred of evidence that I am a crook."
"When you strip away the clinton "infrastructure" (clinton's own term as per Geraldo), what you have left are two rather stupid, shopworn, supercilious rubes".
I love that.
HE HAS TO WAIT TO GATHER THE FACTS! HE'S NEVER SURE WHAT LIES TO MAKE UP!
Big ol' BUMPTTT!
Can somebody post that David Brinkley election nite comment again? It seems appropriate to this thread ....
Of all the offenses these grifters have committed, the one which has so bugged me, each and every time, has been the way they treated everyone else as stupid and uncomprehending. And the thing which bugged me most after that, was being told these stupid people were "brilliant."
Whenever I have heard that in person, I have always asked for one -- just one -- witty thing either of them has ever said, or one trenchant insight, one act which demonstrated true cleverness (not criminal "cunning"). No one has ever been able to provide me with an example.
Ditto for the claim that the Adolescent Sociopath is "charming." Where oh where is there a shred of evidence for THAT claim?
Have their adulators EVER heard these people speak? They always and everywhere have sounded like two nitwits far far in over their heads. Has either one ever delievered anything approaching even an acceptable speech, from an intellectual or spiritual point of view? To the contrary, their incoherence was always evident in everything they said.
These are two not very bright people. That has been apparent since 1991. The secret of their "brilliance" has been their easy resort to fraudulence of every stripe, and a Soviet media unwilling and apparently intellectually incapable of exercising even marginal analytic ability in examining any of the myriad imbecilities uttered by these people.
I think you mean this. ;)
Paul
Greenberg,
The
man is an artist: He's
not
just
'Slick Willie' anymore Rumor has it
William Jefferson Clinton himself is to recite Honest
Abe's lines in this New Year's Eve pageant. Whoever
writes these scripts has a natural talent for irony. For
some irrepressible reason, one cannot help but think of
that costume party in "The Manchurian Candidate,''
complete with Red Queen and Abe Lincoln in stovepipe hat
and fake beard. Hillary Clinton
says it's a great opportunity to unite the nation. (The
way she's united New York?) But the Clintons are never so
polarizing as when they are intent on uniting us. How can
that be? Maybe it's their perfectly fabricated
authenticity. The Nineties have had much the same effect,
stirring the same vague dissatisfactions -- and sparking
sudden outbursts of temper. What was it that poor,
embarrassed David Brinkley, thinking his mike was off,
said after the president's victory speech in '96: "We all
look forward with great pleasure to four years of
wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry,
music, love and affection, plus more goddam nonsense.''
Hey,
what
a
party!
New
Year's at the White
House
by
Mia T John Podhoretz
recently asked, "Whence
comes hillary clinton's reputation for
brilliance?"
For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in
fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the
first time she's shot herself in the foot." The above
anatomical analysis supports the Podhoretz thesis.
Notwithstanding The Pod's erroneous conclusions
concerning Ian Hunter
recently observed that our leaders are shrinking.
"From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret
Thatcher) to a Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton;
from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to
Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by
pygmies." The pols
understand their anatomical limitations well; they
attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer
mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. .
. and
rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy. With all the
media genuflecting before the press-conference podium
of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the
clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than
AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive
ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its
utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its
lack of analytic precision, its lack of
depth. The clintons'
fundamental error: They are too arrogant and
dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in
this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads;
it's about not discounting circumambient
brains. Politicos
and reporters are not rocket scientists . .
. Professions
tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous
subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects
(especially these days) do not generally gravitate
towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre,
power-obsessed types with poor self-images
do. Thus, clinton
mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media
mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from
the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar
as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form
with substance, smoothness with coherence,
data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed
recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic
degeneracy with creativity. Jimmy
Breslin
agrees. In
Hillary
Is the 'Me-First'
Lady,
Breslin laments: In seven years,
they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable
word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I
did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms.
Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of
'is' is." Even the
clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare
Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism"
with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent,
one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt
self-descriptiveness notwithstanding). Before they
destroy their backs along with their reputations,
media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton
brain should consider Edith
Efron's, Can
the President Think? A
wasted
brain
is a terrible thing.
hillary clinton's heart
and nerve, he basically has it right. Anatomy is
destiny...
clinton hunt-and-peck
LOL, Clinton's always been a huntin' pecker....
I saw a sign on the way home from work one night and it said, "You can't walk with God and hold hands with Satan at the same time." I sometimes wonder about the clintoons, but I don't think God wants to walk with no clintons no how, but Satan sure loves these two clintoons.
Mia, thanks for the articles ... all of which were brilliant and of course (along with your comments) expressed far more eloquently what I was trying to say.
I must say, tho, it has been a continuing source of astonishment to me since 1991 to hear real, live, actual people tell me in my presence how "brilliant" these people were, and it probably accounts for why I started out with great blood pressure and now it is high/normal. People who otherwise in fact were intelligent, took all leave of their intellect and proclaimed these people "brilliant," and it NEVER mattered that they could not come up with a single example of the brilliance, whereas examples of their stupidity rained down day after day.
(Actually, I converted one Clinton defender who works with me. I wore him down with the daily examples of the stupidity, and he had the integrity to see how true it was. Now he comes to MY office with examples of the laughable incoherence of these grifters, and we DO laugh at the breathtaking idiocy of them -- not to be confused with their breathtaking mendacity and breathtaking fraudulence, which are stupid in a separate way).
The articles you post focus on the Adoescent Sociopath and his death-eating companion, but I want to know WHY WHY WHY so many people regard these people as "brilliant?" I have heard from conservatives comments like, "Well, you have to admit that whatever else they are, they are superintelligent." HUHHHHHHHHH??????????
What possesses people to abandon their eyes and ears and brain cells when it comes to these people? A truly, actual "brilliant" friend of mine claims it can only be diabolical, literally satanic. I dont think he's kidding (well ....) That explanation seems as good as any other, it is so mind-boggling.
Is it just a matter of ideological persuasion? No. (See above comment regarding conservatives, a situation I have also seen in conservative publications). Stupidity? No ... smart people say they are "brilliant."
To some extent it might be explained by the widespread but ridiculous American equation of degrees and elite universities with intelligence ... but it HAS to be more than that. Couldnt people make that common mistake and say these criminals were merely "smart" (which they are not) as opposed to "brilliant?"
We all know the criminality was understood perfectly by the liberals (except maybe Eleanor Clift), who pretended it was not criminality so they could save their precious little right to kill babies. THAT is understandable. THAT is mere dissembling. THAT'S just politics (as sleazy and dishonorable as it is).
But folks actually BELIEVE these two babbling idiots, who have achieved nothing, who are hollow to the core both spiritually and intellectually, who have never had an original thought, folks ACTUALLY believe these people are "brilliant."
In life, we all must allow others their little illusions sometimes, work with them, try to understand them. But the "brilliance" of these criminals is a mass delusion which deserves careful study, and I fear what it might reveal.
Way back in '92, the Pres. of the League of Women Voters, who moderated (at least one of) the presidential debates (and who also happens to be a professor of political science at a northeast university) was telling me what a brilliant, amazing person this clinton person was. I told her then that she was very wrong...
Even in 2000, when I wrote "Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy," the people around me, hardly clintophiles, humored me with a lukewarm response...
Tonight on Hardball, Howard Feinman and Chris Matthews still talk of clinton 'brilliance' even as they dissect clinton stupidity, Feinman inserting Nietzsche to lend heft to both the clinton brain (such as it is) and his argument.
Another point...On Hardball, only Stuart Taylor called it as it is: STUPIDITY.
Talking about stupidity, that Tamara Edwards reporter from Time comes very close...All she could manage was a lament about poor hillary, the victim once again...and just when she was embarking on a new career...Can this woman really be that dense?
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