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Posted on 11/19/2001 10:17:01 AM PST by Jean S

There are better titles that could have been used for this essay, but there is a need and intent to keep it simple to facilitate future reference expeditiously.

Consider that in spite of Bill Clinton’s huge pension, somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 thousand annually, and his office allowance of somewhere around $400 to $500 thousand annually, and his half million dollar annual travel allowance, an occasion for a speech might be accepted by him that would preclude reliance on a speech writer. Such services are readily available at taxpayer expense while serving as Resident of the United States, but would now require payment out of his own pocket.

Considering that he is both one of the most educated and intelligent individuals to occupy the Oval Office, and considering his abundant ego, his speech at Georgetown University on November 7th provides an extremely revealing exposure of his personal philosophy, and is in all likelihood, totally of his own creation. And although I credit him with education, a command of history, the fact that he is well read, and among one of the best orators in memory, his inability to unify these marvelous attributes into everyday common sense equating to the basic intellect of the man-on-the street, is nothing short of astonishing and bewildering.

It is therefore incumbent upon me, while verifying my own sanity, to inquire as to the reasons that this former law professor and therefore highly trained expert on the Constitution of the United States, exhibited such a loathing for this the greatest rule of law ever written ensuring governance that preserves and protects individual human freedom. Why would such a man conduct himself and the privileges and responsibilities of his exalted station to so savage this vital document of America’s freedoms? His recent speech at Georgetown, where he was both a student and professor of constitutional law, provides all the answers!

I downloaded a copy of the speech provided at FrontPage.com. I couldn’t believe the fragmented sentences, and logical disconnects and non sequitur arguments. Having seen part of his delivery, my wife and I both noticed his occasional slurred speech. I have on numerous occasions pointed out that Clinton clearly disagrees with the Constitution, and now the reasons why become immediately clear.

As one proceeds through the speech and frequently loses direction, requiring return to a beginning to try to decipher a statement's objective, certain curious redundancies become blatantly obvious. In addition to struggling with connectivity, one notices the incessant repetitions of certain words and phrases. This occurred so often, that I began to circle them with my pen and then count them!

The one word Mr. Clinton uses most is the word "world;" Clinton used this one term 34 times! But if one looks at this conceptually, other words can easily be added to this total. He used the word "global" 11 times, which conceptually totals to 45 times the term is invoked! Comparing this to references regarding the Nation whose Oval Office he occupied, there are 17 references to "America," and only 3 references to "United States." Please keep in mind these counts were only eyeballed, so I could have miscounted here and there. But that last number required a re-look; I stand by it! And as to the references to "America," at least five cites were negative. I spotted 2 references to "nation" and 1 to our "country" - I might have missed a couple. On the other hand, there were 3 references to the "UN."

I think by now you get the picture. Clinton references the "world," "global" and UN a total of 48 times, and refers to our Nation 23 times, five times in a negative sense. Clinton is therefore not only the first "black" president, but sees himself as the World’s first president!

Another one of Clinton’s favorite words is "interdependence." Of all the things Clinton rambles about, nothing is more telling than this statement following his laundry list of global economy, the explosion of information technology, biological science advances, democracy and diversity, global poverty, environmental crisis, health care crisis and terror: "…what do all eight of those things have in common? They all reflect the absolutely breathtaking increase in global interdependence, the extent of which the barriers of nation borders don’t count for much anymore…." I re-direct your attention to the word "barriers," which legitimizes a nation such as ours. That would be the Articles and Amendments of the Constitution of the United States. And that’s something Clinton never mentions at all, along with individual human freedoms and our Declaration of Independence! And keep in mind our current immigration problem relative to terrorism!

As he refrains from mentioning the great attributes of our formerly great Nation, it’s former limitations on government, its former protection of individual freedoms, and our former citizen-participating republic, he does invoke varieties of the term "democracy," as would a third or fourth grader, 13 times. How could an expert on the Constitution fail to make the distinction between a democracy and our former republic?

The stage is now set. We have learned why Clinton, an expert on the Constitution, so thoroughly loathes and despises it; he sees it as a "barrier." And it therefore follows that since our republic sets itself apart from the rest of the world, we are imposing our values upon them because of our horrid self-interest and greed.

As he rambles on about an even greater laundry list of other nations, other peoples, other religions and other continents, he disperses his focus on our greed [capitalism] over many worldly concerns, displaying the need for the efficient redistribution of our wealth! "First, we have to reduce poverty and create more economic opportunity." This is the liberal interpretation of Utopia. We cannot just let people exist in a free market economy that will create wealth for all - we must ram government force down the throats of the economically successful, the greedy, and redistribute wealth to those that didn’t earn it! To wit: "Last year we relieved the debt of the poorest countries. We ought to do more of it, because we only relieved the debt if they would put the money to education, health care, or economic development, to make sure the money wouldn’t be wasted…. We ought to be giving twenty million a year or more."

Mr. Clinton then describes the "work" of some guy named De Soto, whose contribution is validating international private property rights not to generate earnings, capital and wealth, but to encourage collateral building to acquire loans from, you guessed it, our government! That’d be you and me! Are you ready? Here we go: "So De Soto says, he’s going around the world working on every continent saying, look, if you could just let poor people legitimize their assets, then they could get credit and it would be far better than all the foreign aid and foreign investment put together, because they have five trillion dollars worth of stuff."

Clinton observes: "We ought to help this guy to do this project in every country in the world. You ought to hear the history of American property rights. We fought over this for decades. [Have you heard about this?] But you think about it, every one of you that take for granted your family’s home mortgage or car loan or business loan. The reason you can get a car loan is, you can establish title to the car, and it’s an asset worth something so people can loan you money on it. We ought to fund this around the world."

He’s going to establish legislation in every country to assign a value on people’s mud huts and highly flammable shacks that can’t be insured because of the lack of a market, and solve poverty by legislating title to these "assets!" Are you one of those people who take your bills and mortgages and car loans for granted, or do you instead focus your consumptive greed in terms of enjoying the luxury and comfort value these provide? And all you need to get a loan is title? How about a job?

Clinton then goes on to fund schooling for the entire world, including but not limited to, providing a school lunch to each child every day. Clinton’s plan is to entice kids to come to school by feeding them one square meal a day.

Now compare the above proposed spending binge requiring at least a 50,000 % increase in our taxes to this remark he makes later: " …and people have to take some responsibility for themselves…." He points to Egypt’s stabilization due to increased public participation in government, just the opposite of what Clinton suggests via government dictating down to the populace.

One more crowning Clintonurdity [Clinton + absurdity]: "This battle fundamentally is about what you think of the nature of the truth, the value of life, and the content of the community. You’re at a university, which basically believes that no one ever has the whole truth, ever, because you’re human. It’s part of being a human being. It’s part of the limitation put upon us by God. We are incapable of ever having the whole truth." Get the disclaimer here? Since we can’t know the whole truth anyway, what’s the point in telling it? Hence, Clinton’s justification to himself for always lying.

And funding the whole world to alleviate poverty through tax and spend socialism, is better and "a lot cheaper than going to war." Hence, justification for spending on social programs and defunding the military. And we have no need to fear other nations - all we need to do is to get all world governments to "partner" in planning and managing a global economy.

Enough has already been written regarding the Clintonurdities of offering that we are to blame for the terrorist acts of 9-11 because our nation practiced slavery, and our European heritage’s engagement in religious intolerance as carried out in the Crusades. But allow me to inform that Article III, section 3 in the body of the Constitution, precludes Clinton’s blaming bloodlines ["…work corruption of blood…"] as reason to persecute descendants of wrongdoers! You’d think a professor of constitutional law would know that! And this is found in the section concerning punishment for treason!

But the most revealing dimension of Clinton’s un-American rant is found in his next-to-last paragraph starting with: "Remember this is a country that was born in slavery. In my lifetime Martin Luther King was killed just before, a couple of months before I graduated from Georgetown, trying to preach this message. Bobby Kennedy killed two days before our college graduation, trying to preach this message. The greatest spirit of the age, Ghandi, killed not by a mad Muslim but by a Hindu who thought he was a traitor because he thought India could be a home for the Muslims and the Sikhs and the Jains and everybody. Sadat killed not by an Israeli commando, but by the predecessor of the number two guy in Al Quaeda twenty years ago, angry at him…"

These examples are not a mere laundry list of assassinations, but are cited to demonstrate that people in the street can get a gun and shoot a famous political notable, or politician like him! This is precisely why he needs gun control for the law-abiding. They should be venerating the leader and not go off the political deep end and shoot a politician in a mad act of rage!

And in a style true to his best Clintonurdity: "…[W]e have to be smart enough to get rid of our arrogant self-righteousness so that we don’t claim for ourselves things that we deny others." Mr. Clinton is claiming a sizeable pension the rest of us cannot even begin to imagine, while he chooses to attack capitalism to deprive the average American an opportunity to better himself and acquire similar wealth for actually working! And as he enjoys his huge pension derived off the backs of hard working Americans, he feels virtually all our income should be used to pay off our debt to all of humanity for our evil ways, while making him a millionaire for all his dedication, hard work and good deeds achieved for our country and its betterment.

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