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MILLIONS of Americans despise Bill Clinton. They have done so since he became a presence in national politics in the early 1990's, and they continue to do so today, more than four years after his retirement from public office. The passion of the Clinton haters is a phenomenon without equal in recent American politics. It is not based on any specific policies that Clinton promoted or implemented during his years in office. It is almost entirely personal. In its persistence and intensity, it goes far beyond anything that comparable numbers of people have felt about Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan or...

I have created a public register of "bump lists" here on Free Republic. I define a bump list as a name listed in the "To" field used to index articles. Free Republic Bump List Register

WASHINGTON (July 13) - The Democratic National Committee released on Tuesday its lineup of the big-name politicians speaking at the convention this month, and it included every major Democratic star except one. There were Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, near the top of the list. Al Gore was there, too, and so was Edward M. Kennedy. Even the wife of the Iowa governor made the cut. But Hillary Rodham Clinton, the junior senator from New York and one of the most prominent names in the party, was nowhere to be found. That caught the attention of many Democrats, who wondered...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001847694_satrdr31.htmlThe never-ending storyBy Max AlbertSpecial to The TimesIt seems some Democrats are these days blinded by fury, steering off the leftward cliff. "Gore Won in Florida!" bellows the Democratic National Committee's Terry McAuliffe; Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean wonders aloud if the president knew about 9-11 beforehand; and the mob clamors to burn (oil services provider) Halliburton at the stake for the unforgivable sin of charging for its services. Good grief, what ails these people? Never mind all the ballot reviews proving Gore would've lost whatever the decision of the courts to which he went running. Surely, they can't...

In the bleak midwinter, Bill Clinton sits in the two-story garage out back, kneading memory into history. He scribbles his memoirs in longhand on legal pads, poring over notes and transcripts of his White House years. For the moment, this deadline is more pressing than raising money for India's earthquake victims or promoting peace in Northern Ireland or touring Miami nightclubs with Julio Iglesias. It is also lit by the incandescent question of the 2004 primary campaign: What does it mean to be a Democrat anymore? Having lost the White House and five straight House elections, does the party...

Some of Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean's worst campaign gaffes have followed briefings by former Clinton administration officials who were sought out by the Vermont Democrat to tutor him on foreign policy. In August, Dean's campaign staff turned to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who conducted a six-hour "private class" for the Vermont Democrat on Middle East issues, reported the Boston Globe in Sunday editions. A few weeks later, Dean caused an uproar by suggesting Israel and the Palestinians should be treated in an "evenhanded" way, the paper noted. After that blunder, President Clinton began personally advising the Vermont...

Private Eye May Have Eavesdropped On DA, Police LOS ANGELES -- Federal agents are keeping District Attorney Steve Cooley in the dark about their wiretapping probe targeting former celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano, it was reported Thursday. Pellicano, now imprisoned for illegally possessing explosives, may have eavesdropped on at least two deputy district attorneys, a Los Angeles police detective and an alleged rape victim, sources close to the wiretapping investigation told the Los Angeles Times. Cooley, who said he was not privy to details of the probe, said criminal investigations could have been compromised. "Such illegal wiretapping puts lives of...

THE Year was 1979. The place was Arkansas, teeming with big hair bimbos, corrupt prison guards, and Brubaker. A young, rising liberal Governor was determined to remold the state in his image. But his eagerness to pursue his activist agenda would lead him to bite off more than he could chew, and imbibe in him a bitter political lesson. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton III angered state leaders when he increased automobile license plate fees and challenged powerful timber and utilities interests. His heavy-handed leadership style led to his biggest political defeat in 1980, when Arkansas voters did not reelect...

Al Jazeera is giving prominent coverage to the treasonous behavior by the Monica-wannabe in a pantsuit. The report below highlights the remarks of both the dwarf from Rhode Island (Jack Reed) as well as the Thighmaster from Westchester. **************************************************************************** Hillary Clinton urges slower handoverby Saturday 29 November 2003 11:33 AM GMT US senator with an Iraqi civilian working for the US army Senator Hillary Clinton says President Bush is moving too fast to transfer power to the Iraqis by July. "It's going to take more time than has been allotted for the process to take hold," the New York Democrat...

<p>ACCUSING Michael Jackson of sexual abuse comes with a hefty price tag.</p> <p>A decade after shocking the world with allegations in 1993 that he was molested by the bizarro superstar, the lives of a California man and his relatives remain a living hell.</p>

Man Implicates Seagal and Pellicano in Probe Fri Nov 22, 8:34 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man charged with threatening a reporter who was investigating an alleged Mafia extortion plot against Steven Seagal told an FBI informant the actor was behind the threat, court documents show. Alexander Proctor allegedly said in secretly recorded conversations that he was hired to carry out the threat by Anthony Pellicano, a private detective to the stars. FBI agents said Proctor told the informant Seagal hired Pellicano to threaten Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch. "He wanted to make it look like the...

Actor Steven Seagal has been linked to threats directed at a Los Angeles Times reporter investigating the action star's relationship to a Mafia figure, according to federal court records. The explosive allegation is contained in an October 17 FBI affidavit filed in support of a government bid to search the Los Angeles home of Alexander Proctor, a 59-year-old ex-con who has been charged with threatening Times writer Anita Busch. The 21-page FBI affidavit--a key excerpt of which you'll find below [SEE LINK]--alleges that Proctor told a bureau informant (in tape-recorded conversations) that Seagal hired him through Anthony Pellicano, a noted...

Hollywood is buzzing over "investigator-to-the-stars" private eye Anthony Pellicano, who copped a plea earlier this year after the FBI caught him with a draw full of hand grenades and, in the words of one agent, enough plastique explosive to "take out a 747." But Left Coast celebs may not be the only folks currently losing sleep over Pellicano - especially since news broke late last week that he had the habit of illegally wiretapping the targets of his investigations. Besides causing trouble for headliners like Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner and dozens of other stars, Pellicano's tapes could easily...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 — Anthony Pellicano, the celebrated private investigator who has worked for celebrities like Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise, is expected to surrender to the authorities on Monday to begin a jail term for possessing illegal weapons. But Mr. Pellicano will hardly disappear from public view. Mr. Pellicano is the star player in an unfolding Hollywood drama involving reported illegal wiretaps that may give him the kind of fame reserved for the clients he has represented in a 20-year career in the entertainment business. Almost daily, new names surface in connection with a grand jury...

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Newly declassified documents show that President Bill Clinton personally approved the transfer to China of advanced space technology that can be used for nuclear combat. The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation-hardened chipsets to China. The specialized chips are necessary for fighting a nuclear war......

Sunday, Sep. 21, 2003The General Jumps In Wes Clark has launched a presidential bid that has a four-star luster. But is the antiwar general prepared for this kind of battle? ByKAREN TUMULTY Wesley Clark was top of his class at West Point, a Rhodes scholar, a decorated four-star general and the man who humbled Slobodan Milosevic when Clark was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. But if he made any impression at all on many Americans, it happened after he retired and found stardom on cnn as one of the smoothest and most antiwar of the corps of generals turned...

[ Home ] [ Up ] [ Bush: Job Ratings ] [ Bush: Favorability ] <![if lt IE 4]> <![endif]> President Bush: Job RatingsAll data are from nationwide surveys of Americans 18 & older. Polls listed chronologically. Gallup Poll and CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll . "Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?" Approve Disap- prove Don't Know % % % N 8/25-26/03 59 37 4 1,009 8/4-6/03 60 36 4 1,003 7/25-27/03 58 38 4 1,006 7/18-20/03 59 38 3 1,003 7/7-9/03 62 34 4 1,006 6/27-29/03 61 36 3 1,003 6/12-15/03 63 33 4 1,006 6/9-10/03 62 34 4 1,029...

<p>We're not making this one up, folks. In a video snippet you can play for yourself on the NY1 News Web site (www.ny1.com1), Hillary Rodham Clinton accuses the Bush White House of "a cover-up at the highest level."</p> <p>"What transpired in the White House?" an angry Mrs. Clinton asked this week from the steps of New York's City Hall. "I know a little bit about how White Houses work. I know somebody picked up a phone, somebody got on a computer, somebody sent an e-mail, somebody called for a meeting, somebody, probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain, told the EPA, 'Don't tell the people of New York the truth,' and I want to know who that is."</p>

I want to kick off a grass-roots movement to educate and inform discerning Democrats about the real nature of their party and am soliciting suggestions from Freepers. The reasons I am doing this are several, as listed below: * I have several conservative Democrat friends who have always voted D, but who disagree with the stance of their party on issues like AA, tax-cuts, and regulations. * These people do not understand that regardless of the "moderate" local Dem candidate they vote for, the party agenda is driven in Congress by an extremely liberal faction of the party. * Case...

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, paused for a moment in the Senate chamber yesterday to contemplate the vote on the judicial appointment of Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff — once a vocal member of her "vast right-wing conspiracy."</p>

Former White House consigliere James Carville inadvertently admitted on Sunday that while his former boss Bill Clinton served as president of the United States, his top priority was his own sex life. Carville's comment was offered in the heat of an argument with his wife, Mary Matalin, over whether the Bush administration had lied about arrangements for the president's visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last week. It went unnoticed until WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg reviewed the Carville quote for his Sunday overnight audience. A transcript of the Clinton spinmeister's remarks, delivered just hours before on "Meet...

The leftist attempt to paint the Enron bankruptcy as a Bush scandal includes a badly made-for-TV movie produced by CBS called "The Crooked E." The spin in the fictional world of Hollywood was that the Bush administration, wooed by Enron dollars, helped the corrupt executives steal from the poor and working class heroes. If you followed this spin, it was clear that Enron had no contact with the U.S. government prior to George W. Bush coming into office. According to CBS, Enron simply did not exist prior to George W. Bush. Yet the CBS TV sit-com and its leftist spin...

I purchased a book the other day at a Borders in downtown Chicago and while the sales clerk rang me up his eyes widened at the sight of the cover. I assumed he was going to give me a lecture about Clinton bashing (it has happened before) and how I should not support it by buying books “obsessed with him.” Gladly, no lecture was forthcoming. Instead he asked quizzically, “What is that in his mouth? My Gosh, that looks like a joint.” Then it was I whose eyes widened. I took the book out of his hand and studied the...

WASHINGTON - The job performance of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is viewed negatively by a majority of New Yorkers, despite her being in the news almost daily on issues dealing with homeland security. A new poll by Zogby International released Tuesday showed that those interviewed rated her performance as 47 percent excellent or good against 51 percent fair or poor. Only 2 percent of the 709 New Yorkers interviewed about Clinton on Thursday and Friday said they weren't sure about her. The margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. When asked how they...

Half of Top Clinton Aides Now Lobbyists By JONATHAN D. SALANT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Many top officials of the Clinton administration still are in Washington, trying to influence actions of their successors in government. A study being released Monday by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, ranked the top 100 officials serving when President Clinton left office two years ago and found 51 now lobby the government or work for companies that do. The center said the number is about the same as in previous administrations. ``This shows systematically what happens to an...

School naming event today Ceremony: Compton school to be dedicated to ex-President Clinton. By Ian Hanigan, Staff writer COMPTON City officials, school administrators and local residents are expected to gather today for a formal dedication of William Jefferson Clinton Elementary School the Compton district's first new school in more than 35 years. After six months of construction, the $16 million two-story facility at 6500 E. Compton Blvd. opened in January, pulling about Clinton 800 students from nearby Kelly, Foster and Roosevelt elementary schools. Parents who wanted their children to attend Clinton Elementary submitted applications last year for a lottery-style drawing,...

Tonight, March 27, 2003 - The Shrew Interviews Lt. Col "Buzz" Patterson, USAF. Lt. Colonel Patterson was the Air Force Military Aide to President Bill Clinton from 1996 - 1998. He has recently published a book through Regnery Publishing titled "Dereliction of Duty". The interview will be live and last one half hour from 830PM EST - 9PM EST. Lt. Colonel Patterson is the first former Presidential Military Aide to publish a book concerning his time in the White House. He was also one of the holders of the "nuclear" football and has detailed first hand experience of the...

First, the part from the U of Arkansas site. "Early in Bill Clinton's presidency, Saudi Arabia gave a grant to the State of Arkansas for the purpose of endowing a program in Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas. This program is now the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, part of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The center provides scholarships for undergraduates of high standing who major in Middle East Studies. The Center also provides graduate assistantships for students in history, anthropology, political science, geosciences, translation, and...

<p>A federal judge ruled yesterday that Bill Clinton was shielded from a shareholder fraud suit alleging he ignored a stock scam in exchange for a $1 million donation to his presidential library.</p> <p>Manhattan federal Judge Gerald Lynch dismissed the claims, ruling he was protected by presidential immunity. The suit was brought by seven Global Crossing investors who were wiped out when the company collapsed a year ago.</p>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TWA 800 revelation: What the president knew -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 25, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The most controversial part of our new book, "First Strike – TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America," comes at the end, in Chapter 14, when James Sanders and I argue that terrorists used a small airplane as a flying bomb to destroy TWA Flight 800. We further argue that had the truth been told on July 17, 1996, there might not have been a Sept. 11, 2001. Since the publication of the book, we have received additional evidence...

Former Clinton Aide: Bill Told Outrageous Lies to Win Reelection and Lost the Nuclear Codes ! This is shocking news this morning as revealed by a "Washington Whispers" report by U. S. News reporter Paul Bedard. The news comes from former military aide Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" for President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998. It is in Patterson's new book: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security. The book crosses a line that no other military aide ever crossed before in condemning his former commander in...

Former President Clinton lost the codes to nuclear war the day the Monica Lewinsky affair broke, was MIA in the fall of 1998 when a decision was needed on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and was "too busy watching a golf match" to OK a 1996 bombing mission in Iraq, says a blockbuster new book by Clinton's former military aide. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" from May 1996 to May 1998, crosses a line no other "mil aide" has before in condemning his commander in chief in Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How...

February 19, 2001 In eight years as President, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton each issued roughly 400 pardons. But in their final days, just 10 trickled out of Reagan's White House, while 177 flooded out of Clinton's. And Marc Rich's pardon isn't the only one that appalled federal prosecutors. While most of the 177 were for minor drug and fraud offenses, roughly a third raise serious questions. A TIME analysis of the pardon fever--the symptoms included well-connected lawyers and pols pulling strings, bypassing the Justice Department and sending petitions directly to the White House, often at the last minute--turned up...

Hell to Pay : The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Barbara Olson Hell to Pay is yet another book on Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time from a conservative lawyer who served as the Republican chief counsel for the congressional committee investigating the Clintons' involvement in "Travelgate" and "Filegate." Barbara Olson traces the now familiar biographies of the president and first lady, contending that Mrs. Clinton is someone with dangerously liberal, even radical, political beliefs who "now seeks to foment revolutionary changes from the uniform of a pink suit." (Olson plays the theme heavily: each chapter of Hell...

<p>From the officer entrusted with our nation's nuclear codes: proof that Bill Clinton cared little for national security and put every American in mortal danger.</p> <p>When he was tapped to accompany President Clinton and carry the nuclear "football" that contains the top-secret codes the President needs in case of nuclear war, Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was proud and grateful. He had already put his life on the line for his country many times as he flew combat missions over the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, and he was honored to take on this new and awesome responsibility.</p>

White House Archives William J. Clinton Forty-Second President 1993-2001 Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas Married to Hillary Rodham Clinton During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare roles. He proposed the first balanced budget...

Former President Clinton is visiting an elementary school and drops in on the 4th grade class. The class is in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the Ex-President if he would like to lead the class in the discussion of the word "tragedy." So, Clinton asks the class for an example of a "tragedy." A little boy raises his hand and after a nod from Clinton says: "My best friend, who lives next door, is playing in the street and a car comes along and runs him over. That would be a...

<p>Does character matter? Only one presidential term ago, this was a question that supposedly intelligent people took seriously and debated across the nation. Many people rationalized corrupt personal behavior on the part of our leader as separate and distinct from his ability to effectively govern a country.</p>

In a win for millions of disgruntled investors, a federal judge said the nation's top investment banks must defend against claims they rigged the IPO frenzy of the late 1990s. The 55 banks, including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston, had hoped Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin would accept their request to dismiss the accusations. Her refusal yesterday means the banks must either settle the civil charges or go before a jury. Lead plaintiff's attorney Melvyn Weiss said he estimated damages could reach as high as "many billions" of dollars. "Now the floodgates of discovery are opened wide," Weiss...

Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2002 With President Clinton´s encouragement, his half-brother, Roger, collected hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of as many as 13 people seeking presidential pardons and other favors, a key congressional panel has found. This characterization goes far beyond what Roger Clinton has acknowledged about his activities in seeking presidential pardons and suggests that he was much more deeply involved than previously known. The new revelations about the Clinton brothers are contained in the final report by the House Government Reform Committee, which for the last year has been investigating the pardon scandals....

Yes, Freepers, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Many of us have been yearning to express our true feelings to Teddy, Terry, Tommy, Hitlery, BillyBoy, Algore, Graydavis and the rest of the Dummycrats. Now, here’s your chance to tell that special person who has caught your attention just exactly how you feel about them. OTOH, perhaps some of you received greetings from your favorite Dumbocrats, or maybe you were mistakenly delivered Valentines a dim Dem intended for fellow Dimocrats. The latter are the ones we especially want to see. Especially if a FReeper got their hot little hands on...

<p>The accountant who claimed last year that real estate magnate Charles Kushner improperly diverted millions of dollars for personal and political use charges in a new lawsuit that Kushner vowed "to ruin" his life after learning of the allegations.</p> <p>Robert Yontef said Kushner made the promise last June, after Yontef began cooperating with Kushner's brother and partner, Murray Kushner, in a fierce feud over the family's holdings.</p>

<p>ITHACA -- Society's problems would be better solved with less emotion and partisan rhetoric and more application of scientific knowledge, Janet Reno told a packed Statler Auditorium on Thursday night.</p> <p>Reno, on the Cornell University campus for two weeks as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, gave a speech titled "Truth and How We Seek It."</p>

With all the campaign focus on Lieberman, Kerry, Edwards, Gephardt and company, the last man you'd think anyone would be worried about is Bill Clinton. After all, he's constitutionally barred from running again. Yes, we know everyone's expecting Hillary to try to reclaim her old mansion in '08. Tim Russert said the other day that she landed a spot on the Senate Armed Services Committee as a bit of political positioning for that post-Dubya campaign. But the former first lady surely realizes she's a divisive figure in the country. She seems to be enjoying her new job. Maybe she'll run,...

Bill Clinton has cut NASA's budget in actual dollars every year he's been President, and slashed the real purchasing power by a third. In fact, this administration has cut $40 billion from NASA's outyear budget since he was first elected. "Furthermore, there were eight Space Shuttle launches in 1992 - the last year of George Bush's Presidency - and only four this year. So in fact Bill Clinton has cut human space flight in half. "This Administration has repeatedly ignored the importance of space to our economy and national security. Instead, they've used NASA as an ideological piggy bank for...

Clinton rallies domestic support for strike at Iraq Iraq, International, 2/17/1998 Even while insisting that the US is exhausting diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the current Iraqi crisis, US President Bill Clinton spoke at the Pentagon in an effort to drum up domestic support for possible US military strikes against Iraq. Clinton said the US stands in opposition to the "reckless acts of outlaw nations" and an "unholy axis" of terrorists, drug dealers, and organized crime. While the US would greatly prefer a diplomatic solution to the crisis, Clinton reiterated that the US is ready to...

MYTH EXPOSED: Why America Will Never Again Elect a clinton MRS. CLINTON'S MYTH January 25, 2003 -- Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday delivered herself of a blistering attack on the Bush administration's national-security policy: "Time has passed and our vigilance has faded," claimed New York's junior senator. "We have relied on a myth of homeland security - a myth written in rhetoric, inadequate resources and a new bureaucracy, instead of relying on good, old-fashioned American ingenuity, might and muscle." Hmmm. What to make of that? Well, not to visit the sins of the husband on the wife - okay, maybe...

Arab media: Clinton will strike due to sex scandal Regional-Iraq, Politics, 2/7/1998 Hatred and resentment from the Arab public opinion toward the United States of America is greatly increasing because of the intensive US position toward Iraq and its insistence on striking Iraq without any rational reason. The Arab public opinion and governments are accusing the US of not having a similar attitude in dealing with Arab - Israeli issues. Many in the Arab states are questioning why the US insists on applying the United Nations' charter to Arab countries such as Libya, Iraq and Sudan, while ignoring UN...