The Rant: Same Old Clintons

Bill Clinton is back on the campaign trail, stumping for Democratic Presidential candidates in Iowa. Looks like he’s back up to a few of his other tricks too.

Commenting on the Bush tax-cut package, Clinton told a campaign crowd “I never had a nickel until I left the White House.”

All you have to do is look at the last financial disclosure statement Clinton filed before leaving the White House on January 20, 2001. It shows Bubba left 1600 Pennsylvania a rich man, with a net worth somwhere between $1 million and $5 million (financial disclosures are not precise. They only require a range of values).

During his last year in office, Clinton and his wife accepted $191,027 in gifts and Hillary signed an $8 million book deal while still First Lady. Plus the 200 grand a year that Clinton made as President ain’t exactly small change, especially when he didn’t pay rent for eight years and lived on others people’s money (namely, the taxpayers).

In other words, Clinton lied – another bald-faced, “who gives a damn” lie from the man who once stood in front of the American people and claimed “I did not have sex with that woman – Ms. Lewinsky” when he was getting more nooky than a drunken frat boy on Spring Break.

Maybe he just can’t help. Maybe a lifetime of lying has left Bill Clinton so morally bankrupt that he has lost the ability to separate truth from fiction, fantasy from reality, outright lies from even a modicum of truth.

Such prevarications run in the family. Hillary’s fantasy tome, Living History, belonged in the novels section of bookstores. Her attempt to reinvent history in real time left even the most jaded of Democrats laughing and wondering how she could keep a straight face during her many promotional tours.

But the Clintons have never had much use for truth or cared that their jobs were supposed to be about public service. Politics, to both, has always been about cashing in, about taking advantage of opportunities, about living large off the public dole.

Since leaving office, Clinton rakes in $9.5 million a year in speaking fees while living off a huge federal pension and traveling with taxpayer-funded Secret Service agents who are treated more like servants than professionals protecting an ex-President.

And even though Hillary is now a U.S. Senator who claims to be making it on her own, she insists on keeping her Secret Service detail as well. Agents from both details frequently request reassignment and complain about being treated shabbily by the Clintons.

In October 2001, Senator Clinton, angry over having to wait in line at a security check point at Westchester Airport in New York, ordered the Secret Service Agent driving her limo to drive past the officers checking cars. The car struck a police officer, injuring his shoulder.

Bookstore managers complained the security procedures cost them business and money and many stores cancelled such appearances after word got around about the Senator’s haughty attitude.

“I’d had Pulitzer-prize winning authors here and none demanded such special treatment and deference,” complained the manager of one New York area Barnes & Noble. “I won’t have her here again.”

Perhaps what Bill Clinton should have told those campaign crowds in Iowa was that he left the White House without a nickel “of his own.”

After all, money stolen is not money earned and that stolen money was not really his or his wife’s.

During promotional tours for her book, Secret Service agents closed book stores before each of her appearances to conduct security sweeps and then set up screening checkpoints for customers entering the stores. Store employees complained Senator Clinton ordered them around Bookstore managers complained the security procedures cost them business and money and many stores cancelled such appearances after word got around about the Senator’s haughty attitude. “I’d had Pulitzer-prize winning authors here and none demanded such special treatment and deference,” complained the manager of one New York area Barnes & Noble. “I won’t have her here again.”

Isn't that odd (/sarcasm)? No mention of this cropped up while Hilly was basking in adulation during the book tour promotion. Just goes to show what good advance PR can do. Also raises the eternal question about actual sales of the book and whether PR flacks artifically created sales and possibly numbers. Guess we'll know when she fills out her Senate financial statements.

"Doug Thompson is not credible. The fact that he dislikes Clinton doesn't change that."

I've been reading Thompson's columns since he wrote for newspapers in Illinois back in the 1970s. The fact that he doesn't play favorites has always been what I've admired most. I don't agree with everything he says, but I like the way he says it.

Yeah, he screwed up on the story about the CIA briefings and he admitted it. He also wrote a column about Bush that he later regretted and he pulled the column and apologized. But when I weigh those two mistakes against the many stories Capitol Hill Blue ran exposing the Clintons and their series on the Congress ("America's Criminal Class"), I realize Thompson is like a turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

I agree with the assessment of Scott Hogenson of CNSNews.com, who called Thompson's retraction of the CIA briefing story "one of the classiest I've ever read."

I respect Hogenson and CNS News. I also trust Joseph Farah and Jon Doughterty at WorldNetDaily and they often cite Thompson and Capitol Hill Blue. If they can trust Thompson, so can I.

He couldn't talk but he could type (poorly) Here is the forward and first few diary entries.

Forward by the human member of the writing team.

This is a work of fiction, it is intended as satire. Though it is purely a fabrication by me, the story does bear a striking resemblence to real life. This is puely coincidental. People tell me that if you really like the Clintons, you shouldn't read this book! I repeat DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! It will make you angry. Just not as angry as they made me. I have a strong dislike for the Clintons and find them to be an embarassment to America. As far as I know none of this happened except in the fertile mine of your's truly, a dog lover. If this book makes Bill or Hillary mad, GREAT.

Technical note. My dog assisted me in translating Buddy's diary. Knowing that a Lab types by aiming their second toe on rightfront paw at the desired letter and then they press space bar with front paw after each right paw press, she and I were able to bring this to you. Example ghjk, is the letter h. This and the space after each letter made the text 5 times longer than the end product. Buddy spoke only a little English (from lack of daily human contact), so LulaBelle had to interpret a lot of his native language.

Email from Ruth (her dog name not her human name)

Dear Flurry, I am forwarding the attached to you in the hope that you and your dog Lula Belle can translate the diary of my son Leopold (better know as Buddy) into human language for the world to see. I received his email and the diary the night before he was reported killed. He knew he was in danger and wanted me to have his diary. I wasn't going to do anything about it until the demon Hillary released her crappy book "Living History" which she didn't even write. The money she got is ridiculus so I am going to get back at her and the Doofus Bill for abusing my little baby. Please do your best to get the truth out. Send me no money. Thanks Ruth

Email from Buddy to Ruth

Mom, I am sending you a copy of my diary, attached. I overheard Doofus on the phone this afternoon telling someone "this dog has to go he knows too much". I don't know what the plan is so I'll have to be wary. If I get a chance I'll make a run for freedom. If I don't make it please know that I love you. Leopold

Note from Lula Belle

Reading Leopold's diary has been very difficult because it is so sad. Lab's are happy dogs and I have cried a river over this, Flurry had to put plastic over the keyboard. I have done my best to translate this but Buddy's lack of human attention caused him to babble a little. Where ever possible I have expressed his thoughts as he expressed them. The early days were easy but increasing isolation and depression took there toll on poor Buddy's writing skills. Flurry and I wish he had told Ruth the truth earlier, maybe we could have saved him. I hope you enjoy this little book. It is a story that had to be told. Lu

Day 1 Arrived at big house. Peed and sniffed around. Met humanoid couple, doofus looking male with fake smile and demon looking female. Both smell like rats even from a distance, I'm not going to sniff them up close. They must work here. Note to self, keep an eye on these two they seem very suspicious. Doofus picks me up and turns me toward his face. He says "Buddy (whoever that is), leaving your mommy and not knowing who your daddy is, is something I can relate to, I feel your pain". I bit him on the nose to show him my pain. Sunglasses guy takes me away from the creep and walks me a bit. Took a crap near roses. Hope I meet new master soon. Mailed note to mom, Ruth, telling her trip went fine new home is huge. Ate some chow and peed again. Went to sleep.

Day 2 Woke up early and checked the place out. I have come to the shocking conclusion that the creeps I met yesterday live here.
Found male doofus male face down drunk in bathroom and the female was passed out drunk in living room with Martha Stewart. Mom said Martha was a party girl, but I never figured she would stoop to this. Note to self, sell all Martha Stewart stock. I peed on drunk guy's head and left the room. Took a crap in funny room that has no corners. Get banished to small cage. Man this place sux. I hate these people. Sunglasses guy takes me out in yard. I sniffed around a lot. Dig whole near roses. Poop and Pee. Go back to dungeon.

Day 3 I had to go out on the lawn with the humanoid couple. Lots of cameras around. The doofus keeps saying "Here Buddy" (whoever that is). I sit and stare hold tail still. A couple of guys in sunglasses wave a pork chop under my nose and put it in doofus's right front pants pocket. I try to fight it but I cave in. They take 10,000 pictures of me sniffing his dang pocket. Hope mom never sees this. I watched the doofus eat a big sandwich over an hour ago. He eats like a pig, doesn't close his mouth, and has bread all between his teeth still. It looks like he has one big tooth on top and one big tooth on the bottom. He makes me want to barf. I want to bite him but I'm afraid I'd taste him again. Peed and crapped near roses, didn't touch my food. Went to sleep.

It doesn't fly with me. Saying "The Clintons are icky" doesn't make up for his two deliberate hit pieces on the president, both of which were uncalled for, and the last one was full of lies.

Got news for you. He's written more than two columns critical of President Bush. He's also written several columns critical of John Ashcroft, and Janet Reno, and the Clintons, and Republicans, and Democrats, and Libertarians.

As I said, he doesn't play favorites, which is what I like most about him. I don't agree with what he writes about President Bush, but I'm a Republican. I don't agree with his conclusions when it comes to the President. But the fact that you and I may not agree with what he says about the President doesn't make him right and us wrong or us right and him wrong. It simply means we have different opinions. He writes an opinion column. I recognize the fact that Capitol Hill Blue is not a Republican web site or a Democratic web site. When Hillary's book was released, he wrote about it and he wasn't kind:

Reinventing history in real time

He hasn't had a nice thing to say about any of the Democratic Presidential contenders either:

There's a signpost up ahead

Or the Dems plan for money:

Democrats' first priority is money, not morality

In the past few weeks, he's taken on the NFL for the commercial extravanza on the National Mall in Washington, the selling of Jessica Lynch and just about everything else in sight.

He wrote the Clinton column to "make up for his two deliberate hit pieces on the President"? Somehow, I doubt that. It's not the man's style.

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