On This Date

November 13th:

1789 - Ben Franklin wrote 'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes'.

1974 -  Karen Silkwood  was killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances  

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, containing the names of more than 13,000 Marines who lost their lives in Vietnam, was dedicated in Washington, DC

1995 - A bomb in a minivan at a US training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 5 Americans and injured 60; President Bubba Clinton's response was to send an FBI anti-terrorism team to "investigate"

Saudi_blast

1999 -  Bubba Clinton agrees to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit (Bubba did not apologize or admit guilt)  

Paula Jones vs Bubba

 

Hypocritical Hypocrites

After the horrific event in Sandy Hook, CT, on December 14th
the National Rifle Association (NRA) president Wayne LaPierre publicly advocated that there be armed security at every school.

DLP  (Dummycrats, Liberals and Progressives) and the liberal MSM said that he was a, "raving lunatic who is just as dangerous as Adam Lanza." 

Armed school guards and hypocrisy

Apparently, the DLP and MSM have overlooked this:

Barack Hussein Obama's children attend a school where there are 11 armed guards with fully automatic assault rifles:

  Obama's Daughters School Has 11 Armed Guards-Not-Counting-Secret-Service

Yet Obummer remains skeptical/hypocritical:

Obama skeptical NRA proposal guns in schools

and is even tasking Vice President Joe Biden with spearheading the effort:

Biden to tackle gun violence

Oh, but wait a minute.

Is this the SAME Joe Biden, gun-owner:

   Flashback 2008-Biden: don't fool with my Beretta

Maybe Obummer should get ex-pres Bubba Clinton involved.

Ummm wait. There could be a conflict of interest there:

 Flashback: Clinton-Cops in Schools

By John Nolte:

Today, the same elite media who no doubt send their own kids to private schools that employ armed security, just can't stop howling ridicule at the NRA's idea to give every student in America those same protections. Because the NRA's idea is so appealing, as I write this, the media's going overboard, mocking it as bizarre, crazy, and out of touch.

In their zeal to rampage this left-wing agenda, the media has apparently forgotten that back in 2000, on the one-year anniversary of the Columbine shooting (which occurred with an assault weapons ban in place), President Clinton requested $60 million in federal money to fund a fifth round of funding for a program called "COPS in School," a program that does exactly what the NRA is proposing and the media is currently in overdrive mocking....

Hypocrite

1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

 

2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Synonyms: deceiver, dissembler, pretender, pharisee.

 

I do believe that Democrat, Liberal, Progressive, Media could be added to the list of synonyms for Hypocrite.

Dirty Politics 2010

In the Florida governor's race:

Alex Sink violated the rules of the debate (cheated), then lied about it.

Alex Sink Drips

In the Florida Fracas for senator:

Charlie Crist, who was first a Republican and now an Independent, and who apparently has said he will caucus with the Democrats if elected, called Kendrick Meek, the Democrat in the race, and encouraged him to drop out. When Meek didn't return the 5 am phone call, Charlie showed up at a Meek campaign event. Throw in Bubba and we have quite the menage-a-trois.

Much ado About Crist-Meek-Clinton
Bubba Clinton Meddles in Senate Race
Bubba Clinton-Meek

In the US House election:

Alan Grayson is running a very nasty re-election campaign. Rumors persist that he has personally funded the campaign of Peg Dunmire (Tea Party candidate*) in order to draw conservative votes away from Dan Webster. Not illegal, but certainly unethical.

Alan Grayson Backing Florida Tea Party

It's interesting that most of the dirty politics, here in Florida at least, seem to be the doing of one particular political party.

(*Note: the Tea Party is not a political party, but rather a political movement)

POTUS on Memorial Day

Much ado is being made of Barack Hussein Obama's absence from Arlington National Cemetery this particular day.

 

After all, he is the POTUS and Commander-in-Chief.

But consider the abysmal records of other POTUSes:

Jimmy Carter did not attend a single time.
   Surprising since he was a former Navy man.

Ronald Reagan missed 4 (out of 8) Memorial Day services.

George H.W. Bush did not attend once during his term as POTUS.

George W. Bush attended every year 2003 and after.
   Dubya was in France in 2002, attending Memorial Day services at Normandy.

And Bill Clinton?
   President Bubba attended all 8 years of his presidency.
   This was a guy who had to be taught -after he was elected- how to salute.

Go Figure.

This Nation Will Remain The Land Of The Free
Only So Long As It Is The Home Of The Brave.
- Elmer Davis.

Clint-O-Bama-Rama

Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama want an accountable, transparent government in Afghanistan -- as far as that can happen -- and a strong stand against corruption.

Okay, let's first consider the CO-presidency of which Hillary was a part.

If you google: 'Clinton presidency corruption', you get 2,740,000 returns.

Remember Whitewater? Cattlegate? Travelgate? Filegate? Vandalgate? Chinagate? Lippogate? Zippergate? Fostergate?  ad nauseum


Neither of the Clintons has ever accepted accountability for anything.

Now google 'Obama corruption'.  103,000,000 returns.


Google 'Obama transparency'.  4,400,000 returns.

Guess what?  The Barack Hussein Obama administration has argued in a recent court filing that the Privacy Act does not apply to the Executive Office of the President. So much for the most transparent administration ever.
Judicial Watch

ACORN. SEIU. Czars. Suspected document fraud (birth certificate -and- Selective Service Registration). Blagogate. TARP.

And it's not even a year yet.

Hamid Karzai has nothing on these two.

And as far as government corruption goes, perhaps we should clean out our House (and Senate)  -  John Murtha. Charley Rangel. Maxine Waters, etal  -  before criticizing theirs.

As the Stomach Turns

Forget watching television soap operas this summer.

The Dummycrats are providing all the drama, humor and stomach-churning nausea, errr excitement, we can handle.

According to a report in The (London) Telegraph, Bill Clinton reportedly told close friends Barack Hussein Obama can "kiss my ass" to get his support.

Poor Bubba. What's a temperamental, self-serving, sexually-addicted, ego-maniacal, peter pan man-boy supposed to do now that he is no longer the center of attention?

Should we expect better from a pathological narcissist who has always put his own wants before his country even before he became an ex-president?

Not to mention the embarrassment to his family.

But wait.

The Obama campaign announced today that Barry and Bubba had a "terrific" 20-minute phone chat and that Obummer asked Bubba to campaign 'with and for him'.

Modern technology notwithstanding, I wonder how Obummer's lips stretched long-distance.

If Obummer thinks that phone call to Bubba makes him look like 'the better man', I think it makes him look like the weak ass-kisser he is.

Bubba's Purple Fits

Bubba's Temper Tantrums

Mr. Clinton’s temper has been an issue for him as long as he has been in public life. But it has played an unusual role during the current campaign, his face turning red in public nearly every week, often making headlines as he defends his wife and injects himself, whether or not intentionally, into her race in sometimes distracting ways.

... Last week, for instance, a clearly agitated Mr. Clinton told Dartmouth students that it was a “fairy tale” for Mr. Obama to contend that he had been consistently against the war in Iraq. And in December he said that voters supporting Mr. Obama were willing to “roll the dice” on the presidency.

Somebody needs to tell the obnoxious EX-POTUS to STFU.

I've been saying this for years, seven to be exact.

Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: PIPE DOWN

... There is little precedent for a former president's engaging in intra-party attacks.

... But in 2000, former president George Bush declined to attack his son's GOP primary opponent, John McCain. Clinton is undeterred by the criticism and will likely keep hammering Obama if he thinks it helps Hillary. "History will judge the impact on the Clinton legacy, not daily or weekly political reporters," says Matt McKenna, Bill Clinton's press secretary.

Horndog Bubba has caught the scent of the White House and is not about to give up the hunt - Obama, party, and country be damned.

Sail on, Ship of State

Continuing the Naval tradition of naming U.S. Navy ships after U.S. Presidents:

Thanks to the Opinionated Fool for the Photos!

The Bubba Clinton Presidential Liebrary

Note: Liebrary is not an accidental misspelling.

"The library is an imposing glass and metal structure overlooking the Arkansas River. Also on its landscaped grounds is the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service."

The motto of which is: "If it gets me off, it must be right".

Okay, I was kidding about that.


A presidential library is a repository for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of a former POTUS.

In Bubba's case, those documents which survived shredding, and those which have rewritten history according to the Clintons.

A president's library is supposed to reflect the character of the president, assuming they have any.

This looks like it belongs in a trailer park.


So, who paid for this $165 million monstrous eyesore?

No one knows exactly because, according to the Clinton Library the donors were promised confidentiality - and - the William J. Clinton Foundation, which funds the library, is considered a charity whose contributors can remain anonymous.

One wonders how much of that $165 million was actually spent on the library.

UPDATE: Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.

In addition, a handful of Middle Eastern business executives and officials also gave at least $1 million each, according to the interviews. They include Saudi businessmen Abdullah al-Dabbagh, Nasser al-Rashid and Walid Juffali, as well as Issam Fares, a U.S. citizen who previously served as deputy prime minister of Lebanon.

Spokesmen for Kuwait and Taiwan confirmed that each government has given the library $1 million. Both governments also donated to other presidential libraries. Kuwait contributed at least $1 million to the library of former president George H.W. Bush, and Taiwan gave $2 million to the Ronald Reagan library.

Beat Feet, Bubba

Bill Clinton.
The ex-president who just will not go away or shut up.

Peggy Noonan writes:

"A thought on the presence of Bill Clinton. He is showing up all over in Iowa and New Hampshire, speaking, shaking hands, drawing crowds. But when he speaks, he has a tendency to speak about himself...

...The way it was supposed to work, the logic, was this: People miss Bill. They miss the '90s. They miss the pre-9/11 world. So they'll love seeing him back in the White House. So they'll vote for Hillary. Because she'll bring him. "Two for the price of one."

It appears not to be working. Might it be that they don't miss Bill as much as everyone thought? That they don't actually want Bill back in the White House?"

No, we don't miss the arrogant, inept ass.
No, we don't want the two-for-one, co-president deal.

I do not understand the media's kiss-ass attention they give this political buffoon and general idiot.

Do they not remember back in January 2001 when Bubba took his time leaving the trashed and vandalized White House, when he stalled for hours before boarding Air Force One to leave Washington, apparently reluctant to give up the spotlight?

Do they not remember the rudeness to the White House press and military by the Clintons and their staffers?

Do they not remember the myriad political and personal scandals during the 8 years of the Clinton Follies? The impeachment? Hello?

Go away, Bubba, far, far away.
And shut the hell up.

Clintonian* Version of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

November 13th, 1999

The Good: President Bill Clinton agrees to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit.

The Bad: Paula Jones' lawyers get the lion's share of $850,000 settlement;
Jones will collect only 200,000

The Ugly: on January 6, 1998, less than two weeks before she was to meet Clinton face-to-face during his deposition, Jones announced that the Justice Department was looking into how she became the target of an IRS audit.

The Clintons were infamous for wielding IRS audits like a weapon against their "enemies".

Amongst the auditees:

Billy Dale, 1993, White House Travel Office Chief - a nonpolitical WH worker who served presidents since JFK; he & 6 coworkers were summarily dismissed on Hillary's orders because she wanted 'those slots for our people'; to justify Dale's firing the Clinton WH accused him of embezzlement (acquitted in less than 90 minutes)-cost to the taxpayers $500,000; Travelgate investigators uncovered Hillary Clinton memo stating IRS commissioner was personally on top of the Dale audit.

and ...

Clinton critics: Kent Masterson Brown (Hillary-care critic); IRS critic Shelly Davis; Patricia Mendoza (who confronted Bubba at a public event after the 1996 terrorist attack on Khobar Towers AF base); Bill O'Reilly (FOX news); Chuck Harder - radio host

Clinton 'women': Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick

Conservative publications: The National Review & the American Spectator,
Conservative Groups: The Christian Coalition, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Oliver North's Freedom Alliance, NRA & Fortress America

Just as Congress was beginning to take note, IRS Commissioner and Yale friend Margaret Richardson resigned in 1997

*Clintonian: referring to any sex act except for penile to vaginal penetration. Most commonly used for oral sex.

Black Hawk Down: Clinton AWOL

The First Battle of Mogadishu (aka the "Battle of the Black Sea") was fought on October 3 and 4, 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, by forces of the United States against Somali militia fighters loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

During the operation, two U.S. MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by rocket-propelled grenades. Some of the soldiers were able to evacuate the wounded back to the compound, but others were trapped at the crash sites and cut off.

An urban battle ensued that lasted throughout the night. Early the next morning, a joint task force was sent to rescue the trapped soldiers. This task force reached the first crash site and led the trapped soldiers out. The second crash site was overrun and pilot Mike Durant, the lone surviving American, was taken prisoner but later released.

Eighteen American soldiers died and 73 were wounded. Another American soldier, Delta op SFC Matt Rierson, was killed in a mortar attack two days later.

Americans were outraged at the televised images of Somali mobs dragging the mutilated bodies of US soldiers through the streets.

Congress and the media were looking to blame someone for the 18 American soldiers killed.

In the days immediately following the First Battle of Mogadishu, Major General William F. Garrison, commander of Task Force Ranger, sat down and wrote out a letter addressed to the House National Security Committee; it began, "Please show this to President Clinton and Defense Secretary Les Aspin."

Garrison wrote 13 brief, enumerated paragraphs. In those paragraphs he did something very few people in positions of leadership do nowadays. He took the blame.

The Garrison Letter

Secretary of Defense Aspin acknowledged that he had made a bad call when he turned down Task Force Ranger's requests for Bradley Fighting Vehicles and the AC-130 gunship, a propeller-driven aircraft that provides devastatingly accurate fire. He resigned his office two months later. He accepted responsibility.

Draft-Dodger Bill Clinton, Commander-in-Chief of the United States, who is ultimately responsible for America's Armed Forces, took no responsibility, accepted none of the blame.

(Note: pictured is Mike Durant's Super Six-Four helicopter)

The Clintonesque Ethic

Clintonesque: 1. shaded by deceit 2. Having Clinton-like qualities (Classless, arrogant, dishonest, shameless, corrupt, secretive, vicious, vengeful, elitist, and intoxicated by political power. ) 3. In matters of speech, to parse the English language at a direct question so as to avoid responsibility for your own actions. In matters of conduct, to be more interested in self, instead of the greater good.

Remember all that money (almost $900,000) that the Clinton campaign was going to return and/or donate to charity because it was tainted by scandal?

Well, Hillary wants it back.

The Clinton campaign will try to get most of the donors to give the money back right after the refunds, said a senior Democratic strategist and one of Clinton’s campaign advisers. “That’s the plan.”

Ms Clinton is running for president on her White House experience in the 1990s, a time when both Clintons were often photographed with people whose money was funny, like Johnny Chung

and Charlie Trie .

Ah, yes, the Clinton Follies. Eight years of demanding dollars for the honor of having your photo taken with the Hill-Billy Clintons (Oh, wait, he's still charging for that), or sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Did it cost extra to jump up and down on the Lincoln Bed like those twits Markie Post and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, or was that included in the $150,000 'donation'?

Note to Hillary: Just because your lying, cheating co-president got away with slimey campaign fund tactics (like White House coffees, demanding dollars for photo ops, and selling overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom) doesn't mean you will.

Advisers say Hillary is more worried about containing the political damage than furious about the scandal.

Yet she doesn't want to appear to be greedy or ethically challenged.

Not that she isn't, she just doesn't want to appear to be so.

This is the Clintonesque ethic at work.

"The Clintons represent the worst in modern American politics: ruthless ambition over a desire to serve; preoccupation with political funding over a fair system; opportunism over principle; betrayal of any cause or policy over taking a stand; and a desperation to gain and keep office over any obligation to honor its responsibilities." --
Christopher Reed, in the Los Angles Times.

The Clintons vs Freedom of the Press

On January 20, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton took the oath of office as the 42nd president of the United States of America and swore to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Is there an expiration date on that oath?


Because ex-president Bubba surely isn't doing anything to preserve, protect, and defend the rights of Josh Green.

Green wrote an article for GQ Magazine about infighting within Hillary's campaign, which was sure to be vastly embarrassing (for her) and entertaining (for the rest of us). So, Bill Clinton's spokesman, Jay Carson, offered GQ's editors a choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned December cover-boy Bill Clinton.

GQ editor Jim Nelson wussed out and bowed to the Clintons' demands. The 'offending' article was dumped.

Note: Josh Green is not a particular favorite of the Clinton campaign. He authored an unflattering profile in the November 2006 Atlantic Monthly, which concluded that the junior Senator from New York is, more or less, a calculating political hack. He wrote:

“Clinton offers no big ideas, no crusading causes — by her own tacit admission, no evidence of bravery in the service of a larger ideal. Instead, her Senate record is an assemblage of many, many small gains.

Her real accomplishment in the Senate has been to rehabilitate the image and political career of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Impressive though that has been in its particulars, it makes for a rather thin claim on the presidency. Senator Clinton has plenty to talk about, but she doesn’t have much to say."

GQ will probably name Bully-boy Bubba the 'Man of the Year'

What a shame and a sham.

"The Clintons represent the worst in modern American politics: ruthless ambition over a desire to serve; preoccupation with political funding over a fair system; opportunism over principle; betrayal of any cause or policy over taking a stand; and a desperation to gain and keep office over any obligation to honor its responsibilities." -- Christopher Reed, the Los Angles Times.

Bill Clinton - Giving America the Finger

With Bill Clinton, the truer the accusation, the greater his indignation.

And the more his finger wags in our faces.

The second time ex-President and known liar Bill Clinton gave America the finger on national television was one year ago today on Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace's interview show.

From behind the 'aw-shucks', good-ol-boy façade, the real Bill Clinton emerged, the man those who have worked for him know – the angry, sarcastic, arrogant, self-righteous, bully boy.

Clinton, never one to let truth or his draft-dodging, anti-military past get in his way, portrayed himself as a tough, anti-terror president, with conservatives criticizing him for obsessing about bin Laden during his presidency.

With his finger wagging in America's face (again), the ex-president told Wallace,

"I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since."

LIAR.

Clinton snarled,

"And you've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever. But I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it. But I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could ..."

LIAR.

Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit during the Clinton Follies, said the al-Qaida leader "is alive today” because Clinton and his top aides refused to kill him. His unit was ready and willing to go into Afghanistan and hit Osama's camps, but the order never came from above.

"He defames the CIA ... and the men and women who risked their lives to give their administration repeated chances to kill bin Laden."

The first noteworthy time Clinton gave America the finger was January 26, 1998, on national television, when Bubba, looking straight at the camera, wagging his finger in America's face, said:

"I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."

LIAR.

Not only did he have sexual relations with that woman ... he was:

• the first US president to be ordered to give a blood sample for DNA evidence;
• the only US president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance;
• the first US president sued for sexual harassment;
• the first US president accused of rape;
• the first US president to establish a legal defense fund;
• the first US president to be held in contempt of court;

Bill Clinton left a stain on the U.S. Presidency as well as on Monica's blue dress.

So, watch out America. When Bubba's finger is wagging and his lips are moving, he's lying again!

"If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign." --Bill Clinton, July, 1974

President Pinocchio

"Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?" -- Bob Kerrey [D-Neb.], Senator and Chairman of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Esquire, 1996

Some of Clinton's bigger and better ones:

"I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people." - January 26, 1998

The president lied to everyone about the affair. He repeatedly invoked claims of executive and attorney-client privilege, arranged joint-defense agreements, attacked his accusers for exposing the facts. All with one goal in mind: to keep himself from ever having to confess the affair, let alone apologize to the nation for it. -- USA Today editorial 9/10/98

"I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since." - Sept. 24, 2006

The man who was in the Soviet Union demonstrating against the American military during Vietnam, who as President depleted our armed forces, is now - in his own mind- The Defense President.

He criticizes the Bush Administration for not doing enough, proclaims himself the champion of effective military action, and implies none too subtly that the fight against terrorism would go better if we had a Clinton in the White House instead of a Bush.

The bipartisan 9/11 Commission concluded that President Clinton had flatly refused to allow the military or CIA to kill Osama bin Laden. Clinton's instructions were that bin Laden should be taken, if at all, alive not dead. CIA officials reported that this instruction cut the chance of success in half.

"This isn't mere spin. It's full-scale invention." -- Ronald A. Cass, "Bill Clinton: Play It as It Lies"; September 25, 2006

"'The whole tide of history has shown us that if you lie loud enough and long enough that no matter how ludicrous the lie is people will believe it." -- James Carville, Democratic strategist; United Press International; 8/8/84

Fool me once ....

"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice shame on me."

-- Chinese proverb

It's early yet, but I am already plenty worried about the Hillbilly Clintons returning to the White House.

And make no mistake, although they pretty much live apart now, if SHE gets elected HE will be there, too.

Advising. Helping. Mentoring.

Another Clinton Co-presidency.

Do we really want to go through that again?

Let's review:

While touted for it's roaring economy (inherited from the Reagan years), HIS eight years as Crybaby, err, Commander in Chief left the U.S. military depleted and demoralized, the U.S. intelligence community in chaos, a foreign policy ticking time bomb (al-Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, China), and a legacy of scandals and dirty politics stretching all the way back to Arkansas.

Let's not forget the thankfully failed fiasco of Hillarycare, which SHE has threatened to revive, albeit in a new and improved (and probably scarier) version.

SHE has already fooled the residents of the state of New York twice.
She’s not in the U.S. Senate to represent New York. She used the Senate as a platform for her presidential quest.

Anyone who couldn't see that coming, shame on you.

Why should the American people have to pay the price, bear the burden, and suffer the consequences for a 'secret pact' made between these two power-obsessed fools?

Shame on us, if we let them.

Political cartoonist: Paul Combs

The Clinton Legacy: Lest We Foolishly Forget

"Lies.  Perjury.  Suborning Perjury.  Adultery.  Deceit.  Harrassment.  Scandals. Abuse of Power.  Impeachment."

 

January 20, 1993, William Jefferson Clinton took the oath of office as the 42nd president of the United States of America and swore to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" from enemies both foreign and domestic.

During the next eight years, Bill Clinton presided over the most corrupt administration in American history.  

He would be only the second president in American history to be impeached.

 The Clinton stain upon the Presidency (as well as the stain on Monica's blue dress) left a legacy of controversy and scandal.

Legacy $ 1: Commercialization of the Presidency :

  Everything had a price: 

   overnight stays in the Lincoln bedroom ($50,000-$100,000), 

   seats on the Dept of Commerce's foreign trade missions ($50,000), 

   dinner with Clinton at his table ($100,000)

Legacy # 2: Target for Terrorism :

Terrorism was treated as a law enforcement matter.  

Neither Clinton nor former members of his administration want Americans to remember this.  

After the first World Trade Center attack, Clinton never visited the site and his only public comment was to caution against "over-reacting."

On Clinton's watch:  

 1993 World Trade Center bombing (killed 6 and injured a hundred more),   

1995 bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (killed 5 U.S. military personnel),    

1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia (killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel),   

1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (killed 258 and injured 5,000),   

2000 bombing of the USS Cole docked in Yemen (killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors)

   After each attack Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.  He did nothing.  Osama was watching.

Legacy # 3: Foreign Policy, a Time Bomb :

Clinton's foreign policy was driven by t.v. news coverage and endless political polling (aka CNN Diplomacy).

China: all those covert Chinese campaign donations bought them access to high-tech missile and satellite technology. Now their long-range missiles can hit our west coast.

NK: bad-boy Kim Jong Il 'promised' not to build nukes with the two light water reactors that Clinton gave him. We saw what happened there.

Iran: the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement was supposed to halt the transfer of nuclear technology to Iran. It didn't. Then they up came with Operation Merlin, a scheme personally approved by Clinton, where the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb. 

    Hello?  We helped helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program?

Iraq: Saddam kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors and got away with it.

Russia: Moscow dropped its once-positive relationship with the US and began a "strategic relationship" with China.

Legacy # 4: A Depleted and Demoralized Military :

Although managing to avoid serving his country in uniform, Clinton apparently got a thrill of exercising his power as C in C, deploying military forces more than any other president: 40 times, compared with 14 times under President G.H.W. Bush and 16 times under President Reagan.

And he did this while slashing the military budget: In 1990 defense spending represented nearly 30% of the total annual federal budget; By 2000 it had been chopped to 15% (The money 'saved' went to Clinton social programs).

Clinton slashed 700,000 active duty military members & 293,000 reservists (40% reduction); Reduced army divisions from 18 to 10; Reduced active duty AF active duty fighter squadrons from 24 to 12; Cut 232 strategic bombers, 500 ICMs with 1950 warheads, 546 naval vessels (including 4 aircraft carriers, 19 strategic ballistic missile submarines, 121 surface combat ships, plus all of the associated logistical assets)

During the Clinton-Gore years many military enlisted families had to apply for food stamps and 2/3 of all military family housing was characterized as 'substandard' by the Defense Science Board.

Legacy # 5: Records for Personal Worsts :

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance, 1st president sued for sexual harassment, 1st president accused of rape, 1st first lady to come under criminal investigation, 1st president to establish a legal defense fund, 1st president to be held in contempt of court, 1st president required to give a blood sample for DNA, 1st president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation; Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates; Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify; Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions, here and from abroad.

Legacy # 6: Scandal after Scandal :

Billing-gate,  Cattlegate,  Chinagate,  Filegate,  Fostergate,  Galagate,  Lootgate,  Pardongate,  Travelgate,  Vandalgate,  Whitewater,  Zippergate

Legacy # 7: New words - Clintonesque and Clintonian :

Clintonesque: 1. shaded by deceit 2. Having Clinton-like qualities* 3. In matters of speech, to parse the English language at a direct question as to avoid responsibility for your own actions. In matters of conduct, to be more interested in #1, instead of the greater good

Clintonian: referring to any sex act except for penile to vaginal penetration. Most commonly used for oral sex.

Legacy # 8: The lesson of the Clinton-Gore administration: you can use the executive branch of government to punish political enemies, abuse executive power for personal and political ends ... and get away with it.

*Clinton-like qualities: Classless, arrogant, dishonesty, elitist, shameless, corrupt, secretive, vicious, vengeful, elitist, and intoxicated by political power.

Species: FOOL Genus: POLITICIAN

An Argument FOR Term Limits:

Hillary Clinton: "As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment." (1992 American Bar Association luncheon praising Anita Hill)

Yet you never raised your voice to help Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, or the young Air Force enlisted woman who was cornered and molested by your husband on Air Force One.
Hillary Clinton: "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [1993]

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." (June 28, 2004)

Thus speaketh Comrade Clinton, good socialist.
Bill Clinton: "No question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI is an impeachable offense." (Arkansas Gazette, August 8, 1974)

You did and you were.


Bill Clinton: "I promise you the most ethical administration in the history of our country."
The London Times, Feb 12, 1995: "For a team that Clinton promised would adhere to a "higher ethical standard" his administration has presided over an extraordinary amount of corruption and an unprecedented number of high-level officials forced to resign in disgrace."

And we had 5 more years to go!

Bill Clinton: "If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign."
So why the hell didn't you?
Ted Kennedy: "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

Ted Kennedy: "The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country."

You're welcome, Mr Millionaire Kennedy.
John Kerry: "I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term."

Democrats want to use the wife to repeat the husband's terms.
Christopher Dodd: "I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs."
 
Spoken like a true politician.

Barack Hussein Obama: ""My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."

If only he meant it.