Some of you people either have very short memories or you just weren't paying attention. I am referring to several posts that say clinton was a good president except for that one indiscretion. I don't want to take the time to detail the history of the Clinton administration nor the sordidness that pervaded their lives in Arkansas. Perhaps the best testament to the latter is what happened to their two closest friends and associates from Arkansas, Web Hubbell and Vince Foster. Hubbell was disgraced and sent to prison where he lamented that he was the fall guy for the Clintons but was afraid to blow the whistle. The other was found dead in a remote park overlooking the Potomac River, under incredibly suspiscious circumstances that were never believably explained or even properly investigated.
As for the Clinton presidency, to say that his only shortcoming was the Lewinsky fiasco is an incredibly selective reading of history, even that filtered part of history that gets published in the NY Times. To me the Clinton administration was frightening because of the nonstop abuses of power that occurred. I remember Watergate quite well, and the abuses that occurred under Nixon were minor indiscretions compared to the nonstop abuses under the Clintons. Congressional investigations were stonewalled, federal courts were stonewalled, traditionally nonpartisan departments were relentlessly politicized, immigration rules were bent or ignored to foster large scale immigration of potential democrat voters, illegal Chinese political donations were pursued and national security compromised in return ( remember John Huang?), large scale espionage occurred in national nuclear labs and went unpunished and virtually every conservative organization found itself under attack by the IRS.
Those are just some of the macro problems. The individual disgraces were even more poignant. Who can forget the seemingly endless stream of women who were smeared, threatened and abused by Clinton thugs for telling the truth about the President? Not exactly the stuff of the West Wing, is it? What about those poor souls incinerated at Waco on the orders of possibly the worst, most corrupt Attorney General in history, who served loyally for 8 years? Who can forget the face of little Elian, clutched by the brave fisherman who rescued him from the sea, as a deranged government storm trooper aims a submachine gun at them? What better symbol could there be of a truly odious administration than sending in storm troopers armed with submachine guns to snatch a scared little boy whose mother gave her life to give him freedom and send him back to the dictator Fidel?
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well put - deserves to be repeated.