Clinton Administration @ MindSay

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them, and they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

-Barack Obama

I don't see anything wrong with his statement. It's the truth of the matter in relation to reality. The reason the right-wing media was such in arms over this statement is because Obama's words are true here.

 

Ann Coulter knows it. Most Conservatives know it. I suspect Liberals know it too, but are afraid to publicly face the heat: Liberals/Democrats lie.

 

Remember the Chris Wallace/Bill Clinton interview on Fox News in 2006? Slick Willie blew a screw and went off on a tirade to a very legitimate question: Did the Clinton Administration do enough to get bin Laden? (rough quote, probably not the exact wording)

 

It turns out some MSM reporters – Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball – did some digging. Imagine that, the slanted left media digging dirt on the icon of living liberal ex-Presidents, I am nearly dumbfounded.

 

Clinton yelled at Wallace like an eruption of Mt St Helens and proclaimed he did more to get bin Laden than anyone, including the present President. Indeed Clinton claim to have signed a Memorandum of Notification to assassinate bin Laden.

 

Oops! Isikoff and Hosenball found otherwise, Clinton lied!

 

(I am tipping my hat to Captain Ed.)

 

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton today made some amazing prognostications today:

"A clean sweep" is needed at the White House because President Bush has fostered "a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence," Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.
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"After eight years of the Bush administration, we are going to be shocked by what we find," the New York senator and former first lady said. "Somebody said to me the other day if there was ever a time for a woman president it's now because we're going to have to do a lot of cleaning."
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"Grab your buckets, grab your brooms," Clinton said. "We're going to have to do a clean sweep because there has been a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence."

While I have no illusions about the state of the current administration, I'm also a bit too well-informed to let this slip by without comment.  How can the woman who presided over the administration that set the bar for post-Watergate corruption preach about corruption and cronyism as if she knows nothing of such evil? 

I would recommend two books on the subject Bitter Legacy and Absolute Power.  Unfortunately for the Clintons, their crimes and misdeeds have been hushed up, but they are legion and they have been cataloged in the public record.  Obama could have pulled off that rhetoric, but it comes off as a cheap joke coming from Hillary.

 

Sandy Berger: This is a man that worked as National Security Advisor to President Slick Willie Clinton. As National Security Advisor, Berger was obviously privy to Classified Documents and Classified knowledge undertaken under the direction of the Clinton Administration.

 

Sandy Berger at the request of and request of Slick Willie acquired post Clinton Administration access to Classified Documents at the National Archive. Berger destroyed the Classified Documents he selected. This is act is heinous enough, however it happened on MORE than one occasion. Berger went FOUR times to the National Archives before he was caught destroying sensitive documents probably relating to Clinton information on words or actions taken that would not find favorable light.

 

This smacks of a HUGE conspiracy! Berger takes the fall. Slick Willie again escapes from a tarnished link to illegality. AND Senator Hillary Clinton thus gets a coat of Teflon in which no scum of impropriety sticks.

 

Here is the Real Clear Politics analysis of Berger’s acts of treason.

Here is a scandal that implicates the former President and wife Senator Hillary Clinton. The scandal relates to President Clinton selling commerce missions for campaign donations for the Clinton/Gore 1996 Presidential campaign. The Depart of Commerce has implicated in the destruction of documents to get Clinton off the hook. I don’t know the extent but wifey Hillary was also involved. The scandal also stretches to conspiracy for then Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown died in a plane crash in Bosnia under mysterious unanswered circumstances. The conspiracy is that Brown’s death was ordered to shut him up.

 

JRH

 

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Clinton Chinagate Scandal Victory

Standard Newswire
December 27, 2006

Judicial Watch Victory: Substantially Prevails in Clinton Scandal FOIA Lawsuit

Clinton Administration Destroyed Documents Involving Illegal Scheme to Sell Taxpayer-Funded Trade Missions for Campaign Contributions

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld the vast majority of a lower court award to Judicial Watch of nearly $900,000 in attorney’s fees and costs in a lawsuit related to the Clinton fundraising scandals (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Commerce, Appeal No. 05-5366) The fees were awarded on December 1, 2006, after a nearly decade-long court battle between Judicial Watch and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The scandal involved a scheme by Clinton administration officials to sell seats on taxpayer-funded trade missions in exchange for campaign contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. When Judicial Watch began investigating the scandal, Clinton administration officials deliberately concealed and destroyed records regarding the trade missions to avoid releasing them to Judicial Watch. In fact, Ms. Nolanda Hill, a business partner and confidante of then-Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, testified at a dramatic court hearing during the litigation that the Clinton White House “instructed” Brown "to delay the [Judicial Watch] case by withholding the production of documents prior to the 1996 elections, and to devise a way not to comply with the court’s orders."

 

Ms. Hill also testified that Brown, who was killed in a plane crash during a trade mission to Bosnia, admitted to her that Hillary Clinton conceived of the scheme to sell trade mission seats. Specifically, the court heard testimony on how Brown allegedly complained about being “Hillary’s [expletive] tour guide.”

Clinton administration misconduct was so egregious that the Commerce Department took the unprecedented step of asking that a judgment be entered against itself in order to end the lawsuit prematurely and stop further revelations. The court denied the Commerce Department’s request, ordered it to conduct a new search for trade mission records and authorized additional discovery into the illegal concealment and destruction of government records.

 

The lower court also noted that “…disclosures made as a result of this litigation spurred two Congressional committee investigations and a Federal Election Commission investigation into [the Commerce Department’s] alleged sale of foreign mission trade seats. Further, the DOC revised its trade mission participant selection policy to explicitly exclude consideration of past political contributions and activities.” In addition, a criminal inquiry was launched by the Justice Department and FBI.

“We’re pleased the appellate court upheld the award and held the government accountable for its Clinton-era misconduct. Frankly, the Clintons still have a lot to answer for in this scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This is a vindication of Judicial Watch’s persistence in prosecuting this long battle to let the sun shine in on government corruption.”

Intro: Clinton Chinagate Scandal Victory
John R. Houk
© December 28, 2006

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