Yes, Bill and Hillary lie
Friday, February 23rd, 2007 | 9:58 am
By DOUG THOMPSON
Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers, as well as the candidate herself, are up in arms because former supporter David Geffen called Ms. Clinton “a liar.”
Geffen, once a major contributor to the Clinton, now supports Brack Obama and the Clintonites claim he was put up by the Obama campaign to smear the carpetbagging Senator from New York.
As my lawyer likes to say, truth is always an absolute defense. Whatever Geffen’s reasons, he wasn’t lying when he says Hillary, and her skirt chasing former President husband, lie like teenagers caught breaking curfew.
George W. Bush lies too. So did his daddy (remember: “Read my lips?”).
Truth be told, lying is a required trait for political life. Show me a politician who doesn’t lie and I’ll show you a politician who loses elections.
Those who defend Hillary and Bill’s lying say that, unlike Bush, their lies did not result in a war where more than 3,100 Americans and thousands upon thousands of Iraqis have died. The theory of relativity always works as a convenient political excuse.
True, Bush accomplished what many thought might be impossible: He made people long for the halcyon days of the Clintons. Now some point to the Clinton years with fond nostalgia and talk about balanced budgets, a booming economy and no wars…well, no long wars but we did have Somalia and the bombing of a pill factory to divert attention from Bill’s banging of White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The Clinton faithful claim Somalia doesn’t count because only a few Americans dies. Sorry but the death of even a single American in a questionable military action is, in my opinion, just as serious as the deaths of 3100.
But the Clintons share a disturbing trait with Bush: An innate inability to tell the truth. From Watergate to Lewinskygate, the Clinton lied through their teeth. They got rich from shady land deals, blocked investigations into their actions, practiced the “politics of personal destruction” on anyone who questioned their ways.
They left behind a trail of broken friendships, abandoned loyalists and unpaid debts. Former Both Clintons, for example, still owes millions in unpaid legal bills but that didn’t stop them from buying a million manse in New York and living large while their creditors wait, in vain, for their money.
In testimony before a federal grand jury, young Lewinsky described in near-pornographic detail how she would crawl under the desk and nosh on he First Penis while President Clinton joked with heads of state. She talked about how the President would stick cigars up her vagina and then smoke them during Oval Office meetings.
Clinton then lied about the affair in a deposition in a sexual harassment suit brought by another of his dalliances. Hillary Clinton went on national TV and swore she knew nothing about the affair and blamed the whole thing on the “vast right wing conspiracy.” Sorry, but her husband has been a known whore-monger his entire life and her claim that she didn’t know doesn’t pass the smell test (maybe she should have smelled the cigars).
Bill Clinton was, is, and always will be Arkansas trailer trash who married a bright, but homely, wallflower because he sensed she could be of use for his unbridled ambition. In exchange for rescuing her from the obscurity of wallpaper, Hillary conveniently looked the other way while her husband screwed every woman in sight.
George W. Bush deserves to be in jail for his many crimes against humanity. But the Clintons deserved far more punishment than they received. Perjury is a crime and the Arkansas bar association stripped Bill Clinton of his right to practice law because he lied under oath. Hillary committed more than one act of obstruction of justice in covering up her role in Whitewater and other crimes.
I can think of several places where the Clintons belong: A pedestal ain’t one of them. |
