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Tuesday, July 7, 1998.
CLINTON'S OBSTRUCTION WORKING ALL TOO WELL
Excuse me, but I am going to have to vent here. You may not want to hear it, and I won't dwell on it for the entire show, not even for one measly half-hour. But this is coming off my chest. Call it therapy.
If you think that something has gone terribly wrong with our system of a "government of law," read on. If you think that Clinton is the best thing that ever happened to America, and that anyone with anything negative to say about that pathetic excuse for a statesman is "Clinton bashing," then don't read any further.
Damn it, I'm so frustrated by this situation I could tear up my voter registration card and say "the hell with all of you .. all of you who put this joke in office."
It's not just Monica Lewinsky. That's what his protectors would like you to believe. No, it's not just Monica. Who, after all, gives a big flying fornication (I told you I was going to vent) if Clinton did Monica or Monica did Clinton or if they just sat and watched nasty videos and didn't do anything. It's about honesty. It's about honoring our system of laws. It's about manipulation of the emotions of the American people.
No --- it didn't start with Lewinsky. Just look back to when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. His wife was claiming a $2.50 deduction on income tax returns for every pair of used Clinton underpants That was just the beginning of Clinton's tax hijinks. On one occasion he claimed a huge deduction for interest paid on a loan --- one of the infamous Whitewater loans. The only problem was that it wasn't an interest payment, it was a payment of principal for which there was no deduction, and he isn't the one that made the payment. The payment was made by someone else on his behalf . yet he claimed the false deduction. Come on, folks. With anyone else, this is tax fraud or evasion. Clinton? Well all he did was to file an amended return when he got caught, and all was forgiven.
It didn't start with Lewinsky. What about the special favors done for special people while Clinton was the Arkansas governor? How about that former pilot for Tyson - the chicken people - who talked about flying envelopes filled with cash from the Tyson headquarters to Little Rock, to be delivered to Clinton.
The list is so long:
Vince Foster's unexplainable suicide. All those files that Linda Tripp saw being removed by Clinton henchmen from Foster's office before the police arrived.
Then there's those mysterious Rose Law Firm billing records. For two years congress had subpoenaed those documents. For two years Hillary and Bill said that they had no idea where those documents were. In fact, they said they didn't even exist! Then, alas, they show up in the Clinton's private living quarters, with Hillary's fingerprints and handwriting all over them. They were there all along! The Clinton's knew that they were there! They were just certain that nobody would ever find them. Come on,, my friends, that is pure obstruction of justice. They were caught red-handed, and most Americans don't give damn.
There's more. So much more. Selling the White House for campaign donations. White House coffees. Missile guidance and staging technology to the Chinese. Weakening American's defenses. And during it all . lie after lie after lie.
Then . there's Monica Lewinsky. No - it's not about sex. Again, it's about honesty. It's about lying under oath. It's about asking other people to lie under oath. It's about the very foundation of American law.
Do you remember when the story first came out? Clinton was shell-shocked. He needed time. He needed to find some way to lie and stonewall his way out of this one. So, what to do?
Well, his immediate task is to appear statesmanlike. He says that the American people deserve to know the truth, and that would get the truth sooner rather than later. He was lying. He knew it, and we should have known it. He was stalling . stalling for precious time. He needed to put a spin on this whole Lewinsky mess .. and he needed a few weeks to do it. So, promise the truth . but not just yet.
Then we get the spin underway. Have your attack roach James Carville declare a "war on Kenneth Starr." Starr, after all, is the enemy. Clinton has committed crimes. Starr is the one person out there charged with the responsibility of uncovering those crimes and reporting on them to Congress. The obvious tactic, attack Starr. Obstruct and attack. Delay and attack. Deny and attack. Always on the attack.
Clinton knew that his supporters were out there just waiting for their marching orders. Those orders were delivered through Carville.
Clinton sat back and watched. He watched so-called "journalists" like Dan Rather say time after time after time that Kenneth Starr's investigation was "into Clinton's sex life." Clinton saw these newscasts, and he smiled. He knew his tactic was working. Working better than ever dreamed.
Carville and Emanuel kept yapping like the lap dogs that they are, and the news media kept lapping it up and feeding it to the American people.
Ken Starr is out of control! Ken Starr is investigating Clinton's private sex life! Someone needs to stop Ken Starr! Ken Starr is using Gestapo tactics. Ken Starr is conducting a partisan investigation. Ken Starr has spend $40 million dollars and has nothing to show for it. Ken Starr needs to go away and just let poor Bill Clinton do the job that the American people hired him to don.
And Clinton just sat back and smiled. It was working. Working so well. People were writing letters to the editors demanding that Ken Starr stop his partisan investigation. People were expressing their outrage at Starr's investigation into Clinton's private sex life.
Meanwhile - the legal proceedings went on. We learned that Clinton was lying when he said that he hadn't had an affair with Gennifer Flowers. It' didn't matter, though, because that fact came to light through the efforts of Ken Starr, and Starr, as we were constantly reminded, was out of control.
Clinton's obstruction intensified. He claimed executive privilege. Secret service privilege. Every possible obstruction. And each and every time a Federal Court struck him down. None of it mattered.
The objective was clear. Build public hatred of Kenneth Starr while continuing to obstruct and refuse to cooperate with the investigation. The primary goal was to delay this matter past the November elections. If the voters learned the truth about Clinton (as if they don't already know the truth) before the elections it might mean that the Democrats would take a hit in the elections. That would give the Republicans more strength from which to launch further inquiries or an impeachment action. If the lies work, however, the idiot voters in this country might be persuaded to put more Democrats into the House of Representatives. That would make Clinton resignation and impeachment proof.
It gradually became clear to Clinton that he really didn't need to keep his promise to tell the American people the nature of his relationship with Ken Starr. The people, prodded by network news anchors and sympathetic newspaper editorials, were rallying to his defense! He hadn't even told his side of the story, and they were siding with him and his spinmasters against Starr.
The latest? Well, Bill Clinton has now made it clear that he doesn't intend to say anything more about his relationship with Lewinsky. Period. He is not going to tell the American public what happened, and he is going to refuse to testify before Kenneth Starr's grand jury. His "Starr is out of control" spin has worked so well that he can now take ultimate advantage. He can refuse to testify and refuse to cooperate with the investigation because, as everybody knows, Kenneth Starr is out of control and can't be trusted. All that's left to be done is to get those Democrats elected to the House.
If the American people were awake they might well be asking the question "Well, Mr. Clinton, if Starr is out of control, if he's crossed the line so badly, why don't you just fire him? Why don't you just get rid of him and get another special prosecutor that will handle his responsibilities more fairly?"
The answer? Clinton knows that Starr isn't out of control. In fact, Clinton knows that Starr has been doing his job, and doing it well. He has been steadily and carefully gathering and compiling the evidence, in spite of Clinton's obstruction.
Every American with an appreciation of our justice system and the rule of law ought to be absolutely outraged. That, however, takes integrity and a sense of the different between right and wrong.
Says he won't respond to Kenneth Starr because he thinks Starr is conducting a biased and partisan investigation. Well, dammit, FIRE HIM!
Clinton is relying on the stupidity of the American people and his ability to manipulate them. For him, it seems like a safe bet.
This man is the most fundamentally dishonest and corrupt person ever to hold the office of the presidency. He is a liar and, in the vernacular of the North Carolina mountains, a "whore dog."
Clinton is a canker sore on the face of American history. He should be reviled for his misdeeds --- instead, he is praised. In so-doing, this disgusting, power-hungry politician is doing harm --- perhaps irreparable harm --- to the very legal foundation of this Country. History will judge him harshly, even if today's so-called "citizens" don't.
How can one witness this tragic situation and have hope for the future of America?
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