Bill Clinton's Fantasy #1
Bill Clinton April 24, 1992
"I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth."
(Bill Clinton, New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/24/92)
The Facts #1
Bill Clinton June 16, 1992
"Q: If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?
"A: [Bill Clinton:] Sure, if I could. I tried before."
(Bill Clinton, MTV "Choose or Lose Special," 6/16/92)
Bill Clinton's Fantasy #2
Bill Clinton June 23, 1992
"I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desks of Congress on the day after I'm
inaugurated. I intend to have an explosive 100 day action period. Why do I think it will
pass? Well, first of all, I'm running on it."
The Facts #2
Bill Clinton Jan 14, 1993
Question from member of press:
"We were originally led to believe you would have an outline for congress even before the
inauguration and presented on day one or shortly thereafter - and now we're told it may be
a couple weeks down the road with a full plan ready in March. When will it be ready?"
Reply by Bill Clinton:
"Well, I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the Only one who's authorized to
talk about that ---"
Bill Clinton's Fantasy #3
"I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I
was a child."
President Clinton
June 8 1996 - national radio address
THE FACTS #3
"Others don't recall what Clinton does"
Headline in Arkansas Democrat Gazette of a column by Frank Wolfe
June 9, 1996
"I've never known of a black church being burned in Arkansas."
John Ferguson, Director Arkansas History Commission
quoted in the Frank Wolfe column June 9, 1996
"I looked through my files. I couldn't find anything."[referring to the Clinton quote about
fires at black churches in Arkansas]
Curtis Sykes, Chairman Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee quoted in the
Wolfe column June 9, 1996
"We were just fortunate not to have one."[when asked about fires at Arkansas black
churches]
Jerry Jewell, former state senator and former
Branch President of Arkansas NAACP
Bill Clinton's Fantasy #4
"Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses. That's why I would really like
to do well in them."
President Clinton - quoted in USA Today Feb 12, 1996
THE FACTS #4
Iowa caucuses began in 1972 - Clinton was hardly a little boy - he was at Oxford
protesting!
Bill Clinton's Fantasy #5
"My grandfather had a grade school education and ran a grocery store across the street
from the cemetery in Hope, Arkansas where my parents and grandparents are buried. Most
of his customers were working people. As a child in that store I saw that people of
different races could treat each other with respect and dignity - but I also saw that the
black neighborhood across the street was the only one in town where the streets weren't
paved - and when I returned to that neighborhood in the late 60's to see a woman who had
cared for me when I was a toddler, the streets still weren't paved."
President Clinton in National Archives speech - July 19, 1995
THE FACTS - #5
"I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Those streets were paved back then, sure to
God. I know it was in the sixties, more than 30 years ago. If he says so, just say yes to all
that. He has a memory. Don't question that."
Margaret Polk, President Clinton's 3rd cousin and daughter of the woman who took
care of Bill Clinton as a child - quoted in Arkansas Democrat Gazette, July 21, 1995
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