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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2546)	6/19/2003 10:47:05 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

truthout.org

To: American Spirit who wrote (2546)	6/19/2003 6:35:38 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

Hillary Re-Writes History For those addicted to 'Reality' entertainment, the early days of summer bring myriad choices. Though most of these allegedly spontaneous 'Reality' shows are scripted to one degree or another - with the participants consisting of failed actors, actresses and models - the genre has nonetheless managed to strike a voyeuristic chord with the American viewing public. You can watch re-runs of Fear Factor, where idiots eat boiled bison testicles, immerse themselves in a vat of worms and endure public ridicule for the chance to win a measly $50,000 [before taxes.] You can also watch the latest sequel to Joe Millionaire, in which a herd of egocentric gold-diggers try to con a pretty boy [who probably already knows the scoop] into believing they are madly in love with him. The prize on this show is much better than Fear Factor, with $1,000,000 smackers awarded to the gold-digger who can high-grade the most emotional ore. But if your tastes lean more toward literature than video, you can always run out and pick up a copy of Hillary Clinton's new book Living History. It is the ultimate example of false reality, pre-processed and homogenized for easy digestion among the deluded and gullible Yes indeed, the former First Lady/wannabe dictator has been all the rage on the talk show circuit of late. She's spoken with Larry King. who asked his usual hard-hitting questions in the vein of "what's your favorite color." She's hung with Barbara Walters, and though I don't believe Hillary shed the crocodile tears which are the hallmark of a Walters presentation, she did manifest herself into the ultimate victim. Heck, Hillary has even lurked around the set of Dateline NBC. That sort of surprised me, since talking-head Katie Couric usually specializes in asking embarrassingly personal and tactless inquiries of grieving parents whose children have been butchered. However, having just feasted on the sorrow and vulnerability of Laci Peterson's parents, I guess The Today Show's resident vulture simply couldn't resist a palate-cleansing sorbet of bald-faced lies. Hillary does seem to be her heroine, after all. Admittedly, I haven't read Living History. Why bother? According to the strategically leaked excerpts, it brings no new revelations regarding the national fiasco that was the Clinton era. Hillary tells us that she didn't know her philandering hubby was fooling around with Moby Lewinski. She tells us she was in agony over the discovery of his adultery. She tells us she was so mad she wanted to "wring Bill's neck." Oooooh...those are fierce words from a woman who is widely reputed to cuss like a trucker and treat her low-level staffers with all the respect normally afforded to migrant share-croppers or galley slaves. It is notable that, in describing how she was deceived by the former Commander in Heat, Hillary refuses to discuss any of Slick Willie's other affairs and alleged forays into the world of harassment, rape and sexual battery. We don't hear much about Gennifer Flowers or Paula Jones or Kathleen Willey or Juanita Broderick. Nope...in Hillary's carefully crafted pseudo-catharsis, none of these women exist. In her Machiavellian scheme to fool the reading public and position herself for the 2008 Presidential race, they are ALL liars. They are all part of the much heralded "vast right-wing conspiracy." There's a reason for that. To admit that she got fooled once allows the Senator from New York to don the garb of the offended party, the loving wife whose man done her wrong. However, to admit that she missed all of the indiscretions would cast Hillary in the role of a moron. This is not an appropriate image for one who enjoys the title bestowed by Hollywood liberals of "the smartest woman in the world." A much more likely scenario is that Hillary knew about every one of Bill's tawdry affairs, that she didn't and doesn't care. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to discover she actually encouraged his behavior, and frequently engaged in similar antics herself The Clinton marriage has never been about emotion or trust. It has been about career and power. Hillary says she wanted the marriage to last because of "commitment, love and faith." That's perhaps her only true statement. It was a commitment to lies, a love of fame, and the faith that, lacking any semblance of ethics or conscience, the duo could fulfill their every heinous wish. I just loved this line from Hillary. "It was a challenge to forgive Bill, but if Mandela could forgive, I could try," she said, comparing her depth of understanding to that of Nelson Mandela's forgiveness of his white jailers. Get real. Nobody talks like that. Nobody even thinks like that. Such is the stuff of poorly written fiction. Or in this case...of Living History. patriotist.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (2546)	6/19/2003 10:33:21 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

What about the motivations behind 'the recall effort in CA'..?? sfgate.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (2546)	6/19/2003 11:07:13 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

Having some issues finding people _______________________________________ By Jon Carroll Columnist The San Francisco Chronicle Monday, June 16, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am beginning to get worried about the men and women of the U.S. government. Oh, I know they're big boys and can handle themselves in a fight -- I'm just afraid that handling themselves in a fight is about the only thing they can do. They can't seem to find people. The most obvious example is Osama bin Laden, for whom we launched the most massive manhunt in the history of manhunts. Hell, we tore apart an entire country looking for him, but he slipped through our fingers. And now it seems as if we've stopped looking. The best guess is that he's up there in Weirdville, the rugged (I believe that's the traditional adjective) country on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, a place that doesn't even have a government. We can't bomb it, because we currently love Pakistan. And our general policy is that we never invade a territory until we've whomped the bejeezus out of it from the air. So, have a nice life, Osama, and good luck with that kidney. Then there's Saddam Hussein. We bombed another country to get him, but we didn't. Where is he? Syria? Iran? Something-istan? Maybe he's hiding with all those weapons of mass destruction that we also didn't find. Wherever, he seems to be safe for the moment. Still, we pulled down his statue. That felt good. But those are commonplace examples. Here's a more obscure one: Ken Lay. Remember him? He was the president of Enron back when it was cheating its own shareholders, many customers and the Internal Revenue Service. He used to be a good friend of President George W. Bush, but that stopped after the scandal broke. "Ken who?" said the president, or words to that effect. Maybe that's why we can't find him: Someone destroyed his Rolodex card. I'm assuming we can't find him, because surely by now he would otherwise have been required to answer questions before some judicial body or other. He might even have done a perp walk. I'm not asking for anything exotic like a conviction. I just want him to be compelled to show up somewhere. Are Ken and Osama and Saddam all hanging out together somewhere? Maybe they're staying with the guy who sent the anthrax letters. Remember those? That was 12 orange alerts ago. The FBI is currently dragging a pond in Maryland, but no one thinks the guy is in the pond. Maybe he left a signed confession in a waterproof jar. "Dear FBI: I did it. (signed) The Guy." If the U.S. government is looking for malefactors, maybe it should check around the office. Remember WorldCom? Little matter of an $11 billion accounting fraud and subsequent bankruptcy and more cheated stockholders and suppliers. The WorldCom story didn't get as much play as the Enron story because of scandal fatigue. (Last week, it was announced that Freddie Mac, the government- created home mortgage company, was being investigated for accounting fraud, and no one raised an eyebrow. So 2001, all that.) Anyway, WorldCom (or MCI, as it now wants to be called) was recently awarded a $45 million contract by the Defense Department to rebuild the phone system of Iraq. Isn't that lovely? Lying and cheating just don't have negative connotations anymore. WorldCom and the Securities and Exchange Commission have reached an out-of- court settlement for $500 million. See, all better now. We can go to the seashore. If only the president of WorldCom had been caught growing marijuana, then the Justice Department would have really thrown the book at them. Or if Ken Lay and Saddam Hussein had tried to get married in Texas -- man, they'd be behind bars so fast your turnstiles would blur. Maybe next time. sfgate.com