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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (15793)	6/9/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

The O.J. Simpson of American Politics Waco Tribune June 9, 1998 Rowland Nethaway WACO, Texas < Bill Clinton is the O.J. Simpson of American politics. Like the Juice, Clinton can look people in the eye, tell outrageous lie after outrageous lie and get away with it. That's a devil's gift that says more about the people who allow themselves to be deceived than it does the deceiver. Clinton and his walking-dead disciples have been telling bewitched Americans that independent counsel Kenneth Starr is dragging out his investigation into the growing cloud of alleged high crimes and misdemeanors that swirl like Georgia gnats around Bill and Hillary. Clinton's tactic from the beginning of the Whitewater investigation has been delay, delay, delay. Clinton stonewalls, footdrags, throws up roadblocks, invents legal dodges and changes stories in a non-stop attempt to impede Starr's investigation. Clinton and his spellbound attendants simultaneously blame Starr for dragging out the investigation. This duplicitous tactic couldn't be more evident than in Clinton's repeated attempts to invent special privileges whenever Starr requests information. Whether the claim is executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, marital privilege or some other pretend privilege, Clinton steadfastly refuses to comply with reasonable requests that could expedite the investigation. Clinton's delaying tactic, blamed on Starr, haS been thrown out by one court decision after another. After Federal District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rejected yet another of Clinton's stonewalling privilege claims, Starr was moved to ask the Supreme Court to speed matters up by deciding these claims without going through the normal appeals process. If anyone doubted that Clinton wants to delay the investigation, then that doubt should have been swept away when the president sent his legal minions to the Supreme Court to argue against bypassing the normal appeals process because he wants to delay Starr's ability to gather information needed to complete the investigation. The justices turned down Starr's request to make emergency decisions on Clinton's appeal of his rejected privilege claims, which is a victory for Clinton's tactic of delaying and shifting the blame. Clinton's stonewalling tactics are not limited to Starr's attempt to investigate criminal charges leveled against the president. Clinton fought every request by the House Government Operations and Affairs Committee, even to the point of claiming executive privilege for over 3,000 pages of documents. In the Clinton White House, records routinely disappear. Sometimes they magically reappear. Clinton has pulled this stunt with billing records, FBI background files on prominent Republicans, files from the phony firings in the White House travel office, files from deputy White House counsel Vince Foster's office and files of White House donors lists. Ross Perot may not have been only a year off when he warned that Clinton's re-election would presage "a constitutional crisis in 1997." Clinton is easy to figure. It's a real puzzle, however, to understand why so many Americans turn a blind eye to his outrageous behavior. In an April 9, 1992 Time/CNN poll less than six months before his election, 53 percent of Americans said "No" when asked "Is Bill Clinton honest and trustworthy enough to be president." When asked if Clinton "would say anything to get elected president," 67 percent said "Yes" while 62 percent said "No" when asked if Clinton is "someone you would be proud to have as president." Clinton is the O.J. Simpson of American politics.

To: lazarre who wrote (15793)	6/9/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

something very serious ( some might read that " dangerous " ) is taking place. That's the only reason why I brought up the Constitution of the United States. The Clintons and their ilk are dangerous, no doubt about that. They have no regard for the law as they have shown time and again. It's just that I seem to recall the Founding Fathers referring to a concept called Checks & Balances. I don't know, it just seemed now might have been an appropriate time to bring it up. No? Privileges are not in the Constitution. Nice try, but your foot is still in your mouth. No doubt its usual position. As for checks and balances, Congressional investigations and the IC ARE the checks and balances!!! So are the courts which have slapped the Clintons down on such a regular basis.