Robert, let me try to think of anything that the disgraced former president does as acceptable..............nope, cant think of a thing. What a pitiful sideshow he is.

Suz:

How about this grim scenario: Hilary Clinton is elected President of these United States and Bubba becomes the, er, First Lady.

Why not? I mean, he does claim to be the first Black President of the US.

Do we lock up the White House interns -- male and female?!

Seriously, do we want these people in the White House again?

Would you trust the Clintons--actually any Democrats--to conduct a war against the Jihadists who threaten western civilization?

Clinton spends most of his time kvetching and raising money for so-called global warming initiatives.

Let's face it, if Bubba hated OBL as he hates Chris Wallace and the Fox Network, this country would be in far better shape.

Bush recently handled himself with both reserve and resolve when questioned by NBC's Matt Lauer on camera, in the Oval Office, about Guantanamo, torture, etc. Note the smile (not smirk) on Bush's face in this clip. How presidential.

On the other hand, what the fly on the wall in the Oval Office heard: "Monica, I dropped my pen.... Would you pick it up for me, please?"

Jeremiah:

Thanks so much for the telling link.

When I write that Bubba is "really amusing" I'm not being wildly malicious.

Just slightly so.

For the eight years Bubba and his crew were in power, I witnessed rowdy teenagers running affairs of state.

President Bush and his administration are, by stark contrast, adults.

It's a difference I constantly notice between Democrats and Republicans.

Just go to the major blogs written by Democrats. They are invariably filled to the bursting with disgusting expletives and vile ad hominem attacks on the President and most any Republican and religious leader--save Muslim leaders. They get a pass on, well, everything.

This too: On an almost daily basis Seraphic Secret receives comments that we do not publish and must delete for they are truly revolting.

They boil down to this: By virtue of being a conservative Republican and a member of the National Rifle Association, I am a fascist, a running dog of capitalism, thus I deserve to suffer a slow and horrible death.

These comments are not from fanatical Muslims -- but from die-hard Democrats. The best way to characterize them is The Daily Kos crowd.

On the other hand, Republican blogs are, for the most part, expletive free, that deal with issues and not personal attacks.

In short, civilized.

And I've just got to say this: Creatively, grammatically, Republican blogs are far more advanced than blogs authored by Democrats -- whose works invariably read like middle-of-the-night teenagers, deeply stoned, listening to violent ghetto rap, and spewing second-rate stream of consciousness style nonsense.

In short, as I've written many times, being a Democrat often means being a teenage narcissist.

And being a Republican is all about being an adult and facing up to adult responsibilities.

Robert,

If you'll permit me to add to this air-freshening distinction of the blogs... I welcome disagreement with Left-leaning readers at my site - whether it's friendly or not - because it's always a chance to get better at making points, to instruct third-party readers, and to earn respect.

Also, you're also spurring me to get around to a small project I've been putting off: I'm going to throw a little egg in Arianna Huffington's face -- an egg she herself hatched!

Clinton appeared (IMHO) to have had a few before the interview...just the bloated red-faced look and the inability to keep on target. Loved the short socks and the pasty white calves peeking out...SO very Presidential!

Lisa:

Bubba has vices, but is liqour one of them? I don't know.

Here's what we do know, what is public record. I saw an interview with Chris Wallace yesterday. He was asked if he thought that Bubba's anger and furious monologue were rehearsed. Wallace said, no.

He said that Bubba was quite relaxed before the interview, but when the first question was posed Bubba just went ballistic. His staff, off-camera, were frantically waving their arms trying to signal Bubba to cool his jets, and finally as the melt-down melted down even further they tried to end the fiasco. But Bubba was churning with fury and wanted to have his say no matter what.

After the interview was over, Bubba did not shake hands with Wallace, did not make like a gentleman, he just stalked off screaming furiously at his staff. In essence, blaming them for arranging this "ambush."

You see, Democrats are addicted to user-friendly interviews by reliable Liberal/Democrats posing as objective journalists. When one single barely-tough question is posed, the Dems react like a drug addict without his dope: angrily, violently, irrationally.

Little known fact about Bubba. He might be the most charming lady-killer ever in the White House, but his temper is legendary and his staff live in fear that the public will witness this inner brute emerge.

As I said, Bubba is really, really amusing.

We live about 45 Min from Chappaqua and the buzz is that there is not a bartender in the area who has not seen him trolling. If Hillary is going to run for President, she'd better hire someone to keep him in line.

Lisa:

Okaaay! Now we're talking!

Here's all you have to do. Sell Bubba some of your fabulous soap. It should be easy. Just tell him it's a sure way of gettin' girls--convince that ol hound dog that the fragrance is an aphrodisiac. Then you fall into easy conversation with him and report back to us.

You can be our official Seraphic Bubba Blabber!

Ha! Ordinarily I'd make the crawl thru broken glass, but I don't think even my soap will remove Clinton slime (shudder)!

Lisa,

On behalf of the VRWC (vast right-wing conspiracy), please go out and buy any digital image recording device (cell phone, camera, whatever) and I personally guarantee VRWC will reibmurse you for it. VRWC will also reimburse you for your first 2 drinks each evening you go out on the trail of ex-president.

You will also be paid $500 per verifiable image of Mr. Rodham Clinton you bring back (+ $200 if the image shows him engaged with a female patron and + another $200 if the image contains signage identifying the establishment).

Fair warning: You will probably find yourself in competetionwith Mrs. Rodham Clinton's personally-designated agents who will be hot on the same trail for the same images (and for her ulterior motives).

Fine print: VRWC will not, however, provide attorneys' fees or any other legal expenses you may incur should Mr. Rodham Clinton or any of his associates (cough), partners (ahem), representatives, assignees or heirs initiate any legal action against you.

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Is it just me or does Clinton in Chappaqua resonate with some of the same tones of Mel in Malibu?

Let me understand this....Democrat/Liberal-Based Blogs are "invariably filled to the bursting with disgusting expletives and vile ad hominem attacks on the President", but the entire comments section here doesn't address whether what Bill Clinton said was true or not. Instead, all of you attack him and his family who have devoted their lives to public service.

How sad.

I am (obviously) not a Bush supporter. But, I've never called him an evil man. I don't even call him dumb. I disagree with his policies and I disagree with the way he is handling the War on Terror. But to attack the former president the way you all do in this Blog is very sad. Disagree, but be logical about it. I understand that the Right has an almost unabiding hatred for All Things Clinton. But, if you want to attack him, base it on logic, not on "disgusting expletives and vile ad hominem attacks on the President."

Hourman:

We understand irony here and we have a sense of humor, something grim Democrats are in short supply of.

>> Did I hear the former President correctly when >> he said that:

>> The far right accused him of "being obsessed >> with OBL."

>> Huh?

Perhaps he is aiming at the 20% of the audience (maybe more) that doesn't know anything or didn't pay enough attention. He can claim he was obsessed, which is also a lie - except that we can say he was building a paper trail - but he told the 911 Commssion he kept that obsession secret!

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.htm

>

So how exactly could he have been criticized for spending too much time on bin Laden. Now if you do Google searches now you'll find other claims by Clinton partisans.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=public+clinton+spoke+repeatedly

It was in fact hard to find the 911 Commssion text as you can see.

>> That his administration "contracted" to kill >> OBL?

>> Please, more details?

Clinton did sign such a thing or something close to it in December 1998, but then he took it back. He later lied about it to the 911 Commssion

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch4.htm

Policymakers in the Clinton administration, including the President and his national security advisor, told us that the President's intent regarding covert action against Bin Ladin was clear: he wanted him dead. This intent was never well communicated or understood within the CIA. Tenet told the Commission that except in one specific case (discussed later), the CIA was authorized to kill Bin Ladin only in the context of a capture operation. CIA senior managers, operators, and lawyers confirmed this understanding. "We always talked about how much easier it would have been to kill him," a former chief of the Bin Ladin unit said.128

In February 1999, another draft Memorandum of Notification went to President Clinton. It asked him to allow the CIA to give exactly the same guidance to the Northern Alliance as had just been given to the tribals: they could kill Bin Ladin if a successful capture operation was not feasible. On this occasion, however, President Clinton crossed out key language he had approved in December and inserted more ambiguous language. No one we interviewed could shed light on why the President did this. President Clinton told the Commission that he had no recollection of why he rewrote the language.129

Later in 1999, when legal authority was needed for enlisting still other collaborators and for covering a wider set of contingencies, the lawyers returned to the language used in August 1998, which authorized force only in the context of a capture operation. Given the closely held character of the document approved in December 1998, and the subsequent return to the earlier language, it is possible to understand how the former White House officials and the CIA officials might disagree as to whether the CIA was ever authorized by the President to kill Bin Ladin.130

Here is the quote from the 911 Commssion where it says Bill Clinton was obsessed (deeply concerned yopu could say = obsessed) with bin Laden, but he kept that concern secret:

Page 174 at the start of Chapter 6:

President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Ladin. He and his national security advisor, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Ladin's reported location.1 In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Ladin and nothing about al Qaeda. He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Ladin's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity. His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.2

>> Moving his bones?

>> Good grief, is this bad Mafia dialogue channeled through the back country roads of hillbilly Arkansas?

Clinton did not grow up in Hillbilly Arkansas. that is The Man from Hope is one of his big lies. I am kind of surpised - maybe I shouldn't be taht you don't know.

He grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which was run bya real-life Lex Luther, you might say, the founder of organized crime in America as we know it, Owney "Owney the Killer" Madden. His step-uncle was part of the political machine there.

I once sent a letter to the New York Times asking it to be shown to Maureen dowd and William Safire and I think Maureen Dowd must have read it. She did know about Hot Springs but thought it a more minor sin, without grave implications. You know it looked like I was documenting - something taht just couldn't possibly be true.

Here are a few things available on the Internet:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy/browse_thread/thread/bbec86014b015d60/20510655948a2ee7?lnk=st&q=sammy+finkelman+madden&rnum=2&hl=en#20510655948a2ee7

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/msg/bc3291c4d5cfa21c?dmode=source&hl=en
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9708&L=flight-800&T=0&P=30014

http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9904&L=flight-800&T=0&P=22030

http://home.dc.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9711&L=flight-800&T=0&P=12896

http://home.dc.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9906&L=flight-800&T=0&P=24871