|
Have some fun with Google StreetView |
Bill Clinton spent his last days and hours in the White House frantically embarrassing the nation and degrading the office of President. After months of focus on the “Clinton legacy,” his final opportunities to improve his image were squandered in acts of vengeance, ass covering, buffoonery and overdue admissions of guilt. In the long run, however, the “Clinton legacy” will be created by Bill, Hillary and their spin doctors blandly stating whatever they want the American people to believe, which the American people, not exactly sure what to say or do but vaguely aware that forming and stating confident, individual opinions is frowned upon, will swallow as readily as a dog will lap up its own vomit(Proverbs 26:11).
On the subject of pardons, nearly a gross of which were issued by the President in an 11th hour exercise of executive privilege, the official spin is, “Well, look at those evil Republicans … Ford pardoned Nixon, after all.” Ford pardoned Nixon to heal the country when the alternative was feeding Tricky Dick to the liberals as spicy, vindictive snack; Clinton pardoned his brother of cocaine charges and former business associate Susan McDougal of the real estate / banking equivalent of three-card Monte, part of the Whitewater scandal in which the First Family itself was implicated.
Concerning his last minute deal with prosecutors about having lied under oath and his acceptance of five years revocation of his license to practice law and a $25,000 fine, we are looking at an admission of guilt in the very matter the U.S. Senate acquitted him of. Had the Senate convinced itself of what W.J. Clinton revealed as the final few sands ran out of the Oval Office hourglass, they would have removed him from office. The American people will no more put this together than will the Democrats in the Senate, none of whom crossed party lines during the impeachment proceedings and all of whom acted like nothing more or less than honorary colonels in Clinton’s Robot Army.
Had they been loyal to their Party rather than to Clinton, those Senators could have ditched him and put Al Gore in office two years ago, thus giving him an extra leg up for the Presidential campaign he ultimately lost, but Boss Clinton said, “No,” to this, while wild-eyed Robot Army Assistant General Gore emphasized in speech after speech that only Clinton could fulfill the duties of President. Had Republicans had any sense, they would have used that footage of Gore admitting that he wasn’t qualified to hold the highest office in the land in national political ads, but they didn’t have any sense.
Right now, the White House is like a new dumpster which G.W. Bush will use and have opportunities to empty and steam clean for the next four years. His predecessor left his dumpster overflowing and reeking, but the public is depressingly comfortable with the stench.