Clinton Finally Leaves Office
Prominent news personalities are only now discovering what many intelligent people have known about Bill Clinton since before his ascension to the presidency: he is a demagogic liar who wouldn't know integrity if it bit him on the rear end.
During his first presidential campaign, Clinton and his liberal news media deceived the American people into believing the Republicans had destroyed the economy. The truth is economic indicators had begun to improve a year before Clinton's first term. Despite Democratic claims, Clinton wasn't the architect of a spellbinding economic recovery.
But Clinton never let insignificant things like facts influence him. Over the course of his presidency, Bill Clinton claimed credit for welfare reforms, balanced budgets, and fiscal surpluses. Republicans spearheaded these efforts, and Clinton fought tooth-and-nail against all of them.
Clinton's stubbornness led to two government shutdowns during the mid-nineties because Clinton refused to sign continuing resolutions permitting the government to maintain operations under the previous budget in lieu of a new budget.
Deception and obfuscation comprised President Clinton's modus operandi from the moment he assumed office. The best known example of this is the scandal of 1998. White House intern Monica Lewinsky was one of Clinton's many mistresses. Clinton had attempted to silence Lewinsky with job offers and expensive gifts, but Kenneth Starr discovered the affair anyway. After being confronted with the truth, Bill Clinton denied any liaisons with Lewinsky: first to a judge and then to the American people. ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman.") Clinton's unprincipled cronies proceeded to slander Lewinsky throughout the media, portraying her as an insane stalker with a head full of nothing but fantasies and delusions.
First Lady Hillary Clinton denounced the investigation into her husband's sexual activities as a "vast right–wing conspiracy." Monica Lewinsky's stained dress eventually forced Clinton to admit "inappropriate" activities with the former intern. Even to this day, though, Democrats still defend Clinton's lies by insisting the affair was a private matter between Bill, Hillary, and Monica, and was outside the government's proper purview.
Bill Clinton apparently did not agree with such logic before the scandal. In 1994, Clinton signed a bill called the Violence Against Women Act. The Act provided for the right of plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases to probe into a defendant's sexual history. Clinton thus provided the noose for Starr to use. By crying foul when Starr investigated his sex life, Clinton demonstrated his terrible hypocrisy.
Clinton's duplicity reached a new level when he utilized one of the president's most sacrosanct Constitutional powers by pardoning Marc Rich, a fugitive on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List. Strangely enough, Rich's wife has made substantial contributions to Clinton's legal defense fund and to Clinton's Presidential Library project.
Before deciding to pardon Rich, Clinton discussed the matter with the finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but not with the Department of Justice. As a result, Clinton's cabinet members are furious with him, as are Democratic Party donors. Even some top Democrats in Congress, most notably Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, have questioned the appropriateness of the Rich pardon.
Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, New York federal prosecutors, and the United States Congress have all launched investigations into the Rich pardon. Public opinion in the past prevented any serious measures against Clinton, but it seems as though the tide is finally starting to turn?this writer is cautiously hopeful.
