The Clinton Years ... past and present

[DogPoundPup]

End of the Bush-Clinton Era? By Robert Parry
May 25, 2008

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Some Democrats have come to see the Clintons as less a cats-and-dogs enemy of the Bushes than two sides of the same coin, a kind of duopoly that is more common in Third World nations where two ruling families trade power back and forth without disrupting the power structure.

In this view, Bill Clinton essentially earned his bones with the Bush family in 1993 when he swept a dustbin full of Republican scandals under the rug – including the Iran-Contra Affair, Iraq-gate and the October Surprise question.

President Clinton may have thought he was being responsible and buying some bipartisan peace. But he actually cemented an incomplete and false history of the Reagan-Bush period, thus denying the American people a thorough understanding of what their government had done over those dozen years.

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Clinton also freed up the Republican attack machine from playing defense for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, enabling it to go on the offensive against Clinton and his wife. In other words, Clinton’s acquiescence to the Reagan-Bush cover-ups proved to be both wrongheaded and shortsighted.

Yet Clinton didn’t seem to learn much. Despite the pummeling he took – including suffering only the second presidential impeachment in U.S. history – Bill Clinton still kept his Justice Department on the sidelines when George W. Bush stole the Florida election and thus the White House from Al Gore in 2000.

Then, after leaving office, Clinton made one of his chief priorities the forging of an alliance with George H.W. Bush, as they traveled around the world on humanitarian missions. This Bush-Clinton tandem became a feel-good measure of how Washington insiders gauge bipartisanship, the two ruling families working together.

Read much more at http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/052508.html

[AllentownJake]

1. Yep

It's coming to an end this year and President Obama will have no problem letting AG Edwards investigate and prosecute the war criminals.

[K Gardner]

3. Is that why the desperation, you think?

[AllentownJake]

4. Part of it

The current administration is scared shitless. If they have a President Obama alot of top Bush Aides will be in Federal Prison with no hope for pardons or commutations like Scooter got.

I expect Karl Rove to be pardoned by Bush as he leaves the white house.

Which is actually not a bad thing...he doesn't go to jail but if he has been pardoned the 5th amendment doesn't apply to him :smoke:

[K Gardner]

5. Thanks :-)

[DogPoundPup]

6. I wonder, why do Clinton supporters dislike America so much?

Or are they just not educated about history? And not curious about the past and how the U.S. got to where we are today?

[AllentownJake]

7. Its a mixxed bag

Some of them are actually voting for Bill. Some want a woman President. Some believe in her.

She's essentially running on remember the 90s they were great I can bring them back.

[DogPoundPup]

8. "running on remember the 90s " which is exactly why they really do need to study

the 90's and see how the Clinton's used them at election time, then abandoned them in the Administration time which brought us to where we are today. N-A-F-T-A, with Bill stretching as far as he could stretch ACROSS THE AISLE TO HELP THE REPUBLICANS PASS IT!

[AllentownJake]

9. People don't think

like that. They remember gas being cheap and work being plentiful and we weren't at war.

If you polled most US citizens they would blame NAFTA on Bush.

[DogPoundPup]

10. The internets are a failure??????????????

[grassfed]

2. k/r

[Window]

11. K/R.

:kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. The Clinton's came to power, and kept it, by pandering to the right.

Then they called it "progress" and themselves "progressives".

[DogPoundPup]

13. Pandering to the right OH YEA, Hill has always been a republican