http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/clinton200711"Before Hillary officially established her exploratory committee, she began directly competing with the vice president for money, sometimes even at his own fund-raising events. When Tipper's friend Melinda Blinken and a group of women planned a Gore fund-raiser in Los Angeles, Hillary insisted on being invited—over the objections of the event's organizers. Hillary then shocked the vice president's supporters by soliciting donations for herself in front of Tipper."Why would Hillary Clinton do this to the Gores in California, when she was only running in New York?
Personally, I believe Bill Clinton screwed his loyal Vice-President over three times before Al Gore ever reached the podium at the 2000 convention that was to nominate him for the Presidency.
The first was the adolescent throw back affair it self, this is when Bill Clinton forgot the theme song from his own 92 convention, Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow", I still have ambivalent feelings whenever I hear that song. This also told me Bill Clinton didn't truly believe the looming catastrophe of Global Warming was for real, or he wouldn't have jeopardized his Vice-President's upcoming election. I believe as bad as this was, it wasn't insurmountable because it was primarily a betrayal against his own family and many would consider this private behavior.
The second and much more devastating betrayal against Al Gore was when Bill Clinton looked the American People in the camera lens and told them quite adamantly that he never had sexual relations with that woman. This turned a family betrayal in to a national one, he lied to everyone at this point, he and certainly Al Gore would've been much better off had he kept his mouth shut or at least admitted the truth up front, because this act gave Bush the integrity issue ammunition on a silver platter. Bush's cronies knew it as well, that's why he ran on "restoring honor and integrity to the White House".
The third time was at the 2000 convention it self, read the paragraph below and couple that with what seemed like a ten minute self aggrandizing walk down the hall way, when he could've used that precious national prime time air time to promote Al Gore for President. It was always about Bill and when Hillary had him by the short hairs it was always about Hillary, this is a large reason as to why we have Cheney/Bush in the White House today.
"During his all-night conversation with Ken Burns in June, Bill "spoke movingly of the Democratic National Convention that was coming," Burns recalled, "and how because he was on the backside of scandal and impeachment he had a more delicate role to play."I can't help but be amazed by people who claim Al Gore made a mistake by not using Bill Clinton more. Should your friend and superior stab you in the back, one could make an excuse for them and say, hey he just tripped with that Bowie Knife in his hand and it was an accident. If the same friend then stabbed you twice in the back, you could still forgive them and say, he just tripped with the Bowie in his right hand and the K-Bar in his left. Now if the friend stabs you in the back three times, you might begin to question their loyalty and say he just tripped with the Bowie in his right hand, the K-Bar in his left, but where in the hell did that rusty butter knife come from!? I believe that alone would be enough to make a person go to Spain for a while and grow a beard.
Final conclusion, does anyone see any irony in the corporate media's 180 on the Clintons; people they waged a witch hunt against from the beginning to the end of his eight years in office. Today the same corporate media believe the same man should be our nation's very first
First Gentleman, only they're having difficulty using that term, it's more like First Spouse or First Husband, even though First Gentleman would more a applicable counter title to First Lady. I believe their primary target was Al Gore from the beginning precisely because he empowered the people when he became the primary political champion of the Internet, thus threatening their monopoly on information, information = money, power and influence and as the Internet grew in power and influence they came to resent Al Gore for it. I call this the Prometheus Effect.
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