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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>PRESIDENT CLINTON has presented his survival of impeachment as a
personal triumph in which the American people stood at his side in a patriotic
fight against enemies of the Constitution.
Evoking an almost heroic view of his ordeal at the
hands of the Republican-controlled Congress, Bill
Clinton said historians of the future would salute his
defence of the Constitution. His words seemed
part of an effort to shape his own political legacy.
This process includes reaching out to a population
which has always warmed to his personal touch,
not least by his first question and answer session on
an internet site.
Mr Clinton was impeached by the House of
Representatives in December for lying to a grand
jury when he denied having a sexual relationship
with Monica Lewinsky. But Republicans in the
Senate could not raise the two-thirds majority to remove him.
In an interview with ABC television, Mr Clinton said: "I think that history will
view this much differently. They will say I made a bad personal mistake, I
paid a serious price for it, but that I was right to stand and fight for my country
and my constitution and its principles, and that the American people were
very good to stand with me." He put the Lewinsky scandal in the context of
other investigations into his conduct, like the Whitewater development deal in
Arkansas.
He said: "I made a personal mistake and they spent $50 million trying to ferret
it out because they had nothing else to do, because all the other charges were
totally false, bogus, made up, and people were persecuted because they
wouldn't commit perjury against me. I think that over the long run, the fact that
we accomplished as much as we did in the face of the most severe, bitter
partisan onslaught . . . will, in a way, make many of the things we achieve
seem all the more impressive."
When he appeared on the Web via George Washington University, Mr
Clinton likened his internet debut to the "fireside chats" that Franklin
Roosevelt held with the American people on the radio, or John F Kennedy's
first televised press conferences. Asked by "Mark of England" if he wished he
could serve a third term, something prohibited in the constitution, he said: "I
love this job and I would continue to do it if I could."
With an online audience of 50,000, he told another questioner that he thought
his legacy would be "a time of transformation, hope, of genuine opportunity, a
time when we deepened the bonds of freedom".[/quote]
Deepened the bonds of freedom....Freedom means without bonds, Your Billness.
Completely delusional!
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
[This message has been edited by DC (edited November 10, 1999).]
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>PRESIDENT CLINTON has presented his survival of impeachment as a
personal triumph in which the American people stood at his side in a patriotic
fight against enemies of the Constitution.
Evoking an almost heroic view of his ordeal at the
hands of the Republican-controlled Congress, Bill
Clinton said historians of the future would salute his
defence of the Constitution. His words seemed
part of an effort to shape his own political legacy.
This process includes reaching out to a population
which has always warmed to his personal touch,
not least by his first question and answer session on
an internet site.
Mr Clinton was impeached by the House of
Representatives in December for lying to a grand
jury when he denied having a sexual relationship
with Monica Lewinsky. But Republicans in the
Senate could not raise the two-thirds majority to remove him.
In an interview with ABC television, Mr Clinton said: "I think that history will
view this much differently. They will say I made a bad personal mistake, I
paid a serious price for it, but that I was right to stand and fight for my country
and my constitution and its principles, and that the American people were
very good to stand with me." He put the Lewinsky scandal in the context of
other investigations into his conduct, like the Whitewater development deal in
Arkansas.
He said: "I made a personal mistake and they spent $50 million trying to ferret
it out because they had nothing else to do, because all the other charges were
totally false, bogus, made up, and people were persecuted because they
wouldn't commit perjury against me. I think that over the long run, the fact that
we accomplished as much as we did in the face of the most severe, bitter
partisan onslaught . . . will, in a way, make many of the things we achieve
seem all the more impressive."
When he appeared on the Web via George Washington University, Mr
Clinton likened his internet debut to the "fireside chats" that Franklin
Roosevelt held with the American people on the radio, or John F Kennedy's
first televised press conferences. Asked by "Mark of England" if he wished he
could serve a third term, something prohibited in the constitution, he said: "I
love this job and I would continue to do it if I could."
With an online audience of 50,000, he told another questioner that he thought
his legacy would be "a time of transformation, hope, of genuine opportunity, a
time when we deepened the bonds of freedom".[/quote]
Deepened the bonds of freedom....Freedom means without bonds, Your Billness.
Completely delusional!
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
[This message has been edited by DC (edited November 10, 1999).]