Monday, July 24, 2006

Former President Bill Clinton CONTINUES to BETRAY American voters... Campaigns for "tail-gunner Joe" Lieberman.

This is a difficult post to write, because the worst 5 minutes of the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton was so much better than even the best 5 minutes of the Bush administration. (This "wild statement," of course, is no exaggeration, when one dispassionately aknowledges that THE BEST thing that every happened to George W. Bush's administration (and neo-con/neo-confederate agenda) was the attack by 20 terrorist hijackers on 9-11, which has allowed the Bush admin. to use secrecy, huge government contracts as corporate bribes, and the "war on terra" to steamroll all political opposition.)

And, because it is tough to write about Clinton's role in the Right-Wing junta's TAKEOVER of EVERY branch of the US government and 4th estate, without going over "WHO's TO BLAME?!" ground.

But as everyone with a pulse knows, the RADICAL RIGHT WING *is* in charge of every branch of the federal government - the House, the Senate, the White House, the treasury, the US Supreme Court, federal judiciary, department of defense and intel agencies, FEMA, Homeland Security, dozens of other vital agencies, and even the "4th estate," the press-media. At one time the press-media in America had an informative function. But today, the ENTIRE "major media" has gone corporate, and their SOLE BUSINESS is to sell distraction and distortion INFOTAINMENT - "who won the American Idol voting?" as "news," while IGNORING the issues of torture, fraudulent contracts, secrecy and spying, massive deficits, etc., ad naseum.

For example, look at CNN "news" today, the organization tht bills itself as "the most trusted news in America."

For CNN, "reporting" on the war in Lebanon involves not much more than endless loops of Hezbollah militia men launching unguided 5" 'Katyusha" rockets, one of the more effective weapons in the Red army's arsenal against Germany in WWII, and A.) a similar loop of Israeli bombs and missiles impacting targets in Lebanon; and B.) lots of breathless coverage of futuristic laser and high-energy counter-missile weaponry. CNN's "reporting" was what you might expect a high-school war enthusiast would come up with if he had access to the videos and a good editing studio.

This routine - endless discussions of missiles and counter-missile defenses - is what passes for "reporting" at CNN. The fact that the Republican Party in America has launched a JIHAD against the NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY and regime - is a VERBOTTEN subject in America's captive, prostitute media.

The THOUSAND PLUS Lebanese and Hezbollah militia men HELD CAPTIVE by Israel, with no trials, Red Cross access, or POW rights - is a VERBOTTEN SUBJECT of American reporting. Israel's HUGE NUCLEAR ARSENAL - a VERBOTTEN subject in America's captive press.

All those UN resolutions condemning Israel for sponsoring SETTLERS in Palestinian territory - VERBOTTEN SUBJECT in US media.

And it is PRECISELY this "VERBOTTEN!" agenda that former President William Jefferson Clinton signs on to.

He WILL campaign in Connecticut on behalf of Joe Lieberman, the ultimate expression of the AIPAC/neo-con agenda in the Democratic Party. And, of course, over the past 6 years the neo-conservative ("neo-con") agenda is SYNONYMOUS with the administration of George W. Bush, from neo-con warhawks like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle and Douglas Feith (inside the Bush govt.) to neo-con warhawks like William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and William Safire outside the administration, securely 'embedded' at the very highest levels of the US press-media.

Indeed, we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have long maintained that ARTHUR SULZBERGER, as owner and publisher of the New York Times, is FAR MORE OF A NEO-CON HAWK than a "liberal bias lefty media elite" publisher, and as a result, the NEW YORK TIMES has, for over a decade now, BEEN ALLIED with, to the point of being SYNONYMOUS WITH, the neo-con, Bush administration agenda.

Which is exactly our complaint against President Clinton. Bill Clinton WELL KNOWS that the Right-Wing press & media were "OUT TO GET HIM." And Bill Clinton WELL KNOWS that the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST, at the very pinacle of American media/reporting, JOINED THAT "get Clinton!" smear-mob.

At every turn, not only did President Clinton EMPOWER his own critics, but he NEVER CONFRONTED the New York Times or Washington Post about their serial publication of LIES. As we here at C-dems.blgspt.com have mentioned before, the lies, innuendoes, and distortions of the "get Clinton!" mob are detailed and chronicled in Gene Lyons and Joe Conason's book, "The Hunting of the President." But Bill Clinton does not come off as a very sympathetic leader in this book, ALLOWING the farcical GOP witch-hunt to procede at every stage, even when Ken Lay's "independent counsel" investigation veered from a financial investigation ("Whitewater" routine real-estate flop) into a relentless INTERROGATION of EVERY WOMAN who had ANY contact with the President.

This was an appalling miscarriage of American justice - eg the Ken Starr jihad against Julie Hiatt Steele and Susan McDougal - that Bill Clinton NEVER CONFRONTED. Not only did Clinton FAIL to CONFRONT Starr's grotesque abuse of powers to achive a political end (by going on a ruthless vendetta against Clinton's friends and associates, Republicans hoped to run the democratically elected president out of the White House), but, in allowing the Ken Starr Republicans to prosecute and practically torture Jim McDougal, Bill Clinton EMPOWERED REPUBLICANS and their media allies to BURY, WHITEWASH, STONEWALL, FORGET the huge S&L scandal story of the late 1980's and early 1990's, the scandal that had thrown America into a recession by 1992.

It was that recession, brought on by Republican policies, that empowered Democrats to boost a candidate to within striking range of President George H.W. Bush's 1992 campaign - Bush Sr. had defeated Saddam Hussein's Iraq and expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait, and received stratospheric 80%+ approval ratings just over a year before the 1992 election.

Bill Clinton did indeed help Americans recover from the Republican recession of 1991-1992 (the Bush Recession brought on by S&L billions in losses made up for by taxpayers; the "peace dividend" misused to SLASH defense contracts and military bases WITH NO SOFT LETDOWN; the continuing Republican Jihad on unions and working Americans, as evidenced by the PATCO strike of Reagan and the EASTERN bankruptcy under Bush supporter Frank Lorenzo, etc.) - BUT HE, President Clinton, *ALLOWED* the Republicans to win the PROPAGANDA WAR.

By the time Al Gore campaigned to succeed Clinton in 2000, the US press/media couldn't give two hoots about the S&L debacle or 1991 recession - they had found that "SMEAR DEMOCRATS!" was easy money, and the press/media lulled millions of American voters into thinking that the new technology economy was bullet-proof.

And the "SMEAR DEMOCRATS!" gang WAS EMPOWERED by Bill Clinton.

For example, as Vice President Gore was cranking up his 2000 campaign, Bill Clinton allowed Vanity Fair magazine to publish a cover-photo of Clinton sitting on a chair, legs akimbo, photo taken from a low vantage point. The only thing missing from that picture was a "joint" (marijuana cigarette) offerred by the sitting president to the viewer. In that same summer, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times couldn't find anything more substantial to write about in her influential column than A.) Al Gore's earth-tones wardrobe; and B.) Bill Clinton's "LEGACY." If we heard it once, we heard it a thousand times, "LEGACY!" "LEGACY!" "LEGACY!" in a very influential op-ed column written by one of the most widely read female news personalities of the day - Maureen Dowd on a virtual VENDETTA against Bill Clinton's presumed "search for a LEGACY!"

For Jimmy's sake - couldn't President Clinton have invited Dowd to the White House, to show her how obtaining PEACE in the Middleeast is just a little more important than any one leader's "LEGACY"? President Clinton did, after all, INVITE William Safire TO THE WHITE HOUSE, within the week of Safire and his NEW YORK TIMES editors and publisher publishing Safire's infamous "HILLARY IS A CONGENITAL LIAR!" column. Headlined with exactly that sentence!

Back in the 1950s, another self-made Democratic president, Harry S. Truman, vowed to PUNCH IN THE NOSE (and elsewhere) a Washington Post music critic who had written a disparaging critique of President Truman's daughter. At the time, Truman was derided all over Washington (and in the national press) as a rube and a country bumpkin for his comments, but today his bellicosity in defense of his family seems charming. (He never made good on the threat.) WOULD THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON had 1/10th of Truman's 'STAND UP TO THE BULLIES AND GIVE 'EM HELL!" determination.

Instead, as we have tried to make the case, above, President Clinton RELENTLESSLY ROLLS OVER FOR, and EMPOWERS, the Right-Wing white-collar LYNCH MOB. Disgraced by his own "Monica" scandal and other foibles, Clinton could offer only meek, pathetic resistance to the Bush White House efforts to SMEAR departing Clinton-Gore staffers with the "WHITE HOUSE TRASHING" story, a story published on the front pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and other major 'news' providers - FOR WEEKS, WITHOUT a SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH of proof.

That "scandal' was a masterpiece, iconic (textbook) Karl Rove smear-job, and a political home-run: it effectively ran the WINNER of the 2000 election POPULAR VOTE COUNT (that would be Al Gore, who won the POPULAR VOTE NATIONWIDE in 2000 by well over 500,000 votes) OUT OF TOWN on a rail, TARRED AND FEATHERED. That psuedo (fake) "SCANDAL" ALLOWED President George W. Bush to RENEGE on his "new, more bipartisan tone in Washington" rhetoric, Bush and his team slamming the most fiercely partisan nominees he could find down the throats of the Democratic Senate confirmation process.

In short, the fake "WHITE HOUSE TRASHING SCANDAL" smeared Clinton-Gore staffers and EMPOWERED the Bush-Republican administration, and Bill Clinton was POWERLESS to do anything about it.

Since then, the Republicans have INSTITUTIONALIZED vote-switching fraud in the form of DIEBOLD, ES&S, and SEQUOIA *PROPRIETARY* vote-counting computer software, software THAT DOES NOT ALLOW DEMOCRATIC VOTERS to *KNOW* that their votes have been COUNTED CORRECTLY.

Given that we have not heard A PEEP from Mr. Clinton about the Diboldization of the US voting process, we can say that Mr. Clinton has, over the years, EMPOWERED the "get Democrats" smear mob, the Repubican theft of election 2000 (and 2002 and 2004), and the wholescale SUBSERVIENCE of the US press/media to the Republican corporate, tax-cuts, and NEO-CON agenda.

And today, Mr. Clinton, on behalf of his wife Hillary, WANTS TO SUPPORT *THE* most outspokenly neo-con senator of them all, Joe Lieberman, who not only BETRAYED African-American voters by not signing on to their "Investigate Vote Fraud in Florida in 2000!" petition in Congress, but also threw a short-sheet WET BLANKET on the Democratic Senate ENRON investigation of 2002, thereby HANDING the BEST ISSUE the Democrats had in that mid-term election over to the Republicans on a silver platter (that is, the Democrats should have campaigned in 2002 by RELENTLESSLY LINKING Enron fraud to the Bush White House), thereby (by ROBBING the party of its very best midterm issue) HANDING THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE OVER TO REPUBLICANS in that 2002 midterm. THANK YOUR FOR THE REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY, Joe Lieberman.

Bill Clinton and Senator Joe Lieberman - EMPOWERING REPUBLICANS and their "DISENFRANCHISE AMERICAN VOTERS" agenda at every turn.

FOR SHAME! Mr. Clinton.

You and Hillary are WILLING TO SPEAK OUT for Joe Lieberman, but you most certainly ARE NOT WILLING TO SPEAK OUT for those who oppose the Bush administration's lies to war; links to ENRON; sponsorship of CORRUPTION in Iraq and FEMA and New Orleans contracts; nor are you willing to SPEAK OUT against the DIEBOLDIZATION of the US voting process, aka "round up the slaves, and bring 'em back to the plantation."

<< Clinton also said he thought it was wrong for Democrats to challenge one of their own. >>


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Former president to campaign for Lieberman
WHDH New England TV news
http://www3.whdh.com:80/news/articles/local/BO23132/

HARTFORD, Conn. -- One of the Democratic Party's biggest guns, former President Bill Clinton, is coming to Connecticut to campaign for Senator Joe Lieberman.


Clinton's visit, planned for July 24 in Waterbury, comes as a new Quinnpiac Poll shows Lieberman and his Democratic primary challenger, businessman Ned Lamont, in a statistical dead heat.


Lieberman's campaign has not yet revealed details of the planned visit.


The two politicians have known each other since Clinton worked on Lieberman's first campaign for state Senate in 1970.


Clinton was a student at Yale University at the time. Clinton recently defended Lieberman's position on the war in Iraq, saying he agreed with Lieberman that the US should not set a strict timetable for withdrawing soldiers.


Clinton also said he thought it was wrong for Democrats to challenge one of their own.


(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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