"'I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.'" "But, he continued, 'Nobody has a sense of humor in this country. Everything becomes a federal case.'"
"'It's not easy to inhale smoke when you've never done it,' he said. 'I wasn't trying to exonerate myself and be cute. I tried.'" (Clinton, 4/24/92)
"'The answer to that question is I've never broken a state law,' Clinton replied. 'When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two and didn't like it. I didn't inhale and I didn't try again.'" (The Boston Globe, 3/30/93)"'
I didn't violate the drug laws of my country.'" (The Baltimore Sun, 4/10/94)
And in June 1992, Candidate Clinton was interviewed on the pop-television channel, MTV: "Q: 'If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?' A: 'Sure, if I could. I tried before." (MTV, 6/92)
Teenage drug use increased from 1992 to 1995. Apparently Clinton was unable to lessen the popularity and useage of drugs. Maybe he shouldn't have told the village children that he tried them. On the campaign trail in 1992, Clinton told reporters he had tried marijuana but insisted he "didn't inhale." Later, in an interview on MTV, Clinton was asked whether he would inhale if he had the chance to do it over again. He smirked and said, "Sure, if I could. I tried before."
"'I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country, and that is the absolute truth.'" (Bill Clinton, New Orleans Times Picayune, 4/24/92)
"Q: If you had it to do over again, would you inhale? "A: [Bill Clinton:] Sure, if I could. I tried before." (Bill Clinton, MTV "Choose or Lose Special," 6/16/92)
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME." (Bill Clinton, Campaign Rally, Detroit, MI, 10/29/92)
MTV's Tabitha Soren: In your speech last night you said that drugs were wrong and deadly. But on MTV a couple of years ago someone asked you if you could inhale -- if you could do it over again, would you inhale; and you said, "Yeah, I tried the first time."
President Clinton: That was true.
Soren: Do you wish that you had answered differently?
Clinton: ... When I answered the question I told the truth. I just told the truth about the question.
Soren: It was a joke?
Clinton: Yes.
In 1992 Bill Clinton was asked by an MTV reporter, "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?" Governor Clinton's response, "Sure, if I could. I tried before." (MTV Interview, 6/15/1992).
Former DEA Agent Wayne Roques, who frequently speaks to school kids about drugs, said, "Since Clinton took office, I haven't gone to one school where some of the kids didn't laugh because of the president's comment." (Investor's Business Daily, 6/26/96)
Clinton slashed the White House Office of Drug Control Policy by 83 percent. He cut the number of drug enforcement agents. He cut training for drug enforcement. He cut drug interdiction. His top health official, the Surgeon General, suggested legalizing drugs.
Clinton shut down 2 of the 4 runways at Los Angeles International Airport so he could have his hair cut aboard Air Force One by Cristophe's of Beverly Hills. Cristophe's going rate: $200.00 per haircut! (Your tax money well spent.)
George Stephanopoulus 'explanation' for this was: "The President has got to get his hair cut like everybody else."
"The president has formed an alliance with the law enforcement officers around this country and experts in fighting crime, passed legislation, over the opposition of Senator Dole and Speaker Gingrich, that is now putting 100,000 extra community police officers on the streets." --Al Gore, ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," 8/25/96
"What I am advised is that there are 17,000 officers that can be identified as being on the streets." --Attorney General Janet Reno, media availability, 5/16/96
"At least $7.2 million in COPS grants has been used to hire 86 officers for state parks, marinas and other areas seemingly far removed from violent crime." --Investor's Business Daily, 7/16/96
"'I see the White House is like a subway: You have to put in coins to open the gates,' Chung said in his first public comments on the controversial episode." (Los Angeles Times, 7/28/97)
'With regard to masturbation, I think that is something that is a part of human sexuality and a part of something that perhaps should be taught,' she [Elders] told the 200 people in the U.N. audience." (U.S. News & World Report, 12/19/94)
Midnight Basketball. Your Tax dollars at work.
"Number one, we have strictly abided by all of the campaign finance laws, strictly. There've been no violations." (Al Gore, NBC's "Meet the Press," 10/13/96)
John Huang helped set up then-Sen. Albert Gore, Jr.'s trip to Taiwan, where he met Taiwanese officials and Buddhist temple master Shing Yun. (source: Investor's Business Daily, 12/17/96)
WHAT?
Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. attended a fund- raiser at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, at which $140,000 was raised from monks and nuns. The same Shing Yun Gore met in 1989, was the head of the Hsi Lai Temple. (Los Angeles Times, 10/17/96)
"The DNC set up the event, asked me to attend it. It was not billed as a fund-raiser. It was billed as a community out-reach event, and indeed, no money was offered or collected or raised at that event. But after the fact, contributions were sent in, and they came, evidently - again, I didn't handle any of this. This is the DNC, and they should answer questions about it." (Al Gore, 10/21/96 "National Public Radio," Human Events, 1/31/97)
"In retrospect, whether the event was a fund-raiser or not, it was a mistake for the DNC to hold a finance-related event at a temple, and I take responsibility for my attendance at the event, especially since I was informed that this outreach event was sponsored by the Asian-American Leadership Council of the DNC, and participation in the council required a prior donation."(Al Gore, The Washington Post, 1/20/97)
"I did not know that it was a fundraiser. But I knew it was a political event and I knew that there were finance people that were going to be present, and so that alone should have told me, 'This is inappropriate and this is a mistake; don't do this.' And I take responsibility for that. It was a mistake." (Al Gore, NBC's "Today," 1/24/97)
"White House aides sidestepped or ignored warnings from the National Security Council [NSC] staff about some contacts the president and vice president had with Asian American fund-raisers now under federal investigation, documents released yesterday show." "Vice President Gore's office was told by an NSC staff official to proceed with 'great, great caution' in deciding whether to attend what Gore's office explicitly described as a 'fund-raising lunch' at a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles last year." "The White House dispatched Vice President Gore to the 1996 event after deciding the concerns were unfounded."(The Washington Post, 2/15/97)
The Washington Times reports that the latest revelations, stemming from more than 30 documents turned over to Congress by former Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, show that Gore had been notified more than three months before that the Buddhist monastery event was set to raise $200,000. (The Washington Times, 4/11/97)
"He [Gore] said he never should have attended a fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple in California. 'Though I should have known, I did not know it was a fund-raiser. ... I've acknowledged it was a mistake and I've learned from that.'"(The Des Moines Register, 6/29/97)
The Senate Government Affairs Committee produced internal White House E-mail documents which showed that Gore staffers repeatedly referred to the Buddhist Temple event as a "fund-raiser" in the weeks before it took place. Clinton/Gore campaign records also show fund-raising projections, up to $200,000 for events that day during Gore's trip to Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times, 9/6/97)
The New York Times reported that the E-mail documents traced Gore's involvement in the Buddhist Temple event to a 10-minute meeting he had on March 15, 1996, with the head of the temple -- the Venerable Master Hsing Yun and its leaders. At the meeting the Buddhists invited Gore to visit the temple. Half an hour after the meeting, Gore's chief scheduler, Kimberly H. Tilley, sent Gore an E-mail message confirming that the Vice President would attend a fund-raiser in Los Angeles and another in San Jose, Calif., on April 29. The Democrat National Committee had requested weeks earlier that Gore appear at two California fund- raisers. Tilley asked whether Gore wanted to accept a speaking invitation on Long Island on the night of April 28. Three hours later, Gore responded by E-mail: "If we have already booked the fund-raisers then we have to decline." (The New York Times, 9/6/97)
"The [Arkansas State Troopers] said they were often called upon act as intermediaries to arrange and conceal [Clinton's] extramarital encounters. They say they frequently picked up and delivered gifts from clinton to various women, and often drove Clinton to meetings with women."We were more than bodyguards. We had to lie, cheat and cover up for that man," said Larry G. Patterson, a 26 year veteran State Trooper...Los Angeles Times, Dec.21,1993. They were forced to resign!!!
BUDGET? WHAT BUDGET?"I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget."--CNN's Larry King Live!, 6/4/92
"Our plan will cut the deficit in half within four years, and assure that it continues to fall each year after that."-- Putting People First (Clinton's campaign book)
"I think it can be done--well, it can--first of all, it can be done in seven years."--Bill Clinton, New Hampshire radio interview, 5/19/95
"I think it clearly can be done in less than 10 years. I think we can get there by a date certain."--Bill Clinton, same radio interview, 5/19/95
"Well, I think we could reach it in seven years. I think we could reach it in eight years. I think we could reach it in nine years." --Bill Clinton, press conference 10/19/95
Last Friday, ABC's "20/20" revealed that Phoenix, Arizona United States attorney JanetNapolitano -- appointed by Clinton in 1993 -- refused to authorize a search warrant for a suspected child pornographer who had ordered graphic child pornography from undercover postal inspectors. Her rationale? She thought it might appear as if inspectors were unfairly targeting homosexual men, according to a postal inspector interviewed by "20/20." When a search warrant was approved by a local county prosecutor, inspectors found large amounts of child pornography in the man's home. The man was later indicted on six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor (The Washington Times, 5/14/96).
Please note...pedophiles can be either HOMOSEXUAL and HETEROSEXUAL! WELL DUH!
"We cannot say that we want integrity in public life and then reward its absence. A President who has betrayed your trust has not won your vote. It is that simple."-Bob Dole, 10/15/96
"Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?" --Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), Esquire , January 1996
"To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal over the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight..." --Bill Clinton, announcing the largest tax increase in history, State of the Union address, 2/17/93
"Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I thnk I raised them too much too." --Bill Clinton, remarks at Houston fund- raiser, 10/17/95
"I take full responsibility, proudly, for what we did. It [raising taxes] was the right thing to do." --Bill Clinton, press conference, 10/19/95
"Plainly put, almost no one thinks [Clinton] believes a word he says. Or, more precisely, he believes everything he says at the moment he emphatically says it, and continues to believe it full throttle right up to the moment he repudiates it. He has the weird sincerity of the intellectual sociopath, convinced that when he speaks, truth is an option but convenience is an imperative." --George F. Will (Newsweek, 11/13/95)
"[I promise] the most ethical administration in the history of the Republic." --Bill Clinton, as quoted by Mary McGrory ( The Washington Post, 1/24/93)
"For the quickest descent into the ethical quagmire, the Clinton administration has set a new indoor record." --Howard Kurtz ( The Washington Post, 3/26/95)
"[The White House is] so shoddy, so saturated with petty manipulations, snooping and spying, rampant cronyism and tacky deceits that it makes you cringe." --David Broder (The Washington Post, 7/14/93)
"With so many high-ranking presidential appointees having run afoul of the rules -- if not the law -- voters have a right to wonder if the administration is worthy of their trust." --San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/26/95
TAXES, THEY DIDN'T AFFECT THE MIDDLECLASS DID THEY?
A $23 billion gas tax. --The New York Times, 8/8/93A $25 billion tax on Social Security recipients with incomes over $34,000. --The New York Times, 8/8/93
A huge retroactive tax hike on small-business men and women. While Clinton claims he only raised taxes on the "rich," IRS data from 1993 shows that 87 percent of individual tax returns showing income of $200,000 or more were filed by small businesses (Investors Business Daily, 2/21/96).
Clinton later called passage of his 1993 economic plan that raised taxes: "a great moment for me." --Bill Clinton (CNN News, 4/13/95)
"Marlin Hawkins of Morristown, the former Conway County Sheriff who has been upset lately over difficulties in seeing Governor Clinton about a project, said Thursday he had given Mr. Clinton illegal campaign contributions in his campaign for Congress in 1974, attorney general in 1976, and governor in 1978. (Arkansas Gazette, 1/11/80)
The Clinton' donate their used underwear to charity and duduct it on their Tax Returns.
"I am the only President in who knew something about agriculture when I got there." (Bill Clinton, Washington Post, 4/26/95)
--Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington who were all farmers before they were Presidents.
"I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently." (Bill Clinton in Longview, Texas, U.S. Newswire, 9/27/96)
--George Bush (1980 - 1992), Ross Perot (1992, 1996), Phil Gramm (1996), Lloyd Bentsen (1976, 1988), John Connally (1980), & Lyndon B. Johnson (1960, 1964) -- all Texans who ran for the presidency or vice-presidency.
When Chicago housewife Judy Mendoza told Clinton, "You Suck," he had her arrested, fingerprinted, interrogated and jailed.
"'We have played by the rules,' President Clinton said with a straight face about his money-laundering campaign tricks and sale of influence to foreigners. "He thereby demonstrated, on the final weekend before Election Day, the guiding principle of the Clinton Doctrine: even when caught red-handed, never admit wrongdoing... Be not deceived; the Asian Connection is not about the need for 'campaign finance reform.' It is about old- fashioned corruption - money taken for influence delivered and for trade policies changed - with laws long on the books going unenforced." --columnist William Safire, The New York Times, 11/4/96
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