DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: MENTAL STABILITY
SUBSECTION:
Revised 8/15/99

MENTAL STABILITY

The Wanderer 4/15/99 George A. Kendall "...It's obvious, from listening to the talking heads of the TV talk shows, that most of them (with the exception of a few really hard-core nitwits like Bill Press of Crossfire) acknowledge, in their heart of hearts, that Clinton's action in bombing Yugoslavia is indefensible. Yet, almost invariably, these same people, who ought to know better, end up giving voice to some sentiment along lines of "now that we are in there, we have to go the whole way, we have to back up our fighting men," and so on, even if this means sending in ground troops. Invariably, they tell us that if we fail to do so, the United States will lose all its credibility. In other words, our commander in chief has made a tremendous error in committing us to a senseless war which we have no legal or moral right to wage, but we must go along with him to save face. This is moral insanity. .."

C.J. Barr 3/30/99 ‘…


Way back in the November 1994 issue of Reason, Edith Efron asked the intriguing question:
"Can the President Think?" Her conclusion was that the president suffers from severe cognitive dysfunction and that the resulting chaos of his mind accounts for the chaos in his administration. In her analysis, Clinton emerges as the sum of two bedeviling paradoxes. The first, the paradox of the Hollow Sun King, refers to the strange emptiness that we perceive at the center of the charismatic Clinton phenomenon. The second, the paradox of the Paralyzed Sprinter, to the utter chaos that reigns at the center of his administration -- and, seemingly, of his mind….. Efron writes of the fragment of stone at the bottom of Stephanopolous' kaleidoscope -- reflecting in a unique way, showing a different facet to each person as Clinton turns. This is a metaphor for the elusive "real Clinton"; but, in truth, there is no real Clinton that we could possibly comprehend. That little fragment is so alien that it might as well not exist in our universe. At the core of this man, Clinton, where the soul is supposed to be, there is, instead, a gaping void. A black hole. The Sun King exists only as the irresistible gravitational pull he exerts on others and the dying light -- the catastrophic annihilation -- of everyone and everything that strays too close to his event horizon. Within, there is an unknowable emptiness…."

Capital Hill Blue 4/8/99 Doug Thompson "...White House staffers, Clinton confidants and others describe Clinton as "incredibly profane" and "an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." Former White House senior staff member George Stephanopoulos in his book, All Too Human, writes about Clinton's mishandling of the Somalia crisis and shows the depth of the President's violent emotions: "'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.'" Those who have known Clinton since his days in Arkansas say the quote is "vintage Bill." "Only an idiot would buy the public persona of Bill Clinton," says Walter Erricson, a retired reporter who covered Clinton in his early political days in Arkansas. "He is an incredibly profane individual. He is now and always has been an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." White House staff members say Clinton curses like a sailor, has temper tantrums that cause people to back away from him and uses the word "kill" often to describe what he wants to do with his enemies...."

Capitol Hill Blue (The Rant) 4/13/99 Doug Thompson "...The one word that says it all Contempt. Think about the word. Say it. Contempt. It rolls off the tongue easily when one needs a simple word to describe a complex man like William Jefferson Clinton. Contempt. Contempt for the law. Contempt for the truth. Contempt for decency. Contempt for the Constitution. Contempt for the people who were foolish enough to twice elect him twice to the highest office in the land. Contempt. The defining word for the legacy of Bill Clinton....No number of cruise missiles raining on Eastern Europe can erase this part of history. Clinton can bomb all of civilization back into the stone age and it still won't alter the fact that he is now officially censured, known forever as a man who so blatantly lied under oath that it pissed off a federal judge and she slapped him down for it.....And he may lose his license to practice law in Arkansas, not that anyone ever expected him to return to Arkansas to practice law or anything else. But fines and disbarrment are still overshadowed by that one word. Contempt. The word oozes with the slime that has inundated the White House from the first day Bill Clinton took office, promising the "most ethical administration in history." Six years later, after many investigations, many trials, convinctions of a number of cabinet officials, the "most ethical administration in history" is now laid bare for its contemptible disregard for everything ethical...."

The American Spectator 4/99 John Corry "...Words fail. Things fall apart. The president's apologists made the expected denials, but no one believed them, and even Geraldo Rivera had the grace to look embarrassed. Juanita Broaddrick had caused a problem. The New York Times, for one, tried to ignore it, although later it tried to make amends. It said in an editorial that Bill Clinton in his past confessions had presented himself as a "recreational philanderer," but now it seemed he might be "a serial masher or worse." The wording was close to whimsical - masher had a quaint ring to it - but you could excuse the Times for that. Some things are almost too painful to talk about, and the Times, and all the rest of the press, was having a problem. How do you deal with the idea of having a rapist in the White House? Or must you deal with it at all? .....None of this is promising. It should be obvious by now that Bill Clinton suffers from not merely reckless but clearly compulsive behavior, and that he will, as always, do anything to save himself when he gets in trouble. On the day the Broaddrick story broke in the Journal, the most interesting, and appalling, item on the evening news broadcast was a report by David Martin, the CBS Pentagon correspondent. The White House, he said, wanted to bomb Serbia, even though our NATO allies opposed it. It is to think the unthinkable that the proposed bombing had anything to do with diverting attention from Juanita Broaddrick, of course. The thought is too overwhelming. But it is also unthinkable that we have a rapist in the White House. Who could possibly believe that, either?..."

Strategic Investment Intelligence Bulletins 2/17/99 James Dale Davidson Freeper Ogle ".Jack Wheeler admits he was wrong about Clinton: "He's not a sociopath." In this month's issue of Strategic Intelligence, Jack reports: "On a visit to Canada last month, I read a book review in the Toronto Globe & Mail of British Columbia University Professor of Psychology Robert Hare's Without Conscience. Since I have publicly stated in past columns my agreement with Senator John McCain's assessment of Bill Clinton as a 'sociopath,' it was interesting to note Prof. Hare's careful distinction between a sociopath and a psychopath... Psychopathology is a spectrum, with vicious killers on one end and 'closet psychopaths' on the other. It was the description of the latter that intrigued me: 'Their most pervasive trait is a stunning lack of conscience. They are glib, lack remorse, guilt, or empathy, are emotionally shallow and lie easily and convincingly. Underneath a charming, sometimes irresistibly likeable fa‡ade, the closet psychopath is ruthless, ambitious, selfish, and dishonest. They are social predators who charm and manipulate their way through life, leaving a trail of broken hearts and empty wallets. Power and control are all-important to them, and they will use threats, intimidation, litigation, and violence to get what they want.' A nail-on-the-head of Slick Willie, wouldn't you say? ."

The Progressive Review 4/10/99 Sam Smith "…"Clinton is far more psychologically disturbed than the public ever imagined . ." NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff on DATELINE "I think that's an understatement. The suggestion is that this guy is in terrible trouble mentally and psychologically and is a completely hollow narcissist and egomaniac." "And he thiks that the best therapy fo it is being President. My view is that presidential therapy hasn't worked for him and shouldn't have been tried." "But he certainly does need professional help.---" . . .Christopher Hitchens on WOR

NewsMax.com 4/16/99 "... Onetime presidential guru Dick Morris has noticed something reviewers had missed in Michael Isikoff's new book, "Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story." It's this tidbit from page 256 about Clinton's one-night stand with former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen: "According to Gracen's later account, Clinton flirted with her -- then invited her to the apartment of one of his friends at the Quawpaw Towers. They had sex that night. It was rough sex. Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen later told friends. But it was consensual." Appearing Tuesday night on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Morris noted, "There's a very important revelation in [Isikoff's] book that hasn't received a lot of attention." Morris paraphrased the passage quoted above and then pointed out that Clinton bit Gracen's lip, "... just as he'd bit Juanita Broaddrick's lip, according to Juanita Broaddrick. And [Gracen's] statement was made before Juanita Broaddrick spoke."... Morris added, "Now if there was a rape trial of Bill Clinton right now and this woman, Gracen, was called as a witness and confirmed the M.O.; that would be a) admissible and b) very decisive." What about Gracen's claim, as Isikoff reports, that her Clinton sex was consensual? ...Last month, Lambert elaborated on Stokes' version for NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher: "I talked to Judy Stokes for an hour and a half," said Lambert. "At first she was reluctant to burn her bridges with Liz. But I finally asked, 'Do you believe Clinton raped her?' She said, 'Absolutely. He forced her to have sex. What do you call that?' " Lambert concluded, "Stokes was totally convinced it was rape." ..."

EXEGESIS 4/17/99 Steve Meyers "... Above all, these four years have confirmed two trends: first, a considerable acceleration of the pace at which Western nations are discarding the sanctity of national sovereignty in their unseemly rush toward a global government for which there seems to be little popular support; and secondly, the systematic hypnotization of the American people into an Orwellian trance, never better illustrated than in the current rash of propaganda about the bombing of Yugoslavia: "War brings Peace! Killing is the way to save people. Ignorance is Strength! Freedom is Slavery!" Ah yes, and at Clinton's Animal Farm, some animals are most definitely more equal than others: indeed, some are still alive, but others are not; some are wealthy, others are neglected; some are intimidated, yet others tell the truth. According to the governments participating in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the justification for this military operation is to stop the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, never mind that the West ignored it in Bosnia, Tibet, Rwanda and elsewhere. It is said that Kosovo is seeking independence from Yugoslavia, a sovereign nation which has not attacked or threatened any of its neighbors. Maybe so, but what differentiates it from Chechnya, Scotland or the Palestinians? Are we going to bomb Moscow, London and Jerusalem too? Shall we bomb Istanbul and Athens in protest at the Cyprus problem? Shall we bomb Ottawa to help the cause of Quebec? How about bombing China to free Tibet? ..."

UPI Spotlight 4/17/99 "... The president told Democrats in Massachusetts (Friday night) that the NATO campaign fits with his philosophy for the future, where America's technology and economic resources are put to good purposes...."

The New Australian 4/12-18/99 James Henry Freeper hope "...Lord Acton's dictum that power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely is much quoted. But what happens when power, especially enormous power, falls into the hands of an already corrupt man? A man that sees power merely as a means to advance his own interests: to reward sycophants, punish critics, intimidate potential enemies, buy favours from dictators and even wage war to enhance his own position regardless of the cost in terms of blood and misery. Such a man is Clinton. A man with the mentality of a teenage thug who seems literally incapable of making a genuine moral judgement is president of the United States. A man whose pathological behavior has rightly stripped him of all moral authority has declared war on another nation. Do Americans really believe that such a creature can enoble a cause driven by the meanest of personal ambition and the desperate psychological need to politically survive? Do American troops walk tall when they think of their commander-in-chief?..."

www.inter-nat.com 'World Report' 4/15-30/99 Doug Thompson "...BILL Clinton's failing Kosovo war is part of a desperate, dangerous and fatally flawed plan by a scandal-ridden President to salvage a legacy or the history books, White House and Pentagon insiders say. ... "THE President is standing alone on a lot of this," says one White House aide. "He's finding fewer and fewer people who are willing to stick with him over Kosovo. He's backed himself, his administration and his countryinto a corner. "TWO who are sticking with Clinton are National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who aides say would follow Clinton anywhere. "BERGER and Albright put their loyalty to Clinton above their oaths to serve the constitution," says military analyst Sander Owen. "It's pathetic to watch." AT the Pentagon, senior officers now call the President the "draft dodger in chief," and sneer at his inability to grasp simple military tactics. "THE man is an ass," says one career officer. "He has no concept of a military operation. To him, it's just a video game. What we don't know is how many body bags it will take to make this jerk face reality. "ARNOLD Crittendon, a retired intelligence analyst, says Clinton has become a "laughing stock" in both the military and intelligence communities. "HIS political motives are so blatant that they would be farcical if we weren't talking about the lives of American soldiers," Crittendon says."There wasn't that much respect for the man to begin with. What little there was is long gone now...."AIDES say that Clinton started focusing more on foreign policy when it became clear he would not be convicted in the Senate impeachment trial. "HE wanted to find some foreign policy arena where a bold stroke would showcase his administration as a world leader," one former aide says."When it became clear that he was focusing on Kosovo, a lot of people tried to talk him out of it. But Bill Clinton is a man who won't let goof something once he focuses on it. He was sure that defeating a tyrant would restore his place in history. "BUT military planners told Clinton he could not win a limited air war in Kosovo."THE President was advised that his strategy was flawed and did notserve the national interest," says one Pentagon planner, "but he wasn't interested in hearing the facts.... "A psychologist who treats obsessions says Clinton's preoccupation with his legacy could be viewed by mental health professionals as a warning sign over the President's stability. "THERE are enough outward signs that the President is so driven by his obsession with his legacy that it could be affecting his mental judgments," says Dr. Stephanie Crossfield. "If I were consulting on thePresident's case, I would recommend further evaluation of his condition...."

WorldNetDaily 4/23/99 Joseph Farah Freeper laz "...There he was, Bill Clinton -- the man for all seasons -- johnny-on-the-spot ready to seize any political advantage he could wangle in exploiting the emotional reaction of a nation to the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. This guy makes me sick. He told the people of Littleton that a federal "crisis response team is ready now to travel to Colorado, and I strongly believe that we should do whatever we can to get enough counselors to the families and the children as quickly as possible." The date of this tragedy made me wonder where such a "crisis response team" was for an even bigger, federally sponsored slaughter a few years earlier at Waco, Texas...."

The Washington Post Charles Krauthammer 4/23/99 "..."[NATO] strikes continue to cause serious damage to the FRY [Serb] military and will further degrade their capability to commit atrocities against the Kosovo Albanian population." -- NATO military spokesman Giuseppe Marani, April 17. "We are also seeing increased evidence of ethnic cleansing. . . . " -- Same spokesman, same briefing, same day, one minute later.... If it were not so tragic, the standard Clinton/NATO line on Kosovo would be farcical. Every day they report how we are "degrading" Slobodan Milosevic's ability to carry out war crimes. Within minutes, they then report a fresh new set of war crimes...."

NewsMax 4/24/99 JR Nyquist "...The Western alliance is inching toward an abyss -- either a confrontation with Russia or a split within NATO. These are the dangers courted by President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Their strategy? To bomb the Yugoslav army until it can no longer offer effective resistance to a ground invasion. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, his country under bombardment, is given no alternative but to withdraw the Yugoslav army from Yugoslav territory, making way for a NATO occupation. Milosevic now appears willing to accept an international peacekeeping force on Yugoslav soil, providing that NATO pulls back from the border and stops the air assault. But President Clinton will not agree to Milosevic's compromise. What is wrong with that compromise? It appears that President Clinton wants the crisis to continue, if not intensify....Blair further declared that NATO forces would enter Yugoslavia with or without Milosevic's permission. "We are all internationalists now," said Blair, "whether we like it or not."....Meanwhile, Russian mobilizations continue on land and sea. The Ukrainian and Russian navies are presently engaged in training exercises. Dozens of warships have been mobilized. At the same time, Russian diplomats are courting Israel, Greece and France -- feeling out weaknesses in the West's global position. Russia's ally, President Jiang Zemin of China, has once again called on the People's Liberation Army to brace for a possible war. There is "regional tension and unstable elements," he said earlier this month. "The world is not safe."..."

Original Sources 4/22/99 Mary Mostert Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...EXCERPTS "The President now wants to know: What is causing this kind of behavior? Well, Mr. President, what has caused your kind of behavior? If character no longer matters in presidents, should it matter for 11 and 13 year old boys? If the nation's top executive can use anger, power and position to get sexual services from women he casually meets, and receive a 67% approval rate from the people, as the polls claim, is this not, then, the new social standard for all males, including resentful 13 year olds? If the president can destroy the lives of women who object to his unwanted sexual demands, is it OK for 13 year olds to take the matter one step further and just shoot the pesky females who won't cooperate? Perhaps to find the source of the problem in Jonesboro in his home state of Arkansas, the President might try looking in the mirror. "

Associated Press 4/24/99 "...President Clinton departed the NATO summit in such haste Saturday that he left behind perhaps the most important piece of luggage in the world - the ``nuclear football.'' The president's military aide, who constantly shadows Clinton and carries the briefcase containing U.S. nuclear launch codes, was mistakenly left at the International Trade Center when Clinton's motorcade sped off 45 minutes early and without notice. The aide walked the 4 1/2 blocks back to the White House without incident..."

WorldNetDaily 5/4/99 David Limbaugh "...On Friday, Bill Clinton announced that he would convene a White House summit on youth violence on May 10. In his opening remarks, after briefly relating how much time he had spent in the last week agonizing over the Littleton massacre, he conducted a clinic on that skill for which he has become legendary: compartmentalization. Unable to resist a self-congratulatory detour, in a textbook sociopathic performance, he said, "Let me begin by saying we got some more good news today on the economic front with the word that our economy expanded by 4.5 percent in the first quarter of this year." Getting back to the obligatory subject of student killings, he asked, "What can we do to give our children safe, whole childhoods?" He added, "We should not be fighting about who takes the blame." As accomplished a fibber as he is, the president must have forgotten, or assumed we had forgotten, about his NRA-blaming comment earlier this week: "It's not just the culture of violence that has to change. It's the culture of hunting and sport shooting that has to stop financing efforts to frighten their members who are good, God-fearing, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens out there into believing that every time we try to save a kid's life it's a camel's nose in the tent." Not only is Clinton blaming the NRA, he is exploiting the tragedy for political gain. He even admits that he is counting on the outrage over the shootings to help push his new gun-control proposal through Congress. White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said, "Unfortunately, oftentimes it takes tragic events to catalyze work here in Washington." ...."

The Orlando Sentinel Online 5/6/99 Charley Reese "....While the United States is committing a crime against Yugoslavia, where we have no legitimate strategic or national interests, President Clinton's Chinese friends have been busy little bees, 90 miles from our shores. Chi Haotian, minister of national defense, got together with Raul Castro, big brother Fidel's minister of defense, and decided that working together was a very good idea....You can expect to see Chinese investments in Cuba, and you will see Castro join forces with the Communist Chinese to drive Taiwanese interests and businesses out of Latin America and the Caribbean.....As they say, much is afoot to the south of us. It makes you wonder why the United States is bogging itself down in the no-win mire of the Balkans. My guess is that flawed decision can be attributed to the fact that underneath his mask of sanity, President Clinton has a screw loose. I suspect that before his term ends the cowardly Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate who chose partisanship over duty will regret they missed their opportunity to get this captain off the ship. Probably what will shock most Americans in the months ahead is the discovery that the United States has few to no friends in Latin America, and among the few, the fervor is faint to absent..... "

Omaha World-Herald 5/6/99 Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...It's strange to contemplate: A president asking Congress to not give him flexibility in a crisis. Usually a president seeks the maximum maneuvering room. The resolution was not telling Clinton to invade Yugoslavia. It was simply expressing Senate support for that option. .....The fact that Clinton worked to defeat McCain's resolution confirms the opinion of the doubters. He does not want a green light on ground forces because he does not want to be responsible for deciding whether to use them. He is afraid to lead...."

Los Angeles Times 5/5/99 Tom Hayden Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...The moral rationale provided by the Clinton administration at the outset of the bombing was that the brutal ethnic cleansing of Kosovo could be stopped in a short military campaign. That promise was either a deception or a delusion. The war has turned into a horrific quagmire, and yet even liberal Democrats remain strangely tongue-tied about the suffering, which our government lamely calls "collateral damage." Every day seems to bring news of civilians being killed and the White House apologizing. Worse, according to the Wall Street Journal, President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair pushed in mid-April for a wider definition of targets that would increase the danger to civilians. The result is the death of cleaning ladies and bus drivers, evacuation of 85,000 people from Belgrade neighborhoods poisoned by toxic chemicals, the unemployment of 100,000 Serbs and laying waste of Serbia's civilian infrastructure..."

American Spectator 5/99 Jeremy Rabkin Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...Bill Clinton has his own rules. In his understanding, he did not perjure himself when he denied having sex with Monica Lewinsky: She had had sex with him. In launching air strikes against Serbia, he operated again on Clinton rules: Just because Serbian President Milosevic got a sustained slamming from American bombers did not mean that the United States was entering into a war. This episode is the culmination of a trend in Clinton's foreign policy. Call it "therapeutic bombing." Saddam Hussein won't cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors? Bomb him! Saddam then cancels all further inspections and forces the withdrawal of U.N. monitors and the collapse of the whole inspection regime in place since the Gulf War? Do a little more cosmetic bombing--to prove that while we may be defeated, we are not humbled. A terrorist attack on U.S. embassies with threats by Osama bin Ladin's terror network? More bombing! We don't disarm any terrorists, but we prove that, if provoked, we can destroy an aspirin factory in Sudan..."

WorldNetDaily 5/7/99 Alan Keyes "...On Wednesday the Senate voted to shelve a proposal by Sen. John McCain to authorize "all necessary force," including ground troops, to achieve American objectives in Yugoslavia. This is a good thing. To put it mildly, I do not believe that we need to multiply expressions of our confidence in Bill Clinton's leadership and judgment. We might try instead multiplying instances of clear and morally literate reasoning about the war in Yugoslavia. Here, Sen. McCain is not helpful. "All necessary force" would literally include the use of nuclear weapons. So Sen. McCain put a resolution on the table that would have authorized Bill Clinton -- a man we know to be without judgment, conscience, decency, morality, integrity, or competence -- to use nuclear weapons to deal with the conflict in Yugoslavia. The idea that the Senate would authorize such a man to use all means he judges necessary in a military effort as questionable as this one is insane. In this proposal, Sen. McCain shows a lack of judgment bordering on lunacy. ..."

Orlando Sentinel 5/12/99 Miriam Marquez "...The man is shameless, absolutely, positively without remorse. What else could one assume, watching President Clinton on C-SPAN recently as he hammed it up at the Washington Correspondents Dinner....The president, noting that a survey of journalists had ranked Clinton's sex-and-lies impeachment scandal of last year at 53rd among the top 100 events of this century, deadpanned: "What's a man got to do to get into the top 50?" Even the creation of plastics made it to the top 50, Clinton added. "Plastics," he repeated with one cocked eyebrow...."

Freeper majordivit on Gertz interview 5/14/99 "...Gertz says that the Russians have underground facilites. Could be to house leaders... Russians refuse to discuss..CIA doesn't know what's going on... Gertz supposes that it could be the next generation of Nuclear Weapons facility.. Gertz goes on to say that this is happening at the same time US stopped building Nukes.. Gertz in disbelief says that at the same time we are sending the Russians 100's of millions of bucks to dismantle their nukes, they are using money that is freed up to build these underground facilities. ....Gertz - During Clinton's trip to China - China tested a new missile..Message - We have no repect for you... White house doesn't care.. White house people told Gertz that they didn't care. They told Gertz that China is a deveoloping power... Gertz says that these weapons that China is developing are not designed to be used against the Phillipines, they are designed to fight against the U.S.... Clinton administration, for purely ideological reasons, has gone to great lenghs to oppose missile defense in the US......Gertz - After the bombing of the Chinese embassy, the Chinese made an unspecified military threat which went unnoticed in the press....."

SPECIAL TO MSNBC 2/12/1999 Jonathan Broder "....Now that he has been acquitted by the Senate, President Clinton is launching a two-pronged political offensive that hopefully will burnish his tarnished image, create a legacy beyond his sexual appetites and extract revenge on the House Republicans who impeached him, his advisers say...... At the same time, however, aides described Clinton as having "blood in his eye" toward Republicans whom he feels used the scandal to try to destroy him..... "The president of the United States, arguably the most powerful man in the world, has declared a personal vendetta against the House managers, stating his will to single them out for destruction," said Rep. Christopher Cannon of California, one of the House prosecutors. "Such action is the height of the arrogance of power." Then, in what appeared to be a theme that other House Republicans may use in their campaigns, Cannon added: "Throughout the impeachment process, I never acted in anger. I was not acting on emotion. I was doing my duty." ..... "He understands the politics of this, and I really see no sign that he's moving toward them," Frank said of the Republicans. "He's really mad at them, and he's really happy with us. But he's still a human being, one with great control over his public policy instincts - although not some of his personal ones." ..."

www.stratfor.com 5/27/99 Stratfor "...1145 GMT, 990527 One of the critical dimensions of the Kosovo conflict is the state of mind of U.S. policy makers. Their view of Kosovo is, quite naturally, part of their general perception both of the world and of their place in it. It is, therefore, important to understand that Bill Clinton and his foreign policy team are experiencing a crisis of confidence of monumental proportions. Actually, saying they are in a state of shock is probably a better way to put it. They have gone in less than 90 days from being a fairly credible foreign policy team to a group in total, and probably unrecoverable, disarray. Obviously it started with Kosovo. They did not expect Milosevic to resist as he has. One result has been the near disappearance of the administration's expert on Yugoslavia and Milosevic, Richard Holbrooke...... However, it has been their China policy that has truly shaken the administration. Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor, was particularly close to the Chinese and a strong relationship with China has been one of the foundations of Clinton's foreign policy. China's crackdown on dissidents struck the administration as a betrayal of their tacit understanding with the Chinese, and the administration struck back with bitter rhetoric. The Chinese merely hardened their position. The Chinese response to the bombing of their Embassy further stunned the administration. The release of the Cox report has left their China policy in a shambles and the speed of the collapse has left Clinton's staff stunned. Add to that the near collapse of relations with Russia at the beginning of the war, German and Italian mistrust of U.S. competence and motives, and we are seeing the near collapse not only of foreign policy, but also of the leadership of the foreign policy apparatus. With the departure of Robert Rubin, the loss of credibility for Clinton's foreign policy team is breath taking. Berger is being held by many as personally responsible (along with Janet Reno) for not stanching Chinese espionage. Albright is being treated with increasing contempt in Washington and foreign capitals. George Tenet, head of CIA, was forced to take responsibility for the China bombing incident. After his humiliation over Monica Lewinsky, Clinton was going to use foreign policy to redeem himself. That search for redemption has turned into a nightmare...."

Bangor (ME) Daily News 5/26/99 John S. Day Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...Given hindsight, Reagan's covert, sometimes illegal foreign policy schemes seem positively brilliant these days when stacked up against Bill Clinton's amateur-hour efforts to ensure world peace and safeguard the national security of the United States. Somewhere along the way, Clinton managed to get us in a war with a country smaller than New England that has the potential of re-igniting the Cold War. Imagine American public reaction had Nikita Khrushchev dispatched a squadron of Bison bombers to take out our embassy in West Germany during the Cuban missile crisis? ....Some Democratic apologists, who heaped scorn on GOP Sen. Fred Thompson for alleging two years ago that the Chinese government was buying its way into the U.S. government with illegal campaign contributions, now are calling for administration heads to roll. ...."

Naval Academy Commencement Address 5/26/99 Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Freeper Marching Johny "....We are bombing to Stop Hate, Cohen told the graduating class of the Naval Academy. Apparently, Stopping Hate has now become the new, vital National Interest for the U.S. If you hate anything, even a football team or your mother-in-law, you are next. Your name has already been noted! Hate is verboten and punishable by death!!! Only love, lusts, and perversions are now legal and acceptable to think about or express, publicly or privately, throughout the U.S. controlled, free world...."

The New York Times Company 5/24/99 WILLIAM SAFIRE "...We have a President who has a problem: he lies when he doesn't really have to. This mysterious compulsion is not to be confused with the rational falsehood. His finger-wagging denial of a sexual relationship last year was designed to cut off further inquiry, and he could logically assume at the time he would not be contradicted by hard evidence. It was a calculated deception by a well-ordered brain. The deceptions this year are different. Not only were the misleading statements made about the weightiest matters -- war and national security -- no purpose was served in uttering them. That's the puzzling part. For example, on March 24, he said: "I do not intend to put our troops in Kosovo to fight a war." He reiterated that policy time and again..... But he could not bring himself to say forthrightly that the time had come for such new pressure on Serbia. Instead, he insisted that he had "always said . . . that we have not and will not take any option off the table." That's just not so, and everybody knows it. Why does he do it? Does he imagine that nobody will remember what he has been saying all along? His diehard defenders explain that his words "to fight a war" limited the meaning of "do not intend to put our troops in Kosovo." Under that parsing, he intended only to put them in a "permissive environment." That's demonstrably untrue, too. His Secretary of State says that the 50,000 NATO troops might well be used in a "non-permissive environment." (That euphemism for invasion means "a place where soldiers shoot at you." When is NPE Day?) Another example of the unnecessary lie was his March 19 response to: "Can you assure the American people that under your watch, no valuable nuclear secrets were lost?" ..."

The Marshfield Mail 5/12/99 Gordon E. Nordquist "...No act of war has been officially authorized by the United States Congress, and yet this moron president is passing out Purple Hearts and the nation has lost two Black Hawk Helicopters, costing billions and a mega billion Stealth Bomber. All this, on a war that is being financed by our Social Security Retirement, at a price tag of over $1 billion per month! Just what is it going to take before the American people become outraged? It is not Slobodan Milosevic who has placed America's national security at risk-it is Bill Clinton. Relations between the U.S. and Russia are strained to the limit-and now the Chinese are justifiably enraged at the United States. Can this moron president possibly bring this nation more disgrace, more shame, more chaos and yes, more crisis?..."

Wesley Pruden Washington Times 5/25/99 "....Rep. Chris Cox and his special committee on U.S.-Chinese security will finally let the public in on the secret this morning that's scaring the pants off official Washington. Well, most of official Washington. President Clinton, who sees everything through the prism of the permanent campaign, has so far treated the subject of Chinese espionage as the usual gubernatorial politics, of the importance of, say, whether to allow Don Tyson to dump chicken guts into a pristine Ozarks river, or give Arkansas Power & Light Co. the rate increase it hankers after. Constituents with the ability to write big checks have to be looked after. The Cox Report, as it will become known, will detail how the Chinese have stolen every nuclear secret America has. "They've got everything," says one official who has read the report. "I mean, everything."...... If the public may still want to cower behind the do-not-disturb sign on its bedroom door, there's evidence that some of the hear no evil, see no evil Democrats in Washington are at last rubbing the sleep out of their eyes. "At the end of the [Thompson] investigation in 1997," concedes Sen. Joe Leiberman of Connecticut, "the way I viewed it is that we were left with a lot of dots on a canvas, but they were not connected. I think what has happened in the last couple of months is that the dots are beginning to be connected."...."

Jewish World Review 6/1/99 Mona Charen "...LET'S SEE IF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S logic can be understood: We must go to war with Slobodan Milosevic because he is engaging in human-rights abuses on a massive scale. We must expend treasure, risk American lives (though only slightly), alienate the Russians, and bomb Serb hospitals, passenger trains and civilian apartment complexes because "ethnic cleansing" so offends our consciences. Yet when it comes to China, probably the world's leader in human-rights abuses, we are not only eager to overlook their ghastly bamboo gulag, their wholesale torture and murder of Christians, and their near total suppression of speech, we are even eager to overlook their theft of our most valuable secrets. Ethnic cleansing is an ugly spectacle. And Milosevic richly deserves indictment as a war criminal. But the difference between Milosevic and Zhu Rongji is this: Zhu is a Democratic Party campaign contributor, and Milosevic is not...."

WorldNetDaily.com 6/4/99 Alan Keyes "...But whatever kind of "victory" Bill Clinton claims, I think that the rest of us ought to hang our heads in shame. The NATO campaign has followed a strategy that we know to be wrong and deeply immoral. The moral norms that as a decent and civilized people we have worked to establish condemn a strategy that aims to break and destroy the civilian people of a country in order to achieve political objectives. The classic definition of terrorism is the use of force against civilians in order to get them to do your bidding as a result of the terror induced in their hearts. And we have been practicing a strategy based on just such a use of force..."

BBC News Online (UK Politics section) 6/6/99 BBC's Edward Main Interviews Christopher Hitchens Freeper yaya123 "...Christopher Hitchens: I wince for Mr Blair when he compares himself to Mr Clinton. "I mean to say, as directly as I possibly can, that with Clinton the concept of matter of principle does not exist. He would not in his own mind be able in his own mind to formulate such a thing," "It's a foreign idea to him. If he is in shot when he hears an expression like matter of principle or character or integrity he wonders what face to put on now and will it be convincing." ...."

The Marshfield Mail 6/2/99 Gordon E. Nordquist "...Bill Clinton's war in Yugoslavia is a horrendous disaster-and those Democrats who rallied around him when they should have removed the menace from office must bear the full blame for his actions in Yugoslavia. It's obvious that this draft dodger of the 60s has no conscience when it comes to destroying property and killing innocent people. Democrats never have been good at warfare and Bill Clinton doesn't have a clue that conducting war is anything different than a politcal campaign...... More than 600 U.S. combat aircraft are now engaged in this undeclared war, and over 30,000 reservists have been alerted to active duty, because six years of Clinton's military cuts have gutted the armed forces. Bill Clinton has politicized the NATO alliance, turning a defensive European alliance into an aggressor in behalf of a Muslim frug gang in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. It should come as no surprise that Clinton's own cocaine addiction would ultimately dictate his policies for the nation. The casualties in Clinton's war are mainly civilians, making Clinton the first American president who is a war criminal under the charter of the International Criminal Court that just indicted Slobodan Milosevic! U.S. and NATO pilots have dropped bombs on school children, passenger trains, hospitals, nursing homes, refugee columns, civilian homes, and the Chinese embassy in Belgrade The man is insane, and Senate Democrats who placed party before their country during the impeachment trial of this lunatic, are soley to blame for his murderous blundering and abuse of U.S. military power...."

The American Spectator 6/11/99 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "....To the morally alive it is astounding that the disgraced 42nd president is still lumbering up and down the halls of the White House, grinning to aides and visitors alike, leering at the pretty girls. More astounding, members of the press, after being lied to and smeared, are still finding threads of gold in this bum's old rags. We are coming to the bloody end of the most bungled war in American history. As a diplomatic endeavor it is certainly among the most bungled. Yet the other day the Washington Post ran a vintage 1962 "Crisis in the Oval Office" piece. Since this yokel from an Arkansas dog patch first tripped into the White House and commenced to jog through Washington traffic in his underpants, our Liberal friends in the press have been glimpsing visions of Camelot in his vulgar travesties. Never does he fail to disappoint their hallucinations with some new and unsurpassed gaucherie. Yet always they come back to the same old delusion: Boy Clinton, a Kennedy in rustic's raiment! .....Truth be known, until recently every time he piped up about his Balkan wagging of the dog, he was gibbering like a mental defective on speed....The costs that the Clintons have imposed on this country will someday be chronicled, but one of the most onerous is the cost they have imposed on the quality of intellect. All intelligent people hope that this war is over. We hope that the Kosovars and Serbs will live in peace. We are grateful for the American military whose members have without much support from the political establishment and almost no support from the Clintons' built and maintained the high quality force that saved Clinton's hide once again. Yet let us not do further violence to intelligent thought by calling this "Victory." In war, achieving one's stated goal is victory...."

The New Australian 6/99 Peter Zhang "...Chinese officials have privately bragged about the extent of their penetration, their placing of agents, their successful use of bribery and blackmail.....As for Bill Clinton, I personally believe he is capable of anything, a view shared by Chinese officials who also hold him in the greatest contempt. He is not only considered treacherous but unstable. A man completely incapable of seeing beyond tomorrow. This goes someway, in Chinese eyes, of understanding his motives. I pointed out in another article that Beijing has a profile of every member of Congress and the Senate. The interesting thing is that Clinton's file goes back, so I have been told, to his student days..... The key to the puzzle lies in his psychological profile. My understanding is that Chinese intelligence concluded that Clinton is bereft of any kind of morality or cultural moorings and that he is totally absorbed; a man for whom the only thing that counts is what promotes his interest regardless of the cost to others, including the nation; a man with no sense of honour, integrity or loyalty but an uncanny ability to convey the opposite feelings. It was early evidence of this ability plus his thuggishness in pursuit of his own ambitions that finally convinced Beijing that he was a political winner. Beijing knew what many still cannot see. Clinton sees the presidency as a mere trophy, a kind of political Oscar. Everything he does is geared to winning and keeping that Oscar. Curiously enough, it this destructive ambition - destructive to America, that is - leaves him as a Democrat. Now Clinton is a genuine political thug and these type of thugs are attracted to politics because of the power it gives them. Therefore when they gain power they do what they can to accumulate even more. This is why the likes of Clinton are not to be found in political parties that preach small government, the need for low taxation and the virtues of patriotism.... No wonder it was child's play for Beijing to manipulate Clinton. It was like bribing a child with sweets. All said and done, Clinton wilfully betrayed his country. To call Clinton a Judas would be to insult Judas whose shame led him to commit suicide. Clinton is not a flawed man, as some would have it, he is a deeply corrupt and very dangerous man. As I said, there are stories I could never repeat though I do not doubt their veracity for a moment...."

Salon 6/21/99 David Horowitz "...The evidence suggests only one conclusion. The reason Clinton is protecting China's spies and their communist masters is because in protecting them he is protecting himself. The China strategy is fully intelligible in the frame of Clinton's strategy on other matters: The president has triangulated with China's communist government in pursuit of his own political interest at the expense of the United States. This is not about loyalties that Clinton might have to communist ideology or communist dictators. On this, Clinton's record is clear: He has no loyalties, except to himself. It is the solipsistic nihilism that we have come to know as the very essence of President Clinton that has made this treachery possible, even, inevitable. Clinton's triangulation with communist China has been chillingly charted by two national security professionals (although they do not employ the term itself), with the help of congressional investigations into illegal campaign contributions. In "Year of the Rat," Bill Triplett and Ed Timperlake show that the roots of the Clinton betrayal lie in relationships that go back to Arkansas, and the fact that Clinton owes his political life to the Chinese communists through their agents, business associates and friends....Understanding the security disaster that has befallen the United States requires an understanding that the leakage of America's secrets proceeded along two parallel tracks. One track was espionage, the other was a political-economic track through the legal commercial activities of the United States government -- in particular through its political oversight of these commercial activities, which in past administrations had included formal controls of sensitive technologies that the Clinton team systematically dismantled. Political contributors to the Clinton-Gore campaigns played key roles in promoting the dismantling process"

Drudgereport.com/Weiss 6/28/99 "....There was something chillingly vindictive in President Clinton's commentary on the Serbs at last Friday's not-really-a-news-conference in Washington. You couldn't miss it, as he justified his decision to deny assistance to Serbia, whose civilian infrastructure lies shattered by Nato bombing (the Serb military, by contrast, seems to have come through the recent unpleasantness relatively unscathed). Those buckets of money we're shipping overseas even now are strictly off-limits to the people we bombed into compliance. Off-limits, that is, until they say they're sorry. "They are going to have to come to grips with what Milosevic ordered in Kosovo," Mr. Clinton sniped, with that peculiar schoolyard bully's smirk of his (there's something about him that seems to come to life only when he's got someone small and weak on the ropes). Evidently, he's managed to forget that before Nato's bombs began to rain down on Belgrade, most Serbs were growing increasingly hostile to Milosevic..... In one of his weirder flights of rhetoric, Mr. Clinton added that the Serbs are "going to have to decide whether they think it's OK that all those tens of thousands of people were killed, and all those hundreds of thousands of people were run out of their homes and all those little girls were raped and all those little boys were murdered." The head-waggling, glittery self-righteousness of the man was indescribable. It didn't seem to trouble the Beltway journalists gathered reverently at his feet, but it bothered the heck out of me...."

Jewish World Review Julia Gorin 6/29/99 "...BILL CLINTON was running out of time. His presidency would expire in less than two years, and his most memorable legacy would be perverting the country. He'd need to do better than that. He'd need to find a war. His only experience with such a thing was protesting it, but now he required one, one with results. He thought hard. Eventually his thoughts led him to the Balkans...."

WorldNet Daily 6/30/99 Joseph Farah "...Maybe it seems like old news not worth revisiting. But the more I see Bill Clinton congratulating himself over his "military victory" in Kosovo, the more it reminds me that this entire operation began as little more than a diversion from his latest political scandal. This wasn't a humanitarian relief mission, folks. It was the latest in a series of wag-the-dog attacks directed by the war criminal in the White House. If you have any doubts, let's just review the facts: ...On Aug. 17, 1998, Clinton went on national television to offer an explanation-cum-apology for his deposition that day in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. On Aug. 20, 1998, Clinton launched a cruise missile assault against Sudan and Afghanistan.... On Dec. 16, 1998, Operation Desert Fox began with air and cruise missile attacks on Iraq just hours before the House of Representatives was to commence its impeachment debate.....In February 1999, Clinton was faced with two scandals breaking at once -- the emerging evidence that he had raped Juanita Broaddrick and the details of security lapses that resulted in American nuclear secrets falling into the hands of the Chinese. Though many analysts were surprised at the precipitous manner in which negotiations were halted, Clinton chose this moment to launch what turned into an 11-week bombing campaign in Serbia, killing some 6,000 Yugoslavian troops, 2,000 civilians and sparking the revenge killings of some 11,000 ethnic Albanian Muslims. Where would Clinton get the inspiration for such brazen and risky political theatrics? Paul Burgess, a former congressional aide to U.S. Sen. Michael Enzi of Wyoming, thinks he has an answer. And so do I. Burgess cites a hard-to-find report released by Federal Reserve economists in late 1997 called "An Investigation into the Magnitude of Foreign Contacts." The document (No. RWP97-14) is essentially, Burgess explains, a scientific qualification of the "wag the dog" theory, with the researchers offering a lengthy and complex mathematical model to illustrate the advantages of small-scale, low-intensity wars to presidents in distress...."

Insight Magazine 6/28/99 Michael Rust "...Insight:You were skeptical of Bill Clinton as early as the New Hampshire primary in 1992. Hitchens:I felt there was something politically monstrous about him. There were moments when he seemed like a reptile breakfasting in a mammal's nest .... "

Washington Times 7/11/99 Reed Irvine "…Yugoslavia's refusal to accept our sign-or-be-bombed ultimatum was the main justification for starting the bombing. Henry Kissinger has said that it was entirely predictable that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic would not sign the Rambouillet accord as long as it included deal-breaker provisions. George Kenney, a former State Department desk officer for Yugoslavia, says that reporters were told by an official on deep background that unacceptable demands were deliberately included in the accord because Mrs. Albright wanted to drop a few bombs. The publisher of The Washington Post, Donald Graham, told me that he had also heard this. This is subject to two interpretations. One is that the unacceptable demands were so important to Mrs. Albright that she was willing to start a war to force Yugoslavia to capitulate. That is contradicted by the fact these demands were not included in the agreement that ended the war. The other interpretation is that the president and his advisers wanted to bomb for domestic political reasons. President Clinton was facing a Senate vote on the impeachment charges. The Chinese espionage scandal was getting a lot of attention. Juanita Broaddrick's allegation that Bill Clinton had raped her in 1978 was breaking into the news. Bombing Yugoslavia and forcing Mr. Milosevic to bow to our will, would divert attention away from these scandals and show the president to be a bold and decisive leader. This "wag-the-dog" scenario gains plausibility from the fact that there is documentary evidence in the form of U.N. memos showing that Clinton advisers wanted to stage a shooting invasion of Haiti in 1994 in order to demonstrate Clinton's "firmness of leadership." That plan was derailed by the last-minute intervention of former President Carter, Sen. Sam Nunn and Gen. Colin Powell. They negotiated the uncontested landing of U.S. troops in Haiti, embarrassing Mr. Clinton, who had said further negotiation would be fruitless…."

Washington Weekly 7/12/99 Edward Zehr "…Ah, but haven't I fallen into the trap so cleverly set by Bill Clinton -- the classic "Wag the Dog" strategy? The very first bomb that fell on Serbia blasted Juanita Broaddrick right off the TV screens and out of the "news." Perhaps, but those who were already aware that Bill Clinton is a psychopath who has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women in unrelated incidents extending over a long period of time haven't forgotten this, and the mainstream press did not assign a very high priority to informing those who were unaware of it. But Clinton's callous disregard for human life, as well as his treachery in dealing with friend and foe alike have been clearly delineated by the decisions he has made regarding Kosovo. And, interestingly, the Kosovo war has done what all the other scandals didn't do -- it has put a noticeable dent in Clinton's vaunted approval rating. Granted his high approval rating was probably more of a referendum on the economy -- other polling data suggest that the public are aware that the president is a scoundrel. Nevertheless, the conclusion one might draw from this is unsettling: the public seem prepared to wave a serial rapist through the checkpoint (so long as the economy is booming), but have qualms about a leader who could get us into a serious war (in which Americans might get hurt, not just the enemy)……What we have done is to allow the Constitution to be overridden by a president who was determined to make war without the consent of Congress. But, you may say, it has been done before. Not to this extent. President Bush obtained the consent of Congress, however grudging, before waging war upon Iraq, even though he insisted that he didn't really need it. And President Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution before making large-scale commitments of troops in Vietnam. Other presidents have engaged in minor military adventures without consent of Congress, but Kosovo isn't minor. Not that Congress made a credible effort to assert itself, even after the grace period for executive action provided in the War Powers Act had expired…."

New York Post 7/24/99 "…What is it about Bill Clinton that requires him to concoct irrelevant and unnecessary lies to simulate emotional ties to other Americans? Four years ago, during the nationwide uproar over an apparent new wave of church arson, an emotional Clinton spoke of his personal memories of black churches being burned in his native Arkansas while growing up in the segregated South. One problem, which a local newspaper discovered after careful research: No black churches were burned in Arkansas during the '50s and '60s. Last week, the president once against felt compelled to tell a whopper when discussing the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. And, once again, the lie was totally meaningless and unnecessary. "John Kennedy had actually not been back to the White House since his father was killed until I became president," Clinton told a nationally televised news conference. "He came back to the Oval Office where he saw the desk that he took the famous picture in - you know, coming through the gate for the first time since he was a little boy." It was obviously an emotional moment for Bill Clinton, who has tried to pattern his life and career after JFK Sr. As one network correspondent described it, Clinton "seemed to think that the visit helped John Kennedy come to terms not only with his own life, but [with] his family's history." Except, of course, that what Bill Clinton said wasn't remotely true…. What is it about this president that not only moves him to tell unnecessary lies, but also compels him to insert himself into every emotional event? No one questions the emotion he, like all Americans, felt over JFK Jr.'s death; why did he feel the need to invent a story about his own supposed role in bringing "closure" to the Kennedys? Consider it yet another example of Clinton's deeply flawed character - one that exaggerates his self-importance and renders any historical event irrelevant unless he can place himself, truthfully or not, at its center…."

Laissez Fair City Times 2/15/99 Robert L. Kocher "...Some of you asked what would cause Bill or Hillary Clinton to become borderline psychotics. This is especially confusing from the view that Hillary had an almost ideal childhood. Bill's mental disorder might be explained from his turbulent background. I wrote an 850-page manuscript on the borderline psychotic phenomenon and its political expression in the Clinton generation. My analysis was considered too right-wing to be of wide interest.... However, it is also true that doting parents giving children their way in an undisciplined permissive environment can produce very serious irreversible mental disorder that is delayed until that child becomes an adolescent or adult. What is produced is a child who is cosmetically very well functioning as long as he or she is kept in a spoiled child's world forever, but is completely unable to make the transition into the adult world and reality.... It became obvious by the mid-60s that the country had produced a generation of young orators who could argue any side of a case with the cleverness of a trial lawyer. This had three disastrous consequences. First, the word "no" did not need to be taken seriously.... Second, and I absolutely can not overemphasize the importance of this, in being allowed laxity in return for inane arguments a generation came to believe that it could argue reality out of existence. This formed the foundation for very serious mental disorder. In recent decades the failure of thoughts, of speech, of behavior to conform to basic reality is no longer a signal to a person that he may be doing or saying something irrational. Rather, it has become interpreted as a sign that one has a public relations problem that must be addressed by creating a new series of arguments in a campaign to deny reality. At the presidential level this necessitates a campaign to obscure or redefine what the words "sex" and "is" mean. Third, it both delays and intensifies childhood temper tantrums...."

Philadelphia Daily News 8/2/99 "... Hillary's blabbed about her husband's sex life in the kind of gushing psychobabble you might hear on a third-rate soap opera. This is a major blunder that could end Hillary Clinton's political career before it starts..... Playing Dr. Freud to her husband, Hillary Clinton blames his philandering on trauma as a tot. "He was so young, barely 4 [years old], when he was scarred by abuse. There was terrible conflict between his mother and grandmother . . . Conflict between two women is the worst possible situation." Is it, really? Anyway, Hillary Clinton describes the years since the Gennifer Flowers episode as bimbo-free bliss. Then, in the 20th century's most famous come-hither overture, Monica Lewinsky snapped her thong. To Hillary Clinton and America, the president denied all. "He couldn't protect me, so he lied," she said. "There was enormous anger, enormous pain." ...Over and over, Hillary Clinton describes her husband as "weak," someone who "needs discipline" - instead of a president, he's a puppy going to obedience school. In her self-righteous revelation, Hillary Clinton has wreaked more havoc on Bill Clinton than Ken Starr's prurience and the Senate impeachment trial. She's made him into a psyche-damaged, sex-addled addict living under his vigilant wife's thumb. It makes Hillary Clinton look like a bigger woman, but turns Bill Clinton into a smaller man. Honey, I shrank the president! ..."

 

Washington Times/ Inside Politics 8/11/99 Greg Pierce "...President Clinton was back chasing the ladies just two weeks after his Senate acquittal on Feb. 12, according to sources for Christopher Andersen's book "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage."... And in March, the author said, "An anguished military officer complained to her immediate superior that the president 'groped' her following yet another glittering black-tie function in Washington. "Her commanding officer told her pointedly: 'It didn't happen.' " ..."

Investor's Business Daily 8/11/99 "...Even more infuriating than the sweetheart interview the sycophants at Talk magazine gave pseudo-politician Hillary Clinton is her portrait of her unfaithful husband as a harmless, if hopeless, lady pleaser. Make no mistake, Bill Clinton abuses women. Buried in the back pages of one of the dozen or so books that Washington reporters have written is a damning piece of evidence that corroborates Juanita Broaddrick's tale of rape by Clinton. The book, ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story,'' is by Michael Isikoff, the supposedly intrepid Newsweek reporter who broke the Monica Lewinsky story only to have it bottled up by his editors..... While Broaddrick was reliving her painful story on national TV in January, and fending off White House-dispatched skeptics, Isikoff held back facts that would have lent credence to her story, saving them for his precious book, published a few months later. Isikoff tells how Elizabeth Ward Gracen ran into Clinton in Hot Springs, Ark., when she was 21 and serving as Miss America. While doing a public service announcement there, then-Gov. Clinton pulled up in his state limo and offered her a ride. According to Isikoff, Clinton invited Gracen to the apartment of one of his pals at the Quapaw Towers back in Little Rock. ''They had sex that night. It was rough sex,'' Isikoff said. ''Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen told her friends.'' Bit her lip....."