Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

SCOTUS, not POTUS

1/30/2008 – 10:19 am

I never voted for Bill Clinton. I might have, but when he ordered the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a brain-damaged convict just before the 1992 “Super Tuesday” primaries, I wrote him off as an opportunist for whom I would never vote.
I’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton. She strikes me as someone cut [...]

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The Next Generation

12/3/2007 – 10:36 am

I’ve never been a Bill Clinton fan, but one thing I admired about him was his refusal to throw mud on George H.W. Bush during the 1992 campaign. When asked about rumors circulating that Mr. Bush had a mistress, Mr. Clinton replied: “I’m not gonna comment. I didn’t like it when people said [...]

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Double American Standard

8/30/2007 – 9:41 am

Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig is all over the news this week after the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported he’d pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor following his arrest in a restroom in the Minneapolis airport.
According to police reports the senator, seated in a stall, tapped his foot, then scooted it toward an undercover officer’s [...]

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