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[Phil Stracchino]

wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> Actually, I've found it to be both sides as far as mind changing. :)
> Too bad the "facts" are so hard to come by.  But there are some 
> pretty funny things that happen during his presidency.  I just
> didn't trust him from the beginning from the lack of information
> during his campaign.

I actually was in favor of Clinton, pre-election.  He seemed like the
Great White Hope after Bush senior.  But Bush senior, ex-CIA spook, as
President was a bit too much like Andropov, former KGB spook, as Russian
premier.  I think having a former spook heading your government is a bad
idea - they have the ingranied habit of concealing what they're doing.
It was said at the CIA, "We have four stories: one for the President,
one for Congress, one for the press, and one we tell ourselves.  None of
them are true."

After he got into office, though, and started renting out the Lincoln
bedroom, selling national security secrets to the Chinese, accepting
campaign donations from hostile foreign powers, and the whole Monica
Lewinsky "That depends exactly what you mean by 'is'" fiasco ...

Someone columnist somewhere commented that it was the Clinton presidency
that introduced the term 'kakistocracy' to the American lexicon.


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