Michelle Obama would like us to believe that the honor of President, First Lady and First Children of the White House has "prison elements to it," Obama said at a forum in Africa this week. "But it's a really nice prison. You can't complain." However, at the first chance of “parole,” she chose four more years of “incarceration?” Yeah, we all know she enjoys the wonderful clothes, vacation, servant, and Hollywood package that comes with her “prison package.” This must be why Hillary Clinton is considering a run at the Prison Life, right? Oh wait, has it been long enough for America to have forgotten what the Clinton’s were like, as President and First Lady, and are we ready to put her in the Oval Office?
For the third time since he took office, President Clinton and his family are spending a holiday at a luxurious resort in a vacation home borrowed from an absentee host whom they hardly know.
Their host is Paul Bob Burge, a West Virginia businessman who also lent his rose-colored Palmetto Dunes beach-front home to the Clintons a year ago, before the President's inauguration.
Last summer the Clintons spent four nights in Vail, Colo., at a deluxe condominium borrowed from Leonard Firestone, the tire magnate, then 10 nights on Martha's Vineyard off Massachussetts in a sprawling house volunteered by Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary.
Unlike their predecessors, the Clintons have no home or vacation retreat of their own. The President's aides say the Clintons have little choice but to rely on the kindness of near-strangers if they are to escape the confines of the White House. Vague on Gifts in Kind
White House officials would not say why Mr. Clinton did not simply rent a home. Nor has he yet made public an estimate of the value of the gifts, which at current real estate rates would surely be many thousands of dollars. NYT
The jet-set lifestyle and vacationing continued into his short-lived second term. Where do we think Obama got the idea that it was okay to use taxpayer’s money to collect passport stamps?
March 30, 2000
March 30, 2000
There he goes again. Our globe-trotting president was flying high this month, traveling to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Oman, and Switzerland. That brings the total out-of-country days for President Clinton, the Traveler-in-Chief, to 212. He's racked up visits to 66 countries -- some more than once -- and 2 territories not recognized as countries. He is, by any measure, the most traveled U.S. president ever.
And just how much is this latest foray estimated to cost the American taxpayer? ABC News, apparently relying on unnamed Pentagon sources, has reported a price tag: a cool $50 million -- the "most expensive overseas trip ever taken by a president," as they put it during the March 23 broadcast of World News Tonight. And because the newscast did not fully identify the costs, it is unclear if this estimate includes only military costs - or even only Air Force costs. New Republic
Think he’s “lost his touch,” being out of office, for a decade, plus; think again. Remember when he threw a part fundraiser, part birthday... a three day fundraiser? Yeah, sell me another one, but he was always doing stuff like this. Call him rock star in chief.
Former President Bill Clinton, who turned 65 in August, is celebrating in grand fashion this weekend - however belatedly - with a three-day Hollywood party
The 42nd president kicked off the extravaganza Friday night.
Just as at his inauguration nearly 20 years ago, Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks kicked off the festivities.
"We've seen the Clintons combine politics and their private lives quite a bit," observes Politico's Glenn Thrush. "This is a natural for him, to leverage his fame and his love of partying with his philanthropic efforts. So this (Hollywood) is the perfect place to be doing it."
The party continues Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl, with performances by Lady Gaga, Usher, Kenny Chesney, and a special acoustic set from Bono and The Edge, who performed for Mr. Clinton at the opening of his presidential library back in 2004.
He's long fused his love of music with politics. As a presidential candidate in 1992, Mr. Clinton jazzed viewers and audience members with a now-famous saxophone performance on "The Arsenio Hall show.
His relationship with L.A.'s "A-listers" is legendary. And even though he's been out of office for more than a decade, Mr. Clinton is still cashing in on his Hollywood connections.
"With a half million dollars to a million dollars," says Tina Daunt of The Hollywood Reporter, "you get access to the Clintons, into the brunch, golfing with Bill, the top seats at all venues." CBS
If their spending and vacations weren’t enough to make us think twice, do we really want a woman that shows she has a pattern of failed judgment calls, to lead our Country?
1995, Hillary certainly had reason to be worried about her husband's proclivities. A biography of Bill was published which contained irrefutable evidence from one of their most trusted friends, Betsey Wright, who had been chief of staff when he was the governor of Arkansas.
If their spending and vacations weren’t enough to make us think twice, do we really want a woman that shows she has a pattern of failed judgment calls, to lead our Country?
1995, Hillary certainly had reason to be worried about her husband's proclivities. A biography of Bill was published which contained irrefutable evidence from one of their most trusted friends, Betsey Wright, who had been chief of staff when he was the governor of Arkansas.
She was quoted as confirming that Arkansas state troopers had helped solicit women for Bill. Moreover, she revealed that in 1987 she had personally tried to dissuade him from running for President by presenting him with a list of his purported lovers...
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By February 1997, Bill Clinton's new lover was sharing his voicemail messages with several friends. A few months later, according to Lewinsky, he told her he had engaged in "hundreds of affairs" during his marriage. At 40, he said, he'd been so unhappy that he had thought of divorcing Hillary and leaving politics. Instead, he confided, he'd decided to stay married largely for Chelsea's sake. Since then, he'd kept a calendar on which he indicated "the days when he'd been good"...
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By February 1997, Bill Clinton's new lover was sharing his voicemail messages with several friends. A few months later, according to Lewinsky, he told her he had engaged in "hundreds of affairs" during his marriage. At 40, he said, he'd been so unhappy that he had thought of divorcing Hillary and leaving politics. Instead, he confided, he'd decided to stay married largely for Chelsea's sake. Since then, he'd kept a calendar on which he indicated "the days when he'd been good"...
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When the scandal finally broke, it shook the Clinton administration to its core. Hillary later claimed that she had known nothing until her husband awakened her early one morning to explain that Lewinsky was a friend who had "misinterpreted his attention". He had done nothing improper, he insisted.
The First Lady appointed herself Bill's defender-in-chief. Soon afterwards, she was told by an aide that there would soon be revelations about Bill's voicemails, his preference for oral sex and the apparent existence of a Gap dress with semen stains. His warnings made no difference: the prospect of all-out war seemed to energize Hillary.
It was Hillary who decided when the time was right for Bill to say more publicly - which led to the most memorable words of the Clinton presidency: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." ...
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But unless evidence of his affairs proved incontrovertible, she simply preferred to turn a blind eye. To keep her marriage going, she had years ago devised a "don't ask, don't tell" approach. "Tolerating Bill's weakness," said her close friend Susan Thomases, "has always been part of her relationship with him." What Hillary found harder to tolerate was public humiliation. Time and again, she rose to Bill's defense, even when the facts overwhelmingly suggested that he was lying...
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But unless evidence of his affairs proved incontrovertible, she simply preferred to turn a blind eye. To keep her marriage going, she had years ago devised a "don't ask, don't tell" approach. "Tolerating Bill's weakness," said her close friend Susan Thomases, "has always been part of her relationship with him." What Hillary found harder to tolerate was public humiliation. Time and again, she rose to Bill's defense, even when the facts overwhelmingly suggested that he was lying...
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When Bill's former Arkansas bodyguards blabbed to the Press about his womanizing - not to mention Bill's avowal that "oral sex isn't considered adultery" - it was Hillary who came up with the strategy that the White House should pursue: "Go after specific things about the story - dates and times. Attack the motives and details." ... Daily Mail
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We remember the outcome of this story, as well as her part in Watergate, but we now see that she was an active participant in the cover up of. She has a history of poor judgment, in the backing of dishonest men, and helping them cover up their poor choices. Look at Obama and Benghazi. How much of the talking point editing has her thumb print on it, and how many times did we watch her on camera blame a video.
As much as we, as a society, have allowed Obama to vilify the successful and the wealthy, it amazes me that the liberal left would even think to embrace the Clintons at all, with their loyal connections and love of the very rich and famous, or allow ourselves to consider going down a path with someone that may put us in a dangerous position with one hastily made failure to act, or wrong decision. However, when we forget our history,
“What difference does it make?”
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