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Clinton scandals

• 07.22.08
  Bill Clinton’s conspicuous absence
  Clinton scandals, Human rights (0)

  The lead story in the pulp (paper) edition of today's WSJ is "Kazakhstan Corruption: Exile alleges new details." It's an amazing story. No, the corruption itself isn't amazing. What's amazing is that two WSJ reporters wrote all those words without once mentioning Bill Clinton. They mention Frank Giustra the Canadian businessman who is buddy to both Bill Clinton and to President Nazarbayev. They mention Nazarbayev, of course. He is the one whom his former son-in-law ratted on for the WSJ. But nothing was said about Clinton's controversial appearance with Nazarbayev in September 2005. The ...
  
  
• 03.19.08
  Mostly
  Clinton scandals (0)

     Regarding the alleged release of Hillary Clinton's papers, the AP says: The archives said 4,746 pages of documents have parts blacked out, mostly to protect the privacy of third parties, including their social security numbers, telephone numbers, and home addresses. "Mostly", it says.   I'll bet that word is even accurate, in a Clintonian sense.
  
  
• 03.07.08
  Monster vs Ken Starr
  Clinton scandals, electoral politics (0)

  Ok, I give up. Which is which? Samantha Power says Hillary Clinton is a monster. This, after one of Hillary Clinton's people compared Barak Obama to Ken Starr. So far, it's all good and wholesome mudslinging. But then (according to this AP article), Clinton said the two cases are different, because "one is an ad hominem attack and one is a historical reference." So which one is which? I'm afraid the distinction escapes me. I do notice that one of Barak Obama's unofficial advisors resigned, while Sandy Berger is still an unofficial advisor to Hillary. ...
  
  
• 02.11.08
  Celebrities Save
  Bash the Messenger, Clinton scandals (0)

  That's odd. It worked for the Clintons. Why wouldn't it work for Clemens? From Sports Illustrated: Desperation pitch: Clemens' celebrity won't save him if he lies
  
  
• 02.09.08
  The Stasi and tax rates
  Clinton scandals, Human rights, Limits on government power (0)

  Wired magazine tells about a $30 million project to piece together a billion pieces of paper records that were torn up by the East German Stasi, but which they hadn't gotten around to destroying. And the destroyed records amount to only about five percent of its files: the agency had generated perhaps more paper than any other bureaucracy in history — possibly a billion pages of surveillance records, informant accounting, reports on espionage, analyses of foreign press, personnel records, and useless minutiae. There's a record for every time anyone drove across the border. The main reason we need lower ...
  
  
• 02.03.08
  Auditioning for a job in the new administration
  Clinton scandals (0)

  The New York Times tells about a heist of historical documents from the New York State library. And somehow it managed to do it without even mentioning Sandy Berger, who is serving as an advisor to one of the candidates currently running for President. Who knows, maybe the thief was auditioning for a job. There may be an opening if Hillary Clinton isn't the one who gets elected.
  
  
• 01.18.08
  Justification for snarling
  Clinton scandals (1)

  Maybe one of the reasons the Clintons always have the aura of B-movie gangsters is shown in this item from the New York Times: "Bill Clinton, Stumping and Simmering".   They act as though their boorish behavior is justified because questions from the other side are somehow not legitimate questions.  It's not a good attitude for the leader of the free world to have.  Note that sentence about what Bill's campaign staff uses as a justification for his behavior. Hillary Rodham Clinton may be the spouse running for office, but it is more Bill Clinton who appears to be feeling the ...
  
  
• 11.10.07
  Bernard Sandy Kerik Berger
  Bash the Messenger, Clinton scandals (0)

  The media are now talking about how Bernard Kerik's indictment may affect Giuliani's campaign.   Does this pose a danger to Hillary Clinton's campaign, too, in that it will remind people that Giuliani is not the only one who associates with unsavory characters.  Will we now see a lot more coverage of the Sandy Berger national security scandal? For whatever reason, the Fox news article quoted below had nary a word to say about Sandy Berger. The indictment of former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on a long list of federal charges Friday could turn into a huge weapon for ...
  
  
• 10.31.07
  Richard Meinertzhagen and Sandy Berger
  Clinton scandals (0)

  Tonight I heard an interesting talk by Dr. Pamela Rasmussen, author of the two volume set, "Birds of South Asia: the Ripley guide." The last part of her talk was about her work in uncovering the fraud perpetrated by Richard Meinertzhagen in the first part of the 20th century. A lot of observations about the distribution of birds in south Asia had been credited to him, with museum specimens existing to back them up. Except it turns out that a lot of his specimens were frauds. In many cases he stole bird specimens out ...
  
  
• 10.28.07
  Yes, dare you
  Clinton scandals, First Amendment (0)

  Conservative writer Austin Hill has praise for Bill Clinton's words, "How dare you." As he then attempted to continue with his address, another heckler shouted at President Clinton, claiming that the terrorist attacks had been an “inside job.” “An inside job?” Clinton retorted, with indignation in his voice. “How dare you. How dare you! It was NOT an inside job!” In a matter of a few seconds, former President Clinton used a spontaneous moment with rude people in his midst to communicate to a fearful, skeptical American people. What was the message he conveyed? That the worst suspicions about our country and government ...
  
  

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