September 25, 2006

In a highly predictable, carefully pre-planned “spontaneous” explosion of self-righteous indignation, a smug Bill Clinton unloaded on FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace yesterday. With a pitiful display of lip-biting, finger-pointing, nostril flaring, lying reminiscent of his famous statement that he “did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky,” the blue haired, red-faced, beady-eyed, “Bubba 1” (his Secret Service nickname)could hardly contain himself as he awaited Chris Wallace’s first question about his administration’s record on fighting terrorism. When it came, Clinton pounced unleashing a carefully rehearsed verbal attack like those which so typified his entire administration when reacting to any criticism.

The Clinton’s have made their careers by attacking anyone who questioned their policies or criticized their behavior, so there should be no surprise at this “outburst” of carefully orchestrated anger. The only people gullible enough to believe that this outrageous display was a “spontaneous” response to Wallace’s interrogation are those who have always been foolish enough to believe Clinton’s lies. It reeks of the same “spontaneity” that Lloyd Bentsen exhibited in his carefully planned attack against Dan Quayle in the 1992 Vice-Presidential debate. The Clinton machine raised personal attack and smear from a rarely used negative campaign tactic to the major art form of Democrat politics.

Gennifer Flowers was subjected to the full bore Clinton attack machine when she made her 12 year affair with then Governor Bill Clinton public and came forward with tapes substantiating her claim. Under Hillary’s direction, James “the Lizard” Carville and George “Staphlycoccus” Stephanopoulos engaged in a smear attack against Ms. Flowers, accusing her of lying to the court and of doctoring the highly compromising tapes which she had of Bill Clinton discussing the intimate details of their relationship.

Then there was Paula Jones who was immediately labeled “trailer trash” by James Carville. Of course Carville should have known what trailer trash truly was because he was working for the iconic trailer trash couple in Bill and Hillary. Their behavior from the beginning of his campaign for Governor to his groping of women in the White House to their looting of the White House art and furniture collection following President Bush’s election to office was exemplary of “trailer trash.”

Let us also not forget Linda Tripp who was immediately attacked as betraying a friend and whose physical appearance was the primary subject of large scale attacks by the Clinton machine and the various Friends of Bill (FOB) in the press and among the Hollywood “Elite.” Other victims of the FOB attack machine included long time supporter and friend Katherine Willey and Democrat campaign worker Juanita Broaddrick whose rape accusations, had they been made against a Republican politician would have been the cause celebre of the feminist movement, but because those claims came against Bubba, were denigrated, ignored, and glossed over by the members of NOW and the entire feminist movement.

Other examples of the Clinton attack machine include the 900 FBI files used in the preparation of an “enemies list,” and of course the use of the IRS in investigating political organizations which expressed opposition to Clinton policies. Those on the Left are fond of portraying Karl Rove as this Machiavellian master of political dirty tricks, personal attack and character assassination. Even Bill himself couldn’t resist bringing the “Demon” Karl Rove into the conversation. Whatever Karl Rove has done and his greatest sin is using Democrat’s own words to skewer them, he has always been a piker compared to the Clinton attack machine.

The lies spewing from the mouth of our former Commander in Chief were legion. The sad truth about Bill Clinton is that if his lips are moving then it’s a good bet he is lying. He believes in no higher authority than himself. He is not just a sociopath, he is the definitive sociopath, and Hillary is his moral twin. “Wealth and Power at any cost” is their creed and Machiavelli’s The Prince is their bible. His claim that those who are now accusing that he didn’t do enough to pursue Osama Bin Laden were saying that he was “obsessed” with Bin Laden is a complete re-write of history. The Republicans were fully on board with Bill Clinton at the time and very little criticism was launched at him by the Republican leadership. The “Wag the Dog” references were made by his friends in the press.

Bill Clinton suffers from mythomania and it is pathological. He has an overwhelming compulsion to build himself up with lies and distortions. It doesn’t matter that the sources he cites belie his claims, he believes his lies to be the absolute truth. He has told himself these lies so often that they have become his truth. He has a paranoiac’s need for enemies against whom he can rail and whom he can accuse of causing his difficulties. It is this pathological need for enemies and the need for justification of his actions which is most revealing of his personality.

Bill Clinton knows deep down inside that he failed miserably as a President, both morally and in defending the nation and this guilt consumes him. The guilt is not that he failed the American people, as I said he is a sociopath and recognizes no higher need than to serve himself, the guilt is over the fact that he failed to live up to his own self-image. He believes himself to be the greatest man ever to be elected to the White House and as such his failure to succeed against Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, his failure to capture Bin Laden when Sudan offered to surrender him, eats him up. He knows he failed and so he needs enemies on which to blame his failures-neocons, the FBI, the CIA, Republicans, all are legitimate targets for his ire as he seeks justification for his abject failures.

Bill Clinton’s lies were numerous and unabashed and the information refuting his claims is voluminous. Bill Clinton chides us to read Richard Clark’s book Against All Enemies, implying that we will find the truth about Bubba’s conduct in it and he is correct. The truth of Clark’s book is that it completely contradicts what the former President claimed Sunday. Clark also gave a background briefing to Jim Angle or FOX News in August of 2002 in which he directly contradicts Bill Clinton’s claims of having an existing plan to combat Al Qaeda which his administration passed on to the incoming Bush Administration.

Look for more and more individuals like Michael Scheuer, a retired 22 year veteran CIA analyst and well known critic of the Bush Administration, to come forward and contradict what the former President claimed yesterday. Scheuer claimed in an interview today that Bill Clinton was given 7 or 8 opportunities to get Bin Laden and refused to pull the trigger every time. That is exactly the opposite of what the mendacious former President stated.

The Democrats are desperate to re-write history and salvage the tainted legacies of both Jimmy Carter, and Bubba Clinton, and both former Presidents are doing their best to help them, but certainly in this case Bill Clinton, as was so common in his administration, has fumbled the ball. His tirade Sunday was more like a child throwing a temper tantrum than a reasoned defense of his [non] efforts to fight terrorism during his presidency.

Bill Clinton never aspired to be President of the United States out of some chimerical noble calling to serve the people. What inspired Bill Clinton then and still inspires his aspirations is ego. For Bill Clinton Sunday’s performance was not about the nation, it was not about the Republicans, it was not even about Chris Wallace; it was all about Bill.

It always has been.