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February 15, 2006
A New Legacy for the Clinton Administration
It's bad enough that Bill Clinton disgraced the presidency with the Monika Lewinsky affair, and that Al Gore essentially helped him get away with it. Of course, what did we expect from someone like Bill Clinton, who went on MTV in 1992 and entertained a question on what type of underwear he wore.
All this was bad enough. But now he, and his ex-vice-president have given us another legacy, one that harms our country much more.
As everyone knows, once again Al Gore has slandered his country. Worse, he did it overseas, in Saudi Arabia
Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.
and also
Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.""Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," Gore said. "I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."
Bill Clinton also keeps himself in the news quite a bit, most recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The Way it Used to Be
It used to be that when someone left the presidency, they did not criticize the person who followed them. They stayed out of politics and went about their personal lives. George HW Bush did not criticize Clinton, Reagan did not critize GHW Bush, Carter did not criticize Reagan (only later did he come unglued), and so on at least through the end of World War II.
To be sure, sometimes ex-vice-presidents wanted to run for the presidency, and they stayed involved. But even then they practiced some restraint.
The New Legacy - for the Worse
Al Gore has gone so far overboard so many times these past few years as to set new records for inflamatory rhetoric. His latest outburst can only help our enemies.
Bill Clinton, ever the narcisstic personality who needs media attention to survive, cannot fade away as he should.
The shame is on them. The legacy is one more harmful one that we'll have to deal with.
Posted by Tom at February 15, 2006 8:33 AM
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