“They always send me to rural areas,” said Clinton. “I’ve got boots that have been worn and I know one end of a horse from the other.”

Reeeally!

President Clinton learned there were 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Since Clinton was so upset with ranchers’ protests over his grazing policies, he told U.S. Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt to fire half the cattle guards immediately. Before Babbitt could proceed with the President’s wishes, Colorado representative Pat Schroeder intervened with a request that before any were fired, they would be given six months of retraining. Clinton obviously did not know that a cattle guard is a bunch of parallel pipes that cattle will not cross because they can’t walk on pipes.
–October 26, 1994, Newcastle Reporter
January 1995, New Mexico Stockman Magazine

If being a pathological liar is charming, then he is charming.
More BJ Clinton quotes.

February 17th, 1998
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Pentagon staff.
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program. We have to defend our future from these predators of the twenty-first century. They’ll be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen. There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein.
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New York Daily News, April 16th, 2003. “‘Saddam is gone, and good riddance,’ former President Clinton said yesterday. Clinton also said Bush should not be faulted if banned weapons of mass destruction aren’t found. Said the president, ‘I don’t think you can criticize the president for trying to act on the belief that they have a substantial amount of chemical and biological stock. That is what I was always told.’”
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May 18th, 2003, at Tougaloo College
Commencement address.
“I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
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TIME Magazine
June 28th, 2004. “So you’re sitting there as president, you’re reeling in the aftermath of 9/11, so, yeah, you want to go get Bin Laden and do Afghanistan and all that, but you also have to say, well, my first responsibility now is to try everything possible to make sure that this terrorist network and other terrorist networks cannot reach chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material. I gotta do that. That’s why I supported the Iraq thing.”

I for one, am thrilled he is out there working for hillary.

Left by no2liberals on December 11th, 2007 at 1:37 am

Cattle Guards-

That one is funny. But your attempt to make it appear to be a lie is a little weak- the rural areas of Arkansas are kinda different from Colorado…

Left by Preston on December 11th, 2007 at 7:38 am

I don’t really go for the Maureen Dowd-style psychoanalysis but the post does remind me of this scene from the Flight of the Conchords:

Jemaine: Its just that I think she might be the one
Bret: Sally
J: Yeah
B: What makes you think that?
J: you just know, when it happens to you you’ll know
B: You said Michelle was the one
J: yeah she’s the one
B: You said Claire was the one
J: yeah she’s another one
B: So you have more than one One?
J: Yeah some people are lucky I’ve had a few ones.

Left by Preston on December 11th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Henh.
No kidding they are different, but are you asserting that he knows one end of a horse from the other, while not knowing what a cattle guard is?
In any event, kindly review the previously quoted statements he made, and take note of the dates in which he said them, then compare them with what he said on the CBS Early Show with Harry Smith, Monday morning 10 Dec 07. I thought perhaps you were following all of the “help” he was giving hillary in her campaign.

SMITH: Right. I also want to set the record straight. When you were in Muscatine a week and a half ago or so, right, and said I’ve always been against this, speaking about the Iraq war. I did a little Googling last night, and the best I could tell, was you said the weapons inspectors should be allowed to do their jobs.

CLINTON: Absolutely. I — look, I said something like that a hundred times. Nobody ever said it before because everybody who knows what was going on and knows me knows that I was trying to get to — even a new U.N. resolution passed. I was involved with an effort behind the scenes to talk to some people around the world to try to see if we could get another resolution passed to give some more time. I supported threatening Saddam so we could do the inspections, but I believe — I even believe the Senate resolution, if you read it, said that the force was authorized if the diplomatic efforts — i.e. the inspections — failed. The mistake we made was not letting the inspections finish. If they had, there would have been no war. And I was always against doing it without the inspections. Now, after Saddam was deposed, the United Nations’ position was we should all do what we can to make it work, and everybody was hoping it would. And still, I think we should still hope it works. We should hope those people have a government that’s representative and that they can work out their oil deals and their conflicts and go on to a better life, but I believe it was a serious error to go in there before the inspectors finished. And I — as you pointed out, most of my speeches weren’t getting covered by the press and we didn’t copy them or anything back then. But we do have several records, including one six days before the invasion where I said I don’t think they should do this till the inspections finished. That was the deal. And if we had done it, there would have been no war.

One teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy piece of info on the weapons inspectors he cited. The weapons inspectors were kicked out of Iraq in Dec 98, while he abusing perfectly good cigars, and didn’t return until Nov 02.
So to review:
February 17th, 1998-If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear
April 16th, 2003-’I don’t think you can criticize the president for trying to act on the belief that they have a substantial amount of chemical and biological stock. That is what I was always told.’”
May 18th, 2003-”I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
June 28th, 2004-”That’s why I supported the Iraq thing”
December 10, 2007-”I supported threatening Saddam so we could do the inspections. The mistake we made was not letting the inspections finish. If they had, there would have been no war. And I was always against doing it without the inspections.”

A lib might find that charming, but any reasonable, thinking person will recognize him for what he is, a pathological liar.
Preston, I thought you would be aware of the fact he is running around making his current statements about Iraq, now that a different version of events would suit his, and her, purposes.

Left by no2liberals on December 11th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

And who could ever forget his most charming moment.

Left by no2liberals on December 12th, 2007 at 12:38 am