President Clinton Last Days in Office...

[bridgit]

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN1OCrRrgVw   Posted on YouTube: April 17, 2015 By YouTube Member: YouTube Help Views on YouTube: 11315827   Posted on DU: January 24, 2007 By DU Member: bridgit Views on DU: 1234

 

[TheDebbieDee]

1. That's always been one of my favorite remembrances

of the Clinton Administration.

President Clinton was almost always such a good sport.......

[dddem]

2. Love it!

Thanks for sharing. Boy, I miss him.

[patricia92243]

3. Thanks for posting this. I had never seen the whole thing. I remember seeing just the part with hi

him running after Hillary to give her her lunch. I don't think the news ever showed the whole thing and I didn't have a computer. Again, thanks. Hope this gets some more K&R.

[Captain Hilts]

4. That one will never be topped. Great! nt

[liberal N proud]

5. Hilarious

[1monster]

6. That one never gets old! I have a copy of it on my old computer...

I'll have to transfer it over to my newer one.

[hippiechick]

7. Y'know, the really scary thing is ...

... Bush probably watched that and thought that's what the entire term of Prezidentin' was supposed to be like ....


:silly:

[KellyW]

10. Seriously

Seriously, I think this inspired Bush to do those lame-ass “Barney Christmas”.

[dipsydoodle]

17. Excellent

Ta for that - hadn't seen it before. :)

[geardaddy]

8. Brilliant! n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. That was great...Clinton is a natural entertainer

it certainly brings me back to a more innocent time even if it was only 6 and a half years ago

[Gloria]

11. ER, it wasn't that innocent....the real last days were embroiled

in the Marc Rich fiasco and various pardons. The Marc Rich thing was really crummy and I'm sure it will be back. Scooter Libby, BTW, endorsed that pardon...

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. I'll take Marc Rich over the current mess this government is in...

it seems like there are far too many scandals to mention these days not to mention a war and constantly being bombarded with the "Bogeyman" terrorists by the media. As bad as the Rich pardoning was, those times seem like the good old days compared to now

[Gloria]

13. The Marc Rich thing underscores how Clinton was/is aligned with

some pretty bad characters.

[bridgit]

19. most agreed, when it comes to squalid behavior vis-a-vis pardons...

G.H.W. Bush may well hold noteworthy record:

'The whole subject of presidential pardons is a touchy one for the Bush family. Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich is a squalid affair, but it pales by comparison, as an act of presidential malfeasance, with the pardons issued by President George Herbert Walker Bush in December 1992 to five of the principal figures in the Iran-Contra affair. The pardon of former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was a particularly flagrant case of politically motivated abuse of power.

Weinberger had lied to special prosecutor Laurence Walsh, concealing for years his contemporaneous notes of White House discussions on the secret arms sales to Iran and the illegal war against Nicaragua. Weinberger's notebooks were eventually uncovered by investigators for Walsh, and the former Pentagon chief was about to go on trial for perjury and cover-up.

Walsh hoped that a conviction would induce Weinberger to testify against President Bush, who as vice president had famously claimed to be “out of the loop” where Iran-Contra was concerned. Weinberger's notebooks reportedly contained material contradicting Bush's denials of involvement in the illegal Iran-Contra operations.

Thus by pardoning Weinberger, Bush not only let a crony go scot free, he immunized against prosecution a potential witness against himself. This crude judicial “fix” was given far less examination by the media than the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich, and was quickly buried.'

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/rich-f21.shtml

[TheDebbieDee]

18. I think the video was made for the last

Whitehouse Correspondents' Dinner of President Clinton's term. So, it must have come out around March, 2000 perhaps? That's 9 whole months before President Gore was robbed of his office by the Supreme Court!

[Pawel K]

14. I miss him.

:toast:

Thanks for posting that video, I haven't seen this yet. What a great and funny president.

[bridgit]

15. most welcome but i miss him too...

:cry: :toast:

[Pharaoh]

16. Damn that is funny!

K&R!!!!!

I MISS BILL!!!!!!!!

[angstlessk]

20. I never even knew this existed..the only thing I would change was the cutout

It could have Clinton as real and the visitors as cutouts...since no one seemed interested in him any longer? That is too funny! Thanks for posting this!