The Wanderer 4/15/99 George A. Kendall "...It's obvious, from listening to the talking heads of the TV talk shows, that most of them (with the exception of a few really hard-core nitwits like Bill Press of Crossfire) acknowledge, in their heart of hearts, that Clinton's action in bombing Yugoslavia is indefensible. Yet, almost invariably, these same people, who ought to know better, end up giving voice to some sentiment along lines of "now that we are in there, we have to go the whole way, we have to back up our fighting men," and so on, even if this means sending in ground troops. Invariably, they tell us that if we fail to do so, the United States will lose all its credibility. In other words, our commander in chief has made a tremendous error in committing us to a senseless war which we have no legal or moral right to wage, but we must go along with him to save face. This is moral insanity. .."

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Capital Hill Blue 4/8/99 Doug Thompson "...White House staffers, Clinton confidants and others describe Clinton as "incredibly profane" and "an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." Former White House senior staff member George Stephanopoulos in his book, All Too Human, writes about Clinton's mishandling of the Somalia crisis and shows the depth of the President's violent emotions: "'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.'" Those who have known Clinton since his days in Arkansas say the quote is "vintage Bill." "Only an idiot would buy the public persona of Bill Clinton," says Walter Erricson, a retired reporter who covered Clinton in his early political days in Arkansas. "He is an incredibly profane individual. He is now and always has been an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." White House staff members say Clinton curses like a sailor, has temper tantrums that cause people to back away from him and uses the word "kill" often to describe what he wants to do with his enemies...."

Capitol Hill Blue (The Rant) 4/13/99 Doug Thompson "...The one word that says it all Contempt. Think about the word. Say it. Contempt. It rolls off the tongue easily when one needs a simple word to describe a complex man like William Jefferson Clinton. Contempt. Contempt for the law. Contempt for the truth. Contempt for decency. Contempt for the Constitution. Contempt for the people who were foolish enough to twice elect him twice to the highest office in the land. Contempt. The defining word for the legacy of Bill Clinton....No number of cruise missiles raining on Eastern Europe can erase this part of history. Clinton can bomb all of civilization back into the stone age and it still won't alter the fact that he is now officially censured, known forever as a man who so blatantly lied under oath that it pissed off a federal judge and she slapped him down for it.....And he may lose his license to practice law in Arkansas, not that anyone ever expected him to return to Arkansas to practice law or anything else. But fines and disbarrment are still overshadowed by that one word. Contempt. The word oozes with the slime that has inundated the White House from the first day Bill Clinton took office, promising the "most ethical administration in history." Six years later, after many investigations, many trials, convinctions of a number of cabinet officials, the "most ethical administration in history" is now laid bare for its contemptible disregard for everything ethical...."

The American Spectator 4/99 John Corry "...Words fail. Things fall apart. The president's apologists made the expected denials, but no one believed them, and even Geraldo Rivera had the grace to look embarrassed. Juanita Broaddrick had caused a problem. The New York Times, for one, tried to ignore it, although later it tried to make amends. It said in an editorial that Bill Clinton in his past confessions had presented himself as a "recreational philanderer," but now it seemed he might be "a serial masher or worse." The wording was close to whimsical - masher had a quaint ring to it - but you could excuse the Times for that. Some things are almost too painful to talk about, and the Times, and all the rest of the press, was having a problem. How do you deal with the idea of having a rapist in the White House? Or must you deal with it at all? .....None of this is promising. It should be obvious by now that Bill Clinton suffers from not merely reckless but clearly compulsive behavior, and that he will, as always, do anything to save himself when he gets in trouble. On the day the Broaddrick story broke in the Journal, the most interesting, and appalling, item on the evening news broadcast was a report by David Martin, the CBS Pentagon correspondent. The White House, he said, wanted to bomb Serbia, even though our NATO allies opposed it. It is to think the unthinkable that the proposed bombing had anything to do with diverting attention from Juanita Broaddrick, of course. The thought is too overwhelming. But it is also unthinkable that we have a rapist in the White House. Who could possibly believe that, either?..."

Strategic Investment Intelligence Bulletins 2/17/99 James Dale Davidson Freeper Ogle ".Jack Wheeler admits he was wrong about Clinton: "He's not a sociopath." In this month's issue of Strategic Intelligence, Jack reports: "On a visit to Canada last month, I read a book review in the Toronto Globe & Mail of British Columbia University Professor of Psychology Robert Hare's Without Conscience. Since I have publicly stated in past columns my agreement with Senator John McCain's assessment of Bill Clinton as a 'sociopath,' it was interesting to note Prof. Hare's careful distinction between a sociopath and a psychopath... Psychopathology is a spectrum, with vicious killers on one end and 'closet psychopaths' on the other. It was the description of the latter that intrigued me: 'Their most pervasive trait is a stunning lack of conscience. They are glib, lack remorse, guilt, or empathy, are emotionally shallow and lie easily and convincingly. Underneath a charming, sometimes irresistibly likeable fa‡ade, the closet psychopath is ruthless, ambitious, selfish, and dishonest. They are social predators who charm and manipulate their way through life, leaving a trail of broken hearts and empty wallets. Power and control are all-important to them, and they will use threats, intimidation, litigation, and violence to get what they want.' A nail-on-the-head of Slick Willie, wouldn't you say? ."

The Progressive Review 4/10/99 Sam Smith "…"Clinton is far more psychologically disturbed than the public ever imagined . ." NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff on DATELINE "I think that's an understatement. The suggestion is that this guy is in terrible trouble mentally and psychologically and is a completely hollow narcissist and egomaniac." "And he thiks that the best therapy fo it is being President. My view is that presidential therapy hasn't worked for him and shouldn't have been tried." "But he certainly does need professional help.---" . . .Christopher Hitchens on WOR

NewsMax.com 4/16/99 "... Onetime presidential guru Dick Morris has noticed something reviewers had missed in Michael Isikoff's new book, "Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story." It's this tidbit from page 256 about Clinton's one-night stand with former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen: "According to Gracen's later account, Clinton flirted with her -- then invited her to the apartment of one of his friends at the Quawpaw Towers. They had sex that night. It was rough sex. Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen later told friends. But it was consensual." Appearing Tuesday night on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, Morris noted, "There's a very important revelation in [Isikoff's] book that hasn't received a lot of attention." Morris paraphrased the passage quoted above and then pointed out that Clinton bit Gracen's lip, "... just as he'd bit Juanita Broaddrick's lip, according to Juanita Broaddrick. And [Gracen's] statement was made before Juanita Broaddrick spoke."... Morris added, "Now if there was a rape trial of Bill Clinton right now and this woman, Gracen, was called as a witness and confirmed the M.O.; that would be a) admissible and b) very decisive." What about Gracen's claim, as Isikoff reports, that her Clinton sex was consensual? ...Last month, Lambert elaborated on Stokes' version for NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher: "I talked to Judy Stokes for an hour and a half," said Lambert. "At first she was reluctant to burn her bridges with Liz. But I finally asked, 'Do you believe Clinton raped her?' She said, 'Absolutely. He forced her to have sex. What do you call that?' " Lambert concluded, "Stokes was totally convinced it was rape." ..."

EXEGESIS 4/17/99 Steve Meyers "... Above all, these four years have confirmed two trends: first, a considerable acceleration of the pace at which Western nations are discarding the sanctity of national sovereignty in their unseemly rush toward a global government for which there seems to be little popular support; and secondly, the systematic hypnotization of the American people into an Orwellian trance, never better illustrated than in the current rash of propaganda about the bombing of Yugoslavia: "War brings Peace! Killing is the way to save people. Ignorance is Strength! Freedom is Slavery!" Ah yes, and at Clinton's Animal Farm, some animals are most definitely more equal than others: indeed, some are still alive, but others are not; some are wealthy, others are neglected; some are intimidated, yet others tell the truth. According to the governments participating in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the justification for this military operation is to stop the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, never mind that the West ignored it in Bosnia, Tibet, Rwanda and elsewhere. It is said that Kosovo is seeking independence from Yugoslavia, a sovereign nation which has not attacked or threatened any of its neighbors. Maybe so, but what differentiates it from Chechnya, Scotland or the Palestinians? Are we going to bomb Moscow, London and Jerusalem too? Shall we bomb Istanbul and Athens in protest at the Cyprus problem? Shall we bomb Ottawa to help the cause of Quebec? How about bombing China to free Tibet? ..."

UPI Spotlight 4/17/99 "... The president told Democrats in Massachusetts (Friday night) that the NATO campaign fits with his philosophy for the future, where America's technology and economic resources are put to good purposes...."

The New Australian 4/12-18/99 James Henry Freeper hope "...Lord Acton's dictum that power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely is much quoted. But what happens when power, especially enormous power, falls into the hands of an already corrupt man? A man that sees power merely as a means to advance his own interests: to reward sycophants, punish critics, intimidate potential enemies, buy favours from dictators and even wage war to enhance his own position regardless of the cost in terms of blood and misery. Such a man is Clinton. A man with the mentality of a teenage thug who seems literally incapable of making a genuine moral judgement is president of the United States. A man whose pathological behavior has rightly stripped him of all moral authority has declared war on another nation. Do Americans really believe that such a creature can enoble a cause driven by the meanest of personal ambition and the desperate psychological need to politically survive? Do American troops walk tall when they think of their commander-in-chief?..."

www.inter-nat.com 'World Report' 4/15-30/99 Doug Thompson "...BILL Clinton's failing Kosovo war is part of a desperate, dangerous and fatally flawed plan by a scandal-ridden President to salvage a legacy or the history books, White House and Pentagon insiders say. ... "THE President is standing alone on a lot of this," says one White House aide. "He's finding fewer and fewer people who are willing to stick with him over Kosovo. He's backed himself, his administration and his countryinto a corner. "TWO who are sticking with Clinton are National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who aides say would follow Clinton anywhere. "BERGER and Albright put their loyalty to Clinton above their oaths to serve the constitution," says military analyst Sander Owen. "It's pathetic to watch." AT the Pentagon, senior officers now call the President the "draft dodger in chief," and sneer at his inability to grasp simple military tactics. "THE man is an ass," says one career officer. "He has no concept of a military operation. To him, it's just a video game. What we don't know is how many body bags it will take to make this jerk face reality. "ARNOLD Crittendon, a retired intelligence analyst, says Clinton has become a "laughing stock" in both the military and intelligence communities. "HIS political motives are so blatant that they would be farcical if we weren't talking about the lives of American soldiers," Crittendon says."There wasn't that much respect for the man to begin with. What little there was is long gone now...."AIDES say that Clinton started focusing more on foreign policy when it became clear he would not be convicted in the Senate impeachment trial. "HE wanted to find some foreign policy arena where a bold stroke would showcase his administration as a world leader," one former aide says."When it became clear that he was focusing on Kosovo, a lot of people tried to talk him out of it. But Bill Clinton is a man who won't let goof something once he focuses on it. He was sure that defeating a tyrant would restore his place in history. "BUT military planners told Clinton he could not win a limited air war in Kosovo."THE President was advised that his strategy was flawed and did notserve the national interest," says one Pentagon planner, "but he wasn't interested in hearing the facts.... "A psychologist who treats obsessions says Clinton's preoccupation with his legacy could be viewed by mental health professionals as a warning sign over the President's stability. "THERE are enough outward signs that the President is so driven by his obsession with his legacy that it could be affecting his mental judgments," says Dr. Stephanie Crossfield. "If I were consulting on thePresident's case, I would recommend further evaluation of his condition...."

WorldNetDaily 4/23/99 Joseph Farah Freeper laz "...There he was, Bill Clinton -- the man for all seasons -- johnny-on-the-spot ready to seize any political advantage he could wangle in exploiting the emotional reaction of a nation to the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado. This guy makes me sick. He told the people of Littleton that a federal "crisis response team is ready now to travel to Colorado, and I strongly believe that we should do whatever we can to get enough counselors to the families and the children as quickly as possible." The date of this tragedy made me wonder where such a "crisis response team" was for an even bigger, federally sponsored slaughter a few years earlier at Waco, Texas...."

The Washington Post Charles Krauthammer 4/23/99 "..."[NATO] strikes continue to cause serious damage to the FRY [Serb] military and will further degrade their capability to commit atrocities against the Kosovo Albanian population." -- NATO military spokesman Giuseppe Marani, April 17. "We are also seeing increased evidence of ethnic cleansing. . . . " -- Same spokesman, same briefing, same day, one minute later.... If it were not so tragic, the standard Clinton/NATO line on Kosovo would be farcical. Every day they report how we are "degrading" Slobodan Milosevic's ability to carry out war crimes. Within minutes, they then report a fresh new set of war crimes...."

NewsMax 4/24/99 JR Nyquist "...The Western alliance is inching toward an abyss -- either a confrontation with Russia or a split within NATO. These are the dangers courted by President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Their strategy? To bomb the Yugoslav army until it can no longer offer effective resistance to a ground invasion. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, his country under bombardment, is given no alternative but to withdraw the Yugoslav army from Yugoslav territory, making way for a NATO occupation. Milosevic now appears willing to accept an international peacekeeping force on Yugoslav soil, providing that NATO pulls back from the border and stops the air assault. But President Clinton will not agree to Milosevic's compromise. What is wrong with that compromise? It appears that President Clinton wants the crisis to continue, if not intensify....Blair further declared that NATO forces would enter Yugoslavia with or without Milosevic's permission. "We are all internationalists now," said Blair, "whether we like it or not."....Meanwhile, Russian mobilizations continue on land and sea. The Ukrainian and Russian navies are presently engaged in training exercises. Dozens of warships have been mobilized. At the same time, Russian diplomats are courting Israel, Greece and France -- feeling out weaknesses in the West's global position. Russia's ally, President Jiang Zemin of China, has once again called on the People's Liberation Army to brace for a possible war. There is "regional tension and unstable elements," he said earlier this month. "The world is not safe."..."

Original Sources 4/22/99 Mary Mostert Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...EXCERPTS "The President now wants to know: What is causing this kind of behavior? Well, Mr. President, what has caused your kind of behavior? If character no longer matters in presidents, should it matter for 11 and 13 year old boys? If the nation's top executive can use anger, power and position to get sexual services from women he casually meets, and receive a 67% approval rate from the people, as the polls claim, is this not, then, the new social standard for all males, including resentful 13 year olds? If the president can destroy the lives of women who object to his unwanted sexual demands, is it OK for 13 year olds to take the matter one step further and just shoot the pesky females who won't cooperate? Perhaps to find the source of the problem in Jonesboro in his home state of Arkansas, the President might try looking in the mirror. "

Associated Press 4/24/99 "...President Clinton departed the NATO summit in such haste Saturday that he left behind perhaps the most important piece of luggage in the world - the ``nuclear football.'' The president's military aide, who constantly shadows Clinton and carries the briefcase containing U.S. nuclear launch codes, was mistakenly left at the International Trade Center when Clinton's motorcade sped off 45 minutes early and without notice. The aide walked the 4 1/2 blocks back to the White House without incident..."

WorldNetDaily 5/4/99 David Limbaugh "...On Friday, Bill Clinton announced that he would convene a White House summit on youth violence on May 10. In his opening remarks, after briefly relating how much time he had spent in the last week agonizing over the Littleton massacre, he conducted a clinic on that skill for which he has become legendary: compartmentalization. Unable to resist a self-congratulatory detour, in a textbook sociopathic performance, he said, "Let me begin by saying we got some more good news today on the economic front with the word that our economy expanded by 4.5 percent in the first quarter of this year." Getting back to the obligatory subject of student killings, he asked, "What can we do to give our children safe, whole childhoods?" He added, "We should not be fighting about who takes the blame." As accomplished a fibber as he is, the president must have forgotten, or assumed we had forgotten, about his NRA-blaming comment earlier this week: "It's not just the culture of violence that has to change. It's the culture of hunting and sport shooting that has to stop financing efforts to frighten their members who are good, God-fearing, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens out there into believing that every time we try to save a kid's life it's a camel's nose in the tent." Not only is Clinton blaming the NRA, he is exploiting the tragedy for political gain. He even admits that he is counting on the outrage over the shootings to help push his new gun-control proposal through Congress. White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said, "Unfortunately, oftentimes it takes tragic events to catalyze work here in Washington." ...."

The Orlando Sentinel Online 5/6/99 Charley Reese "....While the United States is committing a crime against Yugoslavia, where we have no legitimate strategic or national interests, President Clinton's Chinese friends have been busy little bees, 90 miles from our shores. Chi Haotian, minister of national defense, got together with Raul Castro, big brother Fidel's minister of defense, and decided that working together was a very good idea....You can expect to see Chinese investments in Cuba, and you will see Castro join forces with the Communist Chinese to drive Taiwanese interests and businesses out of Latin America and the Caribbean.....As they say, much is afoot to the south of us. It makes you wonder why the United States is bogging itself down in the no-win mire of the Balkans. My guess is that flawed decision can be attributed to the fact that underneath his mask of sanity, President Clinton has a screw loose. I suspect that before his term ends the cowardly Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate who chose partisanship over duty will regret they missed their opportunity to get this captain off the ship. Probably what will shock most Americans in the months ahead is the discovery that the United States has few to no friends in Latin America, and among the few, the fervor is faint to absent..... "

Omaha World-Herald 5/6/99 Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...It's strange to contemplate: A president asking Congress to not give him flexibility in a crisis. Usually a president seeks the maximum maneuvering room. The resolution was not telling Clinton to invade Yugoslavia. It was simply expressing Senate support for that option. .....The fact that Clinton worked to defeat McCain's resolution confirms the opinion of the doubters. He does not want a green light on ground forces because he does not want to be responsible for deciding whether to use them. He is afraid to lead...."

Los Angeles Times 5/5/99 Tom Hayden Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...The moral rationale provided by the Clinton administration at the outset of the bombing was that the brutal ethnic cleansing of Kosovo could be stopped in a short military campaign. That promise was either a deception or a delusion. The war has turned into a horrific quagmire, and yet even liberal Democrats remain strangely tongue-tied about the suffering, which our government lamely calls "collateral damage." Every day seems to bring news of civilians being killed and the White House apologizing. Worse, according to the Wall Street Journal, President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair pushed in mid-April for a wider definition of targets that would increase the danger to civilians. The result is the death of cleaning ladies and bus drivers, evacuation of 85,000 people from Belgrade neighborhoods poisoned by toxic chemicals, the unemployment of 100,000 Serbs and laying waste of Serbia's civilian infrastructure..."

American Spectator 5/99 Jeremy Rabkin Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...Bill Clinton has his own rules. In his understanding, he did not perjure himself when he denied having sex with Monica Lewinsky: She had had sex with him. In launching air strikes against Serbia, he operated again on Clinton rules: Just because Serbian President Milosevic got a sustained slamming from American bombers did not mean that the United States was entering into a war. This episode is the culmination of a trend in Clinton's foreign policy. Call it "therapeutic bombing." Saddam Hussein won't cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors? Bomb him! Saddam then cancels all further inspections and forces the withdrawal of U.N. monitors and the collapse of the whole inspection regime in place since the Gulf War? Do a little more cosmetic bombing--to prove that while we may be defeated, we are not humbled. A terrorist attack on U.S. embassies with threats by Osama bin Ladin's terror network? More bombing! We don't disarm any terrorists, but we prove that, if provoked, we can destroy an aspirin factory in Sudan..."

WorldNetDaily 5/7/99 Alan Keyes "...On Wednesday the Senate voted to shelve a proposal by Sen. John McCain to authorize "all necessary force," including ground troops, to achieve American objectives in Yugoslavia. This is a good thing. To put it mildly, I do not believe that we need to multiply expressions of our confidence in Bill Clinton's leadership and judgment. We might try instead multiplying instances of clear and morally literate reasoning about the war in Yugoslavia. Here, Sen. McCain is not helpful. "All necessary force" would literally include the use of nuclear weapons. So Sen. McCain put a resolution on the table that would have authorized Bill Clinton -- a man we know to be without judgment, conscience, decency, morality, integrity, or competence -- to use nuclear weapons to deal with the conflict in Yugoslavia. The idea that the Senate would authorize such a man to use all means he judges necessary in a military effort as questionable as this one is insane. In this proposal, Sen. McCain shows a lack of judgment bordering on lunacy. ..."

Orlando Sentinel 5/12/99 Miriam Marquez "...The man is shameless, absolutely, positively without remorse. What else could one assume, watching President Clinton on C-SPAN recently as he hammed it up at the Washington Correspondents Dinner....The president, noting that a survey of journalists had ranked Clinton's sex-and-lies impeachment scandal of last year at 53rd among the top 100 events of this century, deadpanned: "What's a man got to do to get into the top 50?" Even the creation of plastics made it to the top 50, Clinton added. "Plastics," he repeated with one cocked eyebrow...."

Freeper majordivit on Gertz interview 5/14/99 "...Gertz says that the Russians have underground facilites. Could be to house leaders... Russians refuse to discuss..CIA doesn't know what's going on... Gertz supposes that it could be the next generation of Nuclear Weapons facility.. Gertz goes on to say that this is happening at the same time US stopped building Nukes.. Gertz in disbelief says that at the same time we are sending the Russians 100's of millions of bucks to dismantle their nukes, they are using money that is freed up to build these underground facilities. ....Gertz - During Clinton's trip to China - China tested a new missile..Message - We have no repect for you... White house doesn't care.. White house people told Gertz that they didn't care. They told Gertz that China is a deveoloping power... Gertz says that these weapons that China is developing are not designed to be used against the Phillipines, they are designed to fight against the U.S.... Clinton administration, for purely ideological reasons, has gone to great lenghs to oppose missile defense in the US......Gertz - After the bombing of the Chinese embassy, the Chinese made an unspecified military threat which went unnoticed in the press....."

SPECIAL TO MSNBC 2/12/1999 Jonathan Broder "....Now that he has been acquitted by the Senate, President Clinton is launching a two-pronged political offensive that hopefully will burnish his tarnished image, create a legacy beyond his sexual appetites and extract revenge on the House Republicans who impeached him, his advisers say...... At the same time, however, aides described Clinton as having "blood in his eye" toward Republicans whom he feels used the scandal to try to destroy him..... "The president of the United States, arguably the most powerful man in the world, has declared a personal vendetta against the House managers, stating his will to single them out for destruction," said Rep. Christopher Cannon of California, one of the House prosecutors. "Such action is the height of the arrogance of power." Then, in what appeared to be a theme that other House Republicans may use in their campaigns, Cannon added: "Throughout the impeachment process, I never acted in anger. I was not acting on emotion. I was doing my duty." ..... "He understands the politics of this, and I really see no sign that he's moving toward them," Frank said of the Republicans. "He's really mad at them, and he's really happy with us. But he's still a human being, one with great control over his public policy instincts - although not some of his personal ones." ..."

www.stratfor.com 5/27/99 Stratfor "...1145 GMT, 990527 One of the critical dimensions of the Kosovo conflict is the state of mind of U.S. policy makers. Their view of Kosovo is, quite naturally, part of their general perception both of the world and of their place in it. It is, therefore, important to understand that Bill Clinton and his foreign policy team are experiencing a crisis of confidence of monumental proportions. Actually, saying they are in a state of shock is probably a better way to put it. They have gone in less than 90 days from being a fairly credible foreign policy team to a group in total, and probably unrecoverable, disarray. Obviously it started with Kosovo. They did not expect Milosevic to resist as he has. One result has been the near disappearance of the administration's expert on Yugoslavia and Milosevic, Richard Holbrooke...... However, it has been their China policy that has truly shaken the administration. Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor, was particularly close to the Chinese and a strong relationship with China has been one of the foundations of Clinton's foreign policy. China's crackdown on dissidents struck the administration as a betrayal of their tacit understanding with the Chinese, and the administration struck back with bitter rhetoric. The Chinese merely hardened their position. The Chinese response to the bombing of their Embassy further stunned the administration. The release of the Cox report has left their China policy in a shambles and the speed of the collapse has left Clinton's staff stunned. Add to that the near collapse of relations with Russia at the beginning of the war, German and Italian mistrust of U.S. competence and motives, and we are seeing the near collapse not only of foreign policy, but also of the leadership of the foreign policy apparatus. With the departure of Robert Rubin, the loss of credibility for Clinton's foreign policy team is breath taking. Berger is being held by many as personally responsible (along with Janet Reno) for not stanching Chinese espionage. Albright is being treated with increasing contempt in Washington and foreign capitals. George Tenet, head of CIA, was forced to take responsibility for the China bombing incident. After his humiliation over Monica Lewinsky, Clinton was going to use foreign policy to redeem himself. That search for redemption has turned into a nightmare...."

Bangor (ME) Daily News 5/26/99 John S. Day Freeper Stand Watch Listen "...Given hindsight, Reagan's covert, sometimes illegal foreign policy schemes seem positively brilliant these days when stacked up against Bill Clinton's amateur-hour efforts to ensure world peace and safeguard the national security of the United States. Somewhere along the way, Clinton managed to get us in a war with a country smaller than New England that has the potential of re-igniting the Cold War. Imagine American public reaction had Nikita Khrushchev dispatched a squadron of Bison bombers to take out our embassy in West Germany during the Cuban missile crisis? ....Some Democratic apologists, who heaped scorn on GOP Sen. Fred Thompson for alleging two years ago that the Chinese government was buying its way into the U.S. government with illegal campaign contributions, now are calling for administration heads to roll. ...."

Naval Academy Commencement Address 5/26/99 Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Freeper Marching Johny "....We are bombing to Stop Hate, Cohen told the graduating class of the Naval Academy. Apparently, Stopping Hate has now become the new, vital National Interest for the U.S. If you hate anything, even a football team or your mother-in-law, you are next. Your name has already been noted! Hate is verboten and punishable by death!!! Only love, lusts, and perversions are now legal and acceptable to think about or express, publicly or privately, throughout the U.S. controlled, free world...."

The New York Times Company 5/24/99 WILLIAM SAFIRE "...We have a President who has a problem: he lies when he doesn't really have to. This mysterious compulsion is not to be confused with the rational falsehood. His finger-wagging denial of a sexual relationship last year was designed to cut off further inquiry, and he could logically assume at the time he would not be contradicted by hard evidence. It was a calculated deception by a well-ordered brain. The deceptions this year are different. Not only were the misleading statements made about the weightiest matters -- war and national security -- no purpose was served in uttering them. That's the puzzling part. For example, on March 24, he said: "I do not intend to put our troops in Kosovo to fight a war." He reiterated that policy time and again..... But he could not bring himself to say forthrightly that the time had come for such new pressure on Serbia. Instead, he insisted that he had "always said . . . that we have not and will not take any option off the table." That's just not so, and everybody knows it. Why does he do it? Does he imagine that nobody will remember what he has been saying all along? His diehard defenders explain that his words "to fight a war" limited the meaning of "do not intend to put our troops in Kosovo." Under that parsing, he intended only to put them in a "permissive environment." That's demonstrably untrue, too. His Secretary of State says that the 50,000 NATO troops might well be used in a "non-permissive environment." (That euphemism for invasion means "a place where soldiers shoot at you." When is NPE Day?) Another example of the unnecessary lie was his March 19 response to: "Can you assure the American people that under your watch, no valuable nuclear secrets were lost?" ..."

The Marshfield Mail 5/12/99 Gordon E. Nordquist "...No act of war has been officially authorized by the United States Congress, and yet this moron president is passing out Purple Hearts and the nation has lost two Black Hawk Helicopters, costing billions and a mega billion Stealth Bomber. All this, on a war that is being financed by our Social Security Retirement, at a price tag of over $1 billion per month! Just what is it going to take before the American people become outraged? It is not Slobodan Milosevic who has placed America's national security at risk-it is Bill Clinton. Relations between the U.S. and Russia are strained to the limit-and now the Chinese are justifiably enraged at the United States. Can this moron president possibly bring this nation more disgrace, more shame, more chaos and yes, more crisis?..."

Wesley Pruden Washington Times 5/25/99 "....Rep. Chris Cox and his special committee on U.S.-Chinese security will finally let the public in on the secret this morning that's scaring the pants off official Washington. Well, most of official Washington. President Clinton, who sees everything through the prism of the permanent campaign, has so far treated the subject of Chinese espionage as the usual gubernatorial politics, of the importance of, say, whether to allow Don Tyson to dump chicken guts into a pristine Ozarks river, or give Arkansas Power & Light Co. the rate increase it hankers after. Constituents with the ability to write big checks have to be looked after. The Cox Report, as it will become known, will detail how the Chinese have stolen every nuclear secret America has. "They've got everything," says one official who has read the report. "I mean, everything."...... If the public may still want to cower behind the do-not-disturb sign on its bedroom door, there's evidence that some of the hear no evil, see no evil Democrats in Washington are at last rubbing the sleep out of their eyes. "At the end of the [Thompson] investigation in 1997," concedes Sen. Joe Leiberman of Connecticut, "the way I viewed it is that we were left with a lot of dots on a canvas, but they were not connected. I think what has happened in the last couple of months is that the dots are beginning to be connected."...."

Jewish World Review 6/1/99 Mona Charen "...LET'S SEE IF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S logic can be understood: We must go to war with Slobodan Milosevic because he is engaging in human-rights abuses on a massive scale. We must expend treasure, risk American lives (though only slightly), alienate the Russians, and bomb Serb hospitals, passenger trains and civilian apartment complexes because "ethnic cleansing" so offends our consciences. Yet when it comes to China, probably the world's leader in human-rights abuses, we are not only eager to overlook their ghastly bamboo gulag, their wholesale torture and murder of Christians, and their near total suppression of speech, we are even eager to overlook their theft of our most valuable secrets. Ethnic cleansing is an ugly spectacle. And Milosevic richly deserves indictment as a war criminal. But the difference between Milosevic and Zhu Rongji is this: Zhu is a Democratic Party campaign contributor, and Milosevic is not...."

WorldNetDaily.com 6/4/99 Alan Keyes "...But whatever kind of "victory" Bill Clinton claims, I think that the rest of us ought to hang our heads in shame. The NATO campaign has followed a strategy that we know to be wrong and deeply immoral. The moral norms that as a decent and civilized people we have worked to establish condemn a strategy that aims to break and destroy the civilian people of a country in order to achieve political objectives. The classic definition of terrorism is the use of force against civilians in order to get them to do your bidding as a result of the terror induced in their hearts. And we have been practicing a strategy based on just such a use of force..."

BBC News Online (UK Politics section) 6/6/99 BBC's Edward Main Interviews Christopher Hitchens Freeper yaya123 "...Christopher Hitchens: I wince for Mr Blair when he compares himself to Mr Clinton. "I mean to say, as directly as I possibly can, that with Clinton the concept of matter of principle does not exist. He would not in his own mind be able in his own mind to formulate such a thing," "It's a foreign idea to him. If he is in shot when he hears an expression like matter of principle or character or integrity he wonders what face to put on now and will it be convincing." ...."

The Marshfield Mail 6/2/99 Gordon E. Nordquist "...Bill Clinton's war in Yugoslavia is a horrendous disaster-and those Democrats who rallied around him when they should have removed the menace from office must bear the full blame for his actions in Yugoslavia. It's obvious that this draft dodger of the 60s has no conscience when it comes to destroying property and killing innocent people. Democrats never have been good at warfare and Bill Clinton doesn't have a clue that conducting war is anything different than a politcal campaign...... More than 600 U.S. combat aircraft are now engaged in this undeclared war, and over 30,000 reservists have been alerted to active duty, because six years of Clinton's military cuts have gutted the armed forces. Bill Clinton has politicized the NATO alliance, turning a defensive European alliance into an aggressor in behalf of a Muslim frug gang in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. It should come as no surprise that Clinton's own cocaine addiction would ultimately dictate his policies for the nation. The casualties in Clinton's war are mainly civilians, making Clinton the first American president who is a war criminal under the charter of the International Criminal Court that just indicted Slobodan Milosevic! U.S. and NATO pilots have dropped bombs on school children, passenger trains, hospitals, nursing homes, refugee columns, civilian homes, and the Chinese embassy in Belgrade The man is insane, and Senate Democrats who placed party before their country during the impeachment trial of this lunatic, are soley to blame for his murderous blundering and abuse of U.S. military power...."

The American Spectator 6/11/99 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "....To the morally alive it is astounding that the disgraced 42nd president is still lumbering up and down the halls of the White House, grinning to aides and visitors alike, leering at the pretty girls. More astounding, members of the press, after being lied to and smeared, are still finding threads of gold in this bum's old rags. We are coming to the bloody end of the most bungled war in American history. As a diplomatic endeavor it is certainly among the most bungled. Yet the other day the Washington Post ran a vintage 1962 "Crisis in the Oval Office" piece. Since this yokel from an Arkansas dog patch first tripped into the White House and commenced to jog through Washington traffic in his underpants, our Liberal friends in the press have been glimpsing visions of Camelot in his vulgar travesties. Never does he fail to disappoint their hallucinations with some new and unsurpassed gaucherie. Yet always they come back to the same old delusion: Boy Clinton, a Kennedy in rustic's raiment! .....Truth be known, until recently every time he piped up about his Balkan wagging of the dog, he was gibbering like a mental defective on speed....The costs that the Clintons have imposed on this country will someday be chronicled, but one of the most onerous is the cost they have imposed on the quality of intellect. All intelligent people hope that this war is over. We hope that the Kosovars and Serbs will live in peace. We are grateful for the American military whose members have without much support from the political establishment and almost no support from the Clintons' built and maintained the high quality force that saved Clinton's hide once again. Yet let us not do further violence to intelligent thought by calling this "Victory." In war, achieving one's stated goal is victory...."

The New Australian 6/99 Peter Zhang "...Chinese officials have privately bragged about the extent of their penetration, their placing of agents, their successful use of bribery and blackmail.....As for Bill Clinton, I personally believe he is capable of anything, a view shared by Chinese officials who also hold him in the greatest contempt. He is not only considered treacherous but unstable. A man completely incapable of seeing beyond tomorrow. This goes someway, in Chinese eyes, of understanding his motives. I pointed out in another article that Beijing has a profile of every member of Congress and the Senate. The interesting thing is that Clinton's file goes back, so I have been told, to his student days..... The key to the puzzle lies in his psychological profile. My understanding is that Chinese intelligence concluded that Clinton is bereft of any kind of morality or cultural moorings and that he is totally absorbed; a man for whom the only thing that counts is what promotes his interest regardless of the cost to others, including the nation; a man with no sense of honour, integrity or loyalty but an uncanny ability to convey the opposite feelings. It was early evidence of this ability plus his thuggishness in pursuit of his own ambitions that finally convinced Beijing that he was a political winner. Beijing knew what many still cannot see. Clinton sees the presidency as a mere trophy, a kind of political Oscar. Everything he does is geared to winning and keeping that Oscar. Curiously enough, it this destructive ambition - destructive to America, that is - leaves him as a Democrat. Now Clinton is a genuine political thug and these type of thugs are attracted to politics because of the power it gives them. Therefore when they gain power they do what they can to accumulate even more. This is why the likes of Clinton are not to be found in political parties that preach small government, the need for low taxation and the virtues of patriotism.... No wonder it was child's play for Beijing to manipulate Clinton. It was like bribing a child with sweets. All said and done, Clinton wilfully betrayed his country. To call Clinton a Judas would be to insult Judas whose shame led him to commit suicide. Clinton is not a flawed man, as some would have it, he is a deeply corrupt and very dangerous man. As I said, there are stories I could never repeat though I do not doubt their veracity for a moment...."

Salon 6/21/99 David Horowitz "...The evidence suggests only one conclusion. The reason Clinton is protecting China's spies and their communist masters is because in protecting them he is protecting himself. The China strategy is fully intelligible in the frame of Clinton's strategy on other matters: The president has triangulated with China's communist government in pursuit of his own political interest at the expense of the United States. This is not about loyalties that Clinton might have to communist ideology or communist dictators. On this, Clinton's record is clear: He has no loyalties, except to himself. It is the solipsistic nihilism that we have come to know as the very essence of President Clinton that has made this treachery possible, even, inevitable. Clinton's triangulation with communist China has been chillingly charted by two national security professionals (although they do not employ the term itself), with the help of congressional investigations into illegal campaign contributions. In "Year of the Rat," Bill Triplett and Ed Timperlake show that the roots of the Clinton betrayal lie in relationships that go back to Arkansas, and the fact that Clinton owes his political life to the Chinese communists through their agents, business associates and friends....Understanding the security disaster that has befallen the United States requires an understanding that the leakage of America's secrets proceeded along two parallel tracks. One track was espionage, the other was a political-economic track through the legal commercial activities of the United States government -- in particular through its political oversight of these commercial activities, which in past administrations had included formal controls of sensitive technologies that the Clinton team systematically dismantled. Political contributors to the Clinton-Gore campaigns played key roles in promoting the dismantling process"

Drudgereport.com/Weiss 6/28/99 "....There was something chillingly vindictive in President Clinton's commentary on the Serbs at last Friday's not-really-a-news-conference in Washington. You couldn't miss it, as he justified his decision to deny assistance to Serbia, whose civilian infrastructure lies shattered by Nato bombing (the Serb military, by contrast, seems to have come through the recent unpleasantness relatively unscathed). Those buckets of money we're shipping overseas even now are strictly off-limits to the people we bombed into compliance. Off-limits, that is, until they say they're sorry. "They are going to have to come to grips with what Milosevic ordered in Kosovo," Mr. Clinton sniped, with that peculiar schoolyard bully's smirk of his (there's something about him that seems to come to life only when he's got someone small and weak on the ropes). Evidently, he's managed to forget that before Nato's bombs began to rain down on Belgrade, most Serbs were growing increasingly hostile to Milosevic..... In one of his weirder flights of rhetoric, Mr. Clinton added that the Serbs are "going to have to decide whether they think it's OK that all those tens of thousands of people were killed, and all those hundreds of thousands of people were run out of their homes and all those little girls were raped and all those little boys were murdered." The head-waggling, glittery self-righteousness of the man was indescribable. It didn't seem to trouble the Beltway journalists gathered reverently at his feet, but it bothered the heck out of me...."

Jewish World Review Julia Gorin 6/29/99 "...BILL CLINTON was running out of time. His presidency would expire in less than two years, and his most memorable legacy would be perverting the country. He'd need to do better than that. He'd need to find a war. His only experience with such a thing was protesting it, but now he required one, one with results. He thought hard. Eventually his thoughts led him to the Balkans...."

WorldNet Daily 6/30/99 Joseph Farah "...Maybe it seems like old news not worth revisiting. But the more I see Bill Clinton congratulating himself over his "military victory" in Kosovo, the more it reminds me that this entire operation began as little more than a diversion from his latest political scandal. This wasn't a humanitarian relief mission, folks. It was the latest in a series of wag-the-dog attacks directed by the war criminal in the White House. If you have any doubts, let's just review the facts: ...On Aug. 17, 1998, Clinton went on national television to offer an explanation-cum-apology for his deposition that day in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. On Aug. 20, 1998, Clinton launched a cruise missile assault against Sudan and Afghanistan.... On Dec. 16, 1998, Operation Desert Fox began with air and cruise missile attacks on Iraq just hours before the House of Representatives was to commence its impeachment debate.....In February 1999, Clinton was faced with two scandals breaking at once -- the emerging evidence that he had raped Juanita Broaddrick and the details of security lapses that resulted in American nuclear secrets falling into the hands of the Chinese. Though many analysts were surprised at the precipitous manner in which negotiations were halted, Clinton chose this moment to launch what turned into an 11-week bombing campaign in Serbia, killing some 6,000 Yugoslavian troops, 2,000 civilians and sparking the revenge killings of some 11,000 ethnic Albanian Muslims. Where would Clinton get the inspiration for such brazen and risky political theatrics? Paul Burgess, a former congressional aide to U.S. Sen. Michael Enzi of Wyoming, thinks he has an answer. And so do I. Burgess cites a hard-to-find report released by Federal Reserve economists in late 1997 called "An Investigation into the Magnitude of Foreign Contacts." The document (No. RWP97-14) is essentially, Burgess explains, a scientific qualification of the "wag the dog" theory, with the researchers offering a lengthy and complex mathematical model to illustrate the advantages of small-scale, low-intensity wars to presidents in distress...."

Insight Magazine 6/28/99 Michael Rust "...Insight:You were skeptical of Bill Clinton as early as the New Hampshire primary in 1992. Hitchens:I felt there was something politically monstrous about him. There were moments when he seemed like a reptile breakfasting in a mammal's nest .... "

Washington Times 7/11/99 Reed Irvine "…Yugoslavia's refusal to accept our sign-or-be-bombed ultimatum was the main justification for starting the bombing. Henry Kissinger has said that it was entirely predictable that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic would not sign the Rambouillet accord as long as it included deal-breaker provisions. George Kenney, a former State Department desk officer for Yugoslavia, says that reporters were told by an official on deep background that unacceptable demands were deliberately included in the accord because Mrs. Albright wanted to drop a few bombs. The publisher of The Washington Post, Donald Graham, told me that he had also heard this. This is subject to two interpretations. One is that the unacceptable demands were so important to Mrs. Albright that she was willing to start a war to force Yugoslavia to capitulate. That is contradicted by the fact these demands were not included in the agreement that ended the war. The other interpretation is that the president and his advisers wanted to bomb for domestic political reasons. President Clinton was facing a Senate vote on the impeachment charges. The Chinese espionage scandal was getting a lot of attention. Juanita Broaddrick's allegation that Bill Clinton had raped her in 1978 was breaking into the news. Bombing Yugoslavia and forcing Mr. Milosevic to bow to our will, would divert attention away from these scandals and show the president to be a bold and decisive leader. This "wag-the-dog" scenario gains plausibility from the fact that there is documentary evidence in the form of U.N. memos showing that Clinton advisers wanted to stage a shooting invasion of Haiti in 1994 in order to demonstrate Clinton's "firmness of leadership." That plan was derailed by the last-minute intervention of former President Carter, Sen. Sam Nunn and Gen. Colin Powell. They negotiated the uncontested landing of U.S. troops in Haiti, embarrassing Mr. Clinton, who had said further negotiation would be fruitless…."

Washington Weekly 7/12/99 Edward Zehr "…Ah, but haven't I fallen into the trap so cleverly set by Bill Clinton -- the classic "Wag the Dog" strategy? The very first bomb that fell on Serbia blasted Juanita Broaddrick right off the TV screens and out of the "news." Perhaps, but those who were already aware that Bill Clinton is a psychopath who has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women in unrelated incidents extending over a long period of time haven't forgotten this, and the mainstream press did not assign a very high priority to informing those who were unaware of it. But Clinton's callous disregard for human life, as well as his treachery in dealing with friend and foe alike have been clearly delineated by the decisions he has made regarding Kosovo. And, interestingly, the Kosovo war has done what all the other scandals didn't do -- it has put a noticeable dent in Clinton's vaunted approval rating. Granted his high approval rating was probably more of a referendum on the economy -- other polling data suggest that the public are aware that the president is a scoundrel. Nevertheless, the conclusion one might draw from this is unsettling: the public seem prepared to wave a serial rapist through the checkpoint (so long as the economy is booming), but have qualms about a leader who could get us into a serious war (in which Americans might get hurt, not just the enemy)……What we have done is to allow the Constitution to be overridden by a president who was determined to make war without the consent of Congress. But, you may say, it has been done before. Not to this extent. President Bush obtained the consent of Congress, however grudging, before waging war upon Iraq, even though he insisted that he didn't really need it. And President Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution before making large-scale commitments of troops in Vietnam. Other presidents have engaged in minor military adventures without consent of Congress, but Kosovo isn't minor. Not that Congress made a credible effort to assert itself, even after the grace period for executive action provided in the War Powers Act had expired…."

New York Post 7/24/99 "…What is it about Bill Clinton that requires him to concoct irrelevant and unnecessary lies to simulate emotional ties to other Americans? Four years ago, during the nationwide uproar over an apparent new wave of church arson, an emotional Clinton spoke of his personal memories of black churches being burned in his native Arkansas while growing up in the segregated South. One problem, which a local newspaper discovered after careful research: No black churches were burned in Arkansas during the '50s and '60s. Last week, the president once against felt compelled to tell a whopper when discussing the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. And, once again, the lie was totally meaningless and unnecessary. "John Kennedy had actually not been back to the White House since his father was killed until I became president," Clinton told a nationally televised news conference. "He came back to the Oval Office where he saw the desk that he took the famous picture in - you know, coming through the gate for the first time since he was a little boy." It was obviously an emotional moment for Bill Clinton, who has tried to pattern his life and career after JFK Sr. As one network correspondent described it, Clinton "seemed to think that the visit helped John Kennedy come to terms not only with his own life, but [with] his family's history." Except, of course, that what Bill Clinton said wasn't remotely true…. What is it about this president that not only moves him to tell unnecessary lies, but also compels him to insert himself into every emotional event? No one questions the emotion he, like all Americans, felt over JFK Jr.'s death; why did he feel the need to invent a story about his own supposed role in bringing "closure" to the Kennedys? Consider it yet another example of Clinton's deeply flawed character - one that exaggerates his self-importance and renders any historical event irrelevant unless he can place himself, truthfully or not, at its center…."

Laissez Fair City Times 2/15/99 Robert L. Kocher "...Some of you asked what would cause Bill or Hillary Clinton to become borderline psychotics. This is especially confusing from the view that Hillary had an almost ideal childhood. Bill's mental disorder might be explained from his turbulent background. I wrote an 850-page manuscript on the borderline psychotic phenomenon and its political expression in the Clinton generation. My analysis was considered too right-wing to be of wide interest.... However, it is also true that doting parents giving children their way in an undisciplined permissive environment can produce very serious irreversible mental disorder that is delayed until that child becomes an adolescent or adult. What is produced is a child who is cosmetically very well functioning as long as he or she is kept in a spoiled child's world forever, but is completely unable to make the transition into the adult world and reality.... It became obvious by the mid-60s that the country had produced a generation of young orators who could argue any side of a case with the cleverness of a trial lawyer. This had three disastrous consequences. First, the word "no" did not need to be taken seriously.... Second, and I absolutely can not overemphasize the importance of this, in being allowed laxity in return for inane arguments a generation came to believe that it could argue reality out of existence. This formed the foundation for very serious mental disorder. In recent decades the failure of thoughts, of speech, of behavior to conform to basic reality is no longer a signal to a person that he may be doing or saying something irrational. Rather, it has become interpreted as a sign that one has a public relations problem that must be addressed by creating a new series of arguments in a campaign to deny reality. At the presidential level this necessitates a campaign to obscure or redefine what the words "sex" and "is" mean. Third, it both delays and intensifies childhood temper tantrums...."

Philadelphia Daily News 8/2/99 "... Hillary's blabbed about her husband's sex life in the kind of gushing psychobabble you might hear on a third-rate soap opera. This is a major blunder that could end Hillary Clinton's political career before it starts..... Playing Dr. Freud to her husband, Hillary Clinton blames his philandering on trauma as a tot. "He was so young, barely 4 [years old], when he was scarred by abuse. There was terrible conflict between his mother and grandmother . . . Conflict between two women is the worst possible situation." Is it, really? Anyway, Hillary Clinton describes the years since the Gennifer Flowers episode as bimbo-free bliss. Then, in the 20th century's most famous come-hither overture, Monica Lewinsky snapped her thong. To Hillary Clinton and America, the president denied all. "He couldn't protect me, so he lied," she said. "There was enormous anger, enormous pain." ...Over and over, Hillary Clinton describes her husband as "weak," someone who "needs discipline" - instead of a president, he's a puppy going to obedience school. In her self-righteous revelation, Hillary Clinton has wreaked more havoc on Bill Clinton than Ken Starr's prurience and the Senate impeachment trial. She's made him into a psyche-damaged, sex-addled addict living under his vigilant wife's thumb. It makes Hillary Clinton look like a bigger woman, but turns Bill Clinton into a smaller man. Honey, I shrank the president! ..."

Washington Times/ Inside Politics 8/11/99 Greg Pierce "...President Clinton was back chasing the ladies just two weeks after his Senate acquittal on Feb. 12, according to sources for Christopher Andersen's book "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage."... And in March, the author said, "An anguished military officer complained to her immediate superior that the president 'groped' her following yet another glittering black-tie function in Washington. "Her commanding officer told her pointedly: 'It didn't happen.' " ..."

Investor's Business Daily 8/11/99 "...Even more infuriating than the sweetheart interview the sycophants at Talk magazine gave pseudo-politician Hillary Clinton is her portrait of her unfaithful husband as a harmless, if hopeless, lady pleaser. Make no mistake, Bill Clinton abuses women. Buried in the back pages of one of the dozen or so books that Washington reporters have written is a damning piece of evidence that corroborates Juanita Broaddrick's tale of rape by Clinton. The book, ''Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story,'' is by Michael Isikoff, the supposedly intrepid Newsweek reporter who broke the Monica Lewinsky story only to have it bottled up by his editors..... While Broaddrick was reliving her painful story on national TV in January, and fending off White House-dispatched skeptics, Isikoff held back facts that would have lent credence to her story, saving them for his precious book, published a few months later. Isikoff tells how Elizabeth Ward Gracen ran into Clinton in Hot Springs, Ark., when she was 21 and serving as Miss America. While doing a public service announcement there, then-Gov. Clinton pulled up in his state limo and offered her a ride. According to Isikoff, Clinton invited Gracen to the apartment of one of his pals at the Quapaw Towers back in Little Rock. ''They had sex that night. It was rough sex,'' Isikoff said. ''Clinton got so carried away that he bit her lip, Gracen told her friends.'' Bit her lip....."

NewsMax.com 8/24/99 Carl Limbacher "… During last December's House impeachment investigation the Judiciary Committee gathered a treasure trove of politically explosive information on President Clinton, much of which has never been released. But Republicans currently have no plans to make those secrets public, Georgia Rep. Bob Barr told Inside Cover Monday. The materials, stored in D.C.'s Gerald Ford Building, are said to include evidence on Clinton's alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick, the intimidation of other women and, according to one source, the sexual harassment of up to three female Secret Service agents. ….. Though Barr was pessimistic on prospects for making the Clinton impeachment secrets public, he did add, "The House could decide, if it had the backbone to do so, it could decide to release the evidence." Reactions from Congressmen familiar with the Ford Building secrets suggest they are extremely shocking. Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) told the New York Times that the evidence on Clinton is, "Very alarming and very unsettling," involving, "conduct by the President that is alleged to be pretty horrific." After reviewing the same material, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) told the Arizona Republic, "I came away nauseated. There are things that go far beyond what we've heard." One Washington wag told Inside Cover in January that the secret evidence on Bill Clinton reduced Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) to tears…"

The American Spectator Online 9/8/99 Jackie Mason Raoul Felder "....Hasn't anybody told the President about New York's version of Megan's Law? For Clinton, it will not be so easy to move into his dream house after he leaves the White (Trash) House...... We are talking about the fact that Clinton should be compelled to register with the police, as would any other degenerate, before he could move into town. New York's version of Megan's Law (named after a New Jersey sex victim, Megan Kanka), as do similar laws in 49 other states, requires known sex offenders, when moving into a new neighborhood, to register with the local police so that the community may be informed about the new degenerate in the neighborhood and mothers could lock their daughters safely out of sight. Don't forget, Clinton, when questioned by the press about the detailed the charge of brutally violent rape made against him by Juanita Broaddrick, never bothered to deny it. He merely indicated that, on the advise of counsel, he would not comment. Oh where is Johnnie Cochran just when you need him? Even O.J. denied the crime. If any other person were asked such a question, logically the answer would be either "Yes" or "No", or in Clinton's case, in view of the volume of his activity in that particular area, the answer could truthfully be, "I don't remember". .."

Washington Times 8/31/99 Balint Vazsonyi "…A review of executive orders currently in force cannot fail to alarm the most placid and trusting soul among us. "They include," writes Mr. Murray, "vast powers to seize property, commodities, fuel and minerals; organize and control the means of production, including compulsory job assignments for civilians; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law and force civilian relocation; seize and control all forms of transportation and restrict travel; seize communications and health facilities; regulate operation of private enterprise; require national registration through the postal service, or otherwise control citizens' lives." True - many of these were first issued by others and only confirmed, renewed and consolidated by Mr. Clinton. But the end result is that, for all practical intents and purposes, Mr. Clinton can declare himself dictator of America with yet another stroke of the pen. He can choose to do so at, say, 3:00 a.m. so that we wake up to a country of which we are no longer citizens, but prisoners. The reality, of course, is that no sane person would have thought past presidents - such as Carter, Reagan or Bush - capable of imposing their personal rule upon the United States of America. But it is also a reality that no sane person could think Mr. and Mrs. Clinton incapable of imposing their personal rule upon the United States of America. No one before presumed to say that the American people cannot be trusted to make proper use of the money they had earned. No one before has placed an ever-growing circle of fortifications between the People and the People's House. No one before has populated an entire administration with purely political appointees…… The result is a commissar mentality, making its way throughout society. We find it already in our schools, we find it in "human resource" departments, we find it at airline counters. Forty years ago, when I arrived in this country, no one had even heard of a driver's license with a photograph and persons in the service industry were, well, of service. Today, baggage handlers have been given federal authority to demand - government-issued - identification. "Security" personnel standing around metal detectors, scarcely able to speak three words in English, have the power to arrest you…… All of the above is happening because we are letting it happen. Congress lets it happen. The courts let it happen. The Founders knew better….."

American Spectator 9/3/99 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. "…The latest burgeoning scandal stems from the Clinton Administration's bold and stubborn involvement with corrupt Russians who stripped their country of its assets and stole from International Monetary Fund loans. This scandal might prove to be the one that finally sinks the Administration in the eyes of its friends in the media. The New York Times has been leading the press in revelations about the coziness of Vice President Al Gore with corrupt Russian figures, and other members of the press have followed. An indication of the Administration's arrogance in dealing with the clear evidence of its recklessness with the Russians comes from leaks at the CIA. Since the earliest days of the Clinton Administration, the CIA had been reporting to the White House that its policy was being endangered by Russian kleptomaniacs. James Woolsey, the Administration's first CIA director and a man of enormous probity and talent, tried frequently to notify the White House of the corruption in Moscow. In 1993 he was astonished to see a photo of a Russian crook shaking hands with President Clinton at a fundraiser. Woolsey tried to inform the President of his unsavory campaign supporter but got nowhere. The crook continued to be invited for fundraising affairs. By 1995 the CIA was regularly reporting that Vice President Gore's contacts in Russia were with crooks, most notably erstwhile Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. A 1995 CIA report of Chernomyrdin's corruption was returned from the White House with "bull shit" written on it in the Vice President's handwriting….."

Newsmax.com 9/14/99 "..... An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill Clinton has revealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of the state police, had been the most senior member of the elite Governor's Security Detail during the period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time, Patterson became privy to Bill and Hillary Clinton's most closely guarded secrets. Patterson told his story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet Vortex..... In More than Sex Patterson makes bombshell revelations, some of which have never been disclosed before: ...... Violence against Women. Trooper Patterson says he believes Bill Clinton is capable of rape. He reveals for the first time his encounter outside the Governor's mansion with a woman who had been injured. ..... Organized Crime. The press has ignored reporting of this critical issue, but Patterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of the Dixie Mafia.... Patterson said Clinton regularly received gifts from the reputed mob boss. Patterson also discloses new details of Bill Clinton's relationship with Dan Lasater-a one-time bond dealer who served time in federal prison for cocaine distribution charges. ....Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton frequently used slurs during heated arguments with each other, Patterson said....The use of the "N" word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use the word "nigger" - the "N" word - when he was angry with African-American opponents....Patterson said Clinton also used the "N" word during the 1992 campaign when referring to Jesse Jackson.. ....Hitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spoke admiringly of Hitler and was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf....... Vince Foster. Patterson explains why he believes Vince Foster was murdered...... Helen Dickey's Call. On the day of Vince Foster's death, Patterson said he learned about the death before the Park Police even found Foster's body and hours before the White House said they were informed. Patterson's information, corroborated by another trooper, exposes a cover-up bigger than Watergate. ...... The NewsMax.com audio cassette tape More than Sex: Trooper Larry Patterson Reveals the Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton is available for $19.95 plus $4.50 shipping and handling by calling 1-877-NewsMax...."

The Wall Street Journal 9/14/99 George Priest "....The impeachment of Bill Clinton may now seem to have been only a sordid moment in our recent political life. But in "An Affair of State," Richard A. Posner shows that, despite its lurid and shameful origins, the episode raised questions of law and morality that are profoundly important to the direction of the country and to our sense of the American political order. His analysis transforms the impeachment into an event of abiding significance. Mr. Posner, the chief judge of the Seventh Circuit, works with unusual care through each of the moral and legal questions of the impeachment process. He considers all sides and possible interpretations of each event. But he does not hesitate to hand down strong judgments. He offers scathing criticism of virtually all participants in the drama, including the editors of The Wall Street Journal and the members of the Supreme Court. But the harshest verdict is reserved for Mr. Clinton. Point by point, Mr. Posner shows that the president committed a long series of criminal acts. "Clinton's violations of federal criminal law ... were felonious, numerous, and nontechnical." In particular, he demonstrates convincingly that Mr. Clinton was guilty of repeated perjuries, tampering with witnesses, suborning perjury -- not to mention obstruction of justice, which includes all of these.. ... In the end, Mr. Posner suggests, the strongest grounds for the president's conviction were ignored by the House and Senate. He regards Mr. Clinton's authorization of cruise missile attacks on Afghan and Sudanese terrorists days after his explosive grand jury testimony and, later and more damningly, of more cruise missile attacks on Iraq on the eve of the debate over impeachment as dangerous examples of obstruction of justice, since these actions seem intended to deflect attention from the impeachment deliberations. Finally, to Mr. Posner, the most powerful case for impeachment stems from Mr. Clinton's "deep disrespect for the Presidency" in both specific behavior, such as conducting public business during the performance of sex acts, and the "volume and brazenness" of his duplicity. "Clinton's disrespect for the decorum of the Presidency, especially when combined with the disrespect for law that he showed in repeatedly flouting it and with his barefaced public lies, constitutes a powerful affront to fundamental and deeply cherished symbols and usages of American government, an affront perhaps unprecedented in the history of the Presidency."...."

MENTAL STABILITY

NewsMax.com 9/15/99 "....Gennifer Flowers claims that during her affair with Bill Clinton, he once asked her to perform oral sex on him while he stood at a window in the Governor's mansion and waved to his wife Hillary who was outside the house. Such stories are not be dismissed, a recently retired Arkansas State trooper says in More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill & Hillary Clinton revealed! - an audio tape set published by NewsMax.com - The trooper, Larry Patterson, has offered his story of backstairs with the Clintons during the six years he protected Bill and Hillary in Arkansas. Patterson alleges that Clinton's womanizing was not a personal matter, but a public issue that involved "an abuse of women, an abuse of people and abuse of power." Patterson, citing the Flowers case, said Clinton's affair with Flowers led to several abuses. Flowers was put on the state payroll and was given a position for which Charlotte Perry, a career civil service employee, had been passed over. Perry later sued the state. "That's an abuse of power; that's an abuse of state funds," Patterson said. Later, when Clinton's affair with Flowers began to surface, Clinton lied to the public about the relationship. Clinton first claimed he barely knew Flowers and never had a sexual relationship with her. During a deposition in the Paula Jones case, Clinton admitted he had one instance of sexual contact with Flowers. In fact, Patterson said he drove Clinton to Flower's Little Rock apartment dozens of times and that Flowers sometimes called Clinton several times a day...."

NewsMax.com 9/15/99 "....Flower's case was not an isolated one, Patterson said, alleging that Clinton juggled several relationships at a time, misused state police to maintain these relationships and hide them from his wife and the public. "He would have some woman in the governor's mansion, his own child there, and staff people there" as well, Patterson explained. State police had to monitor his wife's activities to insure a speedy exit down the backstairs for any woman he was attending to. Clinton was "obsessed" by sex, Patterson said. "You could not believe it unless you were around him and saw him. It was 24 hours a day." Even passing a woman on the street would prompt Clinton. "Larry, what would you do to her," Patterson said would be a typical Clinton comment. ....Clinton used his "jogging" time to visit with various women. Upon return to the governor's mansion, water would be poured over Clinton's head to make it look like he had actually been exercising.... Clinton was thrilled by risky sex, and constantly referred to the potential political liability as having to "live at the foot of the cross." Often times Clinton brushed off such worries of being exposed by saying that without a picture of him with another woman, his denials would be believed. "Larry, unless they've got pictures of me with a goat, I'll deny it." Patterson quoted Clinton as saying......"

NewsMax.com 9/17/99 "....there isn't much that escaped Patterson's notice during his time on the inside. In his initial sit-down with NewsMax.com executive editor Christopher Ruddy last week, Patterson revealed startling new information about a whole range of topics the Washington press corps doesn't dare cover, including: The secret relationship between Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. The instructions Clinton gave Patterson indicating that he believed an impoverished African American child was indeed his illegitimate son. Clinton's outrageous proclivity for sexual exhibitionism, which he sometimes indulged right before the First Lady's eyes. The cash-stuffed envelopes Patterson received with instructions to give them to his boss. The shocking term Clinton would use when angry at one of America's leading civil rights leaders....."

Yahoo News 9/19/99 Reuters ".....President Clinton said Saturday the National Rifle Association and its supporters must assume more responsibility for the mass killings across the United States in recent years. The most recent shooting was Wednesday, when a lone gunman killed seven people and himself in a Fort Worth, Texas Baptist church. The attack sparked more calls by Clinton and gun-control advocates for tougher limits on the purchase of firearms. Officials of the NRA and its many supporters across the country and on Capitol Hill say mass killings will fall if the federal government would enforce existing gun laws more strictly...."

New York Daily News (www.nydailynews.com) 9/20/99 Stanley Crouch "...Once Democratic senators like New York's own Chuck Schumer joined in denouncing President Clinton's clemency for the FALN prisoners, things were made clear about this administration. When Bill Clinton exits the White House in 2001, his image will be one of the grimmest in the nation's history...But there is no way that one can look at Clinton and not feel that his story, like that of Nixon, has tragic dimensions. ...... In that shadow world where he so often resided, one could not tell exactly what kind of man this was. He was too murky. On one hand, there were strong symbolic moves to give the country a sense of how well people other than white men could perform. And there were, eventually, strong foreign policy actions. Conversely, there was a refusal to stand his ground. There were the scandals coming from Arkansas. And there was the early arrogance that rallied the Republicans behind their worst personalities because Clinton and his crew refused to show the GOP the respect one has to have for those on the other side of the aisle. Then there were such heavy-handed fund-raising tricks that one wondered what century Mr. Bill's people thought they were in. Observers began to speculate as to whether the President and his people knew the difference between a country town like Little Rock, Ark., and Washington, the fastest, most politicized city in the nation. With the FALN issue, it seems Clinton still doesn't know the difference. There may be no bigger hole in his record than his decision to give clemency to those FALN dunces. ....If the analysis of Mr. Bill is at all correct that he has a tendency toward reckless, self-destructive behavior, this clemency business is part of the proof. How much sillier an idea could he have come up with? Was it intended to help his wife in her run for the Senate? Are Puerto Ricans supposed to be that gullible? ...."

Orlando Sentinel 9/23/99 Charley Reese "....After I squawked about the United States getting involved in East Timor, someone asked, "Just what kind of humanitarian disaster would you think qualifies for U.S. military intervention?" That's a fair question. The answer is none. To purport to go to war for humanitarian purposes is a contradiction in terms. Nothing is more inhumane than war, regardless of who wages it or for what reason. To state that you are going to kill people and destroy their homes and jobs for humanitarian reasons is insanely hypocritical. It's about as nutty as a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team warning some guy who is threatening to kill himself that, if he doesn't surrender, they will kill him. That actually happens. Making war for humanitarian reasons is like ending a hunger strike by withholding food. It plain makes no sense to create human misery in the name of stopping human misery. ...."

WorldNetDaily 9/22/99 Jon Dougherty "....In a speech delivered to the U.N. body on Monday, Annan said state sovereignty is being redefined by the forces of globalization and international cooperation and declared, "The state is now widely understood to be the servant of the people, and not vice versa." In his dreams. Traditional considerations of national sovereignty will no longer be taken into account, Annan said, and governments "must not allow divisions within the Security Council to derail legitimate intervention in places such as Rwanda and Kosovo," according to the Washington Times. "Legitimate intervention?" Who decides what this is? President Clinton -- the ever consummate "compassionate" man and globalist -- agreed, telling U.N. delegates, "Regional groups of nations should have the right to launch collective military action to stop mass killings in their part of the world." There are several things wrong with this mental illness. First, who in Sam Hill is Kofi Annan to elevate himself to the level of global arbiter? If he personally believes it is appropriate to "intervene when necessary" in another nation's sovereign business, then he ought to be outfitted with the latest military uniform and gear, provided with a weapon and a few magazines full of ammunition, and sent on his way. He can take Clinton the draft dodger with him, but I won't wait up for them. Secondly, who gave the U.N. -- or the U.S. government, for that matter -- permission to send my son and your son to Rwanda, Kosovo, or East Timor on behalf of a global organization that was established to work out solutions through diplomacy, not weaponry? Our leaders are supposed to decide when it is in this country's best interest to fight, not the United Nations' king. We don't always agree with our leaders, but it is their job -- not Kofi Annan's job or fat cat bureaucrats sitting around some globalistic "security council" table. To heck with that. Can you believe the kind of arrogance it must take to make such proclamations about the fate of billions of people over whom you were never elected to serve? What kind of "brass" does it take to tell billions of people you have the "right" to sentence their sons and daughters to death fighting on your behalf for a cause that doesn't affect you or your country (our own politicians do this enough already)? What kind of hubris must a man have to assume that he has a "right" to order an attack on your country if the leadership doesn't follow his beliefs or fit into his personal agenda? Yes, there is horror in this world. Yes, there is pain and suffering. Yes, there should be people speaking out against it. ....."

MSNBC 9/17/99 Deroy Murdock "...Scandal never sleeps. Perhaps those words will become the Clinton-Gore Administration's epitaph once the curtain finally falls on "the most ethical administration in history." WHILE VACATIONING in California recently, I expected a break from the malfeasance that has grown as integral to this government as sand is to the beach. Rather than peace and quiet, a fresh ethics flap erupted about every 48 hours. The Waco, IMF money laundering and FALN clemency controversies have been discussed widely. And on Sept. 9, PBS president Ervin Duggan suddenly resigned amid a growing brouhaha over the government network's exchange of donor lists with political groups. Consider as well these other imbroglios that garnered less attention in the last few weeks: On Sept. 7, former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, namely lying to the FBI about cash payments to his former mistress.. .What is it about the Clintons and real estate deals? On Sept. 2, they announced their purchase of a home in Chappaqua, New York -- a ritzy Westchester County suburb miles from the huddled masses they champion. This transaction looks fishier than Sea World. Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe, inventor of the Lincoln Bedroom sleep-overs, put up $1.35 million in collateral to help the Clintons purchase their new white house. How generous...... Federal Judge Robert Hodges Jr. agreed in late August to allow 12,000 current and former Department of Justice attorneys to join a lawsuit against the agency for violating the 1945 Federal Employees Pay Act....... The wholesale corruption of the U.S. government proceeds apace. This charge once could be ridiculed as a right-wing rant. But it's impossible to dismiss the widespread law-breaking and abuse of legal norms that have become absolutely routine in Washington. The occasional random act of virtue is now the exception that proves this rule...."

New York Post 9/21/99 Steve Dunleavy "... It has to do with a man called Wayne Dumond, over whose case I have agonized for long more than a decade. Dumond, now 52, was given conditional parole yesterday in Arkansas after having being sentenced to 50 years in jail for the rape of Clinton's cousin. That rape never happened. Is that just me saying so? No way. Some others who say so are: *The judge who sentenced Dumond under court guidelines to 50 years. In fact, the judge later quit the bench to become Dumond's lawyer to prove his innocence. *Dr. Moses Schanfield, who headed the Genetic Testing Center in Denver and did sperm tests on the so-called victim's jeans. "No way, zip, nada. No way Dumond was the donor of that sperm. It couldn't have happened in a million years." Schanfield was one of the experts sent to Bosnia to identify mystery graves. *Fred Odam, a retired Arkansas state police captain. He immersed himself in the case. He told me: "In all my time, this is the one case when I know a man is not guilty." *Veteran journalist Gene Wirges, 72, who now publishes the "Common Sense American" and has battled this travesty from Day One: "Very few people thought Wayne was guilty, but a lot thought the Clinton kin and clan had to have revenge ... against anyone - and Bill went along with the program." Despite the fact the Clinton cousin - whom I will not name, although The Associated Press has - failed to identify Dumond in two lineups, he was convicted. Despite the fact that she identified two other suspects, one an ex-boyfriend, Dumond was convicted Dumond will finally get out after nearly 14 years. ..."

New York Post 9/21/99 Steve Dunleavy "... Before Dumond turned himself in for his 50-year sentence, while awaiting surrender, something terrible happened. Two masked men burst into his house with a scalpel and surgical gloves and castrated him. You heard it right. The former Vietnam veteran and father of six was found hog-tied from a rafter by two of his schoolboy sons. Miraculously, he survived. A Clinton crony, Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, who also was a friend of the father of the Clinton cousin, had let the two animals out of jail to rob Dumond of his manhood. Sheriff Coolidge Conlee would die in jail after the feds nailed him for 60 years on a RICO charge. As Dumond was clinging to life in jail, the sheriff displayed his severed testicles in a jar on his desk. "I saw him pick them up and I saw the display," state police Capt. Odam has told me. As Dumond's testicles were on display on the sheriff's desk, something else happened. Dumond's house was torched to the ground. The father of the so-called rape victim was one of Clinton's biggest donors in his race for the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. When Dumond finally gets released next month, his wife, Dusty, will not be able to greet him. She died two years ago - after years of pleading with Clinton to review the case while he was governor. The man who, as president, would later grant clemency to FALN terrorists turned a deaf ear to her pleas...... "

Chattanooga Free Press 9/21/99 Editorial "...While the Chinese Communists have been stealing U.S. nuclear and missile secrets at our Los Alamos, N.M., lab, and while the Chinese Communists have been unloading slave-labor products in U.S. markets and persecuting its people expressing religious faith in China, President Bill Clinton has led in kowtowing to the Communists, both economically and diplomatically. With Puerto Rican terrorists of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) having boasted of more than 130 bombings that killed six people and wounded dozens of others, President Clinton astoundingly offered to free 16 terrorist plotters from their just sentences. Fourteen of them took his offer, with two defying him, refusing to renounce violence. And now Mr. Clinton has surrendered to Communist North Korean blackmail by easing trade, travel and banking restrictions against North Korea's vicious Communist regime. What Clinton surrender is coming next? ....It's a bad deal. North Korea's Communist rulers cannot be trusted in any degree. President Clinton's softness on Chinese Communists, Puerto Rican terrorists and now North Korean Communist blackmailers shows a foreign policy pattern of bad judgment and dangerous leadership by the commander in chief of our armed forces, the president of the United States. All Americans should be greatly concerned about how far he will go in wrong directions...."

Bob Lonsberry 9/21/99 Bob Lonsberry "...Is Bill Clinton a traitor? I am embarrassed to ask that, fearing how stupid it sounds. How completely implausible. How completely partisan. I apologize. Please don't think me a fool, or a hateful rabid conspiratorialist. I don't belong to a militia, I pay my income tax, I don't think the United Nations is taking over the United States. I'm not afraid of black helicopters or the Council on Foreign Relations or the ATF. But I am running out of excuses for the president's behavior. As I think of plausible explanations for his conduct in office I am increasingly coming up empty. Increasingly, there is no good reason for the president's actions. Bill Clinton is a brilliant man, extraordinarily bright. And yet his administration has been riddled with profoundly bad decisions, decisions which time and time again have damaged American interests and security. Invariably, significant policies and decisions of recent years have directly hurt this country and imperiled world stability. There are two possible explanations for that. The first is that the president and his subordinates are so profoundly incompetent - and unlucky - as to substantially muff every decision they make. The second is that it happens on purpose. They're either dumb or dastardly. And I think we can rule out dumb. They may be misguided, or have philosophical views alien to many, but they are not patently stupid. They must at some level be able to understand their actions and their probable consequences...."

WSJ 9/24/99 Paul Gigot "….One of President Clinton's charms is his epic brazenness. Only a man of invincible political audacity would nominate James Lyons to a prestigious lifetime spot on the federal bench. This one makes clemency for Puerto Rican bomb-makers look prudent. Mr. Lyons is the Denver attorney who helped Bill and Hillary sweep Whitewater under the carpet back in 1992. At their request he produced the notorious "Lyons report," which claimed that the whole thing was no big deal and helped the issue disappear by election day. Several years and Whitewater convictions later, the country has learned a painful lesson in presidential character……"

World Net Daily 10/4/99 Joseph Farah "...President Clinton's run-in with Investor's Business Daily reporter Paul Sperry gives us yet another insight into the twisted personality currently leading the executive branch of the federal government. It also illustrates the institutional flaws in the establishment press. To recap, Sperry was attending a White House gathering for much of the press corps. As Clinton walked by him, he casually asked when the president might be holding his next press conference. At first Clinton brushed off the question as he has brushed off the idea that there is any reason for him to hold press conferences or Cabinet meetings or perform any other traditional presidential function of accountability or management. But, unlike most members of the Beltway press, Sperry didn't just drop the matter...... "Who are you with?" he wondered. This was an unusual species, and Clinton was curious. Sperry answered him and repeated his simple, straightforward, reasonable and unthreatening question about the press conference. Clinton asked why he should hold a press conference, and Sperry answered that the American people had many questions about the growing China scandal involving his administration and an FBI investigation. Now Clinton was getting irritated. According to Sperry and other witnesses, he contorted his face, got testy and challenged the reporter....."

World Net Daily 10/4/99 Joseph Farah "...Clinton sputtered that the only reason the FBI was focusing attention on the China scandal was to divert attention from its role in the Waco scandal. Did you catch that? Clinton, the expert on using one scandal to divert attention from another, accused the FBI -- his FBI -- of doing precisely that. Clinton appointed the FBI director. He appointed the attorney general who supervises the FBI. Yet, here he was passing the buck, again, suggesting that his FBI was victimizing him. Well, I guess if I believed my mother victimized me, my grandmother victimized me and that I, as one of the most powerful people in the world, was still little more than a helpless victim of circumstances, then it would be natural for me to feel persecuted by anyone and everyone with whom I had disagreements. But this was clearly an enlightening exchange...."

World Net Daily 10/4/99 Joseph Farah "...As a result, Clinton's White House banned Sperry from the White House. Banned him. Which raises the question, again, of just whose house this president thinks he lives in and works in. It's not his. The people of the United States graciously provide the president this office space and these living quarters while he serves. It's not a compound. It's not his personal playground. It's not his bunker. It's not his dirty tricks headquarters. It's not an office from which it is legal or appropriate to conduct political campaigns. It's not a place in which it is legal or appropriate to spy on the American people, maintain dossiers and target enemies. But Clinton obviously thinks it is all of those things. People have often asked me during the last seven years if I actually believed Clinton was capable of terrible and dastardly behavior. Yes, I do. And this exchange and its aftermath should illustrate to everyone just how insecure this man is -- just how volatile he is, just how arrogant he is, just how truly sociopathic he is....."

World Net Daily 10/4/99 Joseph Farah "...Clinton lost it with Sperry -- over nothing, an innocent question, a good question, a legitimate question, a not-particularly-tough question........ One of the reasons the American people remain so shockingly ill-informed about the state of affairs of American government is because there have been too few tough questions asked. The U.S. press establishment has been more of a lapdog for government than watchdog. But all that's about to change. You know, one of the reasons people are talking about the Clinton-Sperry confrontation is because of the attention it got right here -- on the Internet. In fact, more people read Sperry's account of this incident through a link on WorldNetDaily last week than subscribe to Investor's Business Daily. The New Media are making a difference....."

The Seattle Times 9/26/99 James Grimaldi "....Suddenly, the president's mood changed, his face turned red and he launched into an argument that lasted nearly 10 minutes as he defended himself and the Democratic Party against allegations of Chinese attempts to influence the 1996 U.S. presidential election.....Brookings Institution presidential scholar Stephen Hess said he found the president's anger unusual, given that Clinton has survived a series of political storms, investigations and attacks on his presidency. "The idea that the president is acting as if the FBI is some kind of independent operation that is outside the executive branch of government and is trying to do him in is pretty fascinating," Hess said. "It is very peculiar that this guy would have gotten under his skin in this way, that he would have answered him in this nondiplomatic manner when he could have just pushed him down the receiving line. It is not typical. He has this temper, and it flares up from time to time, but not that often." ....... The conversation got so heated that a White House photographer attempted to end it. "This is so inappropriate," the photographer said, defending the president. "Mr. President, there is a nice little boy here who wants to shake your hand." Midway through the encounter, the president tried to downplay any lingering concern he had about the campaign-finance issue, saying, "I don't have to run for re-election anymore." At one another point, Clinton directly criticized the reporter and the tone and tenor of his questions, calling them accusatory. Both Ornstein and Hess suggested that it was rude for the reporter to argue with the president at a party to which he was invited...... Yesterday, Sperry said he regretted that the exchange got out of hand. "I hope he didn't think I was trying to ambush him," Sperry said. "I really wasn't. I really feel bad that that happened and it was such a scene." ....... "

The New Austrailian 10/4/99 James Henry "....As I made clear in my last article, what is really under discussion here is not Clinton's character, a subject that has been dissected at length by many others, but the degree to which the revelations of Larry Patterson in particular, a former Arkansas state trooper of 32 years standing, incidentally reveal the degree to which the mainstream media still consciously acts to conceal Clinton's criminal behaviour. These ideologically motivated media lapdogs have moved from a state of denial to one of active collaboration, of aiding and abetting Clinton's wrongdoing........ There is certainly no doubt in the minds of a great many informed observers of our mainstream media that it has been deeply infected by those political and social pathologies that the Clintons introduced into the White House. A 1996 nation-wide poll by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) showed that 89 percent of all journalists voted for Bill Clinton, despite being aware of his 'shortcomings'. This fact alone explains why Patterson's disclosures could be a watershed in the fight against the liberal media's self-imposed policy of censoring (suppressing is a more appropriate word, I think) news that would bring down Clintons while at the same time it beat up stories designed to cripple his critics. Larry Patterson and L. D. Brown's statements will provide media critics with the ammunition to personally embarrass pro-Clinton journalists. These journalists should be hounded into explaining why they refused to investigate drug-taking allegations against Clinton; why they tried to bury the Juanita Broaddrick rape case; why they tried to excuse Chinese-funding for the Democratic Party; why they ignored his serial abuse of women and threats of intimidation; why they ignored new findings regarding Foster's death; why they ignored the Clinton's Arkansas financial swindles and Bill Clinton's connection with drug smuggling through Mena; why they ignored allegations of fraud and dealings with organised crime, etc. The list is breathtakingly long and to ignore it is to commit journalistic treason...."

Jewish World Review 10/14/99 Marianne Jennings ".....Each moment brings something more inane but you bite your tongue until the pressure builds and you stand on the arms of a waiting room chair in full view of patients, the nurse behind the glass and Blue Cross/Blue Shield shouting, "I don't blame Frank for messing around. Run for Senate or something, Kathie Lee, and let us all alone." The big one approaches each time the quota/fairness/hate police speak. These are the knuckleheads who wouldn't surprise me if they found offense in Little Friskies cat food. They found moral outrage in excluding divorcees and abortionists from Miss America. Each day their complaints are covered as if these malcontents had discovered a cure for mental illness, which, by the way, is unjust and one of the more popular whining topics. Their notions of fairness and justice have Lucy Ricardo logic. For example, studies show that you're less likely to die if you have an accident in an SUV vehicle, but more likely to die if you're in a smaller vehicle hit by an SUV. So, what do the whiners want? To ban the safe SUV!............"

Washington Times John McCaslin 10/15/99 "..... A sexual personality scale published by two respected clinical authors puts President Clinton, by name, in category No. 9: "You may be among the nymphomaniacs of the world, whether male or female. You may sacrifice family or friends, if you find this necessary, to live in a world of sex." The lone category above Mr. Clinton's rank is No. 10: "Time to check in somewhere. You may murder for sex. You may try rape, particularly if you also have an intense power program and can't meet your expectations any other way. You may do whatever it takes to fulfill your sexual urges and fantasies." ...."

NY Post 10/11/99 ".....Several cultural institutions last week filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the museum's lawsuit against the city's funding cut-off. This was to be expected, but interestingly, this group also included many who have strongly criticized the show. "I have seen the exhibition, and I think the emperor has no clothes," wrote Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; "Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has shown acute critical acumen." But having gone to the edge of the cliff, Montebello pulled back: "I find no fault with the mayor's aesthetic sensibilities, only with his effort at censorship." This is a disturbingly familiar opinion. The same tone and moral foundation - if one may call it that - was on display during the last year's impeachment saga. America heard constantly from Bill Clinton's defenders (mostly, but not completely, Democrats) that what Clinton had done - perjury, obstruction, etc. - was "indefensible." Yet invariably following such a statement was what seemed to most thinking people as, well, a defense. Clinton's allies used the harshest possible words to describe his behavior - wordsoften harsher even than those of his critics - but when it came down to where logic should take them, they pulled back. They would not support impeachment, or conviction in the Senate, under any circumstances. It's punishment without consequences, which is to say, no punishment at all. Offenses to the Constitution or the moral order should merely be complained about - and that's it. It used to be that in the real world, actions had consequences...."

Investors Business Daily 10/11/99 "..... To hear White House spokesman Joe Lockhart tell it, our Washington bureau chief ambushed President Clinton on the South Lawn and caused such a ruckus that Secret Service agents were within seconds of bouncing him from the grounds. Nothing could be further from the truth....... After Sperry asked Clinton when he would hold his next formal press conference, the president gave him two openings to ask more questions. Sperry took them, as any journalist should, asking Clinton about the Chinagate probe and the explosive Senate testimony two days earlier by four career FBI agents. They swore that the Justice Department in effect blocked them in 1997 from sleuthing trails to the president. Not once did Clinton stop Sperry from following up his questions during the rest of the nearly 10-minute exchange. Though Clinton bristled at the questions, he never said they were inappropriate...... ''Obnoxious.'' If our reporter created such a disturbance, why do our photos of the exchange show a uniformed guard behind Clinton not so much as budging from his post? Could it be because the only person he saw losing control was the president? ''Yelling at the president.'' The photos also show Sperry standing still, listening, not even gesturing. Whereas, a red-faced Clinton is wagging his finger at Sperry. Grimaldi said the president was ''exercised.'' Two other witnesses, a woman from CNN and another from the Associated Press, approached Sperry afterward and expressed shock over Clinton's anger and ''beet-red'' face. ....."

BQ's view...With Radio America's Blanquita Cullum 10/7/99 ".....When Paul Sperry, Washington Bureau Chief for Investor's Business Daily, showed up on the South Lawn of the White House for a picnic for the Washington Press Corps, he no doubt expected to see a few hamburgers sitting on plates, but little did he expect to go nose-to-nose with President Clinton and get a close-up view of a complexion that resembled raw hamburger meat ... .. The picnic turned out to be an odd event for several reasons ... Clinton showed up in a black, tight-fitting Johnny Cash outfit, completely lost his cool over an innocuous question about his next press conference, and the press corps, itself, continued to show signs of having hamburger between its ears rather than brains ...,, Two reporters standing nearby, one from the Associated Press and the other from Cable News Network, said that Clinton's face turned the color of a beet ... Sperry said it looked more like the color of "hamburger meat when you first take it out of the package" ... ... Clinton pointed his finger in Sperry's face and demanded to know who he was ... Sperry gave him his business card ... Clinton "just really jumped down" his throat for the next 10 minutes, but Sperry kept following up ... ... Clinton conveniently failed to mention Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, the many others who have fled the country to avoid testifying, the fundraisers at the White House and the money-laundering problems ... You have to admit that Clinton is pretty creative with the truth when he's pushed against the wall ... Or, more accurately, when he pushes Sperry against the wall ... He never lacks an answer, but with Sperry he did get off script ... ... And then there was the press, standing there ineffectually like a bunch of sheep ... Sperry was asking honest, relevant questions that they all should have been asking, but there were virtually no other reporters who stood with him and supported his questioning ... Sperry did mention one, James Grimaldi of the Seattle Times, who filed a story that Sunday ... "

BQ's view...With Radio America's Blanquita Cullum 10/7/99 "........ Another odd element to this story is the role played by Internet reporter Matt Drudge ... The media establishment criticizes Drudge for not being a credible journalist, but it was not until Drudge filed his report that Sperry received calls from The Washington Post, ABC News and CBS News Radio ... ... During our discussion, a radio listener applauded Sperry for his reporting but warned him to "watch his back," because he's dealing with "very dangerous people" ... Sperry said he understood the viewpoint and asked when in U.S. history have we been afraid of our own president? ... This is outrageous, he asserted ... Obviously, we are afraid of the President, because we have a White House press corps that is so lacking in backbone that it looks as if it's covering the president in a Third World country ... Sperry said he's been warned of an IRS audit and other ramifications ... How did we get to this point where we are afraid of our president? ... He's an elected official ... It's just a sad state of affairs ... There were many witnesses to the scene on the South Lawn, and they're all in the press, so Sperry feels the White House would have second thoughts about seeking vengeance ... "

BQ's view...With Radio America's Blanquita Cullum 10/7/99 "........ Clinton's response to questions about the FBI's Chinagate investigation was curious ... His violent reaction indicated that Sperry had opened up a crack there ... Sperry hopes, against hope, that the rest of the White House press corps will open it wider ... ... It also is odd that video tape of the FBI agents testifying in Congress was available but not shown by the major networks ... Sperry noted that the Big Three - NBC, ABC and CBS - had footage available but ran nothing on the FBI agents' testimony ... Very disturbing, since it's major news ... Nothing on CNN ... Only Fox ran something ... Not a word in the New York Times the next day ... Not a word in the Washington Post ... This is huge news ... It's the first direct evidence that there is a cover-up in the Chinagate investigation ... Why would this happen? ... Why are major news stories getting spiked? ... The Fourth Estate is supposed to be the guardian of the truth ... That is our responsibility as members of the press ... If people can not rely on the press to inform them, they don't have access to the White House or the President ... We are not doing our job then the people are not getting the information ... "

ABC Raw News 10/13/99 Josh Gerstein "....Over the last three weeks, Clinton has raised eyebrows among reporters and White House staff with his provocative, frank and, occasionally, cavalier comments on a number of subjects..... At a White House press picnic in late September, Clinton got into a heated exchange with a reporter about campaign finance allegations. During the argument, the president suggested that the FBI has revealed information about that probe in order to distract from the agency's conduct in the Waco tragedy Asked at another event about criticism of the financial arrangements behind the first couple's purchase of a house in New York, Clinton lashed out at Washington's scandal culture. "What's true is not as important as whether you can be dragged around, you have to spend a lot of money you don't have or you'd rather not spend for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that's real," he said. Clinton also referred to the charges of impropriety as being the product of the "Larry Klayman political press world." His statement amounted to a free advertisement for Klayman, whose group, Judicial Watch, dogs the Administration with lawsuits. Clinton went on to note twice that reporters were "smiling" at his comment....... The president's newfound uninhibited speaking style has also had its impact in the policy arena. Clinton aides have found themselves scrambling as he strays from the carefully calibrated verbal formulations prepared by issue-oriented staffers reluctant to make waves. In an interview with CBS last week, Clinton said allowing American companies to resell prescription drugs bought overseas seemed like a good idea, as long as concerns about safety could be addressed. Such a move could have ramifications worldwide and might cause drug prices to rise in poor countries, so this hardly seems like something White House policy types would want him winging an answer to in a hallway interview......"

Fox News Wire 10/13/99 Laurence Arnold AP "....Sen. Robert Torricelli, a close ally of President Clinton, includes in a new book the text of an apology-laced speech that he says Clinton considered but rejected before addressing the nation last year on his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The speech Clinton ultimately delivered to the nation on Aug. 17, 1998, hours after testifying to a grand jury, was more critical than contrite.....Begala said Democratic consultant Robert Shrum wrote and faxed to the White House what Torricelli describes as "the original draft.'' A Shrum assistant said he was in meetings and not available for comment Wednesday afternoon. That draft begins, "No one who is not in my position can understand the remorse I feel today,'' and it includes an acknowledgment of responsibility "for hurting my wife and daughter, for hurting Monica Lewinsky and her family, for hurting friends and staff, and for hurting the country I love.'' It also contains the line, "I never should have had any sexual contact with Monica Lewinsky, but I did.'' ..."

NewsMax.com 10/11/99 Norman Liebmann "….With the approval of a docile media, Clinton has been a closet fascist, an unconstrained, even flaunting, traitor, and a practicing pervert. He has moved into the open and shown himself as Humanity's amiable enemy, knowing it won't affect his numbers….. If you are alarmed by the Clinton culture crash of this nation, you do well to be alarmed. If freedom comes to an end in America it won't be back for a curtain call, for it is now no less than a matter of our survival as a nation to regurgitate the Clinton Administration and its gangrenous values. Its malignancy is poised to sink this nation and it will be left to a few surviving historians to decide the only relevant question about Bill Clinton - was he flotsam or jetsam?….. Bill Clinton is a magnet for the corrupted and the corruptible. He has made the White House a black hole that draws into it the greedy, the habituated, the megalomaniacal, the deviant, and thepsychedelic. ……"

INSIGHT J Michael Waller 10/16/99 "….."This is the pattern within the Clinton administration. I have 12 to 14 whistle-blowers, people who have been abused because they've been doing their job," says Weldon. "It is a pervasive attitude that this administration hasn't wanted anything to surface that they think might come in the way of their predetermined policy conclusion. That means they deny reality. They deny reality when Jay Stewart was doing the Russian Fission program. They deny reality when Jack Daly got lased. They deny reality when they issued NIE 95-19 [the National Intelligence Estimate that downplayed the missile threat to the United States and led to Congress creating a special investigative commission led by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld]. They deny reality when Gordon Oehler briefs officials about the Shahab missile and they force him out of his position. They deny reality when they document 17 Russian arms-control violations."

New York Post 10/21/99 Deborah Orin "...THE latest victim of "Clinton Fatigue" is Bill Clinton. The buzz in Washington is that the president is starting to act a little, well, weird. Shades of Bruce Springsteen, Clinton seems "tired and bored with myself" and in need of a little help, even if it's just playing golf (instead of dancing) in the dark. Without a partner, no less...... That capped Clinton's sudden spate of gaffes - saying the Irish are hooked on fighting like drunks, claiming he once thought a Secret Service man would gun him down, and revealing his fixation with right-wing pit bull Larry Klayman. Sure, everyone puts foot in mouth. But usually no one is more careful about words than Clinton, the man who could dance on the head of a pin over the meaning of "is." ...... A few weeks ago Clinton showed up 60 minutes late in Rockland County for a governors' education conference - one of his pet issues - and gave a 20-minute speech that boiled down to pablum...... What really seems to grate on Clinton is the seemingly effortless rise of this year's golden boy, Republican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush, son of the man whom he beat in 1992..... Just yesterday, Clinton seized on Elizabeth Dole's exit from the GOP race to blast Bush for raising so much cash, fuming: "I could have done that, and I decided it wasn't fair, and I didn't do it." But where Republicans once feared to tangle with Clinton, Bush's staff fired back a sharp retort to the man whose pals raised millions in illegal foreign funny-money for his campaign and legal bills. "We appreciate the president's advice - but we don't intend to use him as a model for how Gov. Bush will raise money or lead the nation," zinged Bush communications director Karen Hughes. Ouch......"

WorldNetDaily 10/18/99 Llewellyn Rockwell ".... For 50 years, there's been an assumption that foreign policy and treaty making are the sole province of the presidency. Clinton has taken every advantage of this notion, spreading mayhem here and yon, butting in on civil conflicts that don't concern him, wrecking an African pharmaceutical plant, launching bombs at TV stations, vegetable markets, and people's apartments in Serbia, running an ongoing, genocidal war against Iraq -- all without bothering to check with Congress. Generally the Republicans have deferred to this nonsense, believing that while it is fine to challenge Clinton on health care, the budget and his girlfriends, it is unpatriotic to question his judgment outside the borders, no matter how much property is destroyed or how many innocents die. Nonsense. The Congress has a moral obligation to stop a president who makes the Pentagon the headquarters of Bombs Without Borders. If they gave a Nobel Prize for War, Clinton would certainly be a meritorious recipient. It is long past time for the Republicans to wonder if this approach is the best one....... No one knows precisely how bad the Kyoto treaty would be for the economy. Certainly it would set back industrial civilization as we know it and subject us all to totalitarian regulatory control. Even Clinton's own Department of Energy warns that it might cause soaring energy costs and plunging productivity. If the Senate's rejection of the Nuclear Test Ban suggests that Kyoto is going nowhere, that's all to the good. ........ "

Washington Post 10/18/99 John Harris "....A succession of late-night speeches and impromptu remarks in recent weeks have offered a glimpse into the mind of a man in the dusk of his presidency. In private, say associates, Clinton is looser, more reflective and more at ease than they have seen him; in public, he is less guarded than ever about sharing opinions and moods....... "

WorldNetDaily.com 10/18/99 J R Nyquist ".... A delusion is a false belief, and a person who is consistently delusional is sometimes judged to be insane. The dictionary defines insanity as "unsoundness or derangement of mind, especially without recognition of one's own illness." When we look at U.S. arms control policy, and President Clinton's recent statements on the subject, words like "unsoundness" and "derangement" come readily to mind. ...... "

WorldNetDaily.com 10/18/99 J R Nyquist "....Never before has a president of the United States suggested that military strength could only be purchased at the expense of our children's education.....Clinton said that America should not desire more weapons than it already has. In his view, weapons do not guarantee our safety and security. Only scraps of paper and Russian promises can make us secure. Clinton did not address the fact that Russia has been caught in numerous treaty violations. He did not discuss their nuclear modernization program. Treaty-breaking is an honored Kremlin tradition....."

WorldNetDaily.com 10/18/99 J R Nyquist ".... The United States government under Bill Clinton refuses to entertain the possibility of a Russian nuclear attack. Clinton refuses to grasp the implications of a large Russian missile force that only exists to attack America. This is clear when we look at the range capability of Russian missiles. The reality of the situation is lost on a delusional administration which is determined to defend its policy with a bodyguard of lies....."

WorldNetDaily.com 10/18/99 J R Nyquist ".... Behind the president's deceit, beneath his public lies, he remains deluded by Russian promises. Some have criticized Clinton for lacking conviction and for changing his mind on this or that; but if you saw Clinton's performance on Oct. 14 you would realize that this man remains a determined opponent of a strong American military, and an advocate of the Russian and Chinese position on arms control. A delusion is a false belief. In this context, the president of the United States is determined to base our nation's security on a delusion...."

Drudge Report 10/17/99 "..... President Clinton played a full 18 holes of golf on Sunday evening -- all by himself in the rain! Clinton completed a full round in pitch dark at a deserted Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va., in a development one Clinton insider called: "odd." "It was odd, it was strange," the Clinton insider, who has known the president for more than 20 years, told the DRUDGE REPORT on Sunday evening. "I'm worried. It sounds completely out of character. Maybe he is working off stress, or he is using golf as a form of therapy or prevention." ....."

WorldNetDaily 10/19/99 David Limbaugh "....There is no question that Clinton is the consummate politician, a man who can turn almost any situation to his political advantage. He is at his political best when he is cool and collected, which is most of the time, considering his sociopathic nature. When he is on his game, he is cunning, calculating and manipulative. But he may have finally exposed his Achilles' Heel. He simply cannot handle defeat or rejection of any kind. He appears to lose his Machiavellian edge when emotionally reactive. Last week, after the Senate's stinging rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, he threw a temper tantrum disguised as a press conference, where he lambasted the Senate Republican majority for placing politics above national security. Never mind his usual misrepresentation of the facts for now. I'm talking about his temperament.....Both the Washington Post and New York Times featured photos from that press conference showing the president looking quite unpresidential....."

Jewish World Review 10/19/99 Cal Thomas "....IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS one first notices a career is in the endgame when the athlete can't perform quite as well as he or she once did. Usually it is first noticed in little things. An inch less here, a second off there. To experienced eyes, these are signs that a career is in decline. At his news conference last week, President Clinton, who has specialized in outfoxing his adversaries, gave every indication that Clinton fatigue may have caught up with even him. After disrespecting the U.S. Senate and its constitutional role in treaty ratification, Clinton launched into an anti-Republican diatribe that sounded almost McCarthyite in its extremism....''

WorldNetDaily 10/19/99 Ben MacIntyre "....A STRANGE, solitary figure could be seen on the Army and Navy Country Club golf course outside Washington on Sunday night, whacking ball after ball into the pitch darkness as the rain poured down. It was Bill Clinton, inadvertently offering the stark image of an increasingly isolated and frustrated President heading towards the end of his second term, his temper rising and his power waning....... "He was playing in the pitch dark," one reporter said. "He was swinging and wildly hitting balls everywhere." Mr Clinton's obsession with golf is well known, but his eccentric solo session has inevitably invited speculation about his state of mind in the twilight of his presidency. "It was odd. It was strange," one White House official was quoted as saying....."

New York Times 10/19/99 Maureen Dowd "....It was a disturbing image, with elements of Nixon, Lear and "Caddyshack." The Associated Press headline said it all: "Clinton Golfs Alone Under Rain and Darkness." The president of the United States, who could have been cozy and dry back at the White House on Sunday evening, watching the Mets' thriller against Atlanta, was hitting balls in a gray drizzle at a suburban country club, his white sports hat dripping wet. The most gregarious of presidents was playing solo..... Is the president getting wiggy in the final days? Will he start talking to the portraits in the White House?..... Some who work with the president say that he seems, at times, angry and melancholy and distracted and even a little lonely. His daughter is back at college, and he has to watch his co-president and his vice president go off without him to his favorite place in the world -- the rope line. He sees Hillary and Al trying to win their races by slamming him....."

Washington Post 10/22/99 Charles Krauthammer ".... The twilight of the Clinton presidency is here, and it is not a pretty sight. Not that Clinton's underside had ever been entirely hidden. We got our first national glimpse of it in the 1992 campaign, when Clinton, informed (incorrectly) that Jesse Jackson had endorsed an opponent, exploded with a stream of abuse into an open mike. Unlike Nixon, however, Clinton always had the charm to work his way out of this and other embarrassments. But as his presidency wanes, as his power erodes, as respect for him evaporates, as the legacy he lusts for recedes over the horizon, the charm wears thin and we are left with the real Clinton: bitter, angry and flailing. Never was this m