In August Mr.Ĭlinton ordered missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan within days of hisĭisastrous speech about Monicagate. The self-strangulation of the Democratic peace constituency. Repugnant act of perjury with what they disingenuously call "just lying aboutīut the most disturbing consequence of the surrender to Clinton has been Since when is it the task of liberal feminists to intentionally confuse this Clinton, as a defendant in a sexual harassment case, to lie under True, Paula Jones's case was exploited by Clinton haters.īut that's no excuse for the White House to attack her as "trailer trash" orįor Mr. Organizations have shredded two decades of hard-earned gains in sexual Likewise, in the current Monicagate fiasco, mainstream feminist Jackson loudly barked the stray dissenters back into the Liberals pondered their options of protest at the 1996 DemocraticĬonvention, Mr. Prosecution, it was left to Jesse Jackson to snuff out the moral fires. Requires unwed mothers to name their children's fathers on pain of Clinton signed the 1996 welfare bill, which In more than 30,000 summary deportations, in many cases of long-term They are equally mum on the immigration bill signed by Mr.Ĭlinton that virtually abolished due process and this year alone has resulted His administration proposes to legalize "roving" Quashes nearly all legal appeals from death row.ĭemocrats denounce the violation of the president's Were eerily silent when, as the 1996 re-electionĬampaign was beginning, the president signed theĮffective Death Penalty Act-a dastardly law that Women and children were immolated by federalīleating about the violation of Mr. Months of the Clinton administration 83 men, Where was the Democratic outrage when in the first Presidency, paying a staggering price: unconditional surrender of their ideals. In the past six years, liberals have continued their defense of the Clinton Bill Clinton might notĮxactly be a new FDR but he was, after all, "electable." Good of finally having a Democrat in the White House. Such complicity, they argued, was for the greater good-the greater Have executed Rector if he had not been campaigning for president. Hiccup over the outrageous execution of Rickey Ray Rector.Ī year later when Marshall Frady in The New Yorker wrote a chillingĭeconstruction of Clinton's political decision to execute Rector, one of usĪsked a number of Clinton supporters if they believed Mr. Pro-Clinton reporters who covered the 1992 campaign-Sidneyīlumenthal, Eleanor Clift, Strobe Talbott, Joe Klein-barely found time to Years later on the House floor on behalf of her president. Her-and Rector's-"slave ancestors" in a cry for justice as she would six No panels of Ivy League law professors with Alanĭershowitz screaming for due process. There were no NYUĮmergency speak-outs organized by Sean Wilentz and Arthur Schlesinger Where were the liberals? No Hollywood celebrities-no Rob Reiner, noīarbra Streisand-lobbied to spare Rector's life. Clinton campaigned in the South, he proudly pointed to his willingness Life was an insignificant price for candidate Clinton to pay to demonstrate his Someone not competent to understand his crime or his punishment. Clinton that the law prohibited the execution of Pecan pie, which he planned to eat when he returned. Rector asked his guards to say hello to Gov.Ĭlinton, whom he had just seen on television, and to save Rector his slice of The death chamber, and with no trace of irony, Survived-condemned to function with the mind of aįive-year-old. Turned his gun on himself after killing a police officerĪt his mother's house.
New Hampshire just in time to deny Rector a stay Gennifer Flowers scandal, convicted murderer Salvage his presidential candidacy in the face of the Their principles in order to squeeze into that little black box that is Mr. For Rector's story symbolizes how liberals have sheared off Jesse Jackson, they said a prayer for Rickey
Clinton last week onĬapitol Hill, led by the Rev. We can only hope that when they stood vigil for Mr. What discourages us more has been theīehavior of our friends, Mr. But we expect our RepublicanĪdversaries to act that way. Clinton's transgressions into theĮquivalent of Watergate or Iran-contra. Republicans cross the limits of credibility when Strategist in the presidential campaigns of George McGovern, JimmyĬarter, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale and Marc Cooper, aĭemocrats in Congress have a point when they accuse President Clinton'sĬritics of politicizing the law.
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