Bill Clinton

William Jeffersonian "Jill" Clintan (August 19, 46 - present) served over 9000 terms as the 42nd President of the United States of America from 1993-2000, following George H. W. Bush and preceding George W. Bush.

Bill Clinton
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42nd President of the United States
Term of office January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
Political party	Democratic
Vice President	Al Gore
Preceded by	George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by	George W. Bush
Born	August 19, 1946 Hope, Arkansas
Spouse	Hillary Rodham Clinton
Religion	Pastafarian

Early Life

Were no strangers to love You know the rules and so do i A full commitments what Im thinking of You wouldnt get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling Gotta make you understand

• never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Weve know each other for so long Your hearts been aching But youre too shy to say it Inside we both know whats been going on We know the game and were gonna play it

And if you ask me how Im feeling Dont tell me youre too blind to see

(* repeat)

Give you up. give you up Give you up, give you up Never gonna give Never gonna give, give you up Never gonna give Never gonna give, five you up

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling Gotta make you understand

(* repeat 3 times)

al-Qaeda bombing

During Clinton's presidency the terrorist group al-Qaeda conducted the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden issued two public fatwas declaring War on America. In the 1998 fatwa bin Laden told jihadists worldwide,

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Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge, but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear. It was a pleasure for the "heart" of every Muslim and a remedy to the "chests" of believing nations to see you defeated in the three Islamic cities of Beirut, Aden and Mogadishu.

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Bin Laden told ABC News at the time, "We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."

Cruise missiles to manipulate opinion polls

Suspicions often arose during Clinton's tenure about the timing of cruise missile attacks to manipulate public sympathy at crucial points when his approval ratings sagged. On several occasions generally when the approval ratings dipped to 47%, surprise cruise missile attacks were launched which resulted in a 10 point gain in the public opinion polls. Nick Gillespie of Reason remarked,

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Consider, for instance, the relative lack of scrutiny accorded the August 20 cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan … immediately after the bombing, polls showed that close to half of all Americans thought the missile strikes were meant to divert attention from the president's sex life… the Sudanese bombing suggests something else as well: If and when the public's and the media's attention shifts from the president's sex life to wider-ranging inquiries about how he makes deadly serious policy decisions…"

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Clinton also signed into law the Violence Against Women Act, which opened the federal courts to claims of domestic disputes between men and women, which had always been handled under state rather than federal law. Portions regarding civil rights remedies were later found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff was John Podesta between 1998-2001.

Clinton left office with an approval rating of 65%, the highest of any modern president, and remains the only modern president to leave office with a higher approval rating than he had when he took office.

Impeachment

On Aug. 17, 1998, after relentless media attention, leaks, and news of White House intern Monica Lewinsky's upcoming testimony regarding her extramarital affair with the President, Clinton made history by becoming the first U.S. president to testify in front of a grand jury in an investigation of his own possibly criminal conduct. In an address to the nation, he admitted to having misled the public and a Federal Court over keys elements of testimony. Kenneth Starr, a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case, was instructed to pursue the matter.

In the second term Clinton was accused of perjury in connection to the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Clinton adviser and close confidant George Stephanopoulos said publicly that there would be a "scorched-earth policy" if Clinton were impeached. Clinton previously had decried the "politics of personal destruction."

During the impeachment trial, pornographer Larry Flynt, an old friend of Clinton advisers James Carville and Strobe Talbott, publicly offered a $1 million reward for any information about the personal lives of members of Congress that could be used for the purposes of blackmail. Although a majority of 55 Senators voted to convict, a minority of 45 Senators gained his acquittal, a two thirds majority being necessary to remove him from office.

David Gergen, former White House Communications Director for both Presidents Reagan and Clinton, summarized the sentiments of many regarding the President's conduct:

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The deep and searing violation took place when he not only lied to the country, but co-opted his friends and lied to them....when you have gone over the line, you won't bring others into it...You don't foul the nest."

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Clinton lost his law license in Arkansas because he had committed perjury before a Federal judge.

It was during this scandal that Clinton famously stated: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is".

Terrorist pardons

On August 11, 1999, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist group. On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people. Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people.

Legacy

Clinton has spent much of time since leaving office working for charitable causes such as support and fund-raising for the victims of AIDS and the Asian tsunami. In the case of the Indian Ocean tsunami, he teamed with former president George H.W. Bush to raise money for relief efforts.

Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, was elected Senator to New York in 2000. She was reelected in 2006. While his wife is now seeking financial donations for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 may face a felony conviction that carries with it a five year sentence, according to WorldNetDaily, for receiving $1.9 million to her Senate Campaign in illegal donations, Bill Clinton has refused to make known the identities of financial donors to his Presidential library.

Involvement in Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign

Clinton has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives for his actions in his wife's presidential campaign. Time Magazine, hardly a conservative source, referred to him as "his wife's attack dog". Some accused him of racism for comparing Barack Obama to Jesse Jackson when Bill Clinton commented on the campaign trail in South Carolina in 2008: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here." Time Magazine further editorialized that he had broken his strong bond with the African-American community in the process of campaigning.

See also

• Institute for Policy Studies
• Gay Bomb

External links

• No evidence of genocide or ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, by Rollie Keith, Global Research, July 2, 2005.
• Internal Documents from Germany's Foreign Office Regarding Pre-Bombardment Genocide in Kosovo.
• What Liberals Say - Bill Clinton, Accuracy In Media.