Why Don't These See The Light Of Day? One Guess.

There has been a lot going on in recent weeks. e.i. the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, the anti-semite cartoon contest in Iran, the fact that the Bush administrations' wire-tapping idea played an implicit part in foiling the most recent terrorist plot involving liquid exsplosives designed to blow up airliners en route from England to the States, etc. But I just don't have the energy right now. BUT that doesn't mean I won't get back to these topics in the future.

So I thought I'd re-print some stupid quotes from Bill Clinton and Al Gore, that for some reason, have never seen the light of day. Once again, biased media anyone?

"John Kennedy (Jr.) had actually not been back to the White House since his father was killed, until I had became President-and first he was on a advisory commiteethat made a report to me, and he came back to the Oval Office where he saw the desk where he took the famous picture in-you know, coming through the gate, for the first time was a little boy."
-Bill Clinton, press conference, July 21, 1999

"Because it's not their money."
-Bill Clinton, when asked what's wrong with letting local school districts decide to how best to spend federal education dollars.
-Washington, November 9/ PRNewswire

"Now, I want to assure you, Al did not sire the winning horse."
-Bill Clinton, May 2, 1999. A "joke" made by Clinton about Al Gore attending the Kentucky Derby. Was Clinton suggesting that the Vice-President had sex with a horse?

"I can spend your money better than you can."
-Bill Clinton, May 2, 1999, when asked if there was a surplus on Social Security, why no tax cuts?

"My grandmother was one-quater Cherokee."
-Bill Clinton. Fact is, "the White House didn't find his kin's name to compare to the official Cherokee rolls." The Washington Times, November 23, 1998

"It depends on how you define "alone". There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never thought we were."

"It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
-Excerpts from Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony.

"There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election."

"Every time Bush speaks about trust, it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system."
-Bill Clinton, November, 1992. After the Lewinsky debacle, isn't there just a slight question of credibility here?

"You can't say you love your country and hate your government."
-Bill Clinton, 1995, after the Oklahoma City bombing.

"A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military."
-Bill Clinton, 1969, in a letter to the National Guard.

"The one thing we have to do is to take seriously the role of this problem of...older men who prey on younger women. There are consequences to decisions and...one way or another people always end up being held accountable."
-Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996. I think we all know the irony of this one.

The following is not so "stupid" as it is ironic (or even perhaps prophetic)
"[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and CIA is an impeachable offence."
-Bill Clinton, Arkansan Gazette, August 8, 1974

"You know what's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
-Bill Clinton, May 28, 1993

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite it's continuing crackdown on democratic reform, it's brutal subjugation of Tibet, it's irresponsible export of nuclear and missle technology...Such forebearence on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand."
-Gov. Bill Clinton, December 12, 1991. Strange that Clinton would say this, considering that he, during his presidency, sold classified missle secrets to China in exchange for their promise to "be good".

On the same subject:
"I can tell you that the decisions we made, we made because we thought they were in the best interests of the American people."
-Bill Clinton, Washington Times, May 18, 1998, on why he signed waivers, despite Pentagon protests to sell Loral missle guidance systems to China, enabling them to launch nuclear missles for the first time (the results of which, we are seeing today with China's testing of the nuclear submarine test-launch of the JL-2 in 2005 and the recent, although unsuccessful, test of the Taepo Dong missle, among others) *Decisions we made? Talk about passing the buck!

In 1948-49 Lt. Gail Halvorsen, a pilot from Provo, Utah dropped candy to the children of Berlin, Germany when Joseph Stalin was trying to starve the city into submission. Clinton was giving a speech there to commemerate the 50th anniversary of the Airlift. Clinton chose to give special recognition to Lt. Halvorsen:
"She is with us here today. I'd like her to stand.
Gail Halvorsen then stood up. Mr. Gail Halvorsen, a 77-year-old grandfather.
-Bill Clinton, May, 1998.

"They havebeen exposed as the trash they are."
-Bill Clinton, January 27, 1992, on allegations that he had a 12-year affair with Gennifer Flowers.

January, 1998. Clinton admits under oath in the Paula Jones deposition that he had an affair with Gennifer Flowers.

"And the fact the deficit has come down for four years for the first time since the Civil War. I meant to say since before World War II. But maybe it should be since before the Civil War."
It was actually 1944-47, followed by a year of surplus.

"Thanks for the poncho."
-Bill Clinton, Associated Press, August 27, 1997.
Clinton was in Romania in July and was presented with the tri-colored Romanian flag. The flag had a hole in the middle of it where the hated communist emblem used to be, which these days is the norm in Romania. The flag symbolizes the 1989 anti-communist revolt that led to the establishment of democracy in that region.

"I am the only President who knew something about agriculture when I got there. (the White House)
-Bill Clinton, The Washington Post, April 26, 1995.
Unfortunately for Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were all farmers before becoming President.

"I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else that spent time in Texas recently."
-Bill Clinton, Longview, Texas, September 27, 1996.

Um..let's see, George H.W. Bush (1988 & 1992) Ross Perot (1992 & 1996) and Phil Gramm (1996)

"You know, if I were a single man, I might just ask that mummy out. That's a good looking mummy."
-Bill Clinton, Time Magazine, June 17, 1996.
Clinton was refering to a newly-discovered Inca mummy designated "Juanita".

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to ligitimately own hanguns and rifles."
-Bill Clinton, March 1, 1993.

"African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do."
-Bill Clinton, Black Entertainment Television, November 2, 1994.

As a 1992 presidential candidate, Clinton was upset with the Bush, Sr. administration's standards of behavior and pledged to conduct "the most ethical administration in the history of the Republic."

This one would be funny if it wasn't so hypocritical.

AND NOW FOR AL GORE....(there are lies mixed in with some stupid quotes here)

Speaking on potential breast cancer victims that faced "a long waiting line before they could get a biopsy or uh, or uh, another kind of, what am I looking for, a sonogram or..." The word he was looking for was mamogram.
-Al Gore, September 18, 2000
You know what would have happened if this was said by Bush.

"When my sister and I were growng up, there was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so." -Al Gore, New York Times, August 8, 2000.
If not more so? If two things are equal, what is "if not more so?"

On his recent crusade on "global warming": When being interviewed by George Stephanopolous on ABC, "The debate in the scientific community is over!"
But Gore conviently ignores any and all scientists or data that is in contradiction with his "facts", like the fact that the ice in Greenland has been melting for hundreds of years, impossibly the fault of humans, since the industrial revolution and other reasons Gore sites had only started approximately 75-80 years ago. In clear contridiction of his sources. By the way, a few minutes later Gore was trying to defend his statements by saying, scientists
"don't have any models that give them a high level of confidence. [They] don't know. They just don't know." So the question then becomes, if scientists don't know (at least the ones he's quoting-certainly not being interviewed by him-how can he run around the country and force-feed his opinion to everyone?

On Bush's Social Security privatization plan: "He is proposing to privatize a big part of Socail Security and he's proposing to take $1 trillion, a million billion dollars out of the Social Security trust fund and give it as a tax incentive to young workers." -Al Gore, October 25, 2000
A trillion is one thousand billion, not a million billion. Again, if Bush had said this...

Discussing the Strategic Petroleum Rreserves: "I've been part of the discussions on the strategic reserve since the days when it was first established." -Al Gore, September 22, 2000.
The problem with this is that Jimmy Carter established the Strategic Petroleum Reserves when he signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act in 1975, two years before Gore became a congressman.

My personal favourite:
"During my service in the Unites States congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet." -Interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, March 9, 1999.
He did in fact support technological advancements that allowed the internet to go foward, but claiming that he had a hand in creating it? I mean, really.

"A zebra does not change his spots."
-Al Gore, 1992.

"Who are these people?"
-Al Gore, January, 1993.
While being taken on a tour of Monticello, being shown busts of America's founding fathers.

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's
the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -Al Gore


"We are ready for any unforeseen event that
may or may not occur." -Al Gore


"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
-Al Gore, December 22, 1997.

For the record, Joseph and Mary were most definately not homeless.

Speaking about Chicago Bulls phenom, Michael Jordan:
"I tell you, that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable."
-Al Gore, Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1998.

No Al. You're unbvelievable. Truly, unbelievable.

"I have trouble turning on a computer, ... let alone using one."
-Al Gore, Associated Press, September 4, 1998.

This coming from the guy claiming to have taken the "initiative" to create the internet.

Speaking in Minnesota about DFL gubernatorial nominee, Hubert Humphrey III and two democratic congressmen:
"They will be the education team that Missouri needs to move into the 21st century."
-Al Gore,

...and so forth.

Have you guessed why yet? If you guessed the mainstream media and their biased, slanted, Bush-hating, terrorist-supporting, anti-semetic ways, you can pick up your prize at the door.

Thanks to Carolyn Gargaro for her "Bill Clinton-Stupid Statements & Gore (as in Al) Quotes" website.