The Clintons' War on Women (22 page)

In 1992, the mainstream media began to paint Perot as an unstable nut. In 1996 Gerald Posner, a proponent of the JFK assassination lone gunman theory, wrote a book on Ross,
Citizen Perot: His Life and Times
, designed to discredit and marginalize the billionaire.

Journalist
Bob Novak interviewed Perot in 1992 and came to the conclusion that Ross was out to stick a knife in Bush. Perot told Novak that he wanted to have a one-on-one debate with then president Bush. Perot added he did not think Bush was much of a president and noted that the polls showed him ahead in three key states: California, Texas, and Florida.

Despite Bush’s attempts to marginalize Perot by claiming that he had “some nutty ideas” and came “from the fringe,” Perot received 18.9 percent of the popular vote, approximately 19,741,065 votes (but no electoral college votes), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt ran with the Bull Moose Party in the 1912 election.
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Perot was successful in siphoning votes away from Bush, but Bush was correct that a vote for Perot was a wasted vote. Perot was unwittingly kicking a Republican involved heavily in CIA drug operations out of office and helping to install a Democrat involved in the very same operations. Bubba played Ross perfectly over the phone and together they drained the votes from Bush, making Clinton a non-majority vote–elected president. Perot would come back in 1996 and play the same role, and a majority of voters voted against Bill Clinton in the two elections in which he ran. Even Nixon with his uptight manner was elected in a landslide majority in his second successful presidential election.

The Bushes and Clintons like to validate each other as good, decent, legitimate, and aboveboard political players. Drug trafficking and other covert operations were off the table in the ’92 election because Bush and Clinton were in it together. Perot knew that if he raised it as an issue against Bush, it would marginalize his already tenuous standing in the race.

The Bushes and Clintons share their deepest bonds in connections with the CIA. Cord Meyer, Roger Morris, and Christopher Hitchens said that in the summer of 1968, while at the University of Oxford, young Bill Clinton was recruited by the agency to infiltrate left-
wing anti-war groups in Eastern Europe and snitch on their activities to the boys at Langley.

“I think he was a double,” Hitchens says. “Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the anti-war draft resisters, and I think it was probably him. We had a girlfriend in common—I didn’t know then—who’s since become a very famous radical lesbian.”
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Washington insider Jack Wheeler related in his 1988 essay “How the Clintons Will Undo McCain” how his friend told him an important nugget about this history of Bill Clinton. He wrote:

Cord passed on in 2001.

Young George Bush would be among the agency assets raising the money for the Bay of Pigs operation as early as 1963.

Zapata Oil’s offshore well platforms and the company itself fronted for the CIA. Bush himself pursued politics more than he did oil deals. When George H. W. Bush said in his confirmation hearings that he had never worked for the agency, he was committing perjury, yet became the director of Central Intelligence years later. As Vice President Bush oversaw an operation to import narcotics into the United States through rural areas of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. Governor Bill Clinton knew about and ordered state police to look the other way as the feds moved millions in cocaine through Mena. Clinton
would tell his bodyguard, “Bush knew all about it.” The Clintons and the Bushes share the CIA tie.

The public displays of affection between the two families in the last few years is not a surprise. Both families share some of the same dark secrets.

In September 2013 Jeb Bush was presenting Hillary Clinton with a “Liberty Medal” from the National Constitution Center. “Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Jeb said. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”
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In January 2014, former First Lady Barbara Bush said in a C-SPAN interview, “I love Bill Clinton. Maybe not his politics, but I love Bill Clinton…. My husband, Bill Clinton and I have become friends. And Bill visits us every summer.”
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Barbara P. Bush, the daughter of George W., said in August of 2013 that Hillary was “unbelievably accomplished” and it is her hope that Hillary runs for president in 2016.
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George W. Bush likes to call Bill Clinton his “brother from another mother.” Bush said that would make Hillary “my sister-in-law.”
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The Associated Press reported, “Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, political opposites who became friends, launched a new scholars program at four presidential centers with an opening act that might have been mistaken for a comedy routine. The two former presidents shared laughs and buddy-like banter on stage Monday, talking about presidential leadership while trading stories about their famous families and life after the White House. Clinton said he and Bush laughed backstage about people coming up to them at restaurants and asking to take ‘selfie’ photos. Quipped Bush, ‘At least they’re still asking.’”
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The article added: “George W. Bush campaigned for president in 2000 on restoring ‘honor and dignity’ to the White House following Clinton’s impeachment over a sex scandal. But the two former presidents have developed a bond, strengthened by their mutual admiration
for the elder Bush, whom Clinton visited in Maine last week.”
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The Bushes, the Clintons, and the LBJ Library have teamed up to form a Presidential Leadership Program. It seems like coordinated propaganda to us.

In early April of 2014 Bill Clinton and George W. Bush sat side by side in Arlington, Texas, in the luxury box of Jerry Jones to watch the NCAA college men’s basketball championship. Both had big smiles on their faces as “a large crowd attending the NCAA championship game in Arlington, Texas, between Connecticut and Kentucky took a moment to loudly applaud an image displayed on the large video boards inside AT&T Stadium.”
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The public likes these images of civility. It makes them feel good knowing that leaders of opposite parties can get along.

“I’ve always found the friendship between Bill Clinton and the Bush family to be very endearing,” reporter John Daly wrote. “It’s something genuine, positive, and quite unlikely in an American political landscape marred by bitter, hyper-partisan animosity.”
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In 2005, Clinton and Bush, Sr., took a trip to Asia to raise money (and more importantly, polish their public relations image) for tsunami victims. “US ex-President George Bush Sr. has praised his successor Bill Clinton for letting him sleep on their plane’s only bed on their tour of tsunami-hit areas,” the BBC reported. “Mr. Bush, 80, told Newsweek magazine that the 58-year-old Democrat spent the night on the floor in the next room so that he could get a proper rest. Mr. Clinton was respectful of his age and ‘that meant a great deal to me,’ the current president’s father said.”
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Then there was “Laura Bush shows ‘pure class’ in message to Clintons” as blogger Joe Saunders congratulated Laura Bush for tweeting on April 18, 2014, “Congratulations @BillClinton and @HillaryClinton, grandchildren are the greatest gift. @ChelseaClinton & Marc will be wonderful parents!” The Internet erupted with many gushing that Laura Bush had “class” and “style” and “warmth” for this pedestrian well-wishing for the arrival of a baby.
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In
October 2013 Jenna Bush-Hagar got into the act. The
Daily Mail
covered it in an article, “Jenna Bush: Hillary Clinton and I are ‘related’ through ‘Uncle’ Bill—George W Bush’s ‘brother from another mother.’” The subtitle was “Former first-daughter Jenna Bush-Hager joked about her Clinton family ties at a charity gala earlier this week; When former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the stage, she spoke about the ‘special feeling of kinship’ she had for Jenna.”
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When Jenna Bush-Hagar was emceeing a gala for the Save the Children organization, she honored Hillary and Jenna stated, “I’m not sure if you know this, but Secretary Clinton and I are actually related. Yes, she’s married to Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill has become so close with my grandparents and my father … that my dad calls him a brother from another mother.”
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Hillary replied that she, too, felt a “special feeling of kinship” with Jenna.

In November 2014, Toby Harnden, the Washington bureau chief of the
Sunday Times,
wrote “Bush: My Sweet Dad, A Wonderful Father to Bill Clinton and Me.”

“He’s got a good spirit about him,” said Bush, who at sixty-eight is just six weeks older than Clinton. “We’re the only baby-boomer presidents. We were both Southern governors and we both like each other. He’s fun to be around. I hope he would say I’m fun to be around. And we’re both grandfathers.”
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Bush talked about how he had called Clinton to congratulate him on the birth of a granddaughter and told him to get ready to be the low man on the totem pole. “And he laughed. We get along great.”
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Bush discussed the friendship of Bush, Sr., and Clinton: “It speaks to the character of both men. Bill Clinton treated Dad with great deference and Dad has become a friend of his. There are things that are more vital in life than allowing defeat to embitter you.”
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That was quite a change from February, 2000 when George W. Bush emphatically told John McCain in a debate before the South Carolina primary, “Whatever you do, don’t equate my integrity and trustworthiness
to Bill Clinton. That’s about as low a blow as you can give in the Republican primary.”
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In hacked emails the Romanian hacker Guccifer released in 2013, there was an interesting note from George W. in which he refers to Clinton as “bubba” and told his siblings that if he was going to give the eulogy at his dad’s funeral rather than Clinton then he would need some help. “Hopefully I’m jumping the gun … But since the feeling is that you all would rather me speak than bubba, please help,” Bush wrote.
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In December of 2014, according to political reporter Mike Allen, “[Bill Clinton] got a heads-up from the camp of President George H. W. Bush a few days before former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made his surprise Facebook announcement in December that he would ‘actively explore’ a [presidential] campaign.”
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Allen said that Clinton and Bush, Sr., “have developed a friendly bond, partly because of their work together on relief for the 2004 Asian tsusami.”
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The bond between the Bushes and Clintons is special. It was formed on the elite level of politics where the decisions of the few are unheard by the many.

“It’s a big club,” said comedian George Carlin shortly before his death. “And you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy. The table is tilted, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest, hardworking people continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them at all…. Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day.”
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PART 3

CRIPPLING POWER

CHAPTER 12

MADAM PRESIDENT

A
humorous yarn was spun and spread at the beginning of the Clinton presidency. It went something like this: The Clintons were driving in Hillary’s hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois. While stopping for gas, Hillary recognized the station attendant as someone she used to date in high school. Later in the day, Bill shrewdly quipped, “See, if you’d married him, you’d be working at a gas station.” Hillary smugly replied, “If I’d married him, he’d be president.”
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To the people working in Washington, there was no doubt who was on the top of The Hill.

Campaigning for the presidency in the 1992 election, Bill openly said that voters were getting “two for the price of one.” During the transition phase after the Clinton-Gore ticket was elected, Hillary played a big role in vetting the cabinet of the incoming Clinton administration.

Hillary
began inauguration day 1993 cursing and shrieking profanities at Bill as she demanded to have Vice President Al Gore’s White House office.
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In the spring of 1993 Hillary spearheaded the signature legislative initiative of the Clinton administration: the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, the forerunner to Obamacare.

Hillary Clinton had always been the take-charge alpha of the Clintons.