Sep 2, 2008

Clinton impeachment whitewashed in schoolbooks

The impeachment of former President Clinton (pictured) is in a gray area of history, too long ago to be a current event, too recent to be judged in perspective.

History is already judging Mr. Clinton in the place where millions of students get their information about him -- school textbooks.

School textbooks are obfuscating (making obscure or confusing) instead of "tackling"

The kind of contribution to the Hillary in 2008 campaign that will not be officially reported, because it is not money or property, but will be appreciated by the Clinton’s, each of whom indisputably misled the American people.

If Hillary ever claims President Bush should have known that the Clinton Administration and the world's intelligence services were all wrong about the status of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction plans and programs, and that he exhibited the kind of bad judgment that America cannot risk in a President, how will she explain how she was so gullible to believe that President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky was pure?

The most commonly used texts give straightforward recaps of Clinton's toughest days, with some flavor of how it affected the nation.

Absent are any the lurid details of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky that spiced up daily news reports and late-night talk shows as the scandal and impeachment played out in 1998 and early 1999.

Also absent are the details of lying under oath to gain an advantage in a civil lawsuit and then lying to the American people about his relationship with Miss Lewinsky.

No Democrat Senator ever voted to convict an impeached President (the only two impeached Presidents -- Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton -- being Democrats).

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