From Fox News:

Bill Clinton said a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Obama.

In case you don’t recall, or are too young to remember, back in the late 90’s, Hillary Clinton went on TV to defend her husband and claim that all this nonsense about an affair with an intern was all just made up by a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to discredit President Clinton.  Of course the affair was real, as were many other allegations, and the attempts to blame the “attacks” on a conspiracy fell short.

What is amazing is that all these years later the Clintons continue to bring this charge out of mothballs; it’s as if they really believe they didn’t do anything wrong and there really was some right-wing conspiracy group making all this stuff up.

And now…  this same conspiracy has taken aim at President Obama.  What else could explain all of the opposition to his attempts to drive the country down a path of government takeovers?  Clearly it can’t be that folks don’t like his policies.

So, what should we conclude?

If President and then First Lady Clinton lied about a vast right-wing conspiracy back then to cover up what was really going on, it is quite logical to assume they are doing so again today.

Didn’t work then, won’t work now.

Here’s a blast from the past:

And the very pointed denial…

And the lies to the grand jury (caution, somewhat explicit)…

OK.. that’s not quite what she said, but she might as well have said it because the alternative is that team Obama has somehow managed to turn Iraq around in 100 days without lifting a finger:

Fox News: “I think in Iraq there will always be political conflicts, there will always be, as in any society, sides drawn between different factions, but I really believe Iraq as a whole is on the right track,” she said, citing “overwhelming evidence” of “really impressive” progress.

So for all you Bush haters keeping score out there…

Iraq is now an ally instead of an enemy.

Iraq is no longer an oppressive regime.

Iraq no longer has Uday and Qusay torturing men and women for sport.

Iraq is no long a state sponsor of terrorism.

And to think… just a few months ago, Harry Reid was declaring defeat and Obama was demanding we pull out all forces immediately…  good thing we had a president who didn’t agree that America should cut and run from this fight.

When I first saw this clip on FoxNews, I thought  “how lame.. using a ‘reset button’ as a prop”.   Reminded me of one of those commercials where some guy presses a red button and POOF! he has a new chair.

But it got better.

On the heals of that nifty 25 DVD set KP (Karaoke President) presented to PM Brown, we have yet another classic blunder that would have brought howls of indignation and laughter from the left wing wackos if it were Bush.. you know.. like NBC.

Check out the video if you haven’t seen it (hat tip to Gina Cobb for the vid):

KP and his staff are the epitome of leader wannabes.  It could be amateur night every night for the next four years folks.  And when is the KP administration going to let go of the past and start leading to the future… never?  What is this obsession with Bush?  The relationship between Russia and the US was quite good until Russia decided to invade Georgia.. so that’s Bush’s fault.  What’s KP and HRC’s problem?

Gina Cobb and Ed Morrissey both have it right here:

Update: Ed Morrissey has some painfully appropriate comments on the gaffe itself:

Yeah, I’m sure Lavrov laughed.  Later, he probably told his deputy, “Tell the crypto guys they can take it easy.”

Some will say, Come on, it’s just a light moment, but let’s think about what Hillary was doing here.  She was making fun of the previous administration’s diplomacy with her “reset” button, a rather nasty piece of work.  I’ll bet the Bush administration and Condi Rice would have gotten the translation correct before making that joke — and I’d bet even more money they wouldn’t have thought to make fun of Hillary’s husband in that fashion in the first place.

Can we get a reset button?

He’s right.  It wasn’t just that Hillary Clinton and her staff committed a diplomatic gaffe.  They committed the gaffe while in the process of engaging in a mean-spirited ridicule of their predecessors’ diplomacy.  Who looks like a fool now?

From Reuters:

A U.S. “truth commission” should investigate Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday.

Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, urged a commission as a way to heal what he called sharp political divides under former President George W. Bush and to prevent future abuses.

He compared it to other truth commissions, such as one in South Africa that investigated the apartheid era.

Ah yes, the path to healing is always paved with inquisitions and comparisons to apartheid.  Not sure what this guy is smoking, but he may want to get himself checked considering the post before this one.

War in Iraq?

At the time, everyone believed Hussein had chemical and biological weapons, we knew he had used them before, we knew he coveted nuclear weapons, we knew he was funding terrorists, we knew he was shooting at our fighter jets, we knew he was refusing to comply with UN resolutions, we knew the “first” Iraq War was not over but actually in a cease fire mode, we knew Hussein was killing his own people with chemical weapons, we knew he was maiming and torturing dissenters, we had Democrat senators like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry fighting for time in front of the cameras to sound tough during the lead up to military action, and we knew that regime change was the official policy of the Clinton administration.

There… I saved you millions of tax payer dollars.  I can write it up and send it to your office Senator.

Detainee treatment?  Yeah, there were some really bad incidents that should be, and have been, punished.  Maybe we should focus on having a “truth commission” for our current president instead of worrying about the guy who just left.  Every day it seems like I easily spot at least one lie.

Wiretapping without a warrant?  Thought that issue was resolved when the DEMOCRATIC Congress passed a law in 2007 affirming it’s legality.

“We need to come to a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past,” Leahy said in a speech at Georgetown University.

“Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened,” he said. “And we do that to make sure it never happens again.”

Right… good to know an “influential senator” who was involved every step of the way now needs a “truth commission” to find out what really happened… very Orwellian of him.  Good to know this has nothing to do with vengeance… actually didn’t think it did.  More like an irresistible obsession with the hatred of all things even marginally on the conservative side of the spectrum.

“If every administration started to reexamine what every prior administration did, there would be no end to it. This is not Latin America,” the Judiciary committee’s top-ranking Republican, Senator Arlen Specter, told reporters last month.

Case in point, Bill Clinton who skated away from prosecution because George Bush rightly decided that it was not in the best interest of the country.

President Barack Obama suggested shortly before he took office in January that he did not favor prosecuting Bush administration officials over their counterterrorism policies, but said he would look into “past practices.”

How nice of him.  Perhaps in 4 years, if Obama somehow manages to keep us safe, the next president will show him the same kindness.

Issues to investigate would include the Justice Department’s firings of several U.S. attorneys, which Leahy said may have been motivated by a White House aim to influence elections, policies on the treatment of terrorism suspects and other areas “where (congressional) committees were lied to.”

Will you please just get over it!  President Bush, just like every other president, has the absolute authority to fire US attorneys and can do so without cause, for any reason, or for whatever reason… why does Leahy insist on wasting taxpayer time and money…  oh, silly me… he’s a liberal.

This included the war in Iraq, he said. “There were lies told to the American people all the way through.”

Get… over… it…

Even if there were lies, and there probably were, is this really the precedent we want to set?  But the lies he is referring to were not lies at all and, unless he is studying at the Rosie O’Donnell school of idiotic conspiracy theories, he should know better.

Bush has acknowledged that intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was wrong, but said he never lied to the public about the war.

Gee, maybe that’s because Bush never said we were invading Iraq because of the weapons.  And if Leahy or any other senator knew there were no weapons, why didn’t they say something.  Because they didn’t know.  In fact, leading up to the war, nuts like him were shouting about all of the casualties we would incur by invading Iraq; that our troops would die in the tens of thousands from chemical and biological attacks; that Iraq was so strong we had no chance.

Then after we won so fast, they started complaiining that it was too easy… can’t make these guys happy unless it’s their guy in the White House.

Leahy said he wanted the Defense Department investigated for filming Iraq-war protesters, which he said came “shockingly close” to the FBI’s Vietnam War-era Cointelpro operation to investigate domestic war protesters. “We fought a revolution in this country so we could protest the actions of our government,” he said.

Yes.. shockingly.  Please….    And about that “revolution”, you didn’t do anything but make it impossible for this country to fight that war in Vietnam in a way that it could be won.  Should we have been there?  Probably not.  But you can blame Kennedy and Johnson for getting us deep into that “quagmire”.

I’m getting to the point where, contrary to Michele Obama’s view, for the first time in my life I’m not proud of my country… not when the loons are running the show.

I hope we don’t wake up four years from now with a socialistic headache for which there is no cure.

I may be biased, but I thought this was the highlight of this week’s SNL.  the Palin/Couric thing was pretty good and seems to be getting all the attention, but I thought this was funnier:

It may not be right, but we brought it to you first. 

Some thoughts about the future:

• Between now and election day, there will be a significant shift of support away from Barack Obama as concerns mount over his inexperience and inadequate handling of his guilt-by-association problems
• John McCain/Sarah Palin will be elected
• With Obama discredited, the Clinton machine will retake the DNC, Howard Dean will be out, MoveOn will be relegated to fringe status (where they belong)
• 2012 or 2016, after continuing to rehabilitate his reputation while serving in the US Senate, Barack Obama is elected Governor of Illinois as a predecessor to another run for the White House in 2016 or 2020
• 2012 Hillary Clinton, after solidifying her base in 2008 and winning over new converts since having the nomination pulled out from under her that same year, with the DNC solidly behind her, makes another run for the White House as the Democratic nominee… “super delegates” that remain after housecleaning solidly behind her this time
• 2012 John McCain will decide to not seek re-election
• 2012 Sarah Palin, with the field ahead of her somewhat cleared because she is the incumbent VP and a woman, wins the nomination to set up a guarantee for history to be made… a woman will be the next president in 2012 

Will any of this happen…  who knows, but remember you heard it all here first.  Remember to check back here every few years to keep me honest.

Consider this: 100% chance that the next President of the United States, in the year 2012, will be a woman.

Assuming John McCain is elected this year and conventional wisdom that he would be a one-term president comes to pass, Sarah Palin, with four years as VP, would be positioned to head the Republican ticket in 2012.

Assuming Barack Obama is not elected this year, Hillary Clinton will be the logical choice to head the Democratic ticket in 2012; some would argue she was the logical choice this year, but that’s a different blog.

By electing John McCain, we will almost guarentee that in 2012 we will have the first woman elected to President of the United States.

Something to consider … we have an opportunity to set the stage for history to be made four years from now.