Reagan/Clinton Mendacities

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Fri Jun 14 13:37:34 CDT 1996


[Bob Norton sez]
>We should not forget that when Bill Clinton went to France for the 50th
>anniversary of D-Day, he had some of his people knock over grave markers so
>that he could be photographed straightening them back up. He also stole the
>pebbles on some tombstones so that he could be photgraphed putting them on
>other ones in a lame imitation of an old Jewish ritual to honor the dead.
>This was observed by several Congressmen who commented on the matter before
>Congress but the news media chose not to touch this one at all. 

Clinton is certainly no prize in the honesty department, but I'll stick 
by my statement that Reagan's mendacity remains unrivaled.  Clinton was 
going for a bit of cheap personal aggrandizement, which is sort of par 
for the course among politicians; Reagan rewrote the history of World War 
II, and fabricated an entire episode of his alleged life, among many 
other whoppers that Clinton (and company) would never have the 
imagination to think up.

Cheers,
David






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