Wednesday, March 07, 2007

A Little Perspective

Lest we or our liberal foes forget:

ARKANSAS ALZHEIMER'S*

- Number of times Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50

- Number of paragraphs in this statement: 42

- Number of times Bill Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in the released portions of the his testimony on Paula Jones: 271

- Total number of facts or events not recalled before official bodies by Bill Kennedy, Harold Ickes, Ricki Seidman, Bruce Lindsey, Bill Burton, Mark Gearan, Mack McLarty, Neil Eggleston, John Podesta, Jennifer O'Connor, Dwight Holton, Patsy Thomasson, Jeff Eller, Beth Nolan, Cliff Sloan, Bernard Nussbaum, George Stephanopoulous, Roy Neel, Rahm Emanuel, Maggie Williams, David Tarbell, Susan Thomases, Webster Hubbell, Roger Altman, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton: 6,125

- Average occurrence of memory lapse by top [Clinton] administration figures while before official bodies: 235

* From "Clinton Scandal Stats," available at http://emporium.turnpike.net/P/ProRev/wwstats.htm




It's too bad Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald (pictured above) wasn't in charge of prosecuting real crimes such as the ones perpetrated during the Clinton administration.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great points Othelmo. This trial was a waste of time and a farce. No real crimes were commited, unless you count the lying Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame did and are still doing. How many times did Scooter not remember? I think it was twice. Let's see if his punishment is equivalent to what Sandy Burglar got for stealing confidential documents from the US Archives.

One should note that before Bill and Hillary displayed their apparent early onset Alzheimers, both of them were credited with having photographic memories (or was that a "pornographic" memory in Bill's case, whatever.) Both these miscreants know that legally lapses in memory doesn't constitute perjery. Scooter should be pardoned. Hopefully he will have the conviction overturned on appeal.