April 2007- While a guest on "The Ellen DeGeneres" talk show in April 2006, Oprah Winfrey was asked who she supported in the upcoming Democratic Presidential Primaries.  Her Pick- Not Hillary Clinton, but Barack Obama. 

"I believe it's time for a fresh, new voice in the White House", Oprah said.

Testifying before a grand jury regarding Whitewater, First Lady Hillary Clinton refuses to answer two questions, invoking what her attorney referred to as "the long-standing common law privilege for marital communications" 

President Bill Clinton testifies for a total of 4 1/2 hours in support of his former Whitewater partners, who were on trial for fraudulently obtaining nearly $3 million in government-secured small business loans.  

Under oath, the President denied that, while Arkansas Governor, he pressured the loan officer to approve any fraudulently obtained loans.

"Don Imus' comments about them were nothing more than small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism.  They showed a disregard for basic decency and were disrespectful and degrading to African Americans and women everywhere." 

"She's supportin' all these people. She's supportin' {Sen.} Dianne {Feinstein}. She's supported {Sen.} Barbara {Boxer}. . . . She supported everybody. Why won't she support me?"  

-First Lady Hillary Clinton, speaking in what the Los Angeles Times described as a "mock African-American accent".

Don Imus' nickname for President Bill Clinton, who was a guest on Imus' program 3 times during the 1992 Presidential election season, and once after.

The New York Times reported that President Bill Clinton kept a Don Imus bobble-head doll on his desk in the Oval Office.

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“Don Imus; It's a Hideous Life, And You Get to Hear All About It”
The New York Times
By Richard Sandomir
September 29, 1993

(For an exercise in Hillary Hypocricy, see my posting of April 15th)

The Washington Post reports that former Clinton Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell was paid a total of $704,152. by various friends of President Bill Clinton and Democratic supporters between 1994 and 1996, while performing little or no work to earn those fees.

At the time of the payments, Hubbell had stepped down from his position with the Clinton Administration due to his indictment for having defrauded his former clients and partners, and was believed to have been tempted to cooperate with Whitewater investigators in return for a plea deal.

Hubbell published a memoir in 1997 in which he said of his consulting deals: "it wasn't hush money".

"There may be some bumps along the road.  You know this reminds me of one of my favorite American heroines, Harriet Tubman. For when she made it to freedom after having been a slave and she got to New York and she could have been so happy to just stay at home and just breathe a big sigh of relief, but she kept going back down South to bring other freed slaves to freedom. And she used to say, 'No matter what happens, keep going.' So we're going to keep going until we take back the White House."

Despite the failure of the Clinton Administration to pass any stimulus program, the economy continued to slowly improve, and remained strong through his two terms, until the dot-com crash of 2000 brought on a recession.

On Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

"You know, the consensus was the same, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared about the weapons of mass destruction."

April 1991- John Grisham's novel "The Firm" reaches #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List.  It remained on the list for most of the year. 

The novel tells the story of an Ivy-league law school grad with the ability to take a position anywhere in the country, but chooses to take a position with a small southern law firm 

"And crumble leads until I'm buzz and I'm laxed
And them hoes show me love in every club that I'm at
For every hood got' get back, what another n*gga envy
But I swear I ain't no killer, but y'all niggaz 'bout to tempt me" 

All The Hoes Love A N*gga, They be Backing It Up
But Me I Love Money I Be Stacking It Up
When My Bandwagon Pull Up They Hop On Board
They Hop Right On Mine and Hop Right Off Yours

"There's a turncoat inside Hillary Clinton's money machine. Over the past several years, Leonore Blitz has helped raise about $250,000 for Clinton's Senate races, and she signed up early to help the new presidential campaign. But in recent weeks the Manhattan marketing consultant has secretly attended finance meetings and fund-raisers for Clinton's archrival, Barack Obama. Under intense pressure from the Clinton team to pick sides, Blitz—who bundled more than $1 million for John Kerry in 2004—felt deeply conflicted. Clinton operatives have warned donors not to contribute to other campaigns, and put a price on disloyalty: early supporters will be valued and latecomers scorned. But now Blitz is coming out of the shadows, ready to test the rules. "I have been a lifelong advocate of women and minorities' participating and running for political office," she told NEWSWEEK last week. "Therefore, I'm supporting both Clinton and Obama.""

“The Clinton camp pressed donors to give only to Hillary.
Then the strategy backfired.”
Newsweek
By Richard Wolffe
April 16, 2007