{"id":179,"date":"1998-11-01T11:41:58","date_gmt":"1998-11-01T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-10-23T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:47:28","slug":"clintons-place-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Clinton&#8217;s Place in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November of &#8217;98, heading towards the end of The Good Old Clintontime, <\/strong>saw the by-now usual Sunday morning spew about the Clinton Legacy. Predictably, this took the form of gushing about &#8220;welfare reform&#8221; and his Crime Bill, but not a whole lot about the things that were really on peoples&#8217; minds &#8212; like the Chinese takeover of American manufacturing, and stagnating wages. What we did hear a lot about, as well, was how well he dealt with the Iraqis, and his decisive action in his missile attacks on The Sudan and Afghanistan &#8212; which turned out to have targeted civilians (as usual) and were timed so soon after his video testimony in the Lewinsky Scandal that it could&#8217;ve been the premise for a movie <em>(what? wait a minute&#8230;)<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"clintons_place_in_history650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/clintons_place_in_history650w.jpg\" alt=\"clintons_place_in_history650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/clintons_place_in_history650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/clintons_place_in_history650w-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/clintons_place_in_history650w-400x224.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/clintons_place_in_history650w-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which brings us to the real Clinton Legacy, the legacy of one of most right-wing and violent Administrations ever to be winked at and given a free pass by desperate, fawning, attention-whoring American Liberalism. Let&#8217;s see&#8230; there was extra-Constitutional military violence against Iraq (twice), the Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Serbia; threatening and dick-wiggling at North Korea, Bosnia, and Iran &#8212; not to mention the military assault on the Branch Davidian outfit, with young children and elderly inside, right here in the good old USA. All this &#8212; on top of assaults on the Constitution at every possible opportunity, most notably in the form of the 1996 Communications Decency Act which sought sweeping censorship powers over the then-emerging Internet and which was deservedly smacked down by the Supreme Court &#8212; gave President Elvis Clinton a legacy that any modern head of state could envy, if his name happened to be Deng Xiaoping.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Clinton's place in history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/clintons_place_in_history.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 120k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November of &#8217;98, heading towards the end of The Good Old Clintontime, saw the by-now usual Sunday morning spew about the Clinton Legacy. Predictably, this took the form of gushing about &#8220;welfare reform&#8221; and his Crime Bill, but not a whole lot about the things that were really on peoples&#8217; minds &#8212; like the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,10,9],"tags":[1459,17,1456,41,22,40],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clintontime","category-iraq","category-media","category-war-and-peace","tag-afghanistan","tag-clinton","tag-iraq","tag-serbia","tag-somalia","tag-waco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}