It's Time For Biden to Go to Africa
The traditional Democrat life preserver: Suck up to black people even harder!
Time line of Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky scandal:
November 1995: Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton begin a sexual relationship, according to audiotapes secretly recorded later by Linda Tripp.
Summer 1996: Lewinsky begins to tell fellow Pentagon employee Linda Tripp of her alleged relationship with Clinton.
Fall 1997: Tripp to begin taping conversations in which Lewinsky details her alleged affair with the president.
Dec. 8: Betty Currie, Clinton's personal secretary, asks presidential pal Vernon Jordan to help Lewinsky find a job in New York.
Dec. 11: Lewinsky meets with Jordan and he refers her to several job leads.
Dec. 17: Lewinsky is subpoenaed by lawyers for Paula Jones, who is suing the president on sexual harassment charges.
Dec. 28: Lewinsky makes her final visit to the White House, according to White House logs, and was signed in by Currie. Lewinsky reportedly met privately with Clinton and he allegedly encouraged her to be "evasive" in her answers in the Jones' lawsuit.
Jan. 7, 1998: Lewinsky files an affidavit in the Jones case in which she denies ever having a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
Jan. 12: Linda Tripp contacts the office of Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. The tapes allegedly have Lewinsky detailing an affair with Clinton and indicate that Clinton and Clinton friend Vernon Jordan told Lewinsky to lie about the alleged affair under oath.
Jan. 13, 1998: Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, meets with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel bar in Pentagon City, Va., and records their conversation.
Jan. 14, 1998: Lewinsky gives Tripp a document headed "Points to make in an affidavit," coaching Tripp on what to tell Jones' lawyers about Kathleen Willey, another former White House staffer. Willey recently had testified about alleged unsolicited sexual advances made by the president in 1993.
Jan. 16, 1998: Starr contacts Attorney General Janet Reno to get permission to expand his probe. Reno agrees and submits the request to a panel of three federal judges. The judges agree to allow Starr to formally investigate the possibility of subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Jones case. Tripp and Lewinsky meet again at the Ritz-Carlton. FBI agents and U.S. attorneys intercede and take Lewinsky to a hotel room, where they question her and offer her immunity.
Jan. 19, 1998: Lewinsky's name surfaces in an Internet gossip column, the Drudge Report, which mentions rumors that Newsweek had decided to delay publishing a piece on Lewinsky and the alleged affair.
Jan. 21, 1998: Several news organizations report the alleged sexual relationship between Lewinsky and Clinton. Clinton denies the allegations as the scandal erupts.
Jan. 22, 1998: Clinton reiterates his denial of the relationship and says he never urged Lewinsky to lie.
Jan. 23, 1998: Clinton assures his Cabinet of his innocence.
Jan. 24, 1998: Clinton asks former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold Ickes and former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to return to the White House to help deal with the controversy.
Jan. 26, 1998: Clinton forcefully repeats his denial, saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Jan. 27, 1998: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton says in a broadcast interview that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" is behind the charges against her husband.
Feb. 6, 1998: At a news conference, President Bill Clinton says he would never consider resigning because of the accusations against him. "I would never walk away from the people of this country and the trust they've placed in me," he says.
Feb. 11, 1998: A retired Secret Service uniformed guard, Lewis C. Fox, claims in an interview he saw Monica Lewinsky come to the West Wing on weekends with documents she said were for the president.
Feb. 19, 1998: Ken Starr's chronology shows presidential friend Vernon Jordan began seeking a private-sector job for Monica Lewinsky within 72 hours of her being listed as a potential witness in the Paula Jones civil rights lawsuit against President Bill Clinton.
March 3, 1998: Vernon Jordan Jr. testifies before the grand jury.
March 10, 1998: Kathleen Willey, a former White House volunteer who accused the president of fondling her, testifies before the grand jury for four hours.
March 11, 1998: The grand jury spends the day listening to audio recordings, which sources say are tapes made by Linda Tripp of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky.
March 16, 1998: Clinton says "nothing improper" happened when he was alone with Kathleen Willey, responding to her accusations aired in an interview on "60 Minutes" the previous night.
March 20, 1998: President Clinton decides to formally invoke executive privilege.
March 23-April 2, 1998: President Clinton makes the longest and most extensive trip to Africa by any U.S. president in history.
Visit marks first by U.S. leader
Clinton pledges continued aid
Clinton addresses a South Africa 'truly free at last'
“For Clinton, the first stop on a 12-day, six-country African journey was a chance to bask in the adulation far from Washington, then consumed with the Monica Lewinsky scandal.”
AND HE SAVED AN AFRICAN WOMAN’S LIFE!!!
"The crowd was so large that it began surging towards the stage. Suddenly, a woman in the front of the crowd began to get trampled," recalled Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser at the time. "Clinton jumped up and put his arm down over the side and grabbed her. The Secret Service thought he'd been shot and freaked out."
"He saved her life," Berger said. "It was a kind of tumultuous scene."
April 14, 1998: Kenneth Starr files a sealed motion in U.S. District Court to compel testimony of uniformed Secret Service agents, according to the Wall Street Journal.
And so on …
Even Monica Lewinsky knew what to do! In the middle of the scandal, she went to a Washington Capitals game and, press cameras clicking, hoisted a little black girl on her lap.
Time to go to Africa, Joe.
Ann left out the Wag The Dog theory where Bill Clinton bombs Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair.
And in the Paula Jones trial, Clinton lied about Lewinsky in his deposition, and submitted the deposition to the state court to get the Jones case dismissed on summary judgment. And then Clinton admitted the perjury, so the case was reopened and the Arkansas Judge fined Clinton $25,000 for submitting false testimony and Clinton was suspended from the practice of law in Arkansas for five years. Then Clinton settled with Paula Jones for about $850k. Later, Clinton published an autobiography in which he wrote about the state judge that he had been her law professor, and he had once misplaced her law exam so she had to do it over. He wondered, he wrote, how events would have played out differently if only he had not misplaced her law exam... you know, the one for the Judge that granted him summary judgment and dismissed the case against him, only to be seen as played for a fool by Clinton's later admissions. Serious sociopathy in that Bill Clinton noggin.