I believe this has been in the works for a much longer period time going back to before the selection of 2000.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/clinton200711Before Hillary officially established her exploratory committee, she began directly competing with the vice president for money, sometimes even at his own fund-raising events. When Tipper's friend Melinda Blinken and a group of women planned a Gore fund-raiser in Los Angeles, Hillary insisted on being invited—over the objections of the event's organizers. Hillary then shocked the vice president's supporters by soliciting donations for herself in front of Tipper."Why would Hillary Clinton do this to the Gores in California, when she was only running in New York and Al Gore was running a national campaign? I believe it's because this was a set up from the beginning and if there was a "vast right wing conspiracy" as Hillary Clinton stated, it was actually aimed at Al Gore as a back door strategy to keep him from coming to power. The only question I have is when did the Clintons join the conspiracy, was it after Dick Cheney announced he wouldn't run for President after he chose him self as Bush's Vice-Presidential running mate or before?
Personally, I believe Bill Clinton screwed his loyal Vice-President over three times before Al Gore ever reached the podium at the 2000 convention that was to nominate him for the Presidency.
The first time was the adolescent throw back affair it self, this is when Bill Clinton forgot the theme song from his own 92 convention, Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow", I still have ambivalent feelings whenever I hear that song. This also told me Bill Clinton didn't truly believe the looming catastrophe of Global Warming was for real, or he wouldn't have jeopardized his Vice-President's upcoming election. I believe as bad as this was, it wasn't insurmountable because it was primarily a betrayal against his own family and many would consider this private behavior.
The second and much more devastating betrayal against Al Gore was when Bill Clinton looked the American People in the camera lens and told them quite adamantly that he never had sexual relations with that woman. The only question I have regarding this incident is, did Hillary know Bill was guilty and encourage him to go on national television and lie to the American People regardless? This turned a family betrayal in to a national one, he lied to everyone at this point, he and certainly Al Gore would've been much better off had he kept his mouth shut or at least admitted the truth up front, because this act gave Bush the integrity issue ammunition on a silver platter. Bush's cronies knew it as well, that's why he ran on "restoring honor and integrity to the White House" and that's why the corporate media slandered and libeled Al Gore relentlessly within weeks after Clinton's impeachment, morphing Clinton's lie of "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" in to a smear job of "Al Gore claimed to the invented the Internet" being just one example of many" lies the media used in transferring the sins of the President on to the Vice-President.
The third time was at the 2000 convention it self, read the bold-ed paragraph below and couple that with what seemed like a ten minute self aggrandizing walk down the hall way, when he could've used that precious national prime time air time to promote Al Gore for President. There was nothing delicate about he walk down the hall way at the convention. It was always about Bill until Hillary supposedly had him by the short hairs and then it was always about Hillary, this is a large reason as to why we have Cheney/Bush in the White House today, why we're in Iraq, why we torture and why the Constitution has been turned in to toilet paper, etc. etc.
"During his all-night conversation with Ken Burns in June, Bill "spoke movingly of the Democratic National Convention that was coming," Burns recalled, "and how because he was on the backside of scandal and impeachment he had a more delicate role to play."I can't help but be amazed by people who claim Al Gore made a mistake by not using Bill Clinton more. Should your "friend' and boss stab you in the back once, one could make an excuse for them and say, hey he just tripped with that Bowie Knife in his hand and it was an accident. If the same "friend"; whom you stood up for when he needed you the most, then stabbed you in the back twice, you might still forgive them and say, he just tripped with the Bowie Knife in his right hand and the K-Bar in his left hand, that too was an accident. Now if the same "friend" stabs you in the back three times, you might begin to question their loyalty and say he just tripped with the Bowie Knife in his right hand, the K-Bar in his left, but where in the hell did that rusty butter knife come from!? I believe between that and those people screaming from the side lines for you to give your "friend" another chance, would be enough to make anybody want to go to Spain for a while and grow a beard.
Final conclusion, does anyone see any irony in the corporate media's 180 on the Clintons; people they waged a witch hunt against from the beginning to the end of his eight years in office. Today the same corporate media believe the same man should be our nation's very first
First Gentleman, only they're having difficulty using that term, it's more like First Spouse or First Husband, even though First Gentleman would be a more applicable counter title to First Lady.
I believe their primary target was Al Gore from the beginning precisely because he empowered the people when he became the primary political champion of the Internet while he was in Congress and later as Vice-President, thus threatening their monopoly on information, information = money, power and influence and as the Internet grew in power and influence they came to resent Al Gore for it. I call this the Prometheus Effect and if Al Gore is analogous to Prometheus, Hillary Clinton is the corporate media's Pandora for the people.
I did appreciate him in the early 90s, but to me, he squandered the best thing he ever did as President and that was choosing Al Gore as his Vice-President only to then undermine Al when it became his turn to run.
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