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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:24 PM
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Why Didn't Clinton Do More To Stop Mark Foley?
Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 04:27 PM by Yavin4
Again, the Clinton admin should have been aware that Rep. Mark Foley was a pedophile, and they should have done more to stop him. Why didn't he?

:sarcasm:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:25 PM
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1. Which republican brought that up?
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Jack from Charlotte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:57 PM
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20. Clinton really.... IS.... responsible. After all, Foley's solisitation....
occurred just a few years after Clinton left office and Clinton didn't leave a plan for Bush to follow in the event that Republican congressmen pursued underage pages.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:25 PM
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2. You have to be kidding me. I didn't expect to read that here. nt
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:26 PM
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3. You forgot your sarcasm stamp.
:D
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:26 PM
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4. Damn good point.
Foley's been around since 1994. By my count, Clinton had six years to hunt down and smoke out Foley. If he had just done his job, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Clenis is all-powerful.
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM
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10. I Heard That The FBI Had Foley Surrounded
but Clinton didn't give the order to take him out.

Are there no men in Washington?
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:27 PM
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5. Yavin4 did you forget your sarcasm Smilie?
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:28 PM
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6. Updated
sarcasm is there.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:32 PM
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16. Cool!!
:thumbsup:
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:39 PM
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19. I didn't need the "scarcasm" thing, that was hilarious.
However, I wouldn't be surprised to hear it from the RW noise machine or out of the mouth and empty brain of some dittohead.
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:28 PM
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7. Sandy Berger never lifted a finger to stop Foley
And that allowed him to become an ever-growing danger that the Bush administration was helpless to stop. If Clinton had been doing his job, no 16 year old page would have been asked about his masturbatory habits. And if Clinton DID do something about it, it was only to distract people from Monicagate.
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 05:15 PM
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23. Rumor has it....
That the Clinton Whitehouse Counter-Pedophilia Czar is feverishly penning a tell-all book that will "blow" the lid off this serious case of Clinton malfeasance.
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bpj1962 Donating Member (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM
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8. Mark Foley
I am sorry but that made me laugh. Pedophilia is not a laughing matter but it has beocme so normal to blame everything on Clinton.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:33 PM
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17. Welcome to DU. You will find that we delight in "blaming
everything on Clinton". It's recreational.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM
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9. And...why again would Clinton be responsible to help him?
That train of thought never left the station...
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:30 PM
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14. Per Savik from Star Trek II:
"Humor is a difficult concept."
:evilgrin:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM
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11. Well that was inevitable.
After all Bill Clinton is at fault for everything from stealing the Lindburg baby to creating the black hole at the center of the galaxy.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:29 PM
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12. It's that silly "don't ask, don't tell" policy of his.
Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 04:30 PM by rucky
If Clinton didn't force Foley into the closet, the GOP could've weeded out their growing list of pedophiles long ago.

For the challenged: :sarcasm:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:30 PM
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13. Hey, I for one got the sarcasm, even without the graphic thingie. Very
good post. (And the depressing part is that some Repub is SURE to actually say that!)

Redstone
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:32 PM
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15. The Clenis turned Foley gay
And by default, he also became a pedophile, since being gay is the same thing
:sarcasm:
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Jack from Charlotte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:59 PM
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21. Foley was so outraged at Clinton's behavior he turned gay. Think the
repugs are going to use that one.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 04:33 PM
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18. That's true. Bush inherited this pedophilia scandal...
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 05:07 PM
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22. oh I so wish
I so wish I could remember the quote stephanie miller had today....I can't even recall enough to butcher it but basically Mark Foley said something about sexual addictions can ruin a man. . .
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-02-06 05:16 PM
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24. He was too busy being too busy!
So was Jimmy Carter.
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