Establishing Tough Guy Bona Fides
Obama Orders Missile Strike Against Pakistan, At Least 20 Killed
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 23 -- At least 20 people were killed in northwest Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan on Friday in two suspected U.S. missile strikes, marking the first such attack in Pakistan's tribal areas since President Obama's inauguration."
Flashback: Bill Clinton’s 1992 execution gambit
"Rector was severely mentally handicapped due to an attempted suicide that left him effectively lobotomized.
When Rector’s execution day approached, he was given the standard last meal. For dessert, he was offered a slice of pecan pie, which he moved to the window sill of his holding cell. When asked why he was not eating his pie, he remarked that he was “saving it” for “after the execution.”
Enter the 1992 Presidential Elections, Bill Clinton’s campaign on the ropes in New Hampshire, as well as Clinton’s need to look tough and “not pull a Dukakis” on the issue of the death penalty. Clinton interrupted campaigning in New Hampshire to fly home to preside over the execution of the mentally challenged Rector. (Such an act was not necessary legally – the execution could well have proceeded without the governor’s presence in the state. But Clinton wanted to prove that he was a “new” Democrat, tough on crime.)
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 23 -- At least 20 people were killed in northwest Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan on Friday in two suspected U.S. missile strikes, marking the first such attack in Pakistan's tribal areas since President Obama's inauguration."
Flashback: Bill Clinton’s 1992 execution gambit
"Rector was severely mentally handicapped due to an attempted suicide that left him effectively lobotomized.
When Rector’s execution day approached, he was given the standard last meal. For dessert, he was offered a slice of pecan pie, which he moved to the window sill of his holding cell. When asked why he was not eating his pie, he remarked that he was “saving it” for “after the execution.”
Enter the 1992 Presidential Elections, Bill Clinton’s campaign on the ropes in New Hampshire, as well as Clinton’s need to look tough and “not pull a Dukakis” on the issue of the death penalty. Clinton interrupted campaigning in New Hampshire to fly home to preside over the execution of the mentally challenged Rector. (Such an act was not necessary legally – the execution could well have proceeded without the governor’s presence in the state. But Clinton wanted to prove that he was a “new” Democrat, tough on crime.)
posted by nolocontendere at 3:48 PM
3 Comments:
Yea, you're only "presidential" in America if you're willing to murder someone now and then. Sort of like a goombah in the Mafia will never make Godfather unless he whacks some guys.
Remind me again what a God-fearing, Christian nation America is.
It just gets nauseating and so terribly predictable. The dems have to seem to swagger and get all penisy to impress the repugs and their mouthbreathing stooges, but of course they'll never measure up so why bother to do it in the first place?
My liberal brethern had to swallow real hard not to make an issue out of the Rector story. But that was a clear sign of what kind of man Clinton is.
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