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Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey (who, for the record, never claimed he spent Christmas in Cambodia) once called Bill Clinton "an unusually good liar." Unfortunately, American culture has degenerated to such a point that this statement, coming as it did from a fellow Democrat, was hardly perceived as disparaging the former president.

Throughout the Clinton presidency, Democrat Party hacks were thoroughly adoring of the manner in which Bill and Hillary were able to slither out of one outrageous scandal after another by means of half-truths, juvenile excuses, and often, blatant lies. Worse yet, they managed to concoct a fairly formidable political persona during this time by inventing tales of their past heroics, thus building "larger than life" images of themselves, which played well to the perennially gullible.

To the degree that they were successful, they personified Lincoln's adage of "fooling some of the people all of the time." And in light of the obvious successes, their methods eventually became widely adopted among Democrats.

But while such tactics worked for the Clintons, others who attempt to follow their example have not fared so well. Democrat Party Chairman Howard Dean is, on a daily basis, conclusively proving this point. Hardly a bizarre aberration from the Democrat mainstream (as some embarrassed Democrats are now trying to portray him), Dean instead exemplifies the very soul and essence of liberal thinking and strategy, as institutionalized by the Clintons.

Dean's only problem is that his attempts to demagogue and manipulate the public are patently obvious. In short, he is blowing the cover of the Clinton/Democrat political strategy of recent years.

When seeking to impress America's black population, Clinton was shameless in his pandering. At a ceremony commemorating Rosa Parks and the historic effort to end the segregationist practice of requiring blacks to ride at the back of public buses, Clinton claimed that during his youth, and in honor of Parks, he and his friends willingly took seats at the back of the bus.

Later, in another pandering episode, he maintained that upon arriving at La Guardia airport in New York from international flights (though no such flights ever took place) he rode the bus to Harlem just because he so enjoyed being there. One has to wonder if, on those fictitious trips, he also imagined himself seated at the back of the bus.

Clinton's phony "I feel your pain" compassion was on display with his recollection of the burning of black Churches in Arkansas (another series of events that never occurred). Nevertheless, liberal black leaders eventually dubbed Clinton America's first "Black President."

Likewise Hillary shamelessly pandered while visiting New Zealand where she claimed to have been named after that nation's renowned mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary. This too was fraudulent, since at the time of her birth, Sir Edmund had yet to make his historic climb, and was merely an obscure beekeeper.

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