Mullings A Political Cyber Column By Rich Galen

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Well, THAT Wasn't Pretty

Monday, April 24, 2000

Ok. Let's agree on one thing: In Bill Clinton's quest for a positive legacy, this is not going to help. That Picture will be as big a part of his Presidency as the footage of Monica on the rope line.

In defense of the guy in That Picture not only was his finger not on the trigger but the safety was ON. To see a close-up look here:

No matter where you come down on the questions of with whom and where Eli�n belongs, the sight of what must have seemed like a battalion of armed troopers storming into that house at five in the morning sends chills up and down the spines of most Americans.

If Lee Greenwood were dead - which he is not - he'd be turning over in his grave.

The raid on the two-bedroom house was almost worth it if only to watch Jesse Jackson, on Tony Snow's Sunday show, defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the U.S. government on a minority household.

Here's how we know "the Miami Relatives" are in trouble: The only Washington person who was seen with them on Saturday was New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith who last year: Resigned from the Republican Party to run for President as an independent; Did a focus group in his living room; Found out that among his immediate family members three were undecided and one was voting for McCain, and; Limped back to the Senate with those memorable words, "Um, never mind."

Follow me here. There is a highly technical concept in politics which states: "If it weren't for bad luck he'd have no luck at all."

This was Al "I-Reinvented-The-Vice-Presidency" Gore's week.

- George W. trumped him on most major policy issues;

- He was interviewed for four hours (by the few remaining officials in the Justice Department who were not involved in planning the biggest military invasion since D-Day) about fund raising irregularities in the 1996 campaign;

- Suffered a New York Times Sunday Editorial: "Vice President Al Gore has looked listless and unfocused since he muscled Bill Bradley out of the Democratic race. Some polls show him once again trailing the Texas governor by a significant margin, and his pandering to the Miami Cuban community's view on Eli�n Gonz�lez reinforced the perception that Mr. Gore too quickly puts politics ahead of principle."

- To try and capitalize on Earth day he came out against killer hot water heaters and then appeared on Saturday with Pulitzer Prize shoo-in Leonardo DiCaprio which appearance was knocked off every front page in the country by the very same Eli�n Gonz�lez affair for which he had been excoriated by the New York Times.

- Not only that, but the three people - in the whole United States - who were not told about the raid were the Mayor of Miami, Eli�n's great uncle, and Al Gore.

This, from the Immigration and Naturalization Service web site on the matter of expedited removal of aliens who have arrived in the US without proper credentials: "� the INS will not normally apply expedited removal to unaccompanied minors (children under the age of 18 who are not accompanied by a relative or legal guardian)." We will be monitoring that page to see if the words "unless Janet Reno says so" are added.

The wife of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has announced she is going to appear in the stage production of the "Vagina Monologues." One of the reasons this has become such a big deal is female TV news people and female print journalists just love to be able to use the word on the air and in print.

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