{"id":29553,"date":"2016-10-30T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29553"},"modified":"2016-10-30T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:35:05","slug":"deal-with-karma-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29553","title":{"rendered":"Deal With Karma Carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/clinton-cheered-indictment-that-doomed-bush-re-election\/article\/2606000\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> reminds us today of some not-so-recent history.<\/p>\n<p>An article posted today takes us back to 1992:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;24 years ago, as former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George H. W. Bush\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_H._W._Bush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President George H.W. Bush<\/a> was surging back against challenger <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bill Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bill Clinton<\/a>, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Special prosecutor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special_prosecutor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">special prosecutor<\/a> raised new charges against Bush in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iran\u2013Contra affair\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Iran-Contra<\/a> probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a &#8220;culture of corruption.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;When it came, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/10\/31\/us\/1992-campaign-candidate-s-record-86-weinberger-notes-contradict-bush-account.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton seized on it,<\/a> saying for example, &#8220;Secretary <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Caspar Weinberger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caspar_Weinberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Weinberger<\/a>&#8216;s note clearly shows that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George W. Bush\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Bush<\/a> has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop.&#8221; Clinton added, &#8220;It demonstrates that President <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"9\/11 conspiracy theories\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9\/11_conspiracy_theories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bush knew<\/a> and approved of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ronald Reagan\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=34.25899,-118.82043&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=34.25899,-118.82043 (Ronald%20Reagan)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">President Reagan<\/a>&#8216;s secret deal to swap arms for hostages.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Power Line\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Paul Mirengoff<\/a> of Power Line has stated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Shortly after the election, a federal judge threw out the new indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. President Bush then pardoned Weinberger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What goes around comes around.<\/p>\n<p>The thing to remember here is that the media loved Bill Clinton and made the most of the charges against <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Caspar Weinberger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caspar_Weinberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Casper Weinberger<\/a>. The media today is supporting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hillary Clinton\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> and will play down the new information as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner reminds us today of some not-so-recent history. An article posted today takes us back to 1992: &#8230;24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3174,3357,4651,1457,10428,3415],"class_list":["post-29553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-h-w-bush","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-iran-contra","tag-republican-party-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29554,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}