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the vid dont work Krist
nice vid thanks Krist
Fixed Kyle
Great song by a great band. Funny because I didn't even know who they were until SVR10, and they've been around for years. :shifty: I'm now hooked, Awake is an amazing album. Thanks for posting Ryan.
Thanks a lot!
needed a President to stand up to them so that they couldn’t abuse their power like that again,or succeed in implementing the harsh policies I had stopped in the budget battles, beginningwith the government shutdown. There was ample evidence, less than a year old, that if thevoters saw the election as a choice for the future and were reminded of what the Republicanshad done, the advantage would shift markedly to the Democrats.When a few people in the press began pushing the theory that I could cost Al the election, Ihad a funny telephone conversation with him about it. I said I was interested only in hiswinning, and if I thought it would help I would stand on the doorstep of theWashington Post’s headquarters and let him lash me with a bullwhip. He deadpanned, “Maybe we ought topoll that.” I laughed and said, “Let’s see whether it works better with my shirt on or off.”On October 12, Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif was overthrown in a military coupheaded by General Musharraf, who had led the Pakistani armed forces over the Line ofControl in Kashmir. I was concerned about the loss of democracy, and urged the restoration ofcivilian rule as soon as possible. Musharraf’s ascendancy had one immediate consequence:the program to send Pakistani commandos into Afghanistan to catch or kill Osama bin Ladenwas canceled.In mid-month, Ken Starr announced he was stepping down. Judge Sentelle’s panel replacedhim with Robert Ray, who was on Starr’s staff and before that had been on the staff of DonaldSmaltz during the failed attempt to convict Mike Espy. Near the end of my term, Ray wantedhis pound of flesh, too: a written statement admitting that I had given false testimony in mydeposition, and an agreement to accept a temporary suspension of my law license in return forRay’s shutting down the independent counsel’s investigation. I doubted that he would actuallyindict me, given the fact that a bipartisan panel of prosecutors had testified at theimpeachment proceedings that no responsible prosecutor would do so. But I was ready to geton with my life and didn’t want to complicate Hillary’s new life in politics. However, Icouldn’t agree to intentionally giving false testimony because I didn’t believe I had. Aftercarefully rereading my deposition and finding a couple of instances in which I gave answersthat were not accurate, I gave Ray a statement that said that though I had tried to testifylawfully, some of my responses were false. He accepted the statement. After almost six yearsand $70 million in tax money, Whitewater was over.Not everyone wanted a pound of flesh. In the middle of the month, I invited my high schoolclassmates to the White House for our thirty-fifth high school reunion—as I had done fiveyears earlier, for our thirtieth. I had loved my high school years and always enjoyed seeingmy classmates. On this occasion several of them told me that their lives had gotten better overthe last seven years. The son of one of them said that he thought I had been a good president,but “the most proud I ever was of you was when you stood up to that impeachment thing.” Iheard that often from people who’d felt helpless in the face of their own mistakes andmisfortunes; somehow the fact that I had just kept going struck a chord with them, becausethat’s what they had had to do.At the end of the month, a Senate filibuster killed campaign finance reform again; we markedthe fifth anniversary of AmeriCorps, in which 150,000 Americans had now served; Hillaryand I held a White House Conference on Philanthropy in the hope of increasing the amountand impact of charitable giving; and we celebrated her birthday with a “Broadway forHillary” event reminiscent of what Broadway stars had done for me back in 1992.707