President Bill Clinton's "Vivid and Painful Memories"

(A bit of housekeeping, please see my comment added to my December 19, 2007 post.)

I’m a compassionate man and I intend to make this post no more painful for the reader than it absolutely has to be; immediately below is just the relevant, first third of President Bill Clinton’s radio address to the Nation on June 8, 1996 (increase font, bold, italics mine for emphasis):

President Clinton: Good morning.

This morning I want to talk with you about a recent and disturbing rash of crimes that harkens back to a dark era in our Nation's history. Just 2 days ago, when the Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, was burned to the ground, it became at least the 30th African-American church destroyed or damaged by suspicious fire in the South in the past 18 months. And over the past few months, Vice President Gore has talked with me about the pain and anguish these fires in his home State of Tennessee have caused. Tennessee, sadly, has experienced more of them than any other State in the country.

We do not now have evidence of a national conspiracy, but it is clear that racial hostility is the driving force behind a number of these incidents. This must stop.

It's hard to think of a more depraved act of violence than the destruction of a place of worship. In our country, during the fifties and sixties, black churches were burned to intimidate civil rights workers. I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own State when I was a child (Blogger's Note: Naturally, this line was delivered with tears in his eyes, maybe even biting his lower lip, oh, the empathy!). In 1963 all Americans were outraged by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that took the lives of four precious young children. We must never allow that to happen again . . . . (End of excerpt of President Clinton’s June 8, 1996 radio address to the Nation).

Now, as it has been written, only about two or three times because it was a Democratic President lying and grotesquely abusing the pain and suffering of black Americans and the liberal media didn’t want the American people to know of President Clinton’s lie, there is no record of any churches being burned in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was a child.

Contrast this with the liberal media feeding-frenzy over Gov. Mitt Romney’s figurative statement that he “saw” his father, Gov. George Romney, march with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday, my (news)paper, the Boston Globe, did a front page hatchet job on Gov. Mitt Romney. Though, buried in the story, there is substantial evidence that Gov. George Romney was an avid supporter of the civil rights movement (gubernatorial declarations, participation in marches, etc.).

On December 14, 2007 I repeated my February 14, 2007 prediction that Gov. Mitt Romney will be the next President of the United States. The media attacks on Gov. Romney this week seem to buttress my prediction: attack the Republican most likely to succeed in November 2008.

You would think the liberal media would have chosen something of more substance than their feigned outrage in this fabricated offense.

My letter:

Editor,

And yet, no web search I try can produce a Boston Globe front page story critical of President Clinton’s self-aggrandizing claim of “vivid . . . memories” of churches burning in Arkansas, which I think really should be offensive to everyone since there is no record of a church ever being burned in Arkansas during President Clinton’s childhood.

Please provide the web link near my letter if such a front page story regarding Clinton's lie exists; I’d be curious to compare the tone of each story.

If no such story exists, please state such aside my letter so your readers know. (End of letter.)