I can't remember the source for the "award" part of the story... It might even be Rush Limbaugh from many years ago...
But read this if you want to know what kind of person Bill Clinton was...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a40091.htmA pretty big snip from that link:
He traveled to Norway and Finland, then disappeared behind the Iron Curtain for a while, emerging in late January or early February 1970. Like his draft and ROTC files in Arkansas, records of this trip seem to have "disappeared." However, enough pieces of the puzzle still exist to establish the overall picture, which isn't pretty.
At a time when no one could go behind the Iron Curtain---let alone to Moscow---without KGB approval, Bill simply got on a train and went. Apparently without so much as a "by your leave" to American authorities, but with an "open arms" invitation and warm welcome from the Soviets, Bill made a pilgrimage to the "worker's paradise" with a significant stop in Scandanavia, where he participated in important, anti-American "peace" conferences.
On December 4, one day after Clinton wrote the letter to Colonel Holmes, American activist leaders met in Hanoi with the enemy's top leaders to plan an international conference/demonstration for January 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Later that month Clinton left London for a "tour" of Scandanavia, his trip apparently coinciding with the conference in Stockholm and activist meetings in Oslo, Norway. During his presidential campaign, Clinton denied the Oslo meetings and said he had only seen Father McSorley there for a few minutes, having run into him "by accident in the train station."
McSorley, however, says that at Clinton's request, Bill and he spent an entire day togethere meeting with activists n Oslo. After visiting the Institute for Peace Studies and activists groups there, Clinton left Oslo.
Traveling to Helsinki, Finland, in late December, he spent Christmas there with a friend. In Helsinki he boarded a train for Moscow by way of Leningrad. Clinton's version of his trip to Scandinavia, Russia and Czechoslovakia is that he was just a member of a group of students taking an educational trip. The facts say otherwise. Except for his KGB escort, Clinton traveled alone. Dee Dee Myers, spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign and later Clinton's White House Press Secretary, was quoted in The Washington Times as stating that Clinton "rode alone from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow."
Clinton arrived in Moscow on New Year's Eve and was in town seven days. What he did in Moscow is difficult to establish. After a week in Moscow, Clinton journeyed to Prague, Czechoslovakia, a center for important meetings between communist leaders (including Viet Cong/NVA) and American sympathizers. It was in Prague after meeting with Viet Cong leaders that Tom Hayden (Jane Fonda's husband of that era) raised his arms, fists clenched, and shouted, "I am Viet Cong---we are all Viet Cong!"
Little is known about what Clinton did during his stay in Prague except that he stayed at the home of one Bedrich Kopold, identified by the Czech Federal Security and Intelligence Service as a communist official and an agent of the Czech equivalent of the KGB. Comrade Kopold was also the father of Jan Kopold, one of Clinton's friends at Oxford.
After forty days, Clinton emerged from behind the Iron Curtain and returned to London.
In happily joining with his Soviet and communist Vietnamese friends in a massive anti-American propaganda effort, one which strengthened the enemy's resolve while weakening American resolve, Bill Clinton was clearly giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. This is still the definition of treason.
I feel quite comfortable calling the 1968-1970 period the "height of the Cold War", though I would also consider the Cuban Missile crisis and the Reagan era to rank about equal.
Bill Clinton had no business being President of the United States. He was (is?) as far left as Oral Roberts, Pat Buchanan and the other fundamentalists are far right.
I never much cared about voting. I am fairly sure that my vote doesn't count. But from the time Bill Clinton got elected, I haven't missed a single election, local or national. Of course in this last election, one vote meant a whole lot here in FL
Only I didn't vote Republican or Democratic. I don't think either party has the best interests of the people in mind. In fact, I suspect both parties only work to maintain their power rather than actually accomplish anything. But I will do everything in my power to prevent someone like Bill Clinton getting elected again. Of course what can you really do? By the 2nd election, everyone knew or should have known about all of his problems and history. But people vote based on their economic status rather than integrity. "Hmmm... economy is good and the press likes him, must be a good President that made it that way, guess I'll vote for him again."
