As I said here, I think America did see the real Bill Clinton in the recent interview with Chris Wallace:
"...angry, defensive, arrogant, unwilling to take the blame for his mistakes and typically, blaming someone else for his mess."
If you've read my blog awhile, you know that I have worked protection details for both of the Clintons, and what you saw on the interview is typical behavior for the former POTUS when out of the public eye: threatening, arrogant, better than everyone else, etc. And his wife is even worse, in my opinion.
The interview has caused quite a stir and a lot of people have come forward to debate the truth of what Clinton said in the interview. And, since most of them are smarter than I, I'll leave the detailed analysis up to them. But there are some new developments to consider before you make up your mind.
Here's what Senator Clinton has to say about this, with video, from YouTube. I think it's interesting the way she has rushed forward to back Bill up so quickly, especially when the facts will endanger her own run for the Presidency.
From BREITBART:
"I think my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take these attacks," Hillary Clinton said. "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."
Yup, vague support, then turn around and blame Bush immediately. Typical Clinton.
But SecState Rice disagreed with Sen. Clinton's assessment. The New York Post Online:
Rice hammered Clinton, who leveled his charges in a contentious weekend interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Channel, for his claims that the Bush administration "did not try" to kill Osama bin Laden in the eight months they controlled the White House before the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false - and I think the 9/11 commission understood that," Rice said during a wide-ranging meeting with Post editors and reporters.
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice added.
The secretary of state also sharply disputed Clinton's claim that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for the incoming Bush team during the presidential transition in 2001.
"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice responded during the hourlong session.
More from Rice at GOP Bloggers.
Dick Morris, appearing tonight on Hannity & Colmes, didn't have much sympathy for Clinton either, and actually accused him of threatening reporters who pushed for the truth of the matter. And there's more from Morris at The Hill:
President Clinton assumes that criticism of his failure to kill bin Laden is a “nice little conservative hit job on me.” But he has it backwards. It is not because people are right-wingers that they criticize him over the failure to prevent 9/11. It was his failure to catch bin Laden that drove them to the right wing.
The ex-president is fully justified in laying eight months of the blame for the failure to kill or catch bin Laden at the doorstep of George W. Bush. But he should candidly acknowledge that eight years of blame fall on him.
One also has to wonder when the volcanic rage beneath the surface of this would-be statesman will cool. When will the chip on his shoulder finally disappear? When will he feel sufficiently secure in his own legacy and his own skin not to boil over repeatedly in private and occasionally even in public?
Personally, I don't think it matters anymore. For whatever reason, bin Laden is still out there and Islamic terrorism is on the rise globally. He can point the finger and assess blame all day, but we still have to deal with these people today, tomorrow, and quite probably, for a long time to come.
Sadly, I don't see anything that leads me to believe that our elected leaders, as a whole, are capable of doing anything to make the situation better. No one wants to work together for the good of the country, and the lies and insults are getting harder to believe everyday.
Nancy Pelosi, for example, from GOP Bloggers:
After the leaking of the most recent Intelligence Estimate on Iraq Nancy Pelosi said the following in a statement: "Five years after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden is still free and not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caught and brought to justice. President Bush should read the intelligence carefully before giving another misleading speech about progress in the war on terrorism."
Apparently she hasn't been paying much attention to the war on terror... If she was, she'd know that a number of people connected directly to 9/11 have been captured. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, who helped plan the attacks; Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who managed funding for the attacks; and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, the liason between the hijackers and the al Qaeda leadership, have all been captured.
But since when has a Democrat cared about the truth?
More lies. More smearing. More distorting. More blame.
And yet the problem persists. And many more Americans will die because of it.
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