Clinton Says Republicans `Rediscover' bin Laden Before Election

Bloomberg | Sept 23, 2006 | Kristin Jensen and Michael Forsythe

[jdm]

Bloomberg cannot be posted to FR, so here is a link to the story:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aBZvrM76tIlk&refer=worldwide_news

[jdm]

If Slick Willie had actually fought terror, there would be no 'rediscovery' needed. :O)

[Brilliant]

Yup. Of course, Clinton let bin Laden go twice, so it's his fault that the GOP has him as an issue.

[syriacus]

The guy is all talk.

[Terpfen]

So Clinton admits we found him in the first place?

[Mr. Mojo]

Nixon, Ford, and (pre-illness) Reagan were all reserved, dignified ex-Presidents. ....and so is GWHB.

Clinton and Carter, otoh......

[claptrap]

He does have a point before every election we hear
the drumbeat of elevated terror alerts by HLS.

[Mr. Mojo]

GWHB = GHWB

[tet68]

If anyone would know about scaring voters it would
be the slickmeister and his minions.

[darkwing104]

Today, I thought it was the French? Did we get fooled again? Slick Willie is so wise....

[andyandval]

[andyandval]

He is in meltdown...

[Uncle Hal]

What is there about ex democratic presidents that turn them in absolute blabbing idiots.

[jrooney]

Clinton claimed he tried to have Bin Laden killed in the Chris Wallace interview scheduled for airing tomorrow.

Why would Clinton want to have the CIA kill or hire people to kill Bin Laden when he said as recently in 2002, I believe, he turned down the offer to receive Bin Laden from Sudan in 1996 because he had not committed a crime against the US that could be proven in a court of law? So Bin Laden did not commit a crime that could be proven, yet he wanted to kill him? Clinton just contradicted himself in a very damaging way.

[bitt]

good one, andyandval!

[alienken]

Slick willy (he hates being called that) SLICK WILLY is in damage control mode. The documentary"The road to Sept 11" must have really hurt the Dems.

[Publius]

I must admit to a certain level of astonishment.

Fearing that Karl Rove's "October Surprise" is the act of pulling bin Laden's corpse out of a freezer in Kazhakstan, where it's been since December 2001, we have Clinton, the French, the Pakistanis and the Saudis all sandbagging the October Surprise. They're trying to mitigate the domestic political impact.

But suppose that Rove has something else up his sleeve.

[loveliberty2]

". . . You've got to be able to at least look yourself in the eye and say, 'I will not be letting my country down if I get this job.'"

What a peculiar statement from this arrogant person!

"O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us."(Robert Burns)

[Dog Gone]

Al Hunt interviews Clinton. I'll bet that was a real hardball interview.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"I want you to listen to me! I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...."

Sorry Willie. No credibilty.

[sgtbono2002]

***Clinton just contradicted himself in a very damaging way.***

Damagin to whom?? Clinton?? Hardly. The media will never bring this out that Clinton ordered the assassination of Bin Laden. Hell: If they got away with sneaking Fosters body out of the White House to Ft. Marcy what makes you think Bubba will be damaged by this.

[dynachrome]

"But suppose that Rove has something else up his sleeve."

All he has to do is say he does, and it will drive the moonbats even moonier and battier.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Bingo! Slick is in full CYA mode.

[jwalsh07]

William Jefferson Clinton is a coward. He knows it and everybody else in America with even a trace of common sense knows it.

That is his legacy.

[Hannibal Hamlin]

Drudge pretends like this was the first time Clinton was caught acting crazy on tape.. but he did the same thing in a debate with Jerry Brown, and after hearing a false report about Jesse Jackson endorsing Paul Tsongas.

[osideplanner]

What date soes his campaign for the UN spot end?

[popdonnelly]

Al Hunt's another Dem posing as a journalist.

[ShandaLear]

Suppose Rove is bluffing. >:-]

[jwalsh07]

If I was Chris Wallace and President Clinton peristed in sticking his finger in my face the next question would have been:

"Sir, is that your intern diddling finger?"

[commish]

You know, as much as Clinton is squealing like a stuck pig the last few days about Bin Laden -- it makes one wonder if maybe there isn't some truth to the Bin Laden has died rumors. Maybe this is Rove's October surprise and Clinton knows that it is coming.

[SkyPilot]

[sonic109]

Am I mistaken or is Bill Clinton no longe any kind of government offical?
SHUT THE F UP ALREADY GEZZZZ! Go Away Bill ...
If he wasen't so busy trying to get laid OBL might have been dead for years by now.
Earth to Bill..you are just a common citizen now ..you are NO LONGER the President of the US

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Slick's post-tenure whining and legacy PR may have affected some people's thoughts and votes at one time.

Anymore, he is looking alot like a dottering old fool. Let him talk.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Whenever Slick gets belligerent, Slick is lying through his teeth. He is a master at "public self control", private is another matter.

Think back....the "I did not have sex with that woman" speech... same attitude...lying through his teeth.

[Publius]

Never misunderestimate Rove.

Thus far, thanks to his weather machine in Alaska, only one hurricane has managed to hit the US. The rest spend their energy on the open Atlantic. Considering Katrina, one can understand why Rove has locked down the hurricane season until after the election.

If you check the markets, you can see how Rove has crushed oil, gold, silver and other commodities while propping up the dollar and the stock market.

And Howard Dean continues to be worth every penny Rove is paying him.

Now he has the enemy thrusting at phantoms. I can't wait to see what the real October Surprise is.

[COUNTrecount]

Ah tried............

[sonic109]

I'd pay to have some reported with balls throw that up in his face. Who will step up in the media and ask him that question ?

[Rocko]

The documentary"The road to Sept 11" must have really hurt the Dems.

If they didn't raise such a stink about it, the damage would have been much less. Maybe.

[Gritty]

[riverdog]

you can always tell when Klinton is lying- when his lips are moving.
suddenly after 8 insufferable years of his presidency and 6 years being out of office somebody, finally asked him a tough question instead of kissing his socialist ass! Then what does the degenerate do ? he goes ballistic.
Olbermann's "interview" where he actually handed him money on the the air and kissed his ass ended with Olbernuttjob actually saying that FOX "sandbagged" Klinton. Yeah FOX sandbagged the Klinton while you tea bagged him Olbernuttjob!

[george76]

[sonic109]

The real October Surprise is that there is no October Surprise.
It's a ploy to drive the Dems insane trying to figure out what it is and do danage control on the unknown . I'll bet on this one.

[Publius]

That could well be Rove's strategery.

[george76]

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! Shhhhh...... The DUmp & Daily KOS will take your post as gospel truth, don their tinfoil hats and run with it! :)

[small voice in the wilderness]

Yep. When the finger shakes, it's lies he makes.

[paltz]

If the democrats were truly confident in their abilities to fight terrorism, they wouldn't say this every election cycle. In essence they are saying "our party sucks at fighting terrorism"

[george76]

"Democrats for truth"

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[Publius]

But it is gospel truth. :)

[gogeo]

``If you had a business strategy that worked all the time that was premised on scaring the living daylights out of people, you just keep doing it,'' Clinton said in an interview...

Social Security.