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Why Clinton "Lost His Temper"
The Weekly Standard ^ | September 25, 2006 | William Kristol

Posted on 09/25/2006 10:35:40 AM PDT by PDR

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To: Creightongrad

You know, your idea is so brilliant and this is the PERFECT time to get the question out there.

Hopefully some pundit/blogger will get the idea to say, now that we've been reminded of Bubba's, uh, political skills, we need to know if MRS BILL CLINTON will or will not give him a policy role or job in her administration, should she win.


101 posted on 09/25/2006 11:51:59 AM PDT by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)
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To: PDR

In all this kerfuffle about Mr. Clinton going off on Chris Wallace this weekend, an odd thought occurs to me. Isn't it sad that a man less than 6 years removed from being the acknowledged leader of the free world has sunk so low that he has become nothing more than a finger-pointing, whining political hack?

I can only shake my head and wonder at the former President's pitiful (and pitiable) performance...


102 posted on 09/25/2006 11:53:51 AM PDT by ssaftler
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To: winodog

Further, don't underestimate how deeply enraged and threatened he became by the "Path to 9/11."

As Dick Morris said, Bubba knows he's a phoney and lives in fear of being "found out" as one.

Now, with "Path to 9/11" pulling the curtain back a bit right there on millions of screens, imagine how Bubba felt his "life's work (read: lies)" going down the drain.

He's been stewing about this for years and stewing even more about the showing of Path. So, this was just like a match to an already smoldering fire.


103 posted on 09/25/2006 11:55:17 AM PDT by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)
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To: Creightongrad
I've always thought he'd love to be Secr. of State; jetting around the world to be loved by the adoring masses.

He'd never be confirmed by the Senate, so don't lose any sleep over that possibility.

104 posted on 09/25/2006 12:03:01 PM PDT by Tallguy (The problem with this war is the name... You don't wage war against a tactic.)
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To: PDR


"Bill Clinton is an unusually
good liar." Bob Kerrey, 1996

105 posted on 09/25/2006 12:22:54 PM PDT by OESY
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To: LibLieSlayer; Rummyfan

Heehee, one of my favorites!!!


106 posted on 09/25/2006 12:25:21 PM PDT by 007girl
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To: PDR

Klinton may have planned what he was going to say, but how he said it came from his soulless black heart, and not intentionally.


107 posted on 09/25/2006 12:26:15 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: PDR

Clintoon is a paranoid, he has no interet in "helping" dems.


108 posted on 09/25/2006 12:27:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Dems_R_Losers

FLASHBACK (from article in 2004 about the Clintonistas nearly forgetting about Bin Laden and Al Qaeda when they submitted their final national security report to Congress in Dec. 2000):

"The final policy paper on national security that President Clinton submitted to Congress — 45,000 words long — makes no mention of al Qaeda and refers to Osama bin Laden by name just four times. The scarce references to bin Laden and his terror network undercut claims by former White House terrorism analyst Richard A. Clarke that the Clinton administration considered al Qaeda an "urgent" threat, while President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, "ignored" it. The Clinton document, titled "A National Security Strategy for a Global Age," is dated December 2000 and is the final official assessment of national security policy and strategy by the Clinton team. The document is publicly available, though no U.S. media outlets have examined it in the context of Mr. Clarke's testimony and new book."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040406-121654-1495r.htm


109 posted on 09/25/2006 12:28:09 PM PDT by Enchante (There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Drive-By Media)
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To: DJ Taylor

I truly believe that if Bubba had never met Hillary he would be selling used cars in some backwater Arkansas town....Hillary was always the defacto president, Bubba just a diversion for the lumpen proletariat......


110 posted on 09/25/2006 12:33:30 PM PDT by MelonFarmerJ (Proudly voting Republican/conservative in every election since 1964)
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To: Red Badger

I agree. Everyone know his record on terror.


111 posted on 09/25/2006 12:33:31 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: LibLieSlayer

My perspective on Clinton since his first term. Bill just wants to get laid. Hillary is the one with the agenda.

Bill is dangerous through crimes of omission. Hillary is dangerous through crimes of commission.

I would choose the former.


112 posted on 09/25/2006 12:39:28 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: Always Right

The reference to Richard Clarke was very calculated, but I'll bet he wishes he'd left off that "smirk" reference.


113 posted on 09/25/2006 12:45:12 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Firefox1
The real problem is this: President Clinton never understood the difference between 'leading the country' and 'keeping the people happy.' And, that will be his legacy.

Firefox excellent post. I recommend going back and reading the rest of it I just included the last sentence. CD

114 posted on 09/25/2006 12:45:56 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (The best defense is a strong preemptive strike..)
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To: PDR
"Clinton wants to make it incorrect, or at least impolite, to criticize his record on terror. Chris Wallace stood up to him. Will others? Will his next interviewer raise the same set of questions?"

Forget about that ever happening.

115 posted on 09/25/2006 12:46:52 PM PDT by Radix (Tag Line promoting the acknowledgment that the Internet was actually invented by Americans.)
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116 posted on 09/25/2006 12:47:54 PM PDT by 007girl
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To: Dems_R_Losers
He's not doing sh!t to help Democrats in this election, because It's All About Him. Hell, he didn't give a rip about Congressional Democrats when he WAS president!

DING DING DING DING . . .

We have a winner!

117 posted on 09/25/2006 12:54:11 PM PDT by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: wouldntbprudent

______________________________________________________
"...how much it must gall him to wake up every morning and realize that W will far and away eclipse him, not only in history, but even in our lifetimes."
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.......and to realize that future generations will focus only on the blue dress and the disappearance of the White House silverware.


118 posted on 09/25/2006 12:59:37 PM PDT by cowdog77 ("Tell me, are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?")
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To: wouldntbprudent

Can you imagine having to be the President between (for all intents and purposes) Reagan and Bush? LOL.

Ouch.


119 posted on 09/25/2006 1:02:30 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: CaptainCanada
If this was intended as a tour de force designed to take the War on Terror issue away from the GOP, then it's one of the most thoroughly bungled operations I've seen in a long time.

Besides, this doesn't fit the democrat playbook. When these people plan an operation like this, they completely flood the zone. Dean, Reid, Pelosi and the rest of them should have been all over the DBM this morning, cheering Clinton on for standing up to the "right-wing propoganda machine." Clinton's print media toadies should have filled the front pages of the NYT and the Compost with articles raging against Fox News and Chris Wallace, and the rest of the drive-bys should have been engaged in their phony "self analysis" where they suck their thumbs, gaze at their navels and pontificate that maybe they just weren't fair to Clinton, that they should have just let him talk about his latest global scam.

So far, Dean's the only Dim I'm aware of who's rushed to Clinton's side - the rest of them seem to be hiding in the tall grass. And as far as the DBM goes, when even people like Howie Kurtz and Arianna Huffington trash Clinton's performance, it says volumes about how badly he did.

Even when a key part of an orchestrated Dim plot blows up and takes the whole thing down, they still proceed like nothing happened. Rememeber the 2004 campaign - the Bush/Texas Air National Guard story was scheduled to run right before the Dims put out an attack ad titled "Fortunate Son" which was supposed to pick the story up from there. They still ran the ad, even after it was proven to any reasonable person that the TANG documents CBS was using to make the story were fakes!

So if Kristol is right and this was an elaborate Dim scheme to take one of Rove's biggest weapons away and to fire up the moonbat base, then we really don't have much to worry about in November, if they're this inept.

120 posted on 09/25/2006 1:02:32 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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