Posted on 09/26/2006 5:50:10 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues.
"I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday.
In a heated discussion with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Bill Clinton said that as president, he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, and alleged that President Bush didn’t try to stop terrorism in the eight months of his presidency before the 9/11 attacks.
Hillary agreed, adding: "All you have to do is read the 9/11 commission. I thought all he did was state what had been repeatedly found in the various studies that have taken place.”
Hillary continued: "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,'" Clinton said, "he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."
Curiously, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also referred to the commission in ripping Clinton’s claims and defending the Bush administration’s efforts against terrorism: "I would just suggest that you go back and read the 9/11 commission report on the efforts of the Bush administration in the eight months . . .
"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.”
In any case, even conservatives like Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol see political benefits in Clinton’s headline-grabbing counterattack on his critics. He said: "In this interview, Clinton rallied Democrats. He reminded them of their talking points on Bush's alleged passivity in his first eight months in office . . .
"If the Bush-Rove war-on-terror offensive stalls out this week . . . and Democrats do well in November, Bill Clinton can take credit, at a crucial moment, for discrediting the terror issue as a mere political ploy, and showing Democrats how ‘to fight back.’”
If they get back in the White House, the witch would make Stalin look tame.
Got to give credit where it is due. Clinton is an unusually gifted liar. Unfortunately most people know it and have become more gifted at spotting liars.
He lost it. This was no setup.
Bill's tombstone will read "He Tried as Hard as He Could".
Should read: "I tr-eye-eye-eye-D, I r-e-a-l-l-y, r-e-a-l-l-y TR-eye-eye-eye-D !" The man is pathetic.
So, shouting provable lies is now considered 'standing up' and 'not being pushed around'?
Yep. Ask any bully. It's hardly anything new.
Well, CNN is trying their hardest tonight to make it a setup. I watched about 4 minutes of Anderson Cooper and John King (wasn't he the sloppy seconds guy who got fired from CBS?) stated openly, that the ONLY reason that Rice came out is because the Bush administration is frightened to death that these statements by Clinton, that Bush didn't trah (try) are going to stick and will show that Bush isn't really tough on terror (or something like that). I switched stations very quickly because I just couldn't stand their spin. These mediwhores are working overtime to undermine this wartime President and push for dems to win so we will withdraw from Iraq and to embolden the terrorists. Today's mediawhores are openly working for the terrorists, as are the retired General's who are now speaking out. These individuals want more american deaths, and they want them in the streets of this country, just to say that Bush didn't protect us. It has gone beyond disgraceful, it is out and out treason.
In other words, she's saying, "You won't have Bill Clinton to kick around anymore"
Is she talking of the classified report that simply disappeared down in sandy burglar's underwear and socks???
"No one ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr...
No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing...
I got a standing ovation from the United Nations from the whole world..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV9aLlBSjx0
Flippin' Clinton
Hillary Unhinged
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Smdsgq6A-Y
See #91.
ping.
Only 4 minutes huh? CNN can spin like a top to no avail on this one. He lost it. Eight years versus eight months? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to compute those stats, the average Joe voter is capable.
arkie mafia in full bloom
into "professional victim" mode now are we?!!
it's confirmed. they will never, ever, ever go away. the stink remains.
So, shouting provable lies is now considered 'standing up' and '"not being pushed around'?"
Old political proverb: "Weak argument? Scream and shout!"
All we've got to do is read the 9/11 commission. Let's read the redacted parts while we're at it.
What a joke these two classless thugs are. Just the right ending to a week of pondscum at the UN. So fitting to cap it off with the Bonnie and Clyde of democrat politics.
Oh, dear Mrs. Clinton, just why is it you and your beloved hubby are saying no one can talk or ask about your marriage? Oh honey, do you even have one?
What is becoming obvious, is that even their supporters in the MSM are getting sick of the BS and blaming.
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