Jim Inhofe: Bill Clinton comments 'unconscionable'

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[Sub-Driver]

Jim Inhofe: Bill Clinton comments 'unconscionable'

Former President Bill Clinton’s comments surrounding the Oklahoma City bombing commemoration are “unconscionable” and an “over-the-top” effort to silence critics, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Tuesday.

Clinton has drawn fire for reprising criticism he made of conservative talk radio 15 years in the wake of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that took 168 lives and injured more than 500 others.

“I could not believe it when I first saw the Clinton remarks that he had come out again, 15 years later, and talked about this being precipitated by right wing talk radio,” Inhofe said in an interview for POLITICO’s Arena forum. “This is an over-the-top effort to try to stop a movement of people who aren’t amenable to supporting Obama programs, like cap and trade, government-run health care and closing Gitmo.”

Clinton’s remarks have fostered a spirited back and forth about the role of increasingly heated political rhetoric by tea party protesters and others.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), for instance, warned the former president not to “cheapen” the memory of the Oklahoma City bombing by comparing the anti-government sentiment that fueled it to the anti-Washington anger that drives the tea party movement. But former Rep. Mickey Edwards, an Oklahoma Republican who represented the Oklahoma City area from 1977-1993, said in Arena that Clinton’s remarks were taken out of context and were actually more nuanced.

Inhofe saw the issue in starker terms.

[devolve]

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Good slideshows potlatch!

A WACO graphic - Lots of careful work -

[gussiefinknottle]

clinton managed to personally be responsible for the deaths
at waco, cover it up, then blame republicans for oklahoma city
and win re-election. he has been made a multimillionaire with
little or no effort and treated as a great statesman by those who control
msm, universities, textbooks, government, etc. and yet, republicans never
called him out on waco, never investigated it when george bush and
repubs had government. in fact, w’s dad made cosy with him. the blood
of those people is on his hands and will never wash out. i hope when that
final heart attack hits, it is the flames of waco that flash in his mind.

[mojitojoe]

Hey, it’s the clinton’s.. everything is one big “Right Wing Conspiracy” unless you have a blue dress with DNA on it.

[patriciaruth]

It Clinton touches it - it’s cheapened.

Would you really sell it at a discount or autoclave it before disposal?

[potlatch]

Thanks devolve, we've all seen those slideshows over and over but many haven't and we can't let it be forgotten.

Yes, I want to put a lot of text in the Waco Slideshow and you know I'm a perfectionist.

[potlatch]

Thank you Phil, a very nice complement you paid me!

[Only the America-hating Left could take demonic delight in human suffering.]

They seem to have something missing in their ‘makeup’, it's called a conscience I believe.

We've got a lot of things to ‘never let them forget’.

[potlatch]

Good information Liz.

[Rummyfan]

But former Rep. Mickey Edwards, an Oklahoma Republican who represented the Oklahoma City area from 1977-1993, said in Arena that Clinton’s remarks were taken out of context and were actually more nuanced.

Of course - Dems' comments are always nuanced and, when controversial, taken out of context.

[ICAB9USA]

re: Many people have forgotten...

Clinton is slime.

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Right. For years now the evil communist American media has been busily polishing the image of the TURD known as Bill Clinton.

Right ......... Bill Clinton is slime.

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Two sentence description of the Clinton Legacy ----

Never elect a sociopath as President.

A slime more interested in screwing the hired help than in protecting the country.

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Clinton ...

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