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Bill Clinton is desperate to be remembered by history for something other than the Lewinsky affair, perjury, and impeachment. And he will be. It's becoming clear that the Clinton legacy will also include eight years of inaction, broken by rare instances of ineffectual action, towards the mounting threat posed by Osama bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists that culminated in 9/11.
That this prospect horrifies Clinton is evident from the rough transcript of the former president's interview with Chris Wallace. Clinton has no defense for his feckless response...How do we know this? Clinton said so, and you can listen to him say it here. Posted by Paul at 02:47 PM | Permalink UPDATE: Ace has other thoughts. Wow. Link to a transcript of his remarks -- and an actual audio recording -- here. The man simply lies. I guess the real lesson of the nineties is that we didn't impeach Clinton frequently enough. We strongly suspected he had any number of chances to kill bin Ladin before this. It turns out we were one-hundred percent right: "That video was great. Clinton is losing it, because he knows the game is up.
Goodbye, 'legacy.'" Finally, Jimmy Carter gets some competition for the worst ex-President ever... impressive work, Karl Rove. Getting Clinton to remind everyone of what a crappy job he did...
SENSITIVITY: "Bill Clinton has been injecting himself into the news a lot lately, and it inevitably gives his critics a new opportunity to go through the case against him. . . . He wants to be the mellow, above-the-fray ex-president, but he really can't control the presentation. And now that he's shown how raw and angry he is about the criticisms, it's not going to get any easier."
Count me as one of those bored with Clinton criticism -- but surprised that he's restarting it now. So is Tom Maguire, who wonders why Clinton is saying and doing things that ensure that the runup to the 2006 elections will be filled with unflattering looks at the Clinton Administration's antiterror policies.
Tom Harkin isn't helping the Democrats either. I blame Karl Rove's mind-control rays. Democrats: Protect yourselves before it's too late!
UPDATE: More thoughts here. And a related post, here. Those Rovian mind-control rays are powerful stuff!