“To say Planned Parenthood does great things...”
He said PP DID great things as in past tense. That explanation was about the statement made before the tapes came out.
“... claim Bush was responsible for 9/11 is totally beyond the pale.”
Hoover was president for a little over 7 months when the stock market crashed and was assigned responsibility for it by the public. Bush was president for a little over 8 months before 9/11. In the military, someone is ALWAYS assigned responsibility because someone IS responsible.
I remember when a certain Commander-in-Chief had a sign on his desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here."