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Childish Clinton Caught with His Socks Down September 25, 2006 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: All right, now, back to Clinton. I'm going to try to get through this (laughing) without stopping the tape, Mike. Chris Wallace says, "Do you think you did enough, sir?" CLINTON: No, because I didn't get him. WALLACE: Right. CLINTON: But at least I tried. That's the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridicule me for trying. [sic] They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried, so I tried and failed. RUSH: Stop the...

Now, I got one more thing on this Social Security business. Apparently some people misunderstood what I said when recently discussing the program. I never said that the first recipients didn't get any benefits. What I said was the first recipients didn't pay into the system or very much. The first recipients of Social Security were pretty much near retirement age or were at retirement age when FDR introduced the program. They were the real, true beneficiaries of this program. That's when it took 16 workers to pay the taxes for those people that had not put anything in the...