CLARKE PRAISES BUSH IN RESIGNATION LETTER! (Dems blow it again)

Associated Press ^ | JENNIFER LOVEN

[NYC Republican]

The media's taking turns trying to bring down Bush any way they can. Check out www.abcnews.com - the lead story shows Bush, then Powell, then a scene from 911...

The caption says TOO LITTLE DONE?

Then, below that, it says "Could al Qaeda have been stopped before 9/11? Was the threat downplayed or even ignored? Top officials from the Bush and Clinton presidencies were publicly grilled by a panel probing the attacks. "... so.... why isn't Klinton's picture shown? DISGRACEFUL!!!

[Freedom2specul8]

This is great!

[Alberta's Child]

LOL, hey Clarke, get your story right.

LOL. And while you're at it, Clarke -- why don'tcha get yer head out of yer @ss, too?

[NYC Republican]

Check out the front page at www.abcnews.com do you think this is bias? 3 images keep flashing on the screen... Bush, Powell, scene from 911. Arrrggggghhhhh!!!!

[NYCVirago]

I've been watching Brit Hume and they showed the Dems (Daschle and Schumer) going ballistic over the White House using this letter. Wah!!!

Gosh, I must have missed when they criticized the Clintonoids for illegally passing Linda Tripp's personnel file to a reporter, or when Clinton released letters from Kathleen Willey.

[NYC Republican]

It's a game of shells... Before CBSNEWS takes too much heat for their bias, they back off a bit, and ABCNEWS takes over... Then it's NBC... Then CNN... They take turns, every once in a while seeming moderate by showing both (notice CBSNEWS showing both).

Even if they are passing subliminal messages (abcnews.com), it's powerful.

Even if they place blame equally, it's disgraceful, 8 years of Klinton v. 8 months (really 5 months or less, once he was able to get his team on the ground)... How could that be parity in terms of blame???

[Alberta's Child]

I hope I'm wrong but it seems to me that this letter can be easily explained away by saying he was being polite, professional, and trying not to burn any bridges.

NEWS FLASH . . .

Clark denies any knowledge of the resignation letter released by the White House today.

"I never wrote that letter," he said today through spokesman Tom Daschle, "I'm still working for the Bush administration -- I've just been on vacation for the last 15 months."

Details at 11 . . .

/sarcasm off/

[b4its2late]

Self destructing dems.

[CedarDave]

Hope you don't mind me picking up a new tagline. ;>))

[Brilliant]

This guy, Clarke, must be on the take from the Dem Party.

[NYC Republican]

Love it!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Chrissy Mathews "
Matthews would be better off letting Darrell Hammond do his show-Matthew is riding the train to Crazyland,with Dickie Clarke as the engineer, Daschle working the bar car and Fallin John Kerry, waving like a moron from the caboose.

Matthews said this last week:

" We were attacked on 9/ 11 by Al Queda-apparently "

[NYC Republican]

Check out the front page at www.abcnews.com do you think this is bias? 3 images keep flashing on the screen... Bush, Powell, scene from 911. Arrrggggghhhhh!!!!

Click on the story, and you see Rumsfeld! Nowhere do you see Klinton, Halfbright, Cohen, or any of the other stooges.

[alrea]

The Clarke appearance does more damage to the credibility of 60 minutes and Viacom, and the whole American media complex than it does to Clarke, or JFKerry.

The Clinton's could not be involved in this cluster.

[jla]

:^)

[lonevoice]

Very insightful post.

[potlatch]

Michael Sheehan [State Department head of counterterrorism] told Clarke after the Cole bombing, "What's it going to take to get them to hit al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon?"

So Clarke puts the blame on Bush, perfectly logical thinking, don'tcha know?? No way political, naa! /S

[potlatch]

LOL Meek, he's quite a poet, our 'phil'!!

[lonevoice]

Wonder what Flip-Flop-Botox-Face-Public-Jock-Buying-Guy did today? Bet it was something stupid, ignorant, and/or mean!

LOL! You made my day.

[FreeAtlanta]

Here is the Whitehouse link It is not biased by the AP slant. Look about 2/3rds down.

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think we went through that yesterday. We went through a lot of the assertions that were being made. And I think maybe one thing to look back to is the Dick Clarke of January 30th, 2003, who submitted a letter of resignation on that day to the President of the United States. And I think this letter runs counter to what he is now asserting. Let me just read parts of this letter, and we'll be glad to make this letter available to you shortly here. This is in his own words. Mr. Clarke says, "It has been an enormous privilege to serve you these last 24 months. I will always remember the courage, determination, calm and leadership you demonstrated on September 11th." Then he went on to say, "I will also have fond memories of our briefings for you on cyber-security and the intuitive understanding of its importance that you showed. I thank you again for the opportunity to serve you have provided me, and wish you good fortune as you lead our country through the continuing threats." So at this time period, when he was leaving, there was no mention of the grave concerns he claims to have had about the direction of the war on terrorism, or what we were doing to confront the threat posed by Iraq, by the former regime.