Posted on 12/29/2004 11:34:21 AM PST by kattracks
The White House is blasting former President Clinton for trying to upstage President Bush with a "we feel your pain" condolence message to the victims of the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami that struck Christmas weekend.
Reacting to complaints that Bush was missing in action in the wake of the disaster, White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters Tuesday, "The president wanted to be fully briefed on our efforts [before speaking out]. He didn't want to make a symbolic statement about 'We feel your pain.' " The "feel your pain" reference was a direct slap at President Clinton, who had irked administration officials by beating Bush to the punch with comments on the disaster - and stealing the media limelight in the process.
Noted the Washington Post:
"In Britain, the predominant U.S. voice speaking about the disaster was not Bush but former president Bill Clinton, who in an interview with the BBC said the suffering was like something in a 'horror movie,' and urged a coordinated international response."
"It is really important that somebody take the lead in this," Clinton told the BBC, in a thinly veiled reminder of Bush's silence. "I think one of the problems is when everybody takes responsibility it's almost like no one's responsibility," he complained.
Many Bush aides believe Clinton was too quick to head for the cameras to "hold forth on tragedies with his trademark empathy," the Post added.
"Actions speak louder than words," an annoyed Bush aide told the paper.
On Wednesday President Bush announced a massive aid package for victims of the tsunami disaster.
Ex-president Clinton has yet to react.
It's frightenig to actually see how a demented mind works.
Okay, who's been trolling at DU and getting the ants stirred up? FOTFLMAO!
I Am!
I AM!
I didn't know Bubba was President. I thought he had been impeached.
No, it's true.
bush is so obsessed with the "DU'ers" that he concocted a plan, to start an earthquake, that would trigger a tsunami, that would kill 100,000+, to distract them from finding out about the "rigged vote" in Ohio.
After all, what's 100,000+ dead brown Muslim people to Born Again White Bush?
Detestable man-child.
Well, if there's ONE consolation..it wasn't Carter..
I agree. In fact, this entire article looks like an effort by Newsmax to create a story rather than report one. I've seen all these stories in context throughout the day...and newsmax seems to be selectively choosing from them to form their own opinion of events.
If the 'Toon is sincere (yeah, right), he should get his good pal, Peanut Man Carter, and go over to southeast Asia and start building some houses.
Oh yea - I call the Cici Connelly Syndrome.
Some of these blowhards are all blow and no go. :)
Stick an "it" in it.
Well, if a DU-er's friend's friends' friend who is friends with a guy who used to be in the Navy (which means he wasn't when the tidal wave-causing quake it) told him the U.S. "might" have set of a nucular device...then it must be true.
With sources like that, I expect this story to be reported on CBS tonight.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/
Go vote!
I was unfamiliar with her before the recent news. Now, I don't see how she has gotten along without me all these years.
"From DU:
Anyway, my friend says that his friend (whose friend is friends with the guy who used to be in the Navy) told him that the US might have set off nuke devices in Sumatra to start the earthquake that caused the tidal wave in order to distract the DU'ers from finding out about the rigged vote in Ohio (and the voter supression).
That's why * has been so quiet about this, he doesn't want to be in the news a whole lot since he knows that if he is in the news it might just remind the DU'ers that he is not really President"
My God, this is mental illness at it's best!
Such a surprise, eh?
Evidently klintoon does not understand no one gives a (F) what he has to say. Maybe in his delusions of grandeur, he is acting as POTUS. Truthfully, America does not want to see his gay lip-biting sympathy act. The rug needs to be pulled out from under this fool's feet. NSNR
Talk is cheap, but not nearly as cheap as the talker-Clinton.
If Clinton only spoke when he had something more important to say than a jackasses bray, he would never speak.
Considering slick willie stood by and watched hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children slaughtered in Rwanda, he has no moral authority to say anything at all about this natural disaster.
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