[Mia T]

CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONS:

THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON ^{part one}

• FROM WHENCE COMES THEIR REPUTATION FOR BRILLIANCE, ANYWAY?
• AND WAS THEIR FAILURE TO TAKE OUT BIN LADEN WILLFUL?

   

  by Mia T, 02.08.06

"You know... the job which we should have done ¹... which should have been our primary focus, to find [you know] bin Laden and eliminate al Qaeda."

hillary clinton
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006
Chitchat with Jane Pauley
San Francisco, CA

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession ² with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."

bill clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live

 

hether it's caused by a one-dimensional mindset ³... or by the seductive, ego-inflating unreality of a sycophantic host and fawning audience... or simply by the belief that they are answerable to no one,⁴ this much is certain: The frequency and intensity of clinton acts of stupidity vary directly with the friendliness of the venue.

Witness the latest: Missus clinton's San Francisco chitchat with Jane Pauley ⁵.

Intended to hoist a sinking ship,⁶ the "interview" instead added another anchor to the already leaden weight of a clinton--the banality, the corruption¹² and the utter failure¹⁰
--not to mention the oxymoronically perverse hillary entitlement. ⁴

Pauley, alternating between straight man and tortuous prop, was truly an embarrassment.

And the usual droning-when-not-screeching,¹¹ midwestern-twanged-except-when-g-droppin'-preachin'-to-blacks-or-rubes ⁷ missus clinton was her usual arrogant, banal self, a familiar affect, which she invariably punctuates--just in case--with congruous and correspondingly condescending thematic attire.

Gingham-cum-flag-pin is her standard rube/red-state garb. ⁸ Predictably, missus clinton donned a mandarin-collared shirt--no flag pin in sight--to pander to the Asian-infused, ultra-left-wing San Francisco set.

But she forgot, apparently, to look in the mirror: The image on the screen was more Mao than mandarin ⁹.

Yet some would argue, perversely, that the Mao look was, in fact, precisely what made her choice of attire absolutely perfect.

This is the first in a series of (oops!) inadvertent disclosures made by the not very swift missus clinton during her chitchat with Jane Pauley in the city by the bay.

[Mia T]

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