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In retrospect, I think that what we really saw in that interview of Bill Clinton was a former mediocre, morally flawed but *excellent politician* (say what you will, but Clinton knew how to play the game) slipping, as Clinton was WAY off his game.

Here is how Bill Clinton COULD have answered that question and he would have even had Republicans (and maybe even some Freepers) feeling sympathy for him:

"Chris, that is a hard question for me to deal with, and I'll begin my answer by telling you and every American that when I saw footage of those hijacked airliners crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9-11, (biting lip, tears welling up), all I could think was 'my God, was there something more I could have done?' - Chris, Osama bin Laden is one of the most evil SOBs on the planet, and we did our level best to track him down and take him out, but before 9-11, it would have been politically impossible to go into Afghanistan and Pakistan where al Qaeda was at it's strongest, the last thing we wanted to do was to give the Islamic radicals any sort of justification for declaring jihad against the West, which is exactly what has happened in the last 5 years under the Bush Administration. Now we had Richard Clarke working on the issues of terrorism, and he is a veteran of the Reagan Administration for godsakes, so nobody is going to tell me that we were slacking in our efforts to find and neutralize bin Laden and his organization. Chris, winning this war on terror is not a Republican or a Democratic issue, it is an American issue, and we as Americans need to put aside all the partisan attacks and playing this blame-game and unite as one people to prevail in this conflict or our children are going to inherit a world nobody wants to even imagine. Now I'm not going to feed that sort of partisan 'gotcha' game Chris, so there is your answer, its the only one I'm going to give you, so let's have your next question on the next topic, ok?

THAT would have been Bill Clinton's answer if he had been at the top of his game.

Which demonstrates just how far "the mighty have fallen".

but *excellent politician* (say what you will, but Clinton knew how to play the game) slipping, as Clinton was WAY off his game.

That is a myth
Clinton is NOT an excellent politician
He has a butt kissing MSM

And he was so excellent that
In 92 he got 43% the same as the landslide defeats for Carter--Mondale--Ducakis
In 94 he personally gave control of congress to the GOP through his Gays in the Military--Abortion --Gun Control Policies
In 2000 He got Bush elected by losing FLA for Al Gore with his kissing of Castro's butt over Elian Conzales
Then in 2002 he goes to FLA to jump on the defeat Jeb Band Wagon and Jeb gets elected in a landslide
Then he goes to Minn to get on the Wellstone Funeral Farce and the GOP gets the senate seat
In 96 with a booming economy--no war and a MSM covering up all his corruption and running as an incumbent-he couldn't get 50%