Posted on 09/26/2006 11:12:11 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
LOOK out, Hillary - Bill is off the leash.
The gobsmacking interview with Bill Clinton on "Fox News Sunday" is the first episode of reality television starring a former president of the United States. It's why God invented YouTube.
Liberals love it, especially the Fox News Channel-bashing.
Conservatives think it proves every insulting theory they've ever devised to encompass this gargantuan American personality.
In truth, the whole performance defies reason. It was especially odd to hear Clinton complain that "Bush's neocons" faulted him for being "too obsessed with bin Laden."
Really? All I ever heard from Bush's neocons - most of whom I know, several of whom I'm closely related to, and one of whom I see anytime I look in the mirror - was dismay from 1993 onward at Clinton pulling out of Somalia, worry about his not doing more against the bombers of Khobar Towers, relief and support when he finally took action against al Qaeda in 1998 after the embassy bombings in Africa, and dismay yet again at the failure to respond to the attack on the USS Cole. Weird.
It's true there were plenty of Republicans who didn't support Clinton's more activist foreign-policy efforts, but they weren't neocons.
Clinton's unreasonable jab is just one more piece of evidence that he hadn't decided to pitch a fit for effect but was actually having a full-bore tantrum on the small screen.
It's possible this is short-term good news for Hillary's presidential bid, since the left-wing nutroots of the Democratic Party are beside themselves with glee at his performance - and Hillary needs to boost her cred with those people a bit.
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