Posted on 09/13/2001 10:16:14 AM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:38:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I made that same faux pas earlier.
This is perverse sickness. Chris Matthews somehow thinks it's a wonderful LUCKY opportunity that thousands of our citizens were killed on Bloody Tuesday.
I intend to protest his insensitivity to NBC and ask for his resignation. Please join with me.
Chris Matthews was un-fricking-believable last night, talking to Howard Fineman about whether Bush is "up to the job." Yet it is only Matthews and his liberal ilk (Peter Jennings) who are even suggesting that Bush is not up to the job. These fools are so Clintonized that they think fancy words and smooth phrases are a substitute for commitment and action. They would have been SORELY disappointed in Lincoln, whose oral speech was terrible and uninspiring, and whose "charisma" was non-existent.
Thank God that GW is on his knees and leading this country. He has led the people and Congress to allow the open expression of God in our time of need and they are following. He now needs the mantle of leadership and the wisdom of Solomon to lead this country.
Pray for GW and NYNY!
That is really the point, isn't it? How can 80 or 90 Americans sit in their seats and watch as flight attendants are murdered? Are we so conditioned to deadly passivity that we cannot even react to an outrage like this? The three passengers who apparently DID attack the hijackers are considered to be heros- which implies an extraordinary degree of courage. This country used to have a whole lot of folks who could be counted on to fight back- where are they?
Bill Clinton still has a shot at greatness, he can renounce his sleazy deeds, rape and murder and spend the remainder of his days trying to attone for them, and subject himself to trial for all the laws he has violated. That would make him great.
Even if Clinton had been lucky enough to have had a shot at greatness, he would have failed.
A Leader does not manipulate, deceive, exploit, or grandstand. Greatness is not bestowed, it is earned. Those whose main goal in life is to achieve greatness will fail miserably.
Clinton's shot at greatness was never a possibility.
Its long past time for Matthews and fellow Clinton worshippers to recognize reality. There is no comparison between #42 and #43.
CHAPPAQUA, NY— Reflecting on his presidency Monday, Bill Clinton expressed a "strange sense of disappointment" over the lack of dramatic attempts on his life.
"All the great ones had someone take a crack at them," Clinton said. "Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy—even Reagan. An assassination attempt would have really elevated my status in the pantheon of presidents."
"Is this how I'm going to be remembered? As the president who wasn't worth a couple pot shots?" Clinton asked. "For God's sake, even Ford had Squeaky Fromme."
Clinton said an assassination attempt would have given the nation an opportunity to rally around its wounded leader.
"I would have inspired every American with my strength and bravery," Clinton said. "Giving the American people a heroic thumbs-up despite my side wound as they loaded me into the ambulance, attempting to walk before my doctors really wanted me to, passing legislation and signing executive orders from my hospital bed in Annapolis... I would have been terrific."
"The Reagan shooting, that made his presidency," Clinton said. "I still remember watching the coverage of it on TV back in Little Rock, thinking to myself, 'Man, that guy is playing this perfectly. Someday, I'm going to assure a shaken American people that it will take more than a bullet to stop me from leading this great nation.'"
Those close to Clinton are beginning to worry about his preoccupation.
"He'd never tell you this himself, but when it didn't happen in his last few months in office, he was inconsolable," former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said. "He just kept staring out the windows, first at that little hill behind the Oval Office, then at the hedge in the Rose Garden, as if willing a lone gunman to appear. Saddest thing you ever saw."
Podesta said Clinton had high hopes for a Nov. 14, 2000, visit to San Diego, a Republican-dominated city with a high number of ex-Marines. In addition to making three public speeches and waving to several large crowds in open areas, Clinton entered and exited numerous limousines and buildings during the trip. Not once, however, was the president ever in any danger.
"At one point, we walked out of a hotel and were greeted by a throng of people," Podesta said. "With TV cameras rolling, Bill rolls up his shirtsleeves and starts working his way through the crowd, shaking everybody's hands. After a few minutes, he leans over to me and says, 'Right now would be perfect.'"
Clinton Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he often tried to assure the president that he didn't need to be shot to be loved.
"I tried to tell him it's no big deal, that plenty of the great presidents never got shot at," Christopher said. "Like Washington. Besides, no one remembers Charles Guiteau shooting James Garfield. Or McKinley getting plugged by that Hungarian guy in Buffalo. But he just looks at me with these sad eyes."
Continued Christopher: "Then I reminded the president of Francisco Duran, the Army vet who took shots at the White House in 1994. All he could say was, 'Whoopee, someone shot at the White House while I was nowhere in the vicinity. That's really gonna secure my place in history.'"
I'm certain this is true.
Eat your heart out, Bill. Pretend you didn't help set us up for this, Hillary.
The liberal press would be enraptured with joy.
In one sentence this journalistic toady manages to slur not only the pilots of the doomed aircraft but also America's embattled President.
As is obvious to all but Matthews, the pilots of those hijacked airplanes were killed as they fought to control their ships. They absolutely DID NOT--as Matthews despicably implies--bow to the bidding of the hijackers.
And President Bush has already made clear that no Clintoniod robot missle pinpricks will be administered for this current terrorist disaster.
Chris Matthews: He[President Bush] will launch a retaliatory raid against some defenseless people thereby creating blood enemies of the United States.
No--this mindless act has already entered the history books when Clinton--to cover his flamingly-embarassed butt--destroyed that aspirin factory supplying medications for children.
With all his blustering outrage over this current attack on America, let's see if Matthews will back Representative Bob Barr's call for an offical Congressional Declaration of War against Terrorism.
A safe bet: Chris Matthew's loud-mouthed hypocrisy and weaselhood will be made totally naked very shortly.
Do they look at everything through the lens of history or the lens of a photo op?
It would seem that people who REALLY care do the right thing and let history sort things out.
How shallow have we become?
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