Posted on 10/01/2001 9:52:44 AM PDT by Pfesser
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:47:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"No president obsessed over his 'legacy' as much as Bill Clinton did," observes the National Review Online. "He sometimes complained that he had no enormous national crisis to contend with, meaning that he didn't have a fair shot at attaining historic greatness. 'The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war,' he told the New York Times in 1997. 'We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.' Poor guy. He never really had a chance.
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Yes he did, but it was not the one he wanted. Everyone remembers the finger wagging in their faces, I just wish he could remember MY finger response!
As an American, he should be lamenting that it happened at all. The first 5 attacks (WTC, Saudi barracks, 2 embassies, USS Cole) were on his watch. It was his war to fight if he chose to. Fighting the scourge of terrorism could have provided him a legacy.
Yeah and it's breakin' my heart. Clinton's administration was an 8-year string of narrowly avoided opportunites.
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