Hillary's lame excuses

Washington Times ^ | Thursday, December 13, 2001 | House Editorial

[JohnHuang2]

It wasn't just that NBC's Tim Russert was throwing softballs last Sunday to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Meet the Press." Indeed, as the New York Times noted, Mr. Russert's questions "were not all softballs." This is true. Some of his questions were big, old shiny beach balls that Mrs. Clinton could lob back and never see followed up. Mr. Russert began his interview by quoting a recent statement by Mrs. Clinton regarding the Clinton administration's efforts against terrorism: "We did what needed to be done and could be done," Mrs. Clinton told a Syracuse audience, adding Clintonesquely, "but it was not near enough of what should have been done." Quite logically, Mr. Russert wondered what Mrs. Clinton had meant. "What more should have been done?" he asked.

[JohnHuang2]

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[Jimmy Valentine]

thanks for posting this. The Times may be the most honest newspaper in the United States today.

Wesley Pruden, the Editor is from Arkansas and was never fooled by Hillary or "Slick Willie".

One can only hope that the rest of the U.S. pays attention to what a congenital liar she is.

Regards,

[JohnHuang2]

You're welcome, amigo.

[JohnHuang2]

Wesley Pruden, the Editor is from Arkansas and was never fooled by Hillary or "Slick Willie"..

Great columnist, btw.

[Movemout]

"Two hundred and three words later, Mrs. Clinton may have stopped talking but she hadn't answered that simple question. "

And so it goes. Presidential material I'd say.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"But, you know, if you go back and look at the context, there was not the support in this country for the steps that were needed,"

Russert missed the boat on that one.

The "context" was 9/11. Saving lives of innocent American citizens should not depend on public support. He certainly did not have public support when he freed the FALN Terrorists. Russert truly disappointed me.

[Alas]

Russert is just as bad as petey jennings! monica lewinsky wannabees.

[jrlc]

Great post, John. Let's take a close look at where X42 is today -- explaining, blaiming and claiming. No matter what happens, he didn't do it, somebody else did it. If you want to understand Clinton, just ask who paid. X42's VP is growing his regulation length Bin Laden beard -- Mullah Ali'Gore-ah. The new Mullah is such a head case he's probably applying right now for flight school. Mrs.X42 has to concoct "Where's Chelsea" stories to place herself at the center of a tragedy. She should get booed right out of the Senate. But we are going to have Little Katie Communist on the NBC TV show -- and her like (including Chris Matthews and Russett) to be her apologists as she runs for Bush's job. The Republican Party should begin right now to put a war chest together -- it's going to take a ton of money to beat Hell-ary with the free liberal press bias she's certain to receive whatever she does. BLAIM, EXPLAIN and CLAIM -- that's the Klintoons' game.

[katherineisgreat]

Y'all remember that Russert was crying when KH certified?
as was Judy Woodruff and Dan Rather though he wasn't crying, seemed very sad and depressed.

[evad]

"But, you know, if you go back and look at the context, there was not the support in this country for the steps that were needed,"

Russert missed the boat on that one.

The "context" was 9/11. Saving lives of innocent American citizens should not depend on public support. He certainly did not have public support when he freed the FALN Terrorists. Russert truly disappointed me.

This amazes me too. It is simply further proof of Clinton being nothing more than a politician without the leadership or statesmanship to "do the right thing".

Bush didn't have the support either...he simply did what a patriot/statesman/president should do and the support came later. Of course, he and his people surrounding him, built the coalition that helped produce the support.

[demkicker]

Great post, thanks! Does anyone know what page its on? I hope its on the front page.

[mombonn]

Unhappily for the nation, we had the kind of leadership that followed public opinion instead of molding it.

"Unhappily" is hardly strong enough - "dangerously" comes closer.

[McBuff]

As much as Bill and Hill turn my stomach, the truth is THE PUBLIC would have never supported what it would have taken to defeat terrorism no matter who was President.

That is what was changed on September 11th. But make no mistake, THAT IS WHAT WAS REQUIRED to solve the true problem = a complacent, sleeping public easily cowed by a few liberal jerks on TV or in newspapers. It was a public that REELECTED Clinton and then nearly elected AlGORE. It was a public that allow liberals to change the very meaning of America and to do it at the DNA level. It was the public that allowed liberals to decimate our intelligence capabilities and military FOR YEARS and they just rolled over and said, "ho hum."

September 11th was the empirical evidence that freedom has a price. We were several payments behind.

[Hugh Akston]

Gosh, if Hil ever does end up running for the White House, whoever her opponent is would do well to have this comment ready to throw back at her, perhaps at a key time such as in a debate.

They had their chance. They did not lead. We will.

And we are.

[Hugh Akston]

A president is given a four year term. During that term, his duty is to uphold the Constitution and to do his best at ensuring the common defense and securing the right to life and liberty for our citizens.

If something needs to be done to perform that duty, it needs to be done even if it is politically devastating to your own career or the re-election chances of you or your party. If not, politics is being put in front of American lives.

Clinton showed that his administration put politics ahead of the lives of Americans. And Hillary is here, stating it as a matter of course, instead of begging the families of September 11th's dead for forgiveness.

Heck, he didn't even try to move public sentiment towards backing action. Instead, he pardoned some FALN members.

[gulfcoast6]

A true politician is one who can speak on any subject and never say one thing.

[Movemout]

Sad but very true.

[b4its2late]

The bottom line was this: "I know that fighting terrorism and going after bin Laden was a top priority of the Clinton administration," she said. Here was a whopper. Even the most die-hard Clintonista won't whisper that one in the dark.

Ugh.

[McBuff]

You will get no arguement from me that Clintons are scum. However, they will always be scum, before, during and after Sept 11th.

It is the public that was in need of a wake up call. Would Dubya or any president been able to do what is being done now without that major wake-up call? I don't think so. . .I just THANK GOD, we have the President that we do at this time.