Shut up, Mr. Clinton!
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Did you hear Bill Clinton tell everyone the other day that his administration managed to thwart some 15 separate terrorist attacks? Well, gee whiz, Mr. Clinton, what do you want – a medal … or a chest to pin it on?
Imagine you're an ex-president – even a good one. Why would you tell the nation – in the wake of our worst terrorist attack ever – that your administration happened to thwart a few attacks? What's the purpose of doing that?
Why would you say such a thing, especially knowing that millions of Americans are aware of your poor national security record – a record that consisted of multiple attacks against U.S. assets at home and abroad as well as the theft of our nation's most important national security secrets?
Why would you bring this kind of attention on yourself, knowing that the people remember that you appointed shoddy national security "experts" and "advisers" – none of whom were held to account for losing our national secrets?
Whether it is Clinton's insatiable need to be in the limelight or his habitual convenient amnesia about his administration's awful national security record, the fact is, his comments earlier this week were about as appropriate as breaking wind during a wedding.
Worse, they don't add to the debate about how to make our country safer, how to better protect our people against attacks that most real experts believe are still on the horizon and how to interdict terrorist organizations around the world in our war against terrorism.
In other words, Clinton was doing little else except patting himself on the back, oblivious to the fact that his self-congratulation is misguided.
What unbelievable hubris. What incredible arrogance. What a short memory.
As long as Bill Clinton is alive, Americans are going to have to endure his playing Monday-morning president. His ego won't let him be anything but a bothersome publicity hound.
That is, unless we ignore him and punish the media moguls who bother to pay him heed.
There is nothing new that Bill Clinton can add to the national-security debate or a hundred other issues. There is nothing of substance that he can offer now because he offered little of substance when his opinion actually counted for something.
So, if we're going to be a nation free of the arrogant presumption Bill Clinton still holds – he thinks we really care what he has to say – we're going to have to collectively turn away from him.
Allow me to be the first to say, "Shut up, Mr. Clinton. We don't have to listen anymore."
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