Posted on 09/24/2006 5:23:16 AM PDT by Howlin
Bill Clinton to appear (taped) on Fox News Live with Mike Wallace.
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You're right. He blames everybody but himself. gee...that's what Carter did too.
Whether he is a sociopath or plays the victim is irrelevant to his perceived performance by the Demo base who will undoubtedly love this.
And yes, I did watch..
Public performances are BJ's specialty - how do you think he got to be POTUs twice?
Don't underestimate him or his ability to energize the Demo base with this sort of stuff.
HE IS A JERK
"The entire military was against sending troops into Afghanistan...."
Q. The entire military? Including the people on the Cole?
dont worry, as good as bill Kringtongs meltdown is, you'll be able to find the whole thing for years to come.
So, did she sleep with Bubba last night?? or Clarke??
I'll never forget that winp SEC DEF Les Aspin scurrying over to Congress to try and cover their asses after refusing to provide the armor to our troops in Mogadishu. Even the Dems in the meeting came out shaking their heads and demanding "real" answers.
(So then we got that "tower of strength" Wm Cohen---he should have been excommunicated from the GOP a long time ago!)
Yes, DU thinks that "Big Dog's" performance was terrific. They are just as crazy as he is.
IMHO, Hitlery is not going to be happy with BJ's performance.
Clinton is just GROTESQUE in this interview.
200 years from now, he will be known as the "Clown" President.
Bill Clinton's red-faced, squinty eyed, finger pointing schtick with Chris Wallace, was another full-frontal example of how Clinton uses indignant rage to deflect questions. Brit Hume was right on the money when he said Clinton came "loaded for bear". Brit knew Clinton wanted a fight, wanted to look tough.
"You don't deserve to be on this platform with my wife", Clinton angrily said to Jerry Brown.
"I did not have sex with that woman...Ms Lewinsky"
"at least I tried, I tried...." Just the latest.
Bill Clinton's bombastic interview, besides being great television, reminded me of..... Socks the cat. (Spare me those pasty white legs!) Yes, Suzanne, you'd think a multi-millionaire jet-setter, so concerned with image, could afford proper socks.
"I tried, I tried!" Clinton kept saying. Just like all Democrats, Clinton believes his legacy should be based on his "good intentions", not on what he accomplished.
And perhaps THE most unexpected thing said today was said by Mira Liasson. She refuted one of the Democrats best attack lines when she openly defended Bush by saying he wasn't alone in thinking Iraq had WMD. She said everyone else did too. BRAVO, Mira!!
But what struck me the most? did you notice? Bill Clinton hates FOX News more than he hates Karl Rove or bin Laden. The panel chose to ignore the multi-insults Clinton hurled at FOX News. Too bad, I thought it was telling.
"Bottom line: Bll Clinton admits as the commander-in-chief he falied to have the will to order the CIA and FBI to act and to order the military to kill Osma Bin Laden and dismantle al Qaeda! Simply admitted he was a WUS!"
IMHO, I have to agree with CaptainCanada...Clinton would prefer us all to think of him as a wuss........he KNOWS exactly what he is always doing....and its even uglier than any of us want to admit... because of the necessity of dealing with it.
" Fact is, President Clinton had more than one meeting with the crown prince, including a one-on-one meeting from which only Clinton would know first-hand what he'd said." Actually, Wallace did interview Freeh about the specific meeting in question on the show. Referring to a specific scene from page 25 of Freeh's book, Wallace said: "You write this: `Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis' reluctance to cooperate, and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.'" And Freeh responded: "Well, that's the fact that I'm reporting."
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10447
Straight and simple..this hick and his "wife" sold us all down the river for their pocketbooks. WJC is beginning to come unglued as this becomes, daily, more and more obvious. His only hope is that we all dismiss him as a "wuss".
I've been looking for FNS to see this interview. Finally checked the TV schedule.
FNS has been bumped for football. Doing a slow steam here...
In May 1996 bin Laden was welcomed into Afghanistan by the Taliban. It could not have been a better haven for Osama bin Laden.
Steven Simon, Clinton's counterterrorism director on the National Security Council thought that kicking bin Laden out of Sudan would benefit U.S. security since "It's going to take him a while to reconstitute, and that screws him up and buys time." Buys time? Oh yeah, 1996 was an election year and team Clinton did not want to deal with bin Laden until after it was safely reelected.
Miniter: Never once in his two-year tenure did CIA director James Woolsey ever have a one-on-one meeting with Clinton. Even semiprivate meetings were rare. They only happened twice. Woolsey told me: "It wasn't that I had a bad relationship with the president. It just didn't exist."
One of the little scoops in the book is the revelation that Clinton froze Woolsey out because the CIA director refused to put a friend of Bill on the agency's payroll. This account was confirmed by both Woolsey and the Clinton's consigliore Bruce Lindsey.
Considering the Justice Department's experience with Webster Hubbell, another Friend of Bill, Woolsey's decision may have done the CIA a great deal of good. But Clinton's pique did not make America any safer from bin Laden.
Another Clinton intelligence failure involved a refusal to help the CIA hire more Arabic language translators. In 1993, Woolsey learned that the agency was able to translate only 10 percent of its Arabic intercepts and badly wanted more translators. But Sen. Dennis DeConcini refused to approve the funds unless Clinton phoned him and said it was a presidential priority. Despite entreaties, Clinton never phoned the Democratic senator and the CIA didn't get those translators for years.
Lopez: In sum, how many times did Bill Clinton lose bin Laden?
Miniter: Here's a rundown. The Clinton administration:
1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.
2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.
3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.
4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.
6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.
7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan.
9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.
10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.
11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.
12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.
15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist.
16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole.
Lopez: You sorta defend Clinton against "wag the dog" criticisms in regard to that infamous August 1998 (Monica times) bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan and some bin Laden strongholds in Afghanistan. That wasn't the problem, was it — that we fired then?
Miniter: Certainly the timing is suspicious. The day before the East African-embassy bombings, Monica Lewinsky had recanted her prior affidavit denying a sexual relationship with Clinton. The sex scandals kicked into overdrive.
Still, the president wasn't doing too much in combating bin Laden because of his sex scandals — he was doing too little. He should have launched more missile strikes against bin Laden and the hell with the political timing. Besides, after the East African-embassy bombings, any president would have been negligent not to strike back. If he had not, it would be open season on Americans. He would have been as ineffectual as Carter was during the Tehran hostage crisis. Indeed, this was the mistake made following the attack on the USS Cole.
http://tinyurl.com/p64c8
Years ago I did an interview with Capt. James Smith, the father of Cpl. Jamie Smith, who bled to death because they couldn't get him out. The captain refused Clinton's letter of condolence.
Even that most ardent Clinton lover would have to admit that the guy totally lost it.
If you believe that, you're even dumber than your post.
I am NOT concerned about the democrat base. They adore him.
Do you not understand that he came across badly and out of control to Independents and middle of the roaders?
There were pieces of it posted here. If I can find the links, I'll let you know.
He's pretty much pissed off, and in a completely defensive mode.
It's enjoyable.
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