Posted on 09/25/2001 9:16:15 PM PDT by lisaann8
Acting like a man who knows he has much to answer for, ex-president Bill Clinton is seeking out anyone and everyone who will listen to explain that the World Trade Center disaster that killed 7,000 Americans wasn't his fault. After telling Fox News Channel's Brian Kilmeade, NBC's Tom Brokaw and countless private audiences over the last two weeks that he did everything he could to nail prime suspect Osama bin Laden, Clinton has taken to accosting total strangers on the street to offer his excuses. One such New Yorker is Saul Finkelstein, who says he was corralled by the suddenly guilt-ridden ex-prez Saturday while out for a bike ride with his sons. For a full 15 minutes the ex-commander in chief unburdened himself to Finkelstein, who reported the episode to the Washington Post's Lloyd Grove. "In 1998, the U.S. Navy launched a series of cruise missile attacks," Clinton insisted to the stranger. "We missed him by an hour." He seemed to want the passerby to understand that if President Bush succeeds where he failed, it won't be because Bush tried any harder. "The president can't say this," Clinton reportedly explained, "but it will not be that difficult to get bin Laden [today] because unlike in 1998.... the U.S. will have the cooperation of surrounding countries." By comparison, he said, his task was more difficult because he had to "fight this guy from 1,000 miles away." The bottom line, Finkelstein said, was that Clinton wanted him to understand that "what happened on Sept. 11 could in no way be traced to some failure on his administration's part."
How typical of the white trash bastard. He just doesn't understand that it's not about him....
When is this total failure of a man and President going to exit "stage left"? When, oh Lord, will the curse of having to listen to this man's lies pass from us?
Not a first for him.
to offer his excuses. One such New Yorker is Saul Finkelstein, who says he was corralled by the suddenly guilt-ridden ex-prez Saturday while out for a bike ride with his sons. For a full 15 minutes the ex-commander in chief unburdened himself to Finkelstein,
We have clearly unsteady (homeless, drunk and/or mentally ill) people like this on the streets of NY all the time, talking to themselves, to total strangers, and if you stand still for more than a couple of seconds, they accost you and start going into a rant about how everything is someone else fault.
So one more won't make a difference.
... "Ah did not have anything to do with that man, Osama bin Laden."
Sorry, Bill, what makes you think America will believe you now?
He was the slob that made a presidential declaration that June was national homo month for years. A supreme outrage and an affront to the few good people left in America, and a mockery of the blood of patriots who died so America could be a free and great nation.
Not a first for him.
Didn't Dick Morris say that Clinton would go up to total strangers after he lost the gubernatorial race in 1980 and ask them why they didn't vote for him?
Question for everyone on this thread: What would you do if you were minding your own business, and Bill Clinton started talking your ear off?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/reliablesource/A19258-2001Sep24.html
Clinton added that getting rid of bin Laden is only a start: "If you took Sammy Sosa off the Cubs, they would still win a lot of games."
The Cubs, with Sammy Sosa, are currently 9 games out of first, with an 81-70 record. They're not exactly the Seattle Mariners of the NL East! What a stupid analogy.
It depends on what your definition of tried is....
Haunted? Heck, that's fairly obvious. The evil spirits are trying to get out of him right before our eyes. If he doesn't get an exorcism soon, his nose is gonna explode.
I'm sorry. I just woke up.
it depends on what your definition of failure is....
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