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Home Front: Politix
"I Failed"
2006-09-27
Amid Clinton-Wallace babble, 2 words get lost
Within 24 hours of Bill Clinton's public paddling on Sunday of Chris Wallace on the Fox News Channel, pundits, politicians and a salivating army of miked-and-ready windbags had already meticulously sliced and diced the conversation to within an inch of its life, exercising the kind of analytic fervor customarily reserved for the text of a newly uncovered gospel.

Hard-core conservatives claimed that Clinton's meltdown was carefully preplanned and cagily calculated, a September Surprise orchestrated solely to pump up the Democratic Party while setting the stage for his wife's much-rumored run for the White House.

Perennial presidential adviser David Gergen, meanwhile, couldn't restrain a slight smile as he told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Clinton's touchiness was understandable, given Wallace's insinuation that Sept. 11, 2001, could be laid at Clinton's feet. Gergen also noted that Clinton's performance in the Fox faceoff was just the kind of lesson in counterpunching that could inspire Democrats this campaign season.

And over in the blogosphere, Arianna Huffington split the difference. Applauding Clinton for tossing obvious Republican National Committee talking points back in Wallace's face, she also gave the 42nd president a nice "it's-about-time" jab in the ribs. "That bipartisan love-in he's been engaged in over the last several years," wrote Huffington, "has resulted in jack-squat."
Posted by:Thesing Unavise4426

#5  HHHHHHMMMMMMM, so BUSH 1, i.e. "Herbert/Herbie", is blamed by Bill for US troops being in Somalia ala "BlackHawk Down" months after Bush 1 became EX-POTUS BUSH and Clinton was formally in office; whilst Texas State Governor Bush, aka BUSH 2, i.e. Dubya, is responsible for econ downturns during Bill's 2nd Term [(State Governor) Bush's economy of 1998-2000] + stealing Y2000 elex from Gore + 9-11 + not doing enuff to get Osama in his first 8 months while the Dems in Congress challenged each and every of Dubya's Cabinet appointees. ALL THE ABOVE IS EXCLUSIVE AND SEPARATE from Clinton himself saying he's POTUS twice by elex fraud + saying the US economy was expanding before he entered office andor left office. NOW ALL AMERICANS ARE IN A WOT = IS ALSO A WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD WHETHER AMERS WANT SAID WAR OR NOT, WHETHER AMERS WANT GLOBAL EMPIRE OR NOT, BECUZ IF WE DON'T AMERICA'S ENEMIES WILL DESTROY HER. NOT JUST ATTACK AND DEFEAT/SUBORN US, BUT TO DESTROY US ONCE AND FOREVER. Neither the Radical Islamists nor the Commies-Chicoms make any distinction between Repub vs Democrat vs. Independent-Moderate, White vs. Black vs. Brown vs Yellow, Right vs Left vs Center, etal. as to which America gets to live or die. *MOSNEWS.com [2004/5?] > RUSSIA testing its mil systems agz US stealth technology via pieces of the the F117 shot down by SERBIA during Clinton's BALKANS escapade. Serbia gave Russia US stealth tech to test, evaluate, and compare [re-engineer].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-09-27 23:18  

#4  Spitting mad and no spell check. Sorry.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-27 16:38  

#3  He's right, He failed. He failed all the Americans lost on 911. He failed the 2700 dead soldiers, and the countless crippled for life. He failed our national deficite fighting this war. He's the leader of the free world where second place send us down this road. He does not get a pass from me on this because he hung his head down and cried. My sone will fight in this war, and about half the RB'rs are fighting or have loved ones fighting it. Being the president is no sport, he get no sympathy from me.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-27 16:37  

#2  I'm sure that it is great comfort to the thousands killed by Clinton's decision not to kill him.
Posted by: anon   2006-09-27 15:29  

#1  What the article speaks of the left not of America. The left loves the "I tried" "I feel" "I failed" far more than success.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-09-27 13:48  

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