It’s Surprising He Didn’t Snap Long Ago

For 5 years, the quickest fall back position of the far right/neo-conservative has been “B-b-but Clinton!” All this time he has kept his mouth shut and taken the high road by not acknowledging the partisan fingerpointing. He’s also kept from criticizing the current administration.

The problem is the far-right does not learn by example. They do not know what it means to conduct mature debate and when someone doesn’t say anything to check them, they just keep going. And going. And going. It’s not surprising that on the heels of “The Path to 9-11”, Clinton would be completely enraged by the neo-conservatives constant attempt to blame the failures of the this administration on him.

What is amusing is the complete lie Chris Wallace told in his own defense when he found himself at the other end of the gun. (The transcript of the interview and what Wallace actually asked, rather than what he claimed he asked later, is also here.)

Here is a list of senior Bush administration officials interviewed on Fox News Sunday since September 11, 2001. (White House press secretary Tony Snow previously hosted the program. Wallace succeeded him in December 2003.):
• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; 9/10/06
• National Security adviser Stephen Hadley; 8/6/06
• Rice; 7/16/06
• Rice; 6/4/06
• Rice; 5/21/06
• Rice; 3/26/06
• Rice; 12/18/05
• Hadley; 12/4/05
• Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld; 11/20/05
• Rice; 10/16/05
• Rumsfeld; 6/26/05
• Rice; 6/19/05
• Hadley; 5/15/05
• Then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card; 5/1/05
• Rumsfeld; 3/20/05
• Hadley; 3/13/05
• Vice President Dick Cheney; 2/6/05
• Rice; 1/30/05
• Rice (then-National Security adviser); 10/10/04
• Rice; 6/27/04
• Rice; 6/6/04
• Rice; 4/18/04
• Rumsfeld; 3/28/04
• Card; 12/7/03
• Rumsfeld; 11/2/03
• Rice; 9/28/03
• Rice; 9/7/03
• Rice; 7/13/03
• Rumsfeld; 5/4/03
• Rumsfeld; 3/30/03
• Rice; 2/16/03
• Card; 1/26/03
• Rumsfeld; 1/19/03
• Rice; 11/10/02
• Rice; 9/15/02
• Card; 6/9/02
• Rice; 5/26/02
• Cheney; 5/19/02
• Rice; 5/5/02
• Card; 4/14/02
• Rice; 2/3/02
• Cheney; 1/27/02
• Rumsfeld; 11/11/01
In the March 28, 2004, interview with Rumsfeld, Wallace did press him on whether the Department of Defense should have "been thinking more about" terrorism prior to 9-11 and asked him to respond to the "basic charge that, pre-9-11 ... this government, the Bush administration, largely ignored the threat from Al Qaeda." Referring to Rumsfeld's testimony before the 9-11 Commission regarding the Defense Department's anti-terrorism efforts, Wallace remarked, "[I]t sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority."
But beyond this exchange, the Fox News Sunday interviews listed above have almost entirely ignored several key questions regarding the Bush administration's efforts to pursue bin Laden and Al Qaeda.”

What was really amusing is that one right-wing pundit, I forget who, said that this outburst “wouldn’t help him (Clinton)”

Help him what?
He’s not running for office.
He’s not in the government.

I just can’t believe how deeply and irrationally the far Right hates Bill Clinton, so much so that six years after the man left office, they still are scared enough of him to vilify him.

Quite frankly I found Bill Clinton’s reactions to be refreshingly in-your-face to the openly belligerent Fox news network. This is one of the two things the Democrats have to do to gain national respect (I’m not a Democrat, I’m just sayin’…)

1. Actually stand for something rather than against something,
2. Get in the neo-con GOP's face and say “You’re full of shit.”

There are thing I disagree with Clinton about: The trade agreement with China for example, Free-Speech Zones, but blaming him for 9-11 when it was clear that he was far more proactive in attempting to stop terrorism than the susquent adminstration is ridiculous.

Yes, he made mistakes, but not nearly as many as Bush and he certaintly tried harder. Since he is not in power now, chasing after him rather than the adminstration who is still in power and therefore still responsible has gotten really silly.