Sunday, September 24, 2006

Defending Clinton..Huh?

The Ranter
The Views of The Ranter

I have had the fortune of viewing a large portion of the video from tonight’s Fox interview with President Clinton and feel obligated to make a few comments on the subject even prior to the showing.

I am not a Democrat nor was I a voter for President Clinton and like the majority of the public I following the Monica hearings with awe and glee. However, this is where my humorous take on the subject ends.

I recall vividly during those turbulent times for President Clinton that he was often accused of staging a “Wag the Dog” and attempting to remove the interests from his personnel problems to that of bin Laden. During that specific timeline, President Clinton was accused of having bin Laden on the mind many times in Senate hearings.

Now, these same individuals are screaming loudly that Clinton did not do enough to get bin Laden when he had the chance and this is wrong. These same people cannot have it both ways, they cannot scream he is doing too much then change their tune to not doing enough. During that time, I also recall news that President Clinton wanted to enter Afghanistan to hunt for bin Laden and told no by the military and the Senate. Again, these same people cannot have their dinner served both ways.

Personally, I am not nor will be any Clinton supporter, however people cannot rewrite history to suit their needs and desires and to take path is very wrong.

I am sure many more little tidbits will come out of tonight’s interview, however I felt obligated, at least morally to comment on the bin Laden affair.

4 comments:

  1. Do you ever go to YouTube? The Clinton interview can be viewed there in three parts. It's the first two that are most interesting. The stuff about his Global Initiative are self serving at best {in my mind}.

    The one thing that I found most interesting about this is that he admitted he made mistakes. More to the point, he admitted there were foreign policy failures. Yes, the CIA and FBI screwed up. But he admitted that he failed. That is not something I have heard from someone sitthing in that big white house on Pennsylvania recently. Not without some disclaimer.

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