Posted by
JDComments on Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:41:39 AM
In listening and watching the Clintons defend Bill's actions for eight years in regards to the terrorist threat to the country, I am amazed at the almost glee they both take in describing both his powerlessness, and ignorance, as if these are the highest attributes a US President can evince. After listening to Bill blame everyone [including those wicked Uzbekistani's ] for his failure to capture or kill Bin Laden, one cannot help but walk away with the feeling that the President is truly just a figurehead sans any real power who is at the mercy of the FBI, CIA, NeoCons, foreign nations, [and obviously any intern with salacious thoughts]. To think we could expect him to exert leadership against these cabals in order to defend the country!
And, in truth, was he even aware of a threat to national security? Sure, terrorists tried to blowup the World Trade Center, succeeded in blowing up our foreign embassies, and attacked the USS Cole, but what did that really mean? According to Hillary, nothing, since he never received a written, detailed memo saying Bin Laden was going to attack the US [which according to an excellent article in the Weekly Standard
Warning Signs he in fact did receive!]. Talk about turning a highly unlikely ignorance into a virtue! Everybody knew Bin Laden was targeting us it seems to me, and yet Hillary insists the President was uanware, or else he would have been moving Heaven and Earth to protect us, not like those inept Republicans in the beginning of 2001. Aside from the fact that this seems to be contradicted by Bill himself [why would he be trying to kill Bin Laden unless he posed a threat to the US?],it is both shocking and dismaying to me that the Clintons would brew this disturbing recipe of presidential stupidity with executive powerlessness and believe it will work as an effective response to those who say the Democrats are weak on national security. If this is the best they can offer, a Forrest Gump model of the Presidency, this country may have a lot more to worry about than foreign terrorists. It can have another Clinton as President.