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| Monday, September 25, 2006 |
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Something in the Air
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 Before Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz have the chance to spin this for you I thought I'd give you my impression of Bill Clinton's verbal dressing down of Chris Wallace and Fox News Sunday evening. As you might predict, I thought it was glorious. No doubt irked that a sound clip from over a decade ago has been circulated ad infinitum to pin the blame for 9/11 on him rather than the administration who's watch it actually happened on, Bill Clinton made the excellent points that he was after Bin Laden in Somalia*, and that he was working to destroy terrorist training camps when he launched that missile in Afghanistan. At the time the conservatives had a good, hearty laugh at him. "That was 'Wag the Dog'," he correctly remembered.
He went on to point out that Richard Clarke had been studying the Middle Eastern terror front for years and he left him in command when he exited office. Clarke was subsequently demoted by the Bush administration and Clarke says in his book (no I haven't read it but I've seen him talking about it on TV) that he couldn't get the attention of anyone in the Bush administration about Bin Laden.
After Fox aired a clip of the interview earlier in the day they cut back to the news desk where the anchors rolled their eyes all around, "Wow, he really seems defensive, doesn't he?" Well I guess when someone's launching an offense at you a defense might be called for, especially if the offense is trying to blame you for the death of 3,000 people. I really can't recall...well, maybe outside the Dean Scream...a time when I've seen newscasters who are supposed to be detached and objective do anything so tacky as to roll their eyes and take on a "Gaaah..." tone like that.
The Fox crew can roll their eyes and snicker like a bunch of high school punks all they want, something is in the air. In an interview with Barbara Walters Thursday night Fox's own Bill O'Reilly went as far as to say, "Bush has made a lot of mistakes," and, "Bill Clinton is a really smart guy who was a good president." Tucker Carlson has said, "In 50 years people will say the Iraq war was a mistake," and just yesterday Fox's Britt Hume said, "The Clinton administration was basically an eight-year party." Even a former booster like Chris Matthews introduced a clip for an early Bush, Jr. speech with, "Here's a clip from back when I thought this guy was competent."
Of course now that gas is back down to prices that would have seemed outrageous a year-and-a-half ago but appear a relief now, Bush's approval ratings have rebounded by 20%. (Expect prices to continue falling until after November 3rd, after the elections, then they'll climb again.) With a few more references to God and keeping the terrorists at bay, snipping the stuff about "guest workers," Bush may find himself just popular enough with his base to bring it home in the mid-terms. But not if Bill Clinton can muster a few more blitzkriegs like that. Please, news types, phone president Clinton for an interview today!
* I can't say I followed Somalia all that closely, but this sounds plausible.
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Posted by Art | 8:01 AM EST |
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Explain, please.
You wanna know something else I heard today that our pal Rob Kerns might be interested in? The CIA didn't certify that Al Queda was behind the bombing of the USS Cole until after the 2000 elections. Therefor if it was up to anyone to retaliate, it was Bush! Yet he spent 40% of that year on vacation. Hmm!
Pro-choicers are peeling bumper stickers off their cars...people in my neighborhood are taking the "Don't Attack Iraq" signs from their yards...today I listened to the Al Franken Show and he endorsed a Dick Cheney 2008 Presidential bid.
Locally, four Democratic congressional candidates have withdrawn from their respective races; poll numbers showed them trailing their GOP opponents by an average of 40%. What's more, two of those four Democrats not only endorsed their Republican opponents, but publicly switched parties.
It's amazing what George Bush can accomplish with a mere phone call. Cross your fingers that poll numbers will indicate ending the War in Iraq will further sway people towards the GOP. I'm sure Bush is just itching to hit "4" on speed dial (Donald Rumsfeld) signaling an instantaneous end to the fighting and a stable government in Iraq.
Oh, crap: He hit "5" instead and Osama bin Laden turned himself in! Republicans win in a landslide thanks to that oaf, George Bush! He can't even dial a phone right!
As soon as we got back from that six month long deployment we had to leave again 10 days later to go down to Haiti to help with the situation going on down there...we stayed underway down there for 45 days. It was there I started voting red.
There again the military was needed but had been stripped down so bad they had to call out us who had just returned home from a deployment...truly sucked.
Why is everything always a conspiracy of the highest magnitude.
I don't recall all the specifics...I do recall that the mandated Ethanol blends put a real crimp in production...
Funny how a person doesn't think twice when the price of bread or broccoli changes by as much as 50 cents week-to-week, but when gas fluctuates it is...as Scott eloquently stated...a conspiracy of the highest magnitude.
The health of a nation can be judged by the time people have to waste creating and believing conspiracy theories.
Even with Satan...excuse me, Bush...at the helm, we're apparently pretty healthy, at least if Art's blog is any barometer.
After November when prices go up again it'll be "the holiday driving season." When it keeps climbing, "It's springtime." It's some season or holiday all the time.
http://zfacts.com/p/35.html
And where's all the comments on O'Reilly, Wallace, Carlson and Matthews? Or that Bush couldn't name world leaders? Discuss!
Hey, Art...tell me your thoughts on drilling here in America. Bush wants to lower your gas prices by exploring our own sources of petroleum.
Will you let Bush help you out, Art? Please? He's knocking...he's peering through your window. "Hey, Art...you home? Let's talk about this. You want cheaper gas, Art? Hello?"
You should get a hobby or something. Maybe you could volunteer somewhere.
Perhaps you can dig up some dirt from his elementary school teachers. "I remember George. He used to play 'hangman' in class, and for some reason he always named the guy...Chad. Hmmmm...."