Come On Mrs. Clinton Lite Our Fire
Well Mrs. Clinton is sure using her voice in defense of her husband Former Bill Clinton in attacking the Secretary of State. For the life of me I can't recall her voice at all during her years as the first lady when her husband "I did not have sex with that woman" was Commander and Chief. While in office the President and the first lady didn't provide much in the way of explainations except to provide a lot of lip service. Their silence spoke volumes, and their actions were a disgrace. So now the lovely Senator is trying to serve up a little "Rice" on the American plate and hand it to us in defense of her husband. That's just poor politics.
"I think my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take these attacks," Hilary Clinton said Tuesday. "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team." If we recall the former President was a little too busy, Forgive me, I can't recall which woman he was sleeping with or what cover-up he was taking his dustpan and broom on in 1993.
The senator was referring to a classified brief given to Bush in August 2001, one that Democrats say showed the Bush administration did not do enough to combat the growing threat from al-Qaida.
When the brief was delivered, Rice was Bush's national security adviser, and Clinton's response was clearly designed to implicate her in the same criticisms that have been made of Bush.
Clinton's response came a day after Rice denied President Clinton's claim in the television interview that the Bush administration had not aggressively pursued al-Qaida before the attacks of 2001.
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice said during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post. "The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false, and I think the 9/11 commission understood that."
Rice also took exception to President Clinton's statement that he "left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy" for incoming officials when he left office.
"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida," she told the newspaper, which is owned by News Corp., the company that owns Fox News Channel.
The former president was angered during the television interview when asked why he didn't do more to fight al-Qaida.
"That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try."
And Mrs. Clinton your one minute is up, my dear!
