Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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E.J. Dionne, Meet Lawrence Wright
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
8:20 AM
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In today's column on Hillaray and Senator Obama, E.J. Dionne lets fly with a howler about Bill Clinton that tells us everything we need to know about the lies lefty writers tell themselves:
And if Bill is the real issue, doesn't his stewardship look awfully good now when compared with that of the current White House occupant?
I suspect Dionne genuinely believes this, and the whole 9/11 thing, or Lawrence Wright's carefully chronicled Clinton somnambulance leading up to it, just doesn't exist for him.
Forget Monica, Marc Rich etc. It is as though, writing in 1946, Dionne had penned a fond recollection of the days of good old Neville.
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CheneyBush were "not in power" for the nine months leading up to 9/11?
Interesting. Please explain. |
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B-Rob, here are some numbers for you about your hero Clinton and the real cost of defunding the military and being a weak-willed leader.
Battle of Mogadishu:
160 member military team
18 dead
73 wounded
Dead = 11.25 %
Wounded = 47%
Lack of training, coordination and backup were directly linked to lack of defense funding.
Clinton's politics caused problem. Disaster from his actions ensured that Mr. Poll would never try that again.
Bush's % and success rate are much better I'd wager. |
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I've actually read The Looming Tower. You obviously have not. The book is an indictment of Clinton from the beginning to end. Give me a break. How many times did Clinton have an opportunity to take out OBL? This man made every political decision he ever made only after looking at a poll. He refused to confront Islamo-fascim but felt the need to drop bombs on a European country that had absolutely no impact on America: the perfect feel-good Clinton policy decision. Have you even listened to Wright being interviewed? He's very clear of his intent in the book. Clinton slept for 8 years and Americans died because of it. I doubt you have actually read the book based on your silly analysis above, but if you truly have go back and read the first few chapters.
How many attacks have there been on American soil since 9/11? How many AQ were killed by Clinton? What tangible policy did Clinton put in place to confront Islamo-fascism?
Lewis? The Muslim apologist? LOL. Try reading Robert Spencer and getting a clue. Say hello Ms. Sheehan when you see her. You guys could burn the flag together and tell Bush jokes. |
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Just because you say it, it is suddenly true? Give me a break. I like how you try to spin the stock market data. Stocks reached there highest level EVER under Bush. (Nice try with the S&P. Do you even invest?) The economy Bush inherited was in the tank. Gore was running on the past. And, BTW, he freakin' lost. If the economy was so wonderful, why did he lose? And lose to the son of an unpopular ex-President. Get a grip, dunce. Lost also despite the fact that Clinton was popular (even as the economy was tanking when he left office.) Yes, Clinton did manage to calm the annual deficit - by raising taxes and by totally and utterly gutting the military. Did domestic spending in any category go down under Clinton? No. He raised taxes on those that actually work and produce. (And, of course, he lucked out on the internet and tech stocks.) And then not content he went to work destroying the world's finest military. Do you know anybody in military, B-Rob? (I doubt it. Lefties usually avoid those that love their country.) If so, ask them what they thought of Clinton. Ask them about their ability to train under Clinton.
"Name a single economic indicator that was worse under Clinton than under Bush." Unemployment.
Now go back and report to Koz.
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really paid off for clinton!
B-rob, you're a joke in your assessment of what Bush has done v. clinton in the War on Terror and other accomplishments. Millions of people have a shot at democracy now. 2 countries freed, 1 tyrant in a jail cell, 1 crazy leader backed off his plans for agression, best economy (inflation, house sales, jobs) ever. Highest stock market numbers ever.
Clinton ignored attacks since '93 except to bomb an aspirin factory. He did spray down a Jew though, probably to appease the hollywood types and other middle eastern fans.
Face it (haha) Clinton left the mess for the grown-ups to clean. Also, notice how this war is much less costly than any previous war except the Hatfield-Mccoy feud.
BWAHAHAHA UH BWAHA |
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How about "Not In Power"? |
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The country had a manufacturing base under Clinton and the budget went into surplus. The stock market dropped some, corrections are normal and healthy, but the economy was relatively strong. If the economy was so poor under Clinton in 2000, Al Gore wouldn't have had a chance (and he lost by a hair). No, I'm not a leftie, just a conservative who has had it with profligate spending and the folly of nation building in the middle east. |
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A leftist with facts is like Superman with Kriptonite ( It never happens). They would not want ro confuse a good story with actual facts and sound reasoning. It just plain easier to blame it all on conervatrves and Bush. I disagree with Bush on almost every domestice issue. Social Security should cease to exist as well as the Depatment of Homeland security ( we already have a CIA and FBI)as well the prescription drug program as well as the Department of Education ( it should be privatized). But at least he is not a freaking gutless puke like Clinton ( afraid to make any decision). I dare anyone to come up with one substantial thing Clinton did in 8 years other than just do nothing. He reformed welfare but only because he was dragged kicking and screraming into it by Gingrich. |
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The economy was stronger under Clinton?
Ahhh, no it wasn't.
It is true that the economy was good under Clinton. Of course, it had nothing to do with him and everthing to do with the phony tech bubble. (You remember those days when companies run by slackers had stock that kept going up and up and up despite making no money.)
You Lefties all conveniently forget that Bush revived an economy in shambles and a stock market that had lost half it value. And then 9/11 happened. Bush's economic leadership has led us back to a booming economy despite facing the worse conditions left to him by The Pervert.
But, hey, keep living the dream and telling yourself the same lies over and over. |
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would be over at DU or Koz discussing how horrible it is that the Clinton NSA was spying on Princess Di. "Shocked. Shocked." |
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1. Roll around in feel good politics like a dog in feces.
2. Get poorly educated humps and lazy intellectuals to stroke you to make everyone feel good.
3. Waste time on trifling matters that earn refrigerator post-it points.
4. Ignore warnings and signs of imminent disaster.
5. Do nothing.
6. Claim ignorance, display notmyfaultitis, blame others and scream and cry until people feel sorry for you.
7. Wait for humps and slouches to defend you. 8. Repeat mantra until it becomes facts just like Pravda. |
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a tiny portion of a 200-million-year-old weather phenomenon on Bush? sheesh.
Interesting how anything Bad in this world never occurs when a leftist is in the White house. Correction: in their re-write of history, these things never happen. |
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"Deny global warming and other environmental phenomena, and who benefits? Big corporations that save millions on scrubbers and other expensive environmental compliance measures."
Is it just me, or does someone who thinks "scrubbers" have anything to do with controlling C02 emissions to fight glogal warming is not particularly credible on the subject?
The earth has warmed by about 1 degree over the past century. Human-caused C02 emissions are responsible for some portion of this increase. That is as far as the scientific consensus goes on global warming. There is a majority view -- not quite a full "consensus" -- that C02-associated climate forcing is responsible for the majority of the increase. This is based on the fact that no other cause has yet been identified. When "creation scientists" try to pull something like that, it's denigrated as a "God of the gaps" argument -- that is, the idea that because something can't now be fully explained, a particular pet theory suggesting an explanation must be true.
If I'm going to be asked to pay $6 per gallon of gas, I'm going to require a lot firmer evidence than the sloppy, mendacious partisan hackery Al Gore and his merry men are peddling. |
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911 happened on a conservative watch, and Iraq, and Katrina, and Terri Schaivo. Conservative policies are simply failures. I thank W for showing all of us what conservatism is all about. Fear, greed and religous self-righteousness. |
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as a jokester rather than a liberal idiot
- Jihad started in January 2001
- 9/11 planning didn't start till SCOTUS decision in December 2000
He HAS to be just pretending to be an idiot. Not even the looniest of the loons could make those arugments with a straight face |
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had nothing to do with Clinton. However, the Clinton recession, I believe, DID stem or was aggraveted by his attack on Microsoft. |
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Once again, Hugh Hewitt is out of touch. Clinton was a more successful president. The economy was stronger, the budget was balanced, and he didn't get us mired in a war in the middle east. Clinton made mistakes and had serious flaws, but they pale in comparison to W. W's father broke down at that ceremony in Florida last week for a reason, because he realizes the gravity of the damage his son has done to this country. |
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Do you notice that Briggsy never answers questions; he just brings up events or photos that have nothing to do with reality. I bet if I looked hard enough I could find pictures of Clinton a the King. I know there are plenty of pictures of the Clintons kissing and hugging Arafat and other "Terrorists." |
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Review the history of the Clinton Admin doing everything they can to install islam into the public schools, with the backing of the Saudis who flood mosques across the US with anti-Jewish and anti-Christian hate literature. Then KNOW that Clinton is a major enabler. As Pelosi et al shall also be, in Spades. |
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on the US, while Clinton was in office, and Clinton's own behavior was cited as evidence of the enemy's righteousness (or our decadence, your choice).
So riddle me this, what did Clinton do during this war to make the country safer? What moves did he make after the Trade Center bombing to head off the embassy bombings, the USS Cole? Khobar, how did he handle Khobar? Besides heading off any investigations of Iran?
Or put the blinders back on, pretend that 9/11 was planned retroactively as a response to Bush being elected, and crawl back into the dustbin of revisionism. |
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Briggsy, let me see if I get this stright. The "terrorists" that attacked the WTC in 1993 were not angry at Bill Clinton for winning the election, but the "terrorists" that attacked us in 2001 were angry at Bush for stealing the election!
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So if the Florida Supreme Court had its way, and Gore had been installed, then we could blame 9/11 on him? I now see your tortured logic. |
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