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Monday was the anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 149 men and women -- most of them federal workers -- and 19 children dead. As is his habit, former President Bill Clinton used the occasion to bash his critics.
In a New York Times opinion piece, "What We Learned in Oklahoma City," Clinton placed the blame on Americans who have advocated smaller government. The terrorists -- bomber Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices -- who targeted the Murrah Federal Building, he wrote, "took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the bombing...
Using the Oklahoma City Bombing
Winning is all this disgrace cares about. Him winning. His administratiion, his party, his wife.
His party is in danger of losing the independents and the elections in 2010. So Clinton exploits the deaths of innocent Americans in 1995 to cast criticism of Democrat Party policies in an unfavorable light.
This is variation on Andrew Klavan's explanation of liberal's favorite argument against conservatives - "Shut Up!"