Clintons vs Bush - Championship fight

It seems pretty clear what the Chris Wallace interview was about from the Clinton perspective. This is about Hillary running for office in '08. It's NOT about Bill defending his character or actions.

In the world according to Hillary, "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." 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 Bill 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."

Let's see.... Should we believe Condy Rice, Bill or Hillary??

Did Bill Clinton inhale the truth?

"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."

The last time I heard a Clinton accuse the right wingers of a conspiracy was Hillary telling the public that Bill did not have "sexual relations with that woman". Dick Morris (and others) from his cabinet have stated over and over that when it came time to give the nod to take out Bin Laden he vacillated and the opportunity dissipated. But "he tried his best"... What more could we ask? Too bad Bill. At least you left the war plans for Afghanistan at the white house. You cleard out everything else, but at least you left the plans...

Beating the "Bush"

I have been closely following the liberal rhetoric against the President. Little surprises me anymore, particularly comments from those who support a liberal ticket for selfserving purposes. For example, the past administration was ruled regularly by poles. Even Carvel admits to that. The military attack against Libya in which we totally annihilated an aspirin factory and killed cilvilians is lost in history even though its timing had to do with the impeachment heat on the President for turning the Peoples House and the Oval Office into his personal Brothel. His low life morality and debauchery led the country for 8 years. And...his charismatic charm coupled with his magic with smoke and mirrors charmed just about everyone. I voted for him TWICE! He surely had me fooled.

The Office of the President and the chief duty of the President is one in the same: To defend the Constitution and the people. There is no question, even from George Carvel, that President Bush does not have a priority to govern by poles. In fact, the poles be damned! Rather, he governs and leads as the chief defender of both the Constitution and the country. He begins and guides his day with prayer, and his motive has always been clear. It is the Oath he swore to the American People who twice, by both popular and electoral vote was placed in office by those of us who believed, supported and voted.

We are not all leaders. Not all leaders are great leaders. Not all great leaders are great in every aspect of leadership. However, as citizens who enjoy the freedom, resources and support provided by the action of those for who we campaign and elect to office, our obligation is to support our leaders and direct them towards commomly held goals. The freedom we enjoy all to infrequently is used to publically pen or verbalize our disdain for the very actions that placed these individuals in their respective position.