BRAV-effing-O

All I can say in response to this headline - Angry Clinton defends record on fighting al-Qaida - is: Bravo!

I've never been a particular fan, nor hater, of Bill Clinton. I voted for him in 1992 after having watched two more preferable candidates (first Tsongas and then Perot) cease to be viable options. But I voted for Dole in '96 and I strongly supported Clinton's Impeachment on the material facts of the case.

One thing that has really irked me for the last 5 years has been the attempt by rightwing partisans to blame 9/11 on Clinton. But what did Bush do differently prior to the tragic events of that day? Absolutely nothing which could be construed as even remotely more constructive towards heading off the threat that al Queda posed to America. To the point that he was found sitting in a grade school classroom in Florida reading a childrens book as the events unfolded. If the threat from al Queda was so blindingly obvious, as the rightwingers and their media lapdogs (ABC, FOX, etc.) would have us believe, then surely he could have found something at least slightly more constructive to do with his time!

Even after 9/11 the Bush record on pursuit of Osama bin Laden is anemic at best (bordering on traitorous at worst...).

So I say Bravo to president Clinton for vigorously pointing out the facts to NeoCon lapdog Chris Wallace.