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The 9/11 Presidency
In the 2008 presidential election, Americans sent a clear message that that they had put Sept. 11 in the rearview mirror.
This started to become apparent early on, when Rudy Giuliani -- who emerged as an international hero for his leadership during that horrific day -- saw his once-promising candidacy evaporate in the Florida sunshine while he drew cackles any time he mentioned the terrorist attacks.
In the end, Barack Obama, who was an Illinois state senator at the time of the attacks, trounced a war hero with decades of national security experience. "We can’t afford the same politics of fear that invokes 9/11 as a way to scare up votes," Obama declared during the campaign, as part of his case for change.
When they cast their votes last November with the economy in crisis, just 9 percent of Americans named terrorism as their most important issue, compared to 19 percent four years earlier, according to exit polls.
In his victory speech, Obama recounted the story of a 106-year old woman who had cast a vote, noting seminal events in America that took place throughout her lifetime, yet he somehow skipped over Sept. 11. In all of the euphoria, nobody seemed to mind.
But while most of America has moved on from that horrific Tuesday morning, the occupant of the White House could not.
"As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as it had been before 9-11," President Bush said in Thursday night's farewell address. "But I never did. Every morning, I received a briefing on the threats to our nation. And I vowed to do everything in my power to keep us safe."
Whatever criticisms can be made about President Bush -- and there are plenty of valid ones -- it must be said that he prevented another terrorist attack on American soil, which became the focus of his presidency since Sept. 11.
Some respond that Clinton went without a terrorist attack after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but they omit the fact that he presided over the buildup of Al Qaeda, which pulled off attacks on U.S. embassies in 1998 and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.
During the Bush administration, controversy over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, the use of torture, warrantless surveillance, and the Iraq War were a drag on his presidency. But at the root of everything was the fact that after Sept. 11, the administration was confronted with an entirely fresh set of questions, and became the canary in the mineshaft.
How do you fight an ideological enemy that doesn't fight conventionally? Do combatants who do not wear uniforms or abide by the Geneva Conventions deserve the same treatment as those who do? How far should the U.S. be willing to go when interrogating terrorists who could have knowledge of impending attacks? Should nations that sponsor terrorism be treated as if they were terrorist groups themselves?
To his critics, the answer was easy -- Bush destroyed the reputation of the United States by pursuing a costly and unnecessary war and stomping on civil liberties in the name of security. But the reality is much more complicated when the safety of 300 million Americans is your responsibility.
Obama will soon find this out, and some indications are that he has already. While he made a firm pledge to close Guantanamo Bay on the campaign trail, speaking to George Stephanopoulos this Sunday, Obama was a bit more equivocal.
"It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize," he said. While still vowing to honor his pledge, Obama explained that "part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom who may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication. And some of the evidence against them may be tainted even though it's true. And so how to balance creating a process that adheres to rule of law, habeas corpus, basic principles of Anglo-American legal system, by doing it in a way that doesn't result in releasing people who are intent on blowing us up."
In the coming years, Obama will either validate Bush's policies by being forced to embrace some of them, or reverse them, in which case we'll be able to judge the comparative results.
When historians attempt to make sense of why President Bush made the decisions he did, every action will have to be viewed through the prism of Sept. 11.
Philip Klein is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent.
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Michael L. Hauschild| 1.16.09 @ 7:22AM
Thanks Ken. Only on pages such as this, can you get analysis without unmitigated adoration or involuntary hate.
Jeremiah| 1.16.09 @ 7:31AM
As a true and unrepentant liberal, my sympathies and a kind of moral solidarity have shifted towards the president since he began polling approval ratings below 30%.
I was actually with him politically on immigration, when it seemed everyone was crying for his head, and would still argue he seems to know more about that issue than any other politician in D.C.
The best thing about George W. Bush is that he insists on using the bully pulpit in favor of spreading democracy in the Muslim world.
This will truly be his legacy: presidents after him will follow his lead and view it as simply unacceptable that a billion Muslims too often cannot so much as vote.
However, my favorite moments of Bush's presidency tend towards his athletic ability:
2. Dodging the shoe and bouncing back for me -- with a certain look of kid-playing-dodgeball good sportsmanship about him.
1. The pitch at the ball game after 9.11 -- unquestionably the time when I loved this guy.
The rest of the time, it's true, he drove me nearly half insane with what he said, did, believed, thought, spoke, tried -- and so on.
Jeremiah| 1.16.09 @ 7:33AM
error: bouncing back for more ... not for me
Michael L. Hauschild| 1.16.09 @ 7:52AM
typo - Klein
Ryan| 1.16.09 @ 8:08AM
I hold many of the same sentiments as Klein here. If you view many of Bush's actions - including his mistakes - from the point of view that he was sold out in defending our country from the threat of Islamist terrorism, I think that the picture of his Presidency becomes clearer. Yes, he may have overstepped his legal boundaries at times. Yes, he and his administration didn't do well after main combat operations in Iraq were over, and yes, he may have not done enough in Afghanistan, but he never took his eyes off the ball and off his goals.
Brian| 1.16.09 @ 8:45AM
After 9/11, the absolutely worthless, corrupt and incompetent Democrat Party successfully stabbed this nation, our President and our military in the back, all for cynical, crass political gain.
History will judge it as such. Obama has already backpedaled to the Bush position on a range of issues.
I have some hope for him, but none for the Democrat traitor scum in Congress. Our first priority needs to be throwing as many of these jackasses out of office in 2010.
Ammo Guy| 1.16.09 @ 9:10AM
Nicely said, Jeremiah, and very appropriate for this moment of transition which we Americans continue to do very well...I'm sure our forefathers would be proud of us. The shoe comment was very apropos - he did have a kid's look on his face...the youngest I've seen him look in many years.
Jeremiah| 1.16.09 @ 9:36AM
Thanks, Ammo.
I think that W is misunderstood to some extent on the left when it comes to his actual sympathy for poor or down-trodden people. (He may actually be misunderstood by people on the right when it comes to this, too.)
In addition to immigrants, particularly hispanics, whose bid for a new life in America he clearly respects and whose circumstances he understands, he has been "liberal" when it comes to disease in Africa and, as I said, the cause of democracy in the Muslim world.
Time will come for me to start criticizing him again. But I don't see any harm taking a day to think kindly of W.
Deborah| 1.16.09 @ 9:47AM
I had a tear in my eye last night listening to the president. He is a good man with a strong sense of duty to the country. He has been villified in a most sickening way, and he has stood up straight and still has done what he thought was right to defend the country. Will we ever find out how many bullets we've dodged because of his actions? Hard to say. But he has taken the slings and arrows and shoes thrown at him with good humor and determination. That's the American spirit writ large. God's speed, Mr. President.
Ammo Guy| 1.16.09 @ 10:22AM
Along those lines, there was an interesting poll out today that showed "a 72 percent majority of Americans believe Bush is a good person, including an overwhelming majority of Republicans (93 percent) as well as majorities of Democrats (56 percent) and independents (74 percent)." Perhaps when you are this close to the end of a presidential term, that is all you can hope for - time and history will be the ultimate judge here on earth...God will sort out the rest.
Anthony| 1.16.09 @ 11:33AM
Less than a week before Mr. Bush leaves office we learn two very important things; first, Mr. Obama no longer thinks that Osama is any big deal and that he has been successfully contained. Hmmm, both Messers. Bush and McCain made the same arguement to this favorite straw dog cant the Left directed at Mr. Bush every day, and became a popular item on the Obama campaign trail. Suddenly, the great Obama can leave Osama safely in his cave, while Obama presides over the Great Depression II, that his "economic stimulus" package is guaranteed to create. Second, we learn that a Federal Appeals Court ruled back in August, but did not disclosed its opinion until the other day, that the warrantless wiretap programs of the Bush Administration were perfectly legal. Wow!! So where are the front page apologies from the NY Times and the WAPO? Same with the blowhards in the senate, Reid, Durbin and the rest of the dispicable Democrats? Maybe even poster Jeremiah and his ilk might want to as well. Not a chance; it was all a deliberate lie perpetuated by amoral frauds who justify everything through the prism of political success. So Obama is free to stand on the shoulders of the Bush Administration without any of the caterwauling from the Left. Nice work if you can get it, and apparently, only Leftists can.
PolishKnight| 1.16.09 @ 12:05PM
While I can also appreciate Bush's perspective, I have to question his and Jeremiah's selling out on the immigration issue. Bush lied to our face by declaring that he wasn't granting millions of illegals amnesty yet that's precisely what he then advocated by demanding they pay a small "fine." Did he think we were totally stupid?
While 9-11 was a tragic event, what about the millions of crimes committed by these illegals? I was in the WTC observation tower and risked my life, but what about all the risks and nuisances we have to deal with everyday due to illegals? Identity theft, larceny, tax evasion, welfare fraud, drug dealing, rape, and murder. Add them up and surely more US citizens have been killed by illegals than Osama Bin Laden!!!
At least with Osama Bin Laden, if you convert to Islam he might spare your life. With the illegals, they have a racist agenda that defines whites as second class citizens. (In fairness though, that's the case with all the Democrat special interest groups that seek to end racism and sexism by bashing one group to benefit their causes.)
Sorry GW, you kept your eye on the ball and forgot to play the game. Don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out.
Michael L. Hauschild| 1.16.09 @ 12:38PM
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Jeremiah| 1.16.09 @ 1:39PM
Polish Knight --
9.11 saw the murder of almost three thousand people in about two hours.
Illegal immigrants -- outside of their status as illegal -- commit fewer crimes than the larger population. Some crimes are commited by illegal immigrants, and waves of illegal immigrants entering the country undermines our laws. But these people come here to work, not commit crimes.
As to illegals having a racist agenda: that's just incredibly silly. It's only because we live in a society that has begun finally to put racism in the past that a person could even think that.
Goldwater Girl| 1.16.09 @ 3:43PM
While I didn't support all of W's policy positions, I do respect him for his principled beliefs, and the courage to stick with them, albeit unpopular. I think we will miss having a "leader" in the oval office, once we get the full impact of The One's pragmatic progressive'ism. I admire Bush and Cheney for making hard, unpopular decisions that kept us safe. Once the entitlement crowd finds out that National Health care really isn't free or affordable, do you think they will have the Nads to protest? I think not. This latest generation of voters wants the govt to take care of all their needs and outlaw anything that might cause harm. They disgust me.
Steve| 1.16.09 @ 6:01PM
Jeremiah,
Aren't illegal immigrants, by definition, ALL commiting a crime? Beyond that, I'm not sure how your argument that 'illegals' commit less crimes really matters. They still commit crimes, yes? They still take from many parts of the system and yet pay little into it, yes? One might argue that taking away a low-income Americans job might force some towards a life of crime, and therefore illegals are contributing to crime indirectly. This is obviously a complicated issue and will only get moreso as hispanics (both legal and illegal) become a larger part of the American populus.
Steve| 1.16.09 @ 6:10PM
Goldwater Girl,
Well said. Clinton's presidency was all over the map in an attempt to be pragmatic and solve all the issues. The result was effectively less government (I for one like gridlock since it prevents government from growing) and a time of prosperity indirectly created by the inability of the government to focus on anything in particular. If Obama tries to do too much, gridlock will ensue. Legislation will become to large and bogged down that people will cry out for a line item veto (sound familiar?). All of this spending will have some effect, but when it doesn't turn things completely around (which I think is impossible before 2010 and improbable before 2012 without true tax cuts which dems will never allow), the people will wake up and realize they have overreacted and let the lunatics run the asylum.
ruth| 1.16.09 @ 7:59PM
I will always be grateful to President Bush for his steadfast and determined efforts that have kept us safe for 7 1/2 years. I believe he has been valiant in this area. God bless you, Mr. President, you no longer have to shoulder the burden you've carried for 7 1/2 years. Thank you.
Alan Brooks| 1.16.09 @ 8:53PM
i have gone 180 from my parent's Gore Vidal marxology-- not in rebellion but now that they are deceased the loyalty to self flagellating (and condescending) anti Americanism is gone.
i "believe" the opposite of what Jeremiah believes. to hell with illegal immigrants.
to hell with the downtrodden. someone has to care?
YOU care.
God cares.
Alan Brooks| 1.16.09 @ 9:24PM
alrighty, today you have to issue a disclaimer for everything, so.
Jeremiah was referring not to illegals, as i did, but to Bush's overall "policies"-- lack thereof-- concerning our longterm greatest threat. Obama said just the other day al qaeda is our gravest threat. but thats for this century.
'immigration' is a threat for the next century, too.
91 years and counting. sooner than even a futurass_d might think.
Alan Brooks| 1.16.09 @ 9:28PM
God i wish i never heard of futurassim.
as in assinine.
Robert Rosencrans| 1.17.09 @ 6:39AM
President Bush ran his campaign on several issues, including the silly phrase "compassionate conservatism" which is another way of stating liberal. In many ways he was very liberal. From writing an education bill with Senator Kennedy, to promoting mass violations of the law through amnesty for illegal aliens, he appeared to have that part down pat.
The education bill became law, and it is routinely cursed and loved by many who view it as a failure or success. No Child Left Behind actually didn't do much except reshuffle the public education deck. There are many who claim it was a big success, but when you quadruple the funds for any program you would expect to see massive results. Public schools now are pretty much where they were 8 years ago. The dropout rates are still high and violence in public schools continues unabated.
Problems associated with illegal immigration are still with us and it's highly likely that Obama and the new Congress will get the amnesty program through and tell the public, "That's the best that can be done."
In the meantime, Bush kept his pledge to keep the nation safe and fought an aggressive war on terrorism. While he fought the war, issues sprang up on torture and surveillance.
Many liberals blinked their eyes during the Clinton Administration and the public by and large never heard of the Echelon Project, which was the most massive surveillance conducted against the public at that time. In fact, you still won't hear anything about it in the media.
On January 16th, 2009, an article appeared in the Washington Post that gave Bush a clear victory. Not much was stated about it in the MSM. An Intelligence Court ruled that National Security Interests overruled any right to privacy.
In July 2007 a federal appeals court ruled that Bush couldn't be sued over warrant less eavesdropping. Judge Anna Diggs, who had ruled the program unconstitutional, was ordered to dismiss the case.
In the meantime, I bring these issues up to show how the MSM focused on Bush failures which were failures, like NCLB, and turned his successes into failures, leading the public to believe that the eavesdropping was illegal, even though there were a sting of court victories to indicate otherwise.
The reward for the MSM is to see their ratings continue to define the bottom of the barrel, and just last week several more prominent newspapers announced pending bankruptcy.
After 8 years of a hate fest towards George Bush, he walks away with his head high, while the media continues to slap him on the way out the door, not realizing that they are fading away too.
In the meantime, the Obama train ride to D.C. is being called historic, even though it's not. Trains have been around for over a 100 years so it's hardly historic. If Obama rode a horse to D.C. I might find that interesting.
It's obvious that the MSM slobbers over those they like, and projects nothing but a hate fest for those they disdain.
I've been speculating about what will happen when Obama embraces the Bush Doctrine on the economy, which he has, and on National Security, which he has, and on Guantanamo, which Obama is waffling on.
Watch carefully. Soon, the Bush Doctrine will survive and flourish under Barack Obama. And that's what will make history.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011502311.html?hpid=topnews
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/07/nation/na-spying7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act
Jeremiah| 1.17.09 @ 7:41AM
Steve --
Yes, all illegal aliens are by definition committing a crime (illegal residence) and probably several other offenses required to remain (fake IDs or whatever).
However, I was answering the charge that compared to illegal immigration, 9.11 is no big deal -- which is completely untrue.
The "crime" that illegal aliens commit is crime, and the long term health of a democracy demands that law be obeyed (even by politicians).
But Justice also demands that the state of mind of the actor be considered as well as the consequences of the crime and any mitigating circumstances (such as, say, gigantic interests within the business community collaborating with the immigration).
I never seem to hear you people clamoring for the heads of the super rich white guys behind the whole problem. You think Mexicans come here for the food? They come here because they can get a job in a factory slaughtering chickens, say. Someone owns that factory, and that person is the one you should direct your anger at.
Somehow we only seem ever to hear about how awful a person poor Jose is -- Jose who works 16 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week, dressing chickens for 6.75 an hour.
Anthony| 1.17.09 @ 8:27AM
Robert: Why would Obama riding a horse into D.C. be of interest to you? Afterall, he and the rest of the Democrat Party rode their jackass agenda into power, with a majority of brain dead Americans chanting "Change" and "Yes we Can"!! It's minus 12 degrees where I'm sitting this morning, unheard of, and in 3 days, Obama and his fellow socialists will begin to impliment an economic green agenda based on the fraud known as anthropogenic global warming. Change we can believe in will take us back to the '30s, except there aren't any apples to sell.
Alan Brooks| 1.17.09 @ 10:04AM
[Jer, who said 9-11 is no big deal compared to illegals]
now that i'm no longer affected by white lib guilt i dont have to fret that rich white people are exploiting Jose. being curmudgeonly i fear a prole or lumpen breaking into my apt, or some other criminal threat from Jose, or a black guy [we can write Jose but not L-roy].
a progressive might fear someone in a corporation; a libertopian might [perhaps] fear someone in govt.
i fear those at the bottom-- just an idiosyncracy.
we all have our idiosyncracies.
Robert Rosencrans| 1.17.09 @ 10:56AM
Anthony: If Obama rides a horse into D.C., then the horse might create excitement and possible EBay sales if it takes a dump, and it comes out looking like Obama.
Alan Brooks| 1.17.09 @ 11:00AM
several other points;
Bush admin had to buy off loyal disloyal opposition to work on war effort. domestic cacophony confused administration
Admin was understandably overwhelmed by war choices
general public political schizophrenia of course was factor.
growing hispanic (dem) influence was factor-- hispanics vote and um like to bring select family and friends into America so they too can vote. how sweet.
Bush it goes without saying got bad advice, like calling concept No Child Left Behind, when in fact dunces and JDs will always be left behind..
naturally 9-11 derailed his presidency
Michael L. Hauschild| 1.17.09 @ 11:58AM
A. B. You are usually fairly lucid, but I am having trouble with your last post. I know you wanted to write something profound but slow down a bit. Give it another shot. I am not being facetious.
ALL AMERICANS ARE ILLEGAL ALIE| 1.17.09 @ 12:42PM
The whole of the Mexican borders is to be opened, the Canidain borders into America. Most of American Ports have been sold to Arabs and Chinese. Does that sound like a country who is afraid of terrorism.
Most Americans are their own worse enmies. George Bush invented Al-Qaeda, to frighten the hell out of Americans, turning a whole society into a bunch of paranoid mentally ill people. Who are these illegal aliens exactly, 95% of all Americans are illegal aliens.
George W Bush was the reincarnation of Caligula,
real name Gaius Caesar Germanicus Roman Emperor.
He ruled tyrannically after an illness which is believed to have left him insain. It is said he made his horse a consul.
Bush allowed a terrorist attack on his own people invented Al-Queda, to go to war and take away the right of his own people, and blame terrorist, and at the same time sell off all American ports of foreigners. It is said the pen is mightier than the sword.
To top the lot gain permission to attack Iran and Iraq, and bankrupt his country. George W Bush will go down in history as the biggest menace the world has ever know since Nero Roman Emperor.
ruth| 1.17.09 @ 1:27PM
I'm sure our mental health hospitals have an empty bed here and there.
Alan Brooks| 1.17.09 @ 3:20PM
hi Daphne.
mr. Hauschild.
the comment was a hastily written laundry list, it started with: Bush having to placate to win more support for the war effort by buying both the loyal and disloyal oppositions: he gave them goodies.
the rest of the comment was a bit more lucid. 'no child left behind' is hyperbole-- children always get left behind.
Bush likes hispanics, and they knew it, hispanic activists said more and more 'we wont vote for control-the-border candidates run by GOP'. Bush listened to them, natch.
read the rest again. will stick to short comments from now on as i like to digress too much.
and type fast!
ruth| 1.17.09 @ 3:57PM
Alan, it was Bush's instincts before he held office that led to his acceptance of liberal nanny-state policies. He was the compassionate conservative, remember?
Deborah| 1.18.09 @ 5:08AM
Hey Alie -- We all have freedom of speech, even those who fantasize. Perhaps you could make that into a screenplay. I'm sure Hollywood would scarf it up in a minute and you could make money the old fashioned way: the free market -- or not.
Tejas Forever| 1.18.09 @ 8:00AM
ALIE... My, my, are we out of our meds? Make sure your straps are not too tight.
Personally, I hope they do open the borders up to Mexico and to Canada. We could use all the resources of those two countries along with our own. We have been blurred as a soveriegn country anyway, why not enlist the help of our two closest neighbors and just have a party?
On a personal note, my Canadian girlfriend could come live with me here in Texas as well...
The POWER OF MEDIA| 1.19.09 @ 10:37AM
I must be the only person who read up on world news, but then I don't read the kind of news Murdoch puts out.
I am not surprised you people think I'm mad. If you want the truth you have to search for it it does not drop in you lap.
When people find out why you don't get the real news, it's too late for most of you.
Truth, most Americans have no clue what's going on in the world. God knows I wish you did, but you will find out but by the time you do it will be too late.
300 Million controled by FOX NEWS, that is power, I have always said if you can control peoples minds you have power over all men. It's the greatest power in the world.
If I could fool people into buying shares into a company I know is going bust, by putting out false information I would never have to get out of bed. That is what has happend to All Americans they have been brain washed.
Why would one group of people want to own all the press, all the media, because it is power, it's control.
Kat| 1.19.09 @ 11:56AM
Daphne, control your meds.
Michele San Pietro| 1.20.09 @ 3:25PM
I disagree that President Bush did not move on after 9/11. He did what he could under such an emergency: other Presidents may have acted better than him, but other ones may have acted worse. Anyway, it he hadn't been able to move on, he sure wouldn't have been re-elected by landslide in 2004. Let's remember President Bush as a honest man who did good and bad things, not as a monster or an ignoramus.
S.L. Toddard| 1.20.09 @ 6:59PM
Hey if I had committed a dereliction of duty so profoundly egregious that it allowed the worst terrorist attack in the history of the U.S. then I'd have trouble "moving on" as well. I think we should give Bush a pass on having trouble moving on after his failure to protect us - it was the worst failure to do so by any president in history. Through gross, dimwitted incompetence and obscene negligence President Bush allowed more Americans to die at the hands of terrorists than all other presidents put together. And his follow up to that unforgivable failure was to send over four thousand American soldiers to THEIR deaths, based on (and this is the most generous interpretation) an imbecilic reading of faulty intelligence.
If someone's incompetence lead to the deaths of three thousand people they were sworn to serve, and then they in their stupidity sent another FOUR THOUSAND people to THEIR deaths as part of the worst blunder in the history of U.S. foreign policy, they would have to be inhuman to be able to "move on". George Bush may be a lot of things but he is, technically, human. Cut the guy some slack.
S.L. Toddard| 1.20.09 @ 7:16PM
"After 9/11, the absolutely worthless, corrupt and incompetent Democrat Party successfully stabbed this nation, our President and our military in the back, all for cynical, crass political gain."
What an odd take on our recent history. From what I can tell the Democrats were willing accomplices in nearly every significant measure Bush took over nearly the entirety of the last eight years. They - or at least their party leaders - signed off on all of it: the conquest of Iraq, the KGB-esque illegal wiretapping of American citizens, torture, rendition, immunizing felons who aided the KGB-esque illegal spying program etc. They never offered any substantial opposition, and it seems either allowed or supported literally all of it. This is what makes them accomplices; this is what makes them (well this and their big-gov't social-justice liberalism and multiculturalism) so rancid and despicable.
By all means if there was some significant opposition on the part of the Democrats against Bush's assault on the rule of law and human decency I for one would love to hear it, but from what I can tell they are just as culpable as the Republicans for almost all that's gone so horribly wrong over the last eight years.
Kat| 1.21.09 @ 12:13AM
You wouldn't know human decency if it bit you on the butt.
Michele San Pietro| 1.21.09 @ 3:16PM
I think it's malicious and outrageous to put the blame on President Bush for 9/11. If anything, Mr. Clinton may hold part of the blame, since during his presidency he was too soft toward dictators and terrorists.
ruth| 1.21.09 @ 3:21PM
Clinton is mostly to blame for 9/11. His policies prevented information sharing among national security agencies (The Wall), and he also refused to take custody of Bin Laden 8 times! Why else did he send Sandy Burglar to the Archives to steal pertinent papers regarding his fecklessness?
Nick| 1.21.09 @ 4:15PM
It was also Bubba Pervert's FAA that allowed boxcutters to be carried on commercial flights. Thanks liberals.
Michele San Pietro| 1.25.09 @ 5:20PM
Liberals have never cared about the safety of the American people. Ann Coulter clearly explains that in her books.
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