Clinton on FNS Part Deux (VIDEO)

September 24th, 2006 at 07:52 by MsUnderestimated

Now Chris asks Clinton about several things, including his recent comment that he was sick of “Karl Rove’s bullshit.” Clinton first starts to patronize, then he suddenly seems to intimate he admires Rove for his political savvy.

WALLACE: Let’s talk some politics. In that same New Yorker article, you say that you are tired of Karl Rove’s B.S., although I’m cleaning up what you said.

CLINTON: But I do like the — but I also say I’m not tired of Karl Rove. I don’t blame Karl Rove. If you’ve got a deal that works, you just keep on doing it.

WALLACE: So what is the B.S.?

CLINTON: Well, every even-numbered year, right before an election, they come up with some security issue.

In 2002, our party supported them in undertaking weapons inspections in Iraq and was 100 percent for what happened in Afghanistan, and they didn’t have any way to make us look like we didn’t care about terror.

And so, they decided they would be for the homeland security bill that they had opposed. And they put a poison pill in it that we wouldn’t pass, like taking the job rights away from 170,000 people, and then say that we were weak on terror if we weren’t for it. They just ran that out.

This year, I think they wanted to make the questions of prisoner treatment and intercepted communications the same sort of issues, until John Warner and John McCain and Lindsey Graham got in there. And, as it turned out, there were some Republicans that believed in the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions and had some of their own ideas about how best to fight terror.

The Democrats — as long as the American people believe that we take this seriously and we have our own approaches — and we may have differences over Iraq — I think we’ll do fine in this election.

But even if they agree with us about the Iraq war, we could be hurt by Karl Rove’s new foray if we just don’t make it clear that we, too, care about the security of the country. But we want to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, which they haven’t for four years. We want to intensify our efforts in Afghanistan against bin Laden. We want to make America more energy-independent.

And then they can all, if they differ on Iraq, they can say whatever they want on Iraq.

But Rove is good. And I honor him. I mean, I will say that. I’ve always been amused about how good he is, in a way.

But on the other hand, this is perfectly predictable: We’re going to win a lot of seats if the American people aren’t afraid. If they’re afraid and we get divided again, then we may only win a few seats.

WALLACE: And the White House, the Republicans want to make the American people afraid?

CLINTON: Of course they do. Of course they do. They want us to be - - they want another homeland security deal. And they want to make it about — not about Iraq but about some other security issue, where, if we disagree with them, we are, by definition, imperiling the security of the country.

And it’s a big load of hooey. We’ve got nine Iraq war veterans running for the House seats. We’ve got President Reagan’s secretary of the Navy as the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Virginia. A three-star admiral, who was on my National Security Council staff, who also fought terror, by the way, is running for the seat of Curt Weldon in Pennsylvania.

We’ve got a huge military presence here in this campaign. And we just can’t let them have some rhetorical device that puts us in a box we don’t belong in.

That’s their job. Their job is to beat us. I like that about Rove. But our job is not to let them get away with it. And if they don’t, then we’ll do fine.

WALLACE: Mr. President, thank you for one of the more unusual interviews.

CLINTON: Thanks.

Oh, and the Republicans use fear to win elections? He says if it’s terror, then the dems lose, so why is that? And does he really think that we’re just making these threats up? The foiled U.K. plot, the repeated Zawahiri videos, Hezbollah gone crazy, and the Muslim freak-out over the Pope are “made up?” Well, I’m sure that the democrats all think that, but come on!

And even though the tone is a bit different in this segment, the contempt is still there in Clinton’s face. He’s steamed, and I love it!

Watch the 2nd half of the interview here.

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    IT'S PRETTY BAD WHEN HUGO CHAVEZ GET'S A STANDING OVATION IN NEW YORK AT THE UN, FOR CALLING OUR PRESIDENT THE DEVIL. BUT THE TRUTH HURTS SOMETIMES. I BEG YOU CONSERVATIVES TO PLEASE RECONSIDER THE TERRIBLE MISTAKES YOU ALL ARE ABOUT TO MAKE BY VOTING REPUBLICAN THIS NOVEMBER. READ THE CONSTITUTION AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. AND IF YOU HAVE BRAINS, YOU WON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN.
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    Bill Clinton really made Chris Wallace look like an idiot. He spoke the truth and would not let you right wingers keep him from saying what he wanted to. It's time for you people to wake up and realize what's going on in this country instead of listening to whatever Rush Limbaugh tells you. Rumsfeld said, "We know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction." Of course he did, because the US gave him all the CX gas, Serin gas, and Anthrax he needed to use against Iran in the 1980's. If you don't believe it, LOOK IT UP. Some of you might find it hard to believe the pictures of Donny Rumskull hugging and shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. Please I beg you all to do your own research about politics and foreign policy. If you do, you will see that everything you find will contradict everything George Bush and Fox News Network has been saying for the past 7 years. President Bush really is a devil, he is destroying our constitution, and our rights as citizens. He turns everything over to private business, including the war in Iraq, as well as Hurricane Katrina. Find the real truth about the hurricane and you will find that never before in our history as a Nation, has our countrymen been abandoned the way those good people of New Orleans and Mississippi have been. Step up Americans and take your country back. I dare anybody that says Clinton was a bad President, to go to The White House.com, Bush's website, and look at his statistics as president. He didn't squander the massive surplus which he created, NO, President chucklenuts George Bush did.
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    Fox News evening interview Presidental Tantrum and disclaimer session duly noted. Vicious conservative conspiracy and hatchet job, okay, sure, fine. Blowjobs from starstruck sexually harassed interns in the damn Oval office?, admittedly so. Economic blunders, lost surplus,
    Bush could be a better public speaker himself.
    Kerry was/was not a war hero/character. Jane Fonda,however, is still a traitor who has not apologized. Bush trusted his friends and advisors when he needed people he could trust. Did that go well, apparently not.

    I have to at this point, agree with Glenn Beck. He made an excellent point last night, and I hope I can accurately paraphrase his message here:

    It no longer matters who had sex where, who missed his flight physical appointment in the national guard or who was a Rhodes scholar. IT doesnt matter who threw medals over what fence, or who did what during the Vietnam war period. It no longer makes a difference whether George Bush sat too long reading My Pet Goat, or if Clinton should have attacked UBM after the first WTC bombing. We cannot afford to keep looking backwards and bashing each other over past deeds and omissions.

    WE NEED TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE, and deal with the threat in FRONT OF US. We are at war with terrorists, with significant real danger on the horizon. It doesnt matter how we got into IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, it matters that we finish what we started and win the coming conflict. Islamic terror/jihad is an ACTUAL, CLEAR, and PRESENT Danger. We can fight among ourselves about who said what at which hearing 5-20 years ago, or we can concern ourselves with survival over the next 5 years.

    Drop the bullshOt about Bill/Hillary/George Sr/Jr/Plame/Halliburton. Focus on the guy coming at us with a gun and a bomb under his arm, who believes it is his GOD GIVEN task to attack and destroy WESTERN CULTURE.

    Again, I might not have fully tranlated his message, but gee willy folks, we gotta stop talking about who did what to who in third grade, and worry about today and tomorrow.

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