Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Betsy Newmark of Betsy's page talks about Wolf Blitzer's investigations into how Bill Clinton would be handling world problems if he was president today:

Well, we know what he would do because he did or didn't do it for eight years. Look there for thoughts on how he would have handled terrorism: a few stray missiles, lots of talk, and then hope that eagle-eyed customs officials would catch those coming to bomb LAX for the millennium. For Africa and AIDS, lots of talk and apologies, but again not much there. Clinton was good on sounding good, but actually did little to carry out his fine-sounding words. Because taking action is hard and expensive.

To find out how Clinton would have handled things, don't ask him today when he can say anything, look to his real record. For example, now he's mouthing off that he would have really, truly gone after Bin Laden if he'd just had the proof that OBL was behind the bombing of the Cole.

Oh, yeah. Remember when he launched a few missiles into the Bin Laden training grounds in Afghanistan. If he knew enough to do that, why didn't he continue the battle instead of just stopping?

Just remember, if Hillary is elected, we'll get two for the price of one. Do the American people really have such a haze of good thoughts about his presidency that they want him back cruising the world with lots of free time and no elective office, just whatever assignment his wife would give him? Even if you believe that he was responsible for the economies of the 1990s, we're in a different world now and I hope voters would be clear-eyed about what he actually did and didn't do in office. But I have no such optimism. The fact that so many people remember his feckless presidency fondly is just as depressing to me as it must be to the far left to know that so many people like George W. Bush.
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