Bill Clinton: America’s reigning embarrassment-in-chief

July 8, 2008

Bill Clinton may be the master of the underhanded political slap - but can't he at least refrain from smearing an entire class of his country's war heroes in the process?

Including, inferentially, de facto Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

Sadly, self-restraint is not the thing that Bill Clinton does best; it would require just a bit too much honor from America's reigning embarrassment-in-chief.

"It's like if you know anyone who's ever a POW for any length of time," the former president opined in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend, "you will see that [they] go along for months or even years and then something will happen that will trigger all those bad dreams."

Better keep an eye on those former prisoners-of-war, in other words - you never know when they might snap.

Maybe at 3 a.m., don't you know.

It's a breathtakingly ignorant stereotype, of course - but none too surprising from a man whose chief experience of armed combat consisted of avoiding it.

Or, come to think of it, from a politician whose party's nominee for president happens to be facing just such a war hero in November.

Not that Clinton would ever come out and attack McCain directly over his five-year Vietnam captivity. The ex- president's remark came instead - and somewhat awkwardly - in the middle of effusive praise for former South African President Nelson Mandela.

But Clinton, veteran political animal that he is, knows precisely how to plant a seed.

It's disgraceful - and doubly unfair to the men of Clinton's generation (and, potentially, those of the present one) who languished for years in captivity.

Clinton joked in the same speech that, as someone who's "not running for anything," he can "pretty well" say whatever he wants.

If that's how he chooses to present himself, so be it.

But he'd do a big favor to the dignity of the office he held if, just once, he held his tongue in such circumstances.

Fat chance of that, though.

Source: NY Post

Posted by Hillary · Filed Under Bill Clinton, Commentary, Editorials/Opinion, Top Story

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2 Responses to “Bill Clinton: America’s reigning embarrassment-in-chief”

Peggy McGilligan on July 8th, 2008 10:06 pm

Barbara Olson wrote, “The Clinton era is far from over and Hillary’s ambitions far from satisfied.” Ms. Olson was aboard American Airlines Flight 77 bound for Los Angeles, as a guest on Bill Maher’s popular TV show, Politically Incorrect, when her plane was hijacked and flown into the Pentagon. Date: September 11, 2001. During her suspended campaign, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is redoubling her efforts, removing obstacles, and paving the way for her comeback. When Senator Obama was forced to land due to a “controllability issue,” KSDK-TV in St. Louis reported, “The same plane was used by Hillary Clinton during the primaries, but after Obama clinched the nomination, he began using it.” By now the name Clinton is synonymous with midair mysteries too numerous to explore herein. Even bad boy Congressman Gary Condit’s intern & love interest Chandra Levy vanished in route to an airport. Barbara Olson wrote, Hell To Pay, the definitive work on Hillary Clinton, and was hot on Gary Condit’s trail. During Mr. Obama’s unscheduled layover, oil soaked fabric bearing the monogram HRC was found packed into the tail section’s hydraulics; but authorities say remnants of the signature green scarf may have been from a previous repair. Besides, millions of people have the same initials. Again, to borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton, “It ought to make the bells go off in your head:” http://theseedsof9-11.com
Jake on July 9th, 2008 7:07 am

Why isn’y this pathetic excuse for an American doing hard time in a prison somewhere? Clinton is a criminal thug who’s only accomplished talent is fooling the uninformed and nailing lonely women. Lock this hack up.

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