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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (23156)9/25/2006 2:43:41 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
    The difference is that Republican officials like Rumsfeld 
    are used to being asked tough questions; Clinton isn't. 
    Also, Rumsfeld has good answers to those questions. 
    Clinton doesn't.

Why Didn't Wallace Ask the Bush Administration? He Did

Power Line

In his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Bill Clinton came across as embarrassingly low-class, as in this exchange:

<<<CLINTON: So you did FOX's bidding on this show. You did you[r] nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..

WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir...

CLINTON:..

WALLACE: I asked a question. You don't think that's a legitimate question?

CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked why didn't you do anything about the Cole. I want to know how many you asked why did you fire Dick Clarke. >>>


When Wallace replied that such questions had been asked, Clinton responded: "I don't believe you asked them that."

He did, though, as Patterico documents:


<<< [H]ere is what Wallace asked Donald Rumsfeld on the March 28, 2004 episode of Fox News Sunday:

I understand this is 20/20 hindsight, it's more than an individual manhunt. I mean - what you ended up doing in the end was going after al Qaeda where it lived. . . . pre-9/11 should you have been thinking more about that?

. . . .

What do you make of his [Richard Clarke's] basic charge that pre-9/11 that this government, the Bush administration largely ignored the threat from al Qaeda?

. . .

Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like fighting terrorism was not a top priority. >>>


The difference is that Republican officials like Rumsfeld are used to being asked tough questions; Clinton isn't. Also, Rumsfeld has good answers to those questions. Clinton doesn't.

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