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- FluxHarmonic, on 10/12/2007, -8/+96This is a fantastic interview. I'm glad I read it, and I can't wait to see it live when it airs. I'm glad that Clinton can stand up to Fox and explain, in pointed detail, WITHOUT beating around the ***** bush like Bush does (pun INTENDED), exactly what he's talking about.
- westhoustondem, on 10/12/2007, -7/+79The Big Dog puts Chris Wallace in his place. With not just attitude but with facts, something sorely missing in today's political debate.
Let's not forget the cries of "No war for Monica" transformed into "Clinton didn't do enough." in just a few short years.
Let's see what else is Clinton's fault, Katrina, the economy, torture and every teenager that ever tried oral sex. He had his faults, but compared to Dubya, he was a shining star. - monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71lol total ownage.
what an amature, they should've sent O'reilly.
The conversation would probably go like this
O'reilly: Do you think you did enough sir?
Clinton: No, because I didn’t get him.
O'reilly: There you have it, Bill Clinton did not do enough to catch Bin Ladin. Thank you for talking with me.
Clinton: err...
O'reilly: SHUT UP
Clinton: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some ..
O'reilly: SHUT UP
Clinton: including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying.
O'reilly: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP - JCinDE, on 10/12/2007, -6/+68I hope Fox airs this interview unedited...who am I kidding? They'll trim away 99% of the interview and take a few comments out of context to make him seem weak.
This transcript makes me wistfully remember the days when we had intelligent people in charge. - deut, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57I find it amazing that your television press is so blatantly politically biased (Both sides, left and right - I presume?).
As a UK citizen, I'm used to seeing reasonably neutral but robust lines of questioning on my TV screen by the likes of Jon Snow and Jeremy Paxman.
However, reading the stuff that's coming out of CNN & Fox, it's actually staggering (...and quite funny). I guess that's why you need The Daily Show to redress the balance! :-) - BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -7/+60OWNED!
- turricanz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+58Now this is an example of why we here in Europe (and I think the rest of the world as well) liked Clinton far more than Bush. Clinton is able to bring people together, to explain situations and solutions in normal english. He's the kind of guy who you listen to and think "mh, the man has a point". The only message Bush is able to convey is "screw you, world".
- Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53I'm curious as to whether Fox will actually air it, seeing how Clinton gets on the defensive and basically foils Wallace's plot to make him look bad.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50"This transcript makes me wistfully remember the days when we had intelligent people in charge."
Man, you speaketh the truth!!!!!! - kcmcgruff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49It is truly about time that someone slammed FOX Propaganda for what it is, the puppet show of the Bush administration. Clinton was trying to promote a global initiative, but did not get a fair shake. I do not blame him one bit for blasting away.
- Dragular, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47MORE IMPORTANTLY.... am I the only one who is glad to finally see BILL CLINTON defending BILL CLINTON? Jesus Mary and Joseph, seems like every time someone says something about Clinton, some Democrat lightweight gets sent in to defend him against a super-heavyweight like Limbaugh, ect. ect.
If we could only get him to write a book that wasn't as damn long and boring as his memoirs, I'd be a happy man. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51The world would be a much better place if Bill Clinton were still president. ***** Republicans.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45Unfortunatly it barely matters how badly Clinton owned FOX, because it is FOX... All any of the typical viewrs of the fox network will get to see of this interview is a chopped to hell version of it where they make Clinton say something like "I have a cat named Osama, I love to pet cat."
Whatever though, atleast we can know that there are people like Clinton still out there in the political world. Clinton has ten times the heart and ten times the legitamacy of Bush as a leader. What a badass. - rabidjester, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43Sadly, his ability to explain things and dice up the FOX doofus is no match for the simple slogans and talking points the current administration's marketing gurus churn out. It's depressing, but it's the truth.
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Clinton is the man.
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35I think there's a little difference between an online publication working to promote who they feel are the best candidates and an international corporation which makes a point of advancing the current administration's agenda at every turn. Get your head straight.
- youareretarded, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39I'm quoting this just because I don't want this to get "lost".
WALLACE: In a recent issue of the New Yorker you say you’re sixty years old and you’re worried about how many lives you can save…Is that what drives you in your effort to help?
CLINTON: Yes. That sounds sort of morbid. The tone in which I said was almost whimsical and humorous. This is what I love to do it’s what I think I should do. I’ve had a wonderful. I got to be president. I’ve lived the life of my dreams. I dodged a bullet with that health thing. I think I owe it to my fellow countrymen and people around the world to help save lives and help people see the future. But as it happens I love it. I feel it’s a great gift. I feel it’s a rewarding way to spend my life.
WALLACE: Someone asked you …he asked you if you could do more good as a former president than as a president and you said only if I live a long time.
CLINTON: Yea that’s true.
WALLACE: how do you compare the powers of being in office and what you can do out of office?
CLINTON: When you’re president you can operate on broader scope. You can simultaneously work to stop the genocide in Kosovo, bring peace to the middle east, pass a budget that gives millions of kids a chance to have after school programs… So in other words you’ve got a lot of different moving parts and you can move them all at once.
But you’re also more at the mercy of events. That is 43 did not run for President to deal with the events of 9/11 but once it happened it wasn’t as if he had an option. Once I looked at the economic data after I won the election, I realized I would have to work harder to reduce the deficit and therefore have less money in my first year to invest in things I wanted to invest in.
WALLACE: So what is it that you can do as a former president.
CLINTON: So what you can do as a former president, you don’t have as wide a range of powers so you have to concentrate on fewer things. But you are less at the mercy of …events. If I say look we’re going to work on economic empowerment of poor people, on fighting aids and other diseases, on trying to bridge the religious and political differences between people and on trying to avoid the worst calamities of climate change and try to revitalize the economy in the process, I can actually do that. Because tomorrow when I get up and there’s a bad headline in the papers, it’s President Bush’s responsibility and not mine. That’s the joy of being a former potus. And it is true that if you live long enough and have discipline in the way you do it — like this CGI — you might be able to effect as many lives as you did when president.
WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on fox news Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President. There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops. Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.
CLINTON: OK..
WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20 20.
CLINTON: No let’s talk about…
WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?
CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this…arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 911 commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.
They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in black hawk down and I refused to do it and stayed 6 months and had an orderly transfer to the UN.
Ok, now let’s look at all the criticisms: Black hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Bin laden had anything to do with black hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew al Qaeda was a growing concern in October of 1993.
WALLACE: …I understand…
CLINTON: No wait…no wait…Don’t tell me. You asked me why I didn’t do more to Bin Laden. There was not a living soul…all the people who criticized me wanted to leave the next day. You brought this up so you get an answer.
WALLACE: I’m perfectly happy to. Bin Laden says…
CLINTON: And secondly…
WALLACE: Bin Laden says…
CLINTON: Bin laden may have said that…
WALLACE: Bin Laden says it showed the weakness of the US…
CLINTON: It would have shown the weakness if we left right away but he wasn’t involved in that. That’s just a bunch of bull. That was about Mohammed Adid, a Muslim war lord murdering..thousands of Pakistani Muslim troops. We were all there on a humanitarian mission. We had not one mission — none — to establish a certain kind of Somali government or to keep anybody out. He was not a religious fanatic.
WALLACE: But Mr. President…
CLINTON: There was no Al Qaeda…
WALLACE: …with respect if I may. Instead of going through 93.
CLINTON: You asked you. It you brought it up.
WALLACE: May I ask a general question that you can answer. The 9/11 Commission, which you talk about, and this is what they did say, not what ABC pretended they said…
CLINTON: Wait, Wait…
WALLACE: …they said about you and 43 and I quote, “The US government took the threat seriously, not in the sense of mustering anything like that would be….to confront an enemy of the first, second or third rank”
CLINTON: That’s not true with us and Bin Laden…
WALLACE: …the 9/11 commission says…
CLINTON: Let’s look at what Richard Clarke says. You think Richard Clarke has a vigorous attitude about Bin Laden?
WALLACE: Yes I do
CLINTON: You do?
WALLACE: I think he has a variety of opinions and loyalties but yes.
CLINTON: He has a variety of opinion and loyalties now but let’s look at the facts. He worked for Ronald Regan. He was loyal to him. He worked for George Herbert Walker Bush and he was loyal to him. He worked for me and he was loyal to me. He worked for President Bush; he was loyal to him. They downgraded him and the terrorist operation. Now, look what he said, read his book and read his factual assertions — not opinions, assertions. He said we took vigorous action after the African embassies. We probably nearly got Bin Laden.
WALLACE: …
CLINTON: Now wait a minute…
WALLACE: ..cruise missiles..
CLINTON: I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him. The CIA was run by George Tenet who President Bush gave the medal of freedom to and said he did a good job.. The country never had a comprehensive anti terror operation until I came to office. If you can criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this, after the Cole I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and launch a full scale attack search for Bin Laden. But we needed baseing rights in Uzbekistan which we got after 9/11. The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that Bin Laden was responsible while I was there. They refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters and refuel at night. Even the 9/11 Commission didn’t do that. Now the 9/11 Commission was a political document too. All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book.
WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him
WALLACE: Right…
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t….. I tired. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you 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. I want to know…
WALLACE: We asked..
CLINTON:..
WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?
CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.
WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…
CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth
WALLACE: About the USS Cole?
CLINTON: tell the truth.
WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.
CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on Climate Change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…
WALLACE: [laughs]
CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.
WALLACE: But President Clinton…
CLINTON:
WALLACE: We were going to ask half the question about it. I didn’t think this was going to set you off on such a tear .
CLINTON: It set me off on such a tear because you didn’t formulate it in an honest way and you people ask me questions you don’t ask the other side.
WALLACE: Sir that is not true…
CLINTON: …and Richard Clarke…
WALLACE: That is not true…
CLINTON: Richard Clarke made it clear in his testimony…
WALLACE: Would you like to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative?
CLINTON: No I want to finish this.
WALLACE: Alright
CLINTON: All I’m saying is you falsely accuse me of giving aid and comfort to Bin Laden because of what happened in Somalia. No one knew al Qaeda existed then…
WALLACE: Did they know in 1996 when he declared war on the US? Did no one know in 1998…
CLINTON: Absolutely they did
WALLACE: When they bombed the two embassies…
CLINTON:…
WALLACE: Or in 2000 when they hit the Cole.
CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that think Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…
WALLACE: [Laughs]
CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces in to Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.
WALLACE: Can I ask you about the Clinton Global Initiative?
CLINTON: You can.
WALLACE: I always intended to sir.
CLINTON: No you intended to move your bones by doing this first. But I don’t mind people asking me. I actually talked o the 9/11 commission for four hours and I told them the mistakes I thought I made. And I urged them to make those mistakes public because I thought none of us had been perfect. But instead of anybody talking about those things. I always get these clever little political…where they ask me one sided questions… It always comes from one source. And so…
WALLACE:…
CLINTON: And so…
WALLACE: I just want to ask you about the Clinton Global Initiative but what’s the source? You seem upset?
CLINTON: I am upset because..
WALLACE: …and all I can say is I’m asking you in good faith because it’s on people’s minds sir. And I wasn’t…
CLINTON: There’s a reason it’s on people’s minds. That’s the point I’m trying to make. There’s a reason it’s on people’s minds because they’ve done a serious disinformation campaign to create that impression. This country only has one person who has worked…against terror…under Regan…only one, Richard Clarke. And all I’d say anybody who wonders whether we did wrong or right. Anybody who wants to see what everybody else did, read his book. The people on my political right who say I didn’t do enough spent the whole time I was president saying why is he so obsessed with Bin Laden. And that was wag the dog when he tried to kill him. My Republican sec of defense — and I think I’m the only person since World War II to have a Secretary of Defense from the opposite party — Richard Clarke, and all the intelligence people said that I ordered a vigorous attempt to get Osama Bin Laden and came closer apparently than anybody has since.
WALLACE: alright…
CLINTON: And you guys try to create the opposite impression when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s findings and you know it’s not true. It’s just not true. And all this business about Somalia — the same people who criticized me about Somalia were demanding I leave the next day. Same exact crowd..
WALLACE: one of the…
CLINTON: …So if you’re going to do this for gods sake follow the same standards for everybody.
WALLACE: I think we do sir
CLINTON: …be fair.
WALLACE: I think we do. One of the main parts of the global initiative this year is religious reconciliation. President Bush says that the fight against Islamic extremism is the central conflict of the century and his answer is promoting democracy and reform. Do you think he has that right?
CLINTON: Sure. To advocate democracy and reform in the Muslim world? Absolutely. I think the question is what’s the best way to do it. I think also the question is how do you educate people about democracy. Democracy is about way more than majority rule. Democracy is about minority rights, individual rights, restraints on power. And there’s more than one way to advance democracy but do I think on balance that in the end after several bouts of instability do I think it would be better if we had more freedom and democracy? Sure I do. …The president has a right to do it? Sure I do. But I don’t think that’s all we can do in the Muslim world. I think they have to see us try to get a just and righteous peace in the Middle East. They have to see us as willing to talk to people who see the world differently than we do.
WALLACE: Last year at this conference you got 2.5 billion in commitments, pledges, how did you do this year?
CLINTON: Well this year we had 7.3 billion as of this morning.
WALLACE: 7..excuse me…
CLINTON: 7.3 billion as of this morning. 3 billion of that is. That’s over a multi-year. These are at most 10 year commitments. That came from Richard Branson’s commitment to give all his transportation profits to clean energy investments. But still that’s over 4 billion. And we will have another 100 commitments and probably raise another billion dollars. We have a lot of commitments still in process.
WALLACE: When you look at the 3 billion from Branson plus billions that Gates is giving and Warren Buffet, what do you make of this age of philanthropy?
CLINTON: I think that for one thing really rich people have always given money away. They’ve endowed libraries and things like that. The unique thing about this age is first of all you have a lot of people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who are interested in issues around the world that grow out of the nature of the 21st century and its inequalities — the income inequalities, the education inequalities, the health care inequalities. You get a guy like Gates who built Microsoft and he actually believes that he can help overcome all of the health disparities in the world. That’s the first thing. Second thing…there are a lot of people with average incomes who are joining me because of the Internet. Take the tsuami for example we had 1.3 billion dollars given….by households. The third things you have all these NGO that you can partner with along with the government. So all these things together mean that people with real money in ways that help people that before would have been only the object of government grants and loans.
WALLACE: I know we’re over but can I ask you two political questions. Let’s talk some politics. In that same New Yorker article you say you’re tired of Karl Rove’s BS. I’ m cleaning up what you said.
CLINTON: 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 BS?
CLINTON: well every even number year right before an election they come up with some security issue. In 2000 right before the election …In 2002 our party supported them in undertaking weapon inspections in Iraq and were 100% behind them 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…the homeland security bill that they opposed and they put some 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… This year I think they wanted to make the question of prisoner treatment and intercepted communications the same sort of issue until John Warner came and Lindsey Graham got in there and it turns out there were some Republicans who believe in the constitution and their convictions…some ideas about how best to fight terror.
As long as the American people believe that we take this seriously and we may have our differences over Iraq but I think we’ll do fine this election. Even if they agree with us about the Iraq war we could be hurt by Karl Rove’s new foray if we don’t make it clear that we care about the security of this country. We want to implement the 9/11 commission recommendations which they haven’t in four years. We want to…Afghanistan against Bin Laden. We want to make America more energy independent. If they want to talk about Iraq say what they really want about Iraq.
But Rove is good and why I honor him…I’ve always been amused by how good he is. 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’ll only win a few seats.
WALLACE: Do you think the White House and the Republicans want to make the American people afraid.
CLINTON: Of course they do. They want another homeland security bill and they want to make it not about Iraq but some other security issue. Where if we disagree with them we are by definition endangering the security of the country. And it’s a big load of huey. We’ve got 9 Iraq war veterans running for House Seats. President Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy is the democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia. A three star admiral who was on my NSC staff — who also fought terror by the way — is running for the seat of Kurt Weldon’s in Pennsylvania. We’ve got a huge military presence in this campaign and you can’t let them have some rhetorical device that puts us in a box that we don’t belong in. That’s their job. Their job is to beat us. But our job is to not let them get away with it and if we don;’t we’ll be fine.
WALLACE: Mr. President thank you for one of the more unusual interviews. - ilikevag, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27It will probably just be cut to put clinton in a bad light.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28God damn, I sure hope this gets aired WITH NO EDITS!!!!! Since the average American only seems to believe the crap their (Fox-enabled) televison spoon feeds them, they really need to see this!!!!
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27I remember this very well, because it is mentioned in the lyrics of a song that I wrote at the time.
When Clinton was president, and he went to bomb some place where Bin Laden was supposedly involved, the Republicans, who were constantly dogging him over his private affairs, actually claimed, and it was reported in the American corporate-owned news media, that he was just trying to divert everyone's attention from the more important thing, his alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Yes, this actually was said! They said he was trying to divert the public's attention, to take the heat off himself, by trying to go after bin Laden!
How quickly we forget!
Good ole' Kenneth Starr kept the news focused on the more important thing: who was having sex with whom!
What a bunch of immature jackasses!
Then they finally figured out how to entirely steal two US presidential elections, with help from their corrupt friends who make the voting machines (Diebold), and others. (Nepotism) - orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23I hope more people read this. Compare Bush with Clinton and the people that support Bush look extremely stupid right now. Bush ain't the problem, its the people who bullheadedly support him that are. WAKE UP AMERICA FOR THE LOVE OF LIFE. WTF ARE WE DOING IN IRAQ? WTF? We are at war? In a war that was never declared a war? Is there nobody with enough vision to run for President in this country? Unfortunately we are all men, but Clinton ruled with knowledge and understanding. Bush rules with deceit and fear. Forget the comfortable life, we've gotta try and fix the age old problems in this world that need attention. Who will step up to the plate? We are all waiting. Maybe it's up to each one of us to take responsibility individually. I could go on forever, these are my ideals and damn you if you step on them. We need to educate and we need to be Human. Humane. My old history teacher used to say war is good business. ***** war. ***** good business. life is finite, but history doesn't get erased with one persons death. The actions of one person in life affect everyone that lives on. Don't ***** this world up people. Don't vote for another moron into office. Man, seeing Clinton talk and reading his words make me feel this even more strongly.
- superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18hey halldan, maybe there is really no republican worth paying attention to these days...
non partisan doesn't mean idiot, it means...well you ffigure it out - PYREX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20the link is at the BOTTOM
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"Read the full transcript HERE."
http://thinkprogress.org/clinton-interview
maybe you should retake 2nd grade english if you cant find it - mww2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Hmmmh... I smell a copy/paste troll.
- Menoats, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Damn Clinton is too real. I love it.
- superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18u wanna talk about burried?
- PYREX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16LMAO! priceless
honestly i cant see how people can stand, let alone enjoy watching oreilly. he acts like a flustered 5 year old in the middle of a hissy fit. and what's w/ the screaming at his guests and wagging his finger/pen all the time? - pushmouse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Yah, It's great to have someone in office now that hasn't lied once to the American people.
/sarcasm - hootpie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Here's a little snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwJabtvSUQ - jcidiotashram, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Clinton is so real and i can't believe he is wasting his time trying to explain things to Fox News. because these interviews in their original context we will never get to see it. I laughed when he asked clinton whether he watches Fox news sunday. I guess nobody in their right would watch it anyway.
- ZerozenOnes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I don't know if they can now though with the transcrips being out. If its on Digg you know a lot of people have seen it. They would seriously expose themselves if they chopped it up too much.... we'll see,
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Someone asked you …he asked you if you could do more good as a former president than as a president and you said only if I live a long time."
Someone at fox news quoted jon stewart.. - pointblank187, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Check the clip on Youtube posted a few up. They didn't even mention what the interview was actually for they just showed him going off about the fact that he tried. Fox has already started to spin it. I really pray that this gets out unedited but in reality, I know it won't happen. God I miss an intelligent president.....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12///psychic reading...You don't read, and you watch FOX news.
- aacidusX, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21@water-***** ass dragon
RTFA!!!!!!, it does have a full transcript link just before it goes into "Comments" - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13You are one serious mentally deficient retard... I'm surprised you even know how to use the "internets"
- tigerpaper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I can just imagine the the fear and disorder this has caused in Wallace's carefully planned interview scenario. He's probably got a team of people working extra hard to market this interview extra slanted to make clinton look like an angry "bush-hater". Most definately using the neo-con sound bite to infuriate and drive the propaganda home to those toothless morons who'll go with the familiar talking points of any conservative spew over any critical or factual dialog of Bushes foreign policy.
- mww2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Ha! Very nice.
- tigerpaper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10thanks for that video link @hootpie
Looks like my suspicions have been validated about slandering up to the interview.
...and so it begins.... - galore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13go read "My Pet Goat".
- Mneitzel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Goering was so right. Our country always does best , when we question what are leaders are telling us. If we don't they will lead us to hell smiling.
And to see Karl Rove has the "Big Lie" technique down so pat, is scary. It was such a standard for the Nazi's. I am glad Clinton came out slugging. Its been nearly 8 years and its still the last president's fault? - Nanog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Bill Clinton was one of the greatest American presidents that every American should be proud of. He has done more good to world than the current president can even dream about, including saving thousands of lives of AIDS patients.
I have seen him talk in an AIDS conference, he received standing ovation from thousands of scientists, activists from all over the world. That is the type of respect this man garners even in non-political topics.
His new initiative likely to have even greater impact on the lives of everyone in this world, including the douche bags at FOX UNews network - ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Also notice the clip was out of context and ended with "I tried, and failed." They've started spinning it already. I am so sick of this.
- JCinDE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"...I tried and failed" is how they end the clip. Yep. The Fox News twisting and spinning of his words has begun.
- kcab9705, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@publiccomp
You want to invoke Godwin here? I'd say you're on the wrong side.
(this quote came up yesterday but is very relevant)
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
Oh, Herman Goering was the second in command of the Third Reich...
Take the red pill. - stephensoto, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Awesome interview, Clinton's the ***** *****.I think Wallace said the interview was unusual because people rarely stand up to Fox's *****. I'm surprised he didn't say some ***** like Clinton didn't catch him because of the Monica scandal. I can't wait to see how they cut and paste this interview...
- anonydigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@Cooperjone
The person you are replying to, tried to make a point about how Clinton is able to articulate himself and Bush is not, and that as a result Bush is less popular abroad.
Your answer to it was that Europe is a piece of ***** that can't tell good from bad. You put together all the things you hate, and associated them with Europe, and then said you are scared that Europeans like Clinton because they are associated with those things, and then went on to say what an ass Clinton is.
That piece was made of fragmented emotional expressions. You failed logical reasoning on many fronts. That kind of answer is not unexpected from any republican, given that they lack sophistication and play on emotions.
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"your Islamofascist appeasement"/ "your racism":
They contradict, which one is it?
"you socialism, your communism", "your failure to understand that Capitalism is not evil of itself" /.../ "your failed sense of a nobility class":
You have a terrible misunderstanding of all those things. They can't coexist. Furthermore, the collective EU economy is bigger than the US, and they are not state controlled. EU doesn't lack capitalism. A sense of nobility exists all over the world, but in different forms.
"he put Bill before his Oath Of Office and he's mad as hell that he can't control his narcissism"/ "The anger he displayed on Chris Wallace's program is just unresolved vestiges of [...]"::
As compared to lets say, Bush? He, and his administration put their economic self interest ahead of the American public, and global stability. They have their troops in Iraq instead of Afghanistan, where Canadians had to fill in with their 2200 + some Nato.
Have you ever watched Bush in an interview? Let's say the one with Matt Lauer? Has he ever debated anything intelligently, and without trying to bully the interviewer? - MysticSavage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You've just insulted worms everywhere.
- tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wallace's second question/statement:
"Someone asked you …he asked you if you could do more good as a former president than as a president and you said only if I live a long time."
I may be wrong, but wasn't Jon Stewart that "someone"? I seem to recall that from his interview this past week. - newtonapple, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7man I'm looking forward to the interview now. very few time I've seen Clinton get this mad.. he usually tries hard to be friends w/ the neocons. about time he lays the some smack down on the so-called "fair and balanced."
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