mountain bed Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 We saw a side of Bill Clinton the general public rarely sees today.For a minute there I thought he was going to reach over & throttle the little s.o.b. that was doing the interview. Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Someone's washing the gonnorhea off of it. ouch Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 ouchI shook Flavor's hand once. And here's the Clinton. Good for him. Clinton defends handling of bin Laden in combative Fox interviewEds: ADDS 3 grafs to UPDATE with Clinton comments on NBC show, ADD background on Clinton initiative; ADDS photo number.By KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he had tried to put bin Laden out of business and that he had been attacked for his efforts by the same people who criticize him now for not doing enough. "That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview broadcast Sunday. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried." Clinton accused host Chris Wallace of a "conservative hit job on me" and asked, "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 people you asked, 'Why did you fire Dick Clarke?'" He was referring to the USS Cole, attacked by terrorists in Yemen in 2000, and former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke. Wallace said Sunday that he was surprised by Clinton's response to "a very non-confrontational question, 'Did you do enough to connect the dots and go after al-Qaida?'" "I was stunned by this kind of conspiratorial view of all this," Wallace said in a telephone interview. "All I did was ask him a question, and I think it was a legitimate news question. I was surprised that he would conjure up that this was a hit job." Clinton said he "worked hard" to try to kill bin Laden. "I authorized the findings of the CIA to kill him," he said. "We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since. And if I were still president, we'd have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him." He told Wallace, "And you got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but 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." Clinton also criticized the ABC miniseries, "The Path to 9/11," which critics accused of distorting his record on fighting terror. "ABC just had a right-wing conservative running their little 'Pathway to 9/11,' falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission Report with three things asserted against me directly contradictory to the 9/11 Commission Report," he said. The interview was taped Friday following Clinton's three-day Global Initiative conference, and Clinton said Wallace was to have devoted half his questions to the conference. Clinton told Wallace, "You set this meeting up because you're going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because (Fox chief) Rupert Murdoch is supporting my work on climate change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you'd spend half the time talking about _ you said you'd spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion-plus in three days from 215 different commitments, and you don't care." On NBC's "Meet the Press," also taped Friday and aired Sunday, Clinton discussed the war against terrorism and the Clinton Global Initiative, which seeks to solve worldwide problems such as poverty, religious and ethnic conflict, climate change and poor public health. He told interviewer Tim Russert that the biggest problem confronting the world today is "the illusion that our differences matter more than our common humanity." "That's what's driving the terrorism," he said. "It's not just that there's an unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict. Osama Bin Laden and Dr. al-Zawahiri can convince young Sunni Arab men, who have _ and some women _ who have despairing conditions in their lives, that they get a one-way ticket to heaven in a hurry if they kill a lot of innocent people who don't share their reality." Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I shook Flavor's hand once. he cracks me up. plus i have all sorts of nostalgia for the rap scene of my childhood. Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Back when Public Enemy was the greatest thing in the world. Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Whatever happened to the reform party? Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamin' Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 We saw a side of Bill Clinton the general public rarely sees today.For a minute there I thought he was going to reach over & throttle the little s.o.b. that was doing the interview.That made my day. Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Back when Public Enemy was the greatest thing in the world.I've never been too crazy for that type of music,but PE,NWA & Ice-T was the shit,imo. Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 There's an "American Masters" on PBS here in about 15-20 minutes.Andy Warhol.Looks innaresting.Any thoughts,criticisms? Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I'm working from home again! jigidy jig! Link to post Share on other sites
jenbobblehead Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 i am seriously considering working from home today. i guess i should check my phone messages first... Link to post Share on other sites
j4lackey Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 ouchThat was aimed at Flav and his "ladies", not you.... There's an "American Masters" on PBS here in about 15-20 minutes.Andy Warhol.Looks innaresting.Any thoughts,criticisms?A little late, but the first half was pretty good (at least to an artist). Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Not working from home today. In a bit, heading to the greenhouse to pick up my quarterly order of 48 bromeliads and install them. Did I mention it's only two days until I leave for vacation? Link to post Share on other sites
j4lackey Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Not working from home today. In a bit, heading to the greenhouse to pick up my quarterly order of 48 bromeliads and install them. Did I mention it's only two days until I leave for vacation? Have fun! Don't do anything I wouldn't do! Your pix are amazing. You should sell calendars of them through the hotel gift shops or something. Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Have fun! Don't do anything I wouldn't do! Your pix are amazing. You should sell calendars of them through the hotel gift shops or something. Thank you for the pic compliment. The bromeliad picture is not one of mine however. Link to post Share on other sites
j4lackey Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Thank you for the pic compliment. The bromeliad picture is not one of mine however.I meant the pix up to that one. I thought it was a little cloying compared to your previous work. And isn't bromeliad something to help an upset stomach? Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 that's just weird ... Im taking vacation in two days too! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ScottHoward Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Bromeliad is the Dutch word for "unbreakable novelty comb." Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I don't suppose ya'll wanna come to NYC at all... Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I meant the pix up to that one. I thought it was a little cloying compared to your previous work. And isn't bromeliad something to help an upset stomach? Ha! Here is a familiar bromeliad: Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ScottHoward Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I don't suppose ya'll wanna come to NYC at all...I'll head out to O'Hare now. Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 that's just weird ... Im taking vacation in two days too!No way! How much trouble can two old ladies get in to, really? I don't suppose ya'll wanna come to NYC at all...Dunno if we'll have time. I'll have to talk to the tour director. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ScottHoward Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 How much trouble can two old ladies and one randy twentysomething get in to, really?Quite a bit. Link to post Share on other sites
viatroy Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 how much trouble can two old ladies on horseback get into in NYC, with or without young male companion? Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Quite a bit.You offering? how much trouble can two old ladies on horseback get into in NYC, with or without young male companion? Link to post Share on other sites
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