Republicans are dancing in glee, well kind of. Media is split on this topic. MSNBC, if anybody still watches that station, seems to back Bill Clinton as a man who stands up for himself and what he has done, yes they editorialize, of course they do! It's Keith Olbermann's job! A guy who once did sports for an LA Newscast is now telling us what he thinks he knows about politics. Sorry Keith, you should still be covering the lawn bowling tournament, for this, my friend, is over your head.

On Monday, according to a report in the NY Daily News, many of Clinton's ex-advisers came out and proved that Bill Clinton is just as full of it now as he ever was.

'Former advisers ridiculed ex-President Bill Clinton yesterday for saying he had a plan to invade Afghanistan, topple the Taliban and kill Osama Bin Laden after jihadists nearly sank the destroyer Cole.

"The only order we got from [Clinton] after the Cole was to put together a target list for air attacks," said Michael Scheuer, who led the CIA's hunt for Osama Bin Laden under Clinton.'

But no! Not so says Clinton, he said on Sunday that he made plans to attack the Taliban with full force not just an air assault and yet he claims he was denied it could be done by the armed forces. The FBI and CIA stated they were not sure it was bin Laden, according to Clinton. (See my previous article)

'Still, Team Clinton stood by its story. "A plan existed, but the ability to act on it was not corroborated by intelligence until after President Clinton left office," said Clinton spokesman Jay Carson.

Two sources that Clinton repeatedly cited in the Fox interview - the 9/11 commission report and Richard Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror" - never mention plans to invade Afghanistan.

Poor Bill. Maybe during all of this he was sleeping in the oval office because he was so tired. He worked so hard trying to get bin Laden. He had proof! He said 'he tried!' Well the proof was in the pudding and his own people have spoken.

One irony here is that people have a tendency to forget the past. I do not like to dwell in it, but unfortunately in politics, you have to.

Bill Clinton gave an interview to Peter Jennings on ABC in 2004.

The similarity with Clinton's eruption with Chris Wallace over terrorism is striking.

Here is a transcript of the 2004 exchange, which took place at the Clinton library and presidential center in Little Rock, Arkansas:

Peter Jennings: "Fifty-eight historians, as I think you may know, did this for C-SPAN. And they were all across the political spectrum. And they came out, in general terms, that you were 21st. And on public persuasion and economic management, they gave you a fifth. Pretty good."
Former President Bill Clinton: "Pretty good."
Jennings: "They gave you a 41st on moral authority."
Clinton: "They're wrong about that."
Jennings: "After Nixon."
Clinton: "They're wrong about that. You know why they're wrong about it? They're wrong about it."
Jennings: "Why, sir?"
Clinton: "Because we had $100 million spent against us and all these inspections. One person in my administration was convicted of doing something that violated his job responsibilities while we were in the White House, 29 in the Reagan/Bush years. I bet those historians didn't even know that. They have no idea what I was subject to and what a lot of people supported.
"No other President ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr indicting innocent people because they wouldn't lie, in a systematic way. No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the people in Haiti from a military dictator who was murdering them and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day, an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him. And still, not any example of where I ever disgraced this country publicly.
"I made a terrible public, personal mistake, but I paid for it many times over. And in spite of it all, you don't have any example where I ever lied to the American people about my job, where I ever let the American people down. And I had more support from the world and the world leaders and people around the world when I quit than when I started. And I will go to my grave being at peace about it. And I don't really care what they think."
Jennings: "Oh, yes, you do, sir."
Clinton: "They have no-"
Jennings: "No, excuse me, Mr. President. You care, I can feel it across the room."
Clinton: "No, no, I care-"
Jennings: "You feel it very deeply."
Clinton, raised his arm and menacingly pointed at Jennings: "You don't want to go there, Peter. You don't want to go there. Not after what you people did and the way you, your network, what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he leaked. No one has any idea what that's like. That's where I failed.
"You want to know where I failed? I really let it, it hurt me. I thought I believed in a, I thought I lived in a country where people believe in the Constitution and the rule of law, freedom of speech. You never had to live in a time when people you knew and cared about were being indicted, carted off to jail, bankrupted, ruined because they were Democrats and because they would not lie.
"So I think we showed a lot of moral fiber to stand up to that, to stand up to these constant investigations, to this constant bodyguard of lies, this avalanche that was thrown at all of us. And, yes, I failed once. And I sure paid for it. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the American people, and I'm sorry for the embarrassment they performed. But they ought to think about the way the rest of the world reacted to it.
"When I, when I got a standing ovation at the United Nations from the whole world, the American networks were showing my grand jury testimony. Those were decisions you made, not me. I personally believe that the standing ovation I got from the whole world at the United Nations, which was unprecedented for an American President, showed not only support for me, but opposition to the madness that had taken hold of American politics."

That was Bill Clinton our ex-president, a cry-baby then and one now.
However, with all of the complaining Bill does about how the 'neo-conservative' media snubbed him, he neglects to notice how certain news stations still run a pro-liberal newscast. Today on CNN Headline News (which has been pretty neutral as of late) did a story on the new report discussing how terrorism is worse today because of the Iraq war rather than better. Did they show a Republican? Yes they did! Was there audio? Nope! They showed the Denny Hastert walking off the House floor. And they showed Bill Frist walking up to a podium. All of which could have been stock footage and was about 2 seconds long for each person. But do you know what they did show? Long clips of speeches done today by the following: Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Harry Reid. Amazing. Now if that isn't biased news I'm not sure what is, Bill.