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SNOOP NOTE: More from the Democrats can’t shut up file. This was first posted October 13.

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.

“This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in,” Clinton told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in Las Vegas. “For six years this country has been totally dominated - not by the Republican Party, this is not fair to the Republican Party - by a narrow sliver of the Republican Party, its more right-wing and its most ideological element.”

“When the chips are down, this country has been jammed to the right, jammed into an ideological corner, alienated from its allies, and we’re in a lot of trouble,” he said.

Clinton addressed a group of about 50 top-level donors to the Jack Carter for Senate campaign. Carter, the son of former President Jimmy Carter, is running to unseat Republican Sen. John Ensign.

Clinton also attended a fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidates Jill Derby and Tessa Hafen at which the minimum contribution was $3,000.

He appeared onstage with Hafen, Derby, Carter and Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., but did not take questions from the media or comment on recent criticism of his administration’s policy on nuclear nonproliferation in North Korea.

The former president largely stuck to politics.

“The Democratic Party has become the liberal and conservative party in America. If you want to be fiscally conservative, you’ve got to be for us. If you want to conserve natural resources, you’ve got to be for us,” he said. “If you want a change of course in Iraq … you’ve got to be for us.”

Clinton also attacked Republican tax cuts, describing a repeal of the estate tax as the GOP’s top legislative priority.

“They may think I should be able to give Chelsea every nickel, but I don’t,” Clinton said.

Tucker Bounds, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, returned the criticism.

“It’s going to take more than a Bill Clinton stopover to change the minds of the majority of Nevadans,” he said.

“Republicans have solid candidates on the ballot that are going to keep taxes low and continue to fight terrorism,” Bounds said. He said the party had not fallen out of step with voters.

“Keeping taxes low and the economy healthy is not a fringe belief. It is a popular belief in Nevada and a popular belief in most every other state.”

Clinton did not mention Rep. Jon Porter, Hafen’s opponent, or Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller, Derby’s opponent, by name. He dismissed Ensign as “a sort of a likable fellow” with “good relations with most of the powers-that-be here in the state,” perhaps a reference to Ensign’s working relationship with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Clinton, who recently made fundraising stops for Democrats in Minnesota and New Jersey, also said he was embarrassed by the recent immigration debate.

He noted that Mexico had become one of the U.S.’s top 10 creditors.

“These people are our bankers,” Clinton said. “Doesn’t it embarrass you that these poor people are trying to sneak over the Rio Grande River to find a living in this country and we want to stop that? But we’re only too happy to turn around and say, ‘Don’t spend your own money on those poor illegal immigrants to give them an education and get a job in Mexico. Loan it to us.’”

Remember in this post I said idiot Democrats will continue to say stupid shit and HURT their chances in November. Democrats are incapable of shutting the hell up and allowing a good situation to just evolve. Everything is in the Democrats favor if they just don’t screw it up. Fortunately for the GOP they will, prominent Democrats will continue to speak in tired sound bites reminding voters, particularly independents, how silly and simplistic they are. 

I think the criticism he getting to him just a tad, you think!?
No wonder he tried so hard to get the 9/11 movie stopped.
The thing is I, as a “right winger” (his words in the Fox interview) don’t “blame” him for inaction.
I don’t know about anybody else on the right but I think dude just had a different focus for his administration, and got distracted with stupid shit like M.L.
Clinton was simply the type of guy who wanted to be liked, by every damm body and did not want to take risks and take decisive action. Any Democrat would have been the same type of president and tried shoving diplomacy down our collective throats and hoped that those terrorists would just go away and be nice.  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) (Article Link) - Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the September 11 attacks.
In a heated interview to be aired on Sunday on “Fox News Sunday,” the former Democratic president defended the steps he took after al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole in 2000 and faulted “right-wingers” for their criticism of his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.
“But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now,” Clinton said when asked whether he had failed to fully anticipate bin Laden’s danger. “They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed.”
The September 11 attacks occurred almost eight months after President George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in January 2001.
“I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him,” Clinton said.

He added HE had drawn up plans to go into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and launch an attack against bin Laden after the attack on the Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.

Sorry people but he is fucking lying there. Ok picture ANY president sitting in a dark room, drinking some wine, clothes wrinkled, intently looking at a detailed map, telling his minions,
 “ok folks” (remember to use you Clinton voice) “ya see were, gonna send out troops, up yander, were gonna flank our boys over this ridge, hit them with the heavy artillery and blast those terrorist sons of bitches out of those caves and pin then down HERE! I think we have us a plan y’all, call the Joint Chiefs and get them in here so I can brief them on what we is gonna do”

“Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole, I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, (cough, liar…) overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan — which we got after 9/11,” Clinton said.
The former president complained at the time the CIA and FBI refused to certify bin Laden was responsible for the USS Cole attack.
“While I was there, they refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters, refuel at night,” he said.
Earlier this month, Clinton dismissed as “indisputably wrong” a U.S. television show that suggested her was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in the September 11 attacks.

“Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole,  (cough, liar…) overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan — which we got after 9/11,” Clinton said.The former president complained at the time the CIA and FBI refused to certify bin Laden was responsible for the USS Cole attack.”While I was there, they refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters, refuel at night,” he said.Earlier this month, Clinton dismissed as “indisputably wrong” a U.S. television show that suggested her was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in the September 11 attacks.