Sorry but this is still horse pucky in my opinion. He is not giving a better defense of Clinton's record then Clinton hinself, not by a long shot.

He is glossing over, as all conservatives seem to, the complete and utter inaction of the Bush Administration during the 8 month lead up to 9/11. While the blogger attempts to state that there was equal incompetence in both administrations, I still find doing absolutely nothing at all, even ignoring repeated requests for meetings and action from Richard Clark the "Terrorism Czar", to be evidence of how much more significantly the Clinton Administration viewed the threat.

It's nice that someone is finally saying enough is enough, and we are all making the situation worse, and our country weaker through our polarized partisan hatred of one another's views. But doing it by showing that Clinton acted pretty much within the limits of the political environment of the time, and saying that is equal to Bush's complete and absolute inaction is absurd.

This even after Clinton specifically warned Bush in his departure briefing that Bin Laden would be (or at least should be) Bush's number one concern going into his administration. This after Richard Clark was repeatedly ignored in the months preceding 9/11. This after Cheney was put in charge of the Administration's Anti-Terrorism task force... and never bothered to call a meeting.

Conservatives can and will keep trying to state otherwise, but from the outset all the way to today, the Bush Administration's inactions and policies, have far outweighed anything you could ever dream of pinning on Clinton.

Bush led us into the utter foreign policy failure of abandoning Afghanistan before stabalizing it and routing out the Taliban and Bin Laden, and then turning the foreign goodwill toward the US that had followed 9/11 and even supported the invasion of Afghanistan into near universal hatred as we attacked Iraq. The damage that Bush has done to the image of the United States will be a stain on our country for decades.

The majority of the world now views us as the most dangerous country in the world. Not because of our military might, but because our foreign policies are destabalizing the world and breeding the next generation of hardened extremists most likely to fuel the Islamic terrorist movement. Do we intend to attack dozens of countries to root out these extremists??? Because we are inspiring hatred in country after country around the world.

The Bush doctrine is not merely a massive failure, as essentially stated in the most recent consensus view of all 16 intelligence agencies, but is a major danger to the future of our country. We really need to step back, and completely reassess US foreign policies the world over, and re-establish our image of being the leaders in world democracy not thru lip-service and weaponry, but thru genuine democratic action.

Viewing the state of our own democracy, we need to start with ourselves.

Nice, I like how that was worded to make it look as if Clinton had himself said those things... which he did not. These are accusations sent towards him from conservatives, not admissions of failure from Clinton. But when written as "Clinton added to the list, of course." it almost sounds like he said it and gives it more weight than the hyperbole it really is.

Nothing, nothing at all that Clinton did or did not do can in any way compare the actions of the Bush administration and the steep decline of our status and respect the world over since Bush came to power.