Ran across this over at RedState.

How much proof is needed (in their own words) before folks realize Congress had the heads up long ago that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were run by corrupt individuals and headed for serious trouble?

This is a bit long but the comment at the very end from President Clinton is most telling.

Sorry , but I do not see the humor in this suggestion from former President Clinton:

Citing President Bush’s recent cameo appearance on NBC’s “Deal or No Deal,” former President Bill Clinton today suggested that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, might want to appear on a network show, too, “like, I dunno, maybe ‘Wife Swap’ or something, you know, just to mix it up.”

Speaking to a crowd in Evansville, Ind., before the Indiana primary, Clinton said he saw the reaction President Bush got when his face popped up on the video screen on “Deal or No Deal,” and he thought his wife might generate a similarly positive reaction were she to switch places with Sen. Osama’s “very attractive” wife, Michelle, for a week.

“Come on now, who wouldn’t want to see that?” Clinton asked, presumably rhetorically. “Hillary and Barack havin’ to spend a week together as husband and wife while campaigning against each other? It’d be great! And me and Michelle having to spend a week together being campaign spouses, just sittin’ at home on the couch, all lonely, waiting for a phone call from the road most nights, then going on the trail, spending lots of nights stuck with nothing to do in nice hotel suites that have big Jacuzzi tubs and fully stocked mini bars? Oh, man, why didn’t I think of this before?!”

What an odd suggestion from a man who was disgraced while in office in part for his relationships with women other than his spouse. Further, is this behavior we should expect from one who once had the privilege of residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Some might say, lighten up, this is a joke. My answer to that would be look no further than Senator Clinton replying “no comment” when asked about these latest hair brained comments by her husband.

What anyone does in their private life is their business, but when your wife is running for President, I think you could show a bit more respect for her and the office she aspires to hold.

This is so breathtakingly ridiculous that I must quote the majority of the article for those who may not link over to read the whole thing otherwise:

Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media’s coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.

He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.

Clinton, like his wife, is traveling New Hampshire taking questions from voters, and he spoke at the University of New Hampshire in Durham in response to a plea from a woman who said she’d like it “if you and Clinton joined Barack Obama in putting the Republicans on notice” that it was time to “change the game” and end the “meanness” and “manipulation” in politics.

Clinton replied that he liked the idea — in theory.

“I think we can change it as long as you have access to information by people who are committed to judging everybody by the same set of rules and following the same set of rules,” he said. “According to the most recent media analysis, that’s not what’s happened so far, but yeah, I think it should be done.”

Clinton also let his audience glimpse the scars of his White House years.

Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there, because nobody’s been vilified more than we have,“[Emphasis, mine] he said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign. “One of the problems with laying down and turning the other cheek is McCain had one dose of it. They gave it to us for eight years.

Gag, choke, cough. For a former President of the United States whose administration was involved in more self inflicted scandals than any in recent memory and who had the press working on his side for almost 8 years to play victim now, is a disgrace. Could this be an indication that the Clinton campaign’s internal numbers are tanking? Are we hearing a bit of desperation here?

I don’t know if Hillary will secure the Dem’s nomination but the baggage she carries now is what was created by the co-presidency the Clinton’s imposed on us while in Washington.

Besides, no one but Mrs. Clinton answered the questions posed to her in debates and on the Sunday talk shows.

We all know she would never go negative on anyone (ahem)…the press is going to make her do it. I’ve heard some real whoppers throughout this campaign but that statement by the former President takes the cake.

Maybe it’s time one of these two began owning up to the mistakes they have made rather than blaming them on the press who glorified them and the voters who gave them eight years in the White House.

The final few paragraphs are worth the read.

Update:

I am not one to follow polls closely but I know the Clinton’s always welcomed those which furthered their cause of the moment.

That being said, check out the latest numbers from Rasumssen for the state of New Hampshire. If this hold true in the primary and Obama wins by a large margin, what then. Will those Superdelegates begin to show signs of jumping ship? Time will tell.

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HT: Hot Air

Bill Clinton is the most shameless politician who is the least embarrassed at looking us square in the face and contradicting what is known on record to be his previous position on an issue.

He now claims he was always against the Iraq war. Always, since when?

Former president Bill Clinton said on Tuesday that he “opposed Iraq from the beginning,” apparently glossing over the more nuanced views of the war he has expressed over time. Clinton made the remarks while campaigning for his wife in Iowa - a largely anti-war state for Democrats — as he expressed bitterness over getting a tax cut with money that could have been spent on the military.

“Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers,” Clinton said. He said he “should not have gotten” the tax cuts he received as a wealthy earner.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq, and has never apologized for her vote, even as the Democratic nominating process has reached fever pitch and she has been drawn into a three-way tie with more ardent Iraq war foes, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards.

Sen. Clinton has, at times, even cited the experience her husband had dealing with the Iraqi regime in the 1990s as one reason she gave Pres. Bush the benefit of the doubt when she voted for the war in 2002….

…But past remarks made by the former president do leave open a question about how fervently Clinton opposed the war in real time and before it grew widely unpopular. In immediate hindsight, Clinton did not sound like a fierce critic. “I supported the president when he asked for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” Clinton said on May 18, 2003, during a commencement speech at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.

Sometimes in a presidency it is necessary for a president to lie to us as when President Kennedy excused himself from an event in Chicago saying he had a cold when he was really dealing with the Cuban missile crisis in Washington.

That’s excusable, but for a former president to tell us a bald faced lie in order to make his presidential candidate wife look more favorable to the voters is inexcusable.

It’s all about power with this tag team. Remember the actual audio recording of Bill Clinton saying he was offered Osama bin Laden on a silver plate but refused because he hadn’t committed any crimes? He obviously knew he was behind the first World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist activities but he chose not to pursue him.

And who can ever forget watching that long, wagging finger as he told us he never had sex with that woman—Monica Lewinski when he knew he was telling a lie?

Who can forget he lied to a grand jury about his sexual harassment of women during the Paula Jones hearing and got a fine and loss of law license over that lie?

His wife, the aspiring president, is just as bad if not worse. Remember the cattle futures in which she invested a mere $1,000 and got a huge return in a short time? Blame it on beginner’s luck.

How about the Rose law firm billing records that couldn’t be found during the Whitewater investigation, but suddenly showed up on a table in the residence of the White House with no explanation and with her finger prints on them?

Now we have this coming from the Washington Post, not exactly a right-wing publication.

When Americans step into the voting booths next November we all need to ask ourselves if this is what we want for another four to eight years if she is the Democratic nominee as expected.

Now is the time for a gut check for all of us. Let’s pray we have the guts to check it and reject it.

Update: If ~J~ will indulge me, I’d like to add a link to this piece by Cassy Fiano which expounds on the thoughts in this post with further quotes from the former President. Among my favorites…

……Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers.”

Resent away Mr. Clinton..I can think of no reason you would except your own regrets for what you did not accomplish while in office.

Sue

For a week now we have been hearing from the Clinton camp that she didn’t really mean things she said in the last debate the way we heard them.

I’ve long since gotten used to the Clintons’ spin machine. This time she’s claiming a gender problem. All those men picking on this little, compassionate woman. How dare they?

I think the thing that really has my head spinning is this story, where she tells the women in her audiences to bring their brooms, mops, vacuums etc. so they can clean out the White House after GWB leaves and she becomes president.

Clinton speaking in West Burlington, IA, told a story about how she is going to clean up the White House. Telling it, Clinton rested her hand on her head and said “oh my goodness I feel like we are going to get into the White House again and we are going to walk around and say where do we start to clean up this mess?” Clinton remembered an audience member who shouted once out when she told this story before - “that’s what women are good at cleaning up the mess.” Clinton said “bring your vacum cleaners bring your brushes bring your brooms bring your mops.”

Of all the outrageous things for her to say, this is the most outrageous. Anyone else might be able to get away with that line, but coming from her it strikes me as a bit stupid.

The vision it brings to my mind is how the White House probably had to physically be disinfected after Clinton left his DNA all over the walls and floors of the Executive office suite. Not to mention a certain blue dress.

I would have had everything cleaned, including the doorknobs, with industrial strength cleaner two or three times before touching anything without rubber gloves on my hands if I were the Bushes.

Every time I see the Clintons, together or separately, all I can remember is the finger wagging, the give ‘em hell self-righteous tone of his voice as he proclaimed he didn’t do what he did do with that woman—Ms. Lewinski, while Hillary stood beside him and nodded her approval.

I remember their hand in hand walk on the White House lawn as they went on vacation after that.

I remember a cat named Socks who is now with Betty Curry and a dog named Buddy who was so loosely supervised he ran into the street and got killed.

I remember how sad they were that Buddy died and they were going to get a replacement dog right away.

I remember him coming down the steps of church each Sunday carrying a Bible probably never opened and big enough to give him a hernia, while biting his lip. Always the lip biting.

I remember they were fakes then and I know they are fakes now.

They tried to make us think they were Ward and June Cleaver when in reality they were Ma and Pa Kettle. At least Ma and Pa Kettle were funny. I wish I could say the same for the Clintons.

I remember our troops wearing blue UN helmets under the command of the UN, which is against our constitution, but Bill got around that by having an inept US general in charge of the troops and he reported to the UN.

Unless you were in a cave someplace during those eight horrid years you should remember all of this too, and ask yourself if you want four or more years of the same old stuff going on in the house you and I own and still pay for the cleaning bills now.

When it comes to twisting an error on the part of the Democrats into wrongdoing on the part of Republicans, former President Clinton remains the master.

Dean Barnett does a masterful job of dissecting this bit of spin by the former President.

Actually, much of the blame for the debased state of our modern politics rightly lies at Clinton’s feet. When ordinary people dream of being president, they don’t harbor visions of enacting a micro-agenda that focuses on minutiae like school uniforms, midnight basketball and drive-through deliveries (which Clinton often incorrectly labeled “drive-by deliveries”, a term that made absolutely no sense). For a purely political creature like Bill Clinton, it was all about having power. Doing something or anything with that power was a side thought.

In the YouTube above, Clinton conflates the attacks on General David Petraeus with the former POTUS’ fanciful reminisces of political attacks on John Kerry and Max Cleland. Normally, I question Bill Clinton’s sincerity any time his lips are moving, but in this clip he shows that little flash of indignant anger that indicates you’re getting a glimpse at the man’s core.

Of course he would see no difference between a couple of office-seekers and a man who is leading 160,000 American soldiers in combat. Everything for this man has always been about politics. The notion of a figure who transcends politics probably makes as much sense to Bill Clinton as the idea of a man who transcends gravity.

Who would have thought that when it comes to the former President, it’s all about politics?