After you read this one:
Clinton Rips Starr, Media on Prosecution, you have to ask yourself why Clinton was such a gifted politician and why Kerry is such a miserable failure.
In a prime-time television outburst, Bill Clinton (news - web sites) ripped old nemesis Kenneth Starr and what the former president portrayed as a gullible media eager to report every "sleazy thing" leaked from a prosecutor bent on bringing him down.
The exchange came in an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a national media that he suggested was complicit in a scheme to ruin his presidency.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said. "No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day an entire apparatus was devoted to destroying him."
Clinton added that he doesn't care about what his detractors think about him. Jennings then said it seemed to him that Clinton did care.
The former president responded, "You don't want to go here, Peter. You don't want to go here. 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."
"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," he said. "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."
Clinton's success was not because of his ideology, it's because he's not afraid to stand up and fight his political opponents, the media. Fairly or not, the majority voters thought he was unfairly targeted by the media and GOP. Remember, after the impeachment trial, democrats gained seats in the congress and senate in 1998 and 2000. He drove those wingnuts crazy with his repeated election success. looks like G.W. is
repeating Clinton's election strategy.
Kerry's miserable failure is that he has no balls. His actions during and after election really do not match his 'I'm a fighter' rhetoric; His laundray list promises of healthcare, jobs, security etc are purely empty promises.
It's almost laughable to read his post-election call for 'healthcare for every child'. I just wonder why he's chosen such a message which has zero resonance across the board to continue his 'permanent campaign' for 2008.
Mr. Kerry, It's time for you to go. No more Kerry in 2008, please.
