I agree completely. This will be a huge line of attack against Clinton.

Gee Camp Obama is now using Brit Hume's talking points. Yes McCain may try this but Hillary is tough and saavy enough to turn it around on Grandpa. Grandpa however will eat Obama alive

Richard Clarke said in his book that the Clintons warned Bush that the most important threat was Al Quida.  The Bush administration never held a single meeting.

Nice of you to you to use right wing talking points.

Horrible, unfair, but considering the crap Hill's been tossing lately completely in play. Hell, a 527 should pay to play that TV movie on how the Clinton Admin. ignored Bin Laden, after all they'd only be vetting her. (Seriously, why is any of this stuff out of bounds if Hillary can raise the stuff she can raise, is this sort of thing only cool if it attacks Obama? Does vetting only go one way?).

Yesum mam we should shuffle on back and take our seats, and let the nice white woman win, I mean sure Obama's ahead and is being savaged by the CLinton camp but Obama supporters should hold their fire out of gratitude.

What do African-Americans have to do with this line of attack?

The Clinton admin was fully aware of the dangers Osama bin Laden posed for the US and its interests abroad. They tried to drive the point home as the Bush admin came in but the warnings about Osama fell on deaf ears. All of this has been fully documented.

Condi Rice couldn't be bothered with the warnings about Osama. The truth about who was behind the USS Cole bombing came out at the end of Clinton's admin and all the information was turned over to Rice. She ignored it.

It was the Bush admin that was asleep at the wheel, even after the NIE that said bin Laden wanted to attack inside the US.

So if he's a working class African American he should what shut up and stay out of the race out of gratitude? Hey maybe women should get back in the kitchen and let a man get things done, I mean Obama was good on Women's Rights in Illinois where's the gratitude?

I'm not sure you understand what you are saying.  Some of us, yes even us black people, think of ourselves as individuals and understand that just because things got better for alot of black people in the 1990's, there were alot of us "working class" people who were left out of the Clinton Wall Street economy.

This argument is BS and unfair to President Clinton.  Nonetheless, the diarist is correct that McCain will try to paint either of our candidates as terrorist-lovers.  The Clinton presidency will be used if she wins, fair or not.  Which again underscores how the myth about HRC being "fully vetted" is ridiculous.  The GOP will slime away regardless.

wow...recycling disproven right wing talking points. Sad

The only people that say that Clinton was somehow responsible for 9/11 or was "asleep at the wheel" are right-wingers. If you really believe this, perhaps you should change your party affiliation.

DEFINITELY be used.

The story being that the Sudanese offered to send bin Laden to Saudi Arabia, but that they apparently refused. Why couldn't Clinton "convince" the Saudis?

The worst part is that the reason we didn't take bin Laden ourselves was that he wasn't yet indicted, or we couldn't hold him "legally."

McCain will put up some ad basically saying that the Clinton's think terrorism is a criminal matter, we think it's a national security matter.

And this time, tears aren't going to help.

My God!! I knew that the Obamabots were in love with RW talking points, but taking a page straight out of Limbaugh's playbook? Are you an Oxycontin addict too?

Get a life.

Lets bring up the BS rightie talking points that they have been trying to use on the Clintons during gdubs term in office.

9/11, global warming, the bad economy, the Sudan crisis, the Space Shuttle disaster, the Tsunami, world wide earth quakes... they are ALL related to Bill Clinton and MUST be HIS fault.

right?

geeez.

How many of you Obama supporters actually believe this charge is accurate?

discredited rightwing garbage. Grasping at straws are we?

Is that why the Clintons actually prosecuted and convicted the first WTC bomber?

And I won't debunk the rest.

This is why I won't vote for Obama.  He purposefully attracts Republicans.  I don't need another Republican administration.

Digusting GOP talking points.

Perhaps if Mr. Clinton was not forced to testify in Arkansas Superior Court on our time, rather than after the term ended; and perhaps if the GOP didn't chant WAG THE DOG when Mr. Clinton tried to do something about Osama, we might have got them before we were hit.

But, this country was fat and happy, with nothing better to do than go after a great President over a BJ.

the Clinton administration's woefully inept efforts to halt the march of terrorism to our shores.

Sorry to take down the curtain and remove the blinders from your eyes but it was the Clinton Administration that first identified bin Laden and actually tried to take him out. The republicans are the ones that belittled his efforts claiming that he did it to change the discussion from his affair. In fact they belittled him just like you are belittling him. Coincidence? I think not.

John McCain has no record whatsoever of telling the Clinton Administration that it wasn't doing it's job. In fact chances are that McCain supported Clinton's efforts.

It is George Bush and his surrogate McCain that were asleep at the wheel concerning terrorism. They are the ones that pulled an Obama, not holding a single meeting on the subject until it was too late. And you sure didn't hear McCain raising a stink about it.

I realize that facts are flexible with you folks but at least have the intelligence to present an argument that is plausible in Bizzaro world if nowhere else.

Rush, is that you?