September 29, 2006
News Roundup this week:

Guests:
Steve Roberts, syndicated columnist and journalism professor at George Washington University; Michael Duffy, assistant managing editor, TIME magazine; Caroline Daniel, White House correspondent for the Financial Times.

Due to other more pressing matters -- I do have a life -- the "Gang-up" had to wait. Anyway, you didn't miss much.

One interesting thing did happen around the middle of the week. There was a show about "the religious right" which we know is the root of all evils and conspiracies in this country. Of course, there is no "religious left" in this country so therefore it wasn't even brought up.

What was brought up, even though lightly, was the Clinton meltdown with Chris Wallace on Fox News. Spinned by the Democratic politburo as the thing that Democrats need to do to win the elections, it was in reality an unnecesary display of the real Clinton, according to Dick Morris and others that know him.

But perhaps the person best commenting about former President Clinton's need for an exorcist was former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He said that it is wrong to place all the blame for 9/11 on Clinton. I agree. But regardless of how it is spinned by the Clintonistas the best historical perspective of the whole thing was offered by Clinton himself. When he said that he "tried" for eight years and the Bush administration did not even try for eight months he really placed things in context; the kind of context that won't be missed in history. And that is what has Clinton and the Clintonistas in a huffy.

Considering the fact that the first 4 to 6 months of any new administration are transitional, the time to catch up and do something for the Bush administration was even less than Clinton so generously attributes. Take away also the months lost by Gore placing the process even in more limbo with his useless attempt to win, and the time is even less. Regardless of all that, there is more than enough blame to go around. However, history will show, no matter how irrascible the attempts to save a legacy may become, what Clinton himself inadvertently admitted: you cannot compare 8 years with 8 months no matter how you stretch it. You have better chances trying to remove an old stain from a dress.