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Posted at 2:30pm on Feb. 16, 2008 Bill Clinton's sad hubris

Dems to repudiate the Clinton '90s

By Mark Kilmer

The 1990s (1992-2000) were great and exciting years of spectacular progress! History was made! Lives were changed forever during this momentous decade which will be forever remembered as better-than-JFK!

"You can trust me." [bites lip]

So says Bill Clinton when attacking Barack Obama:

You have one candidate who's made the explicit argument that the only way we can change America is to move into a post-partisan future and therefore we have to eliminate from consideration for the presidency anybody who made good things happen in the '90s or stopped bad things from happening in this decade," said Clinton, who was winding up a day of East Texas campaign appearances for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I emphasized what I did not because it is more important; rather, it is more infuriating than irritating. In the 1990's, Bill Clinton's appeasement of terrorists – strike us at will! – certainly built the idea in the minds of al Qaeda that the United States was a "paper tiger" which would disintegrate when they brought down the towers. We were under new management when they got around to attacking, and their plan didn't work as they willed it, but for Clinton (Bill) to argue that he stopped bad things from happening in this decade when he clearly gave false hope to those who perpetrated the acts of 9-11 is galling hubris.

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