Running a Gag into the Ground
There’s only so long a time in which you can blame Bill Clinton for everything and have it appear believable even to your base. Rudy Giuliani is still blaming Bill Clinton for the overtaxed state of the U.S. military today:
“Our military is too small to deal with the Islamic terrorism threats, but it really is too small to deter would-be aggressors to even think of challenging us. And that’s due to Bill Clinton,” Giuliani told students and others in the audience of about 350 at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union.“Bill Clinton cut our military and our intelligence budget by such a huge amount that we’ve never made up the difference,” said the former New York mayor, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
They never get tired of that old lie, do they? So let’s recap: (1) George H.W. Bush was the one responsible for starting the military cuts, as the well-known “Peace Dividend” after the fall of the Soviet Union. (2) Bill Clinton continued these cuts, but not as deeply as Bush 41 suggested they be followed. (3) Bush cut annual defense spending by $59 billion, Clinton by $43 billion. (4) The military was in far better shape when Clinton left it in 2001. And (5) Bush 43 has had six years to build it back up.
If Bill Clinton is to blame, then Bush 41 and Bush 43 share in that blame, and to a greater extent each. But truth be told, Bush 43 is primarily to blame.
End of story.
Except, of course, for Giuliani, who will keep telling this bald lie as he tells so many others that have been proven false. And for the media, which will continue to forward the lies as “one side of the story,” usually while ignoring the “other side of the story.” Like the Des Moines Register did in re-telling this Giuliani whopper.
Then there’s this tidbit: Even with all the cuts in the millitary budget under Bush and Clinton, the military budget of the United States was equal to, or greater than, the entire rest of the world combined.
How big of gun do you need before you start looking like Leslie Neilson play Frank Drubin in Naked Gun. The old saw is: if your only tools a hammer, then all problems start to look like nails. However, there’s also the other saw: some problems can be solved better with a tweezers than with a hammer. 911 was a situation that required more tweezer and less hammer. Nevertheless, boy-blunder-Bush, swung the hammer with reckless abandon and things got worse. Now Giuliani is clamming the hammer wasn’t big enough.
If Bush is taking this nation to the edge, Guiliani will surely push us over. He is the worst case scenario of all the candidates, and he’s leading. This election is just like 2000 – the worst case of all the parties get the nomination (I was a Bradley guy [from Missouri]) and the worst case, by far, of all the candidates gets elected, becomes President and ruins the United States. History seems to be repeating itself – Clinton is the weakest of all the Dems and she’s in the lead, Guilianni is the mother of all bad candidates, and he’s leading the Republicans.
I have have a mind to join the Republicans and run for President as a liberal Republican. Just because there are no rational Republican candidates left, doesn’t mean there aren’t any rational Republican’s left to vote in Primaries. Seems like the Republican race is a race to the bottom… of intellegence. If you can put 2+2 together and get 4, then you are over qualified to run for President as a Republican.
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Hillary supporters: listen, please don’t get discouraged. PLEASE. She is getting attacked from all sides because people deep down know she is our only hope for America and they’re trying to ruin it for everybody. Hillary is the ONLY candidate with these 4 attributes: honor, patriotism, loyalty, and kindness. I got $35 in the bank that says no other candidate has those attributes.