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For those of you who haven’t yet seen the video of Bill Clinton getting all hot and bothered with Chris Matthews on Fox News Sunday here’s a nice summary video of the occasion:

My reaction: The national security/terrorism issue has got Democrats scared if it can knock Clinton this far off his game.  Honestly, watching this slick politician resort to the Fox News conspiracy theories espoused by the lunatic fringe of his party’s base in reaction to a fair question about his anti-terror efforts indicates, to me at least, just how bankrupt the left is when it comes to the war on terror and national security issues in general.

These people are running scared, and it’s because the sum total of their policies for the war on terror amount to “We would have stayed in Afghanistan and caught bin Laden.”  As though putting all our eggs in one basket to catch a man who is just one leader in an Islamic fascist movement that encompasses dozens of sects spread out across the globe were sound policy in the face of the terrorist threat.

Update: Byron York:

...the bottom line is that Bill Clinton, the commander-in-chief, could not find the will to order the military into action against al Qaeda, and Bill Clinton, the head of the executive branch, could not find the will to order the CIA and FBI to act. No matter what the former president says on Fox, or anywhere else, that is his legacy in the war on terror.

Read the whole thing.

Update: Interesting…

I question whether or not Clinton’s “rage” at Chris Wallace wasn’t coldly calculated, and part of the Democratic midterm election playbook.

Fox News reports closer to the middle than any other major news organization. It is necessary for Democrats to try to cast Fox as far right wing in order to minimize their influence on the electorate. They also need to keep their radical left base happy.

Thus, a manufactured Clinton tantrum serves two purposes. He can try to portray Wallace as a biased journalist, while throwing red meat to the far left loons without explicitly acknowledging them.

Anyone who doubts that Clinton is capable of such a deception should remember his finger-wagging performance when he lied to America about his relationship with Monica Lewinski.

Sounds plausible to me.