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Was Clinton’s derogatory P.O.W. remark aimed at McCain?

Posted 07 Jul 2008 in 2008 election, Bill Clinton, John McCain

Interesting question: Were ex-President Bill Clinton’s P.O.W. comments this weekend intended to denigrate McCain’s mental stability or was this simply a Freudian slip further revealing Clinton’s contempt for military personnel?

Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival where, in a conversation about global issues and philanthropy with Aspen Institute vice president Jane Wales, he made one comment that at least one attendee — The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg — took as a shot at presumptive GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

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“Every living soul on the planet has some often highly justified anger. Everybody… If you know anybody who was a P.O.W. for any length of time, you will see, you go along for months or maybe even years and then something will happen and it will trigger all those bad dreams, and it will come back, it may not last 30 seconds…”

Jeffrey Goldberg opines:

“Not too subtle. Astonishingly, his interviewer, former Clinton Administration official Jane Wales, didn’t follow-up. One subject Clinton didn’t talk about at all: Barack Obama. He seemed to go out of his way, in fact, not to mention Obama’s name. Which, when you think about, calls into question whether the P.O.W. shot was actually an intentional shot at all. On the other hand, I believe that Bill Clinton doesn’t say things by accident.”

An important sidenote: Nelson Mandela – about whom Clinton was supposedly speaking – was a political prisoner, not a prisoner of war. With that fact in mind, it tends to hint that Bubba was making a carefully calculated cheap shot. Shockeroo.

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UPDATE: McCain issues a classic rebuttal, aimed squarely at Clinton’s draft-doging and lack of military service; “I don’t know where he gets his expertise.”

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