{"id":8584,"date":"2006-09-27T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8584.html"},"modified":"2006-09-27T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:29:39","slug":"the-path-to-911-apparently-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-path-to-911-apparently-didnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Path to 9\/11’ apparently didn’t work"},"content":{"rendered":"

The partisan breakdown is predictable, and the poll was taken before Clinton’s dust-up on Fox News, but Gallup released a poll<\/a> today showing Americans blaming Bush more than Clinton for Osama bin Laden’s current freedom.<\/p>\n

The recent firestorm over former President Bill Clinton’s culpability for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was fueled on Tuesday when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contrasted President Bush’s efforts to pursue al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with Clinton’s efforts. Clinton has strongly denied various suggestions that his administration missed key opportunities to kill bin Laden and left the Bush administration without a comprehensive anti-terrorism strategy. However, Bush — whom Clinton says did nothing about al-Qaeda for the first eight months of his presidency — has the bigger image problem with Americans on the issue.<\/p>\n

According to a recent Gallup Panel survey, the American public puts the primary blame on Bush rather than Clinton for the fact that bin Laden has not been captured. A majority of Americans say Bush is more to blame (53%), compared with 36% blaming Clinton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess this is good news, but isn’t the poll’s question kind of dumb? The wording, specifically, asked poll respondents, “Who do you blame more for the fact that Osama bin Laden has not been captured — [ROTATED: George W. Bush, (or) Bill Clinton]?” I guess it’s interesting that Bush gets more of the blame, but he was president on 9\/11, it’s been five years, Bush blew it at Tora Bora, and administration officials have no idea<\/a> where bin Laden is. How could a serious person blame Clinton, who left office nearly six years ago, for bin Laden being free now?<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it have been more interesting if Gallup had asked which of the two Americans held more responsible for 9\/11? Or maybe the growing threat of terrorism? Or how about a two-parter: a) did Clinton do enough in his counter-terrorism efforts? and b) has Bush done enough in his counter-terrorism efforts? As it is, today’s poll doesn’t seem to tell us much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The partisan breakdown is predictable, and the poll was taken before Clinton’s dust-up on Fox News, but Gallup released a poll today showing Americans blaming Bush more than Clinton for Osama bin Laden’s current freedom. The recent firestorm over former President Bill Clinton’s culpability for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was fueled on Tuesday when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}