ex-president Clinton, Former POWS Are Dangerous Time Bombs
Did Bill Clinton attack McCain as unstable?
Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
Jeffrey Goldberg wonders whether Bill Clinton has decided to pick up on the Democratic whisperings about John McCain’s temperament. At an appearance last night, Clinton suddenly launched a broadside against POWs, implying that their anger can suddenly erupt irrationally:
Bill Clinton is speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and he said just now, apropos of almost nothing (actually, during a long peroration on Nelson Mandela): “Every living soul on this planet has some highly-justified anger. Everyone. If you know anybody who was a P.O.W. for any time, they can be going on for years and all of a sudden something will happen that will trigger all those bad memories.”
Not too subtle.
Did Clinton decide to join the Democratic bandwagon and start attacking McCain through his military experience? As Goldberg says, it’s not very subtle to suddenly, and apparently by changing the subject, start talking about rage and triggers in POWs. And as Goldberg notes, Clinton rarely says anything by accident in public.
