It has been pretty well established that the Clinton administration tried to get Bush interested in Al Qaeda [remember the USS Cole at the end of 2000] but they couldn't care less, hasn't it? And the take on Clinton's reaction to the first 9/11 bombing is all backwards. Clinton bombed Sudan and Afghanistan in retaliation for the African embassy bombings, he did take flak for killing civilians and it did seem like he was trying to create a diversion from the Lewinski case.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

memory is a funny thing.  I'm reading "Stumbling on Happiness" and part of it is how we make memories.  We never remember exactly what we were really thinking or doing.  That's not how our brains work.  Our brain stores snippets and then when called upon to remember our brain re-weaves the story.  Part of the re-weaving often involves things that didn't happen that day but happened later.

I wish I could remember where I read it, but someone did a story along this vein recently specifically about memories of 9/11 and showed how people's memories aren't completely accurate and how people remembered things as happening that day that they couldn't have actually known until later.  It might have been diaried at Orange but I don't know how I'd find it.

But you're exactly right.  It seems unbelievable that someone actually would have been thinking that on that day unless they were already part of the Rush brainwashed group.  So either he isn't what he says he was or his memory is faulty and he's let later Rush infitrate his memory.

That's why I asked if Jerome knew for sure that this guy was whoever he claims to be.  There are just too many rightwing talking points, too much misinformation, half-truths and outright untruths, too much attempted emotional manipulation.  It just doesn't read genuine to me.