During the interview Chris Wallace attempted to say that the only reason he was asking about Clinton not being able to take out Osama bin Laden was that FOX News viewers had it on their mind. To that Clinton raised the major point that the media is unwilling to discuss.
"Well, there's a reason it's on people's minds. That's the point I'm trying to make. There's a reason it's on people's minds: Because there's been a serious disinformation campaign to create that impression," Clinton said.
For years the Democrats have faced disinformation campaigns (homeland security in 2002, swift boats in 2004, and torture in 2006) and Republicans came out ahead in the first two elections. Unless they figure out what happen before, history will repeat as Republican have no other issues that could gain American's support, as Clinton pointed out happened in 2002.
"In 2002, our party supported them in undertaking weapons inspections in Iraq and was 100 percent for what happened in Afghanistan, and they didn't have any way to make us look like we didn't care about terror.
And so, they decided they would be for the homeland security bill that they had opposed. And they put a poison pill in it that we wouldn't pass, like taking the job rights away from 170,000 people, and then say that we were weak on terror if we weren't for it."
Democrats need to listen to Clinton if they are going to win this year - This is perfectly predictable: We're going to win a lot of seats if the American people aren't afraid. If they're afraid and we get divided again, then we may only win a few seats.
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