Fred Thompson showed upon Meet the Press this Sunday, sharing, among other things, his thoughts on the problem posed by Iran:
“Well, sometimes you’re faced with two very bad decisions, and those are two very bad decisions. But what happens if, if a country like this, who talks in terms of the 12th imam coming back and maybe millions of people dying and so forth, including their own people. It would be, you know, on balance, it would be apparently OK with them as long as, as they would do the right thing, you know, from their own warped religious standpoint. And what would happen if they, if they sent a missile with a nuclear warhead and, and hit Israel? What would happen if they did the same to our people in the field with some kind of attacks by a nuclear weapon? What would happen then? What would happen if they held that whole region hostage in terms of oil? And oil, you know, which now, you know, $90 to $100 a barrel, much, much higher than that. Those are bad, bad circumstances and situations. I mean, that’s why most people with good judgment don’t run for president, I suppose.”
The roundtables of both Fox News Sunday and This Week focused on Hillary Clinton and her response to the attack she weathered in the Democratic debate this week. Brit Hume pointed out that Senator Clinton’s mishandling of the debate’s aftermath is not without precedent:
“There’s something quite familiar about this, that those of us who covered Bill Clinton might remember, and that is, very often the Clintons are fumbling and inept in their first response when something goes wrong. Who can forget the famous … speech that Clinton gave at the height of the Lewinsky scandal; I thought it was the worst political speech I’d ever heard, it didn’t go over very well, he was all angry, but boy did he adapt after that. And he ended up surviving all that and moving on and now he’s the president of the world in the eyes of many people.”
And Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson took a guess as to why Hillary isn’t pandering to the base of her party like some of her opponents:
“I also don’t think you should underestimate that some of her slipperiness, particularly on foreign policy issues, is preserving options as president that she’ll need. Both Obama and Edwards have not been particularly responsible on Iran, not particularly responsible on some of the Iraq related debate. She’s leaving herself room, she’s looking towards November, maybe an ability to run in that environment not jus the primary.”
