BHOO’s Tornado Gaffe Excuse Recalls Another ‘Tired’ Story: The Clinton Pardons

BHOO, What Are You Whining About?

We are talking here about Barack Hussein “Obambi” Obama. That’s BHOO around here.

BHOO’s boohooing is really weak:

Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes (sic) death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12.

….. As the Illinois senator concluded his remarks a few minutes later, he appeared to realize his gaffe. “There are going to be times when I get tired,” he said. “There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes.”

If BHOO plays the tiredness card too often, someone besides me is going to remember the last Democratic disaster that was passed off as a product of fatigue, i.e., the Clinton pardons:

Add the factor of fatigue. Newsweek’s Debra Rosenberg reported how little sleep (Bill) Clinton got during his final days in the White House. The fatigue was in large part the product of still another factor, this reported by Stephen Braun and Richard Serrano of The New York Times: Clinton was convinced that compared to presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, he had pardoned too few people. He worried that the Justice Department was too slow and too spare in its recommendations for clemency. So he was pushing the White House staff and himself to handle more of the work. As the word got out that the White House was playing a larger role in the granting of pardons, applications poured in. Too much work and too little time produced fatigue and bad judgment.

Puh-leeze. When’s the last time a conservative or a Republican got to cop out so easily, and get a press pass to boot, for an ignorant statement or a series of indefensible actions because of being “tired,” or “weary,” or because of “fatigue”?

Given the history, it’s hard to escape how ironic it is that former president Clinton’s spouse recently informed an audience how she is “no ways tired.”

And it’s reasonable to ask how many favor-seeking liberals will be able to roll BHOO in the final days of his presidency they way they rolled Bill Clinton.

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UPDATE: Robert Novak observes — “Sen. Hillary Clinton’s upward bump in Democratic presidential polls is viewed by insiders as a delayed reaction to Sen. Barack Obama’s mediocre performance in the opening debate April 26.” Add in BHOO’s boo-boo on CAFE (”Japanese cars average 45 miles per gallon”; yes, it’s a gaffe; more on that here - go to the 5-12 update, and we’re talking about a really bad couple of weeks for “Barack the Magic Negro” (here’s another link if the first one goes away). May 13 — also see Powerline’s fisk of the 45 mpg nonsense.

UPDATE 2: The New York Daily News’s editorialists are also not amused.