President Clinton speaks to Rhode Island students (about the Bushes)

[DeepModem Mom]

Boston Globe/AP: President Clinton speaks to Rhode Island students
By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer | June 26, 2006

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. --Former President Bill Clinton told students Monday night that his new relationship with former President George H.W. Bush is an example of how people can overcome differences to do good.

"I like working with him," Clinton said to hundreds of students at the World Scholar Athlete Games at the University of Rhode Island, "and I like arguing with him."...

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Through his friendship with the current president's father, Clinton said his respect for the current president has grown. Bush has a better take on immigration than the more conservative members of his party, Clinton said, and he got Congress to spend millions fighting AIDS.

Still, Clinton noted that he and George W. Bush have "huge differences."

Clinton said it is "unconscionable" that the United States has not toughened car emission standards, and he objected to the president's efforts to permanently repeal the estate tax. An estate tax on the richest one percent of Americans could raise $25 million to $40 million a year, enough to wipeout extreme poverty around the globe in a decade....

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/06/26/president_clinton_speaks_to_rhode_island_students/

[flordehinojos]

1. PUKE, PUKE, PUKE.

x(

[Sanity Claws]

2. Reread it

Clinton first massages the Bush family then he slams W.
Vinegar with a little honey is usually better received than pure vinegar.

[trogdor]

4. THANK YOU!

As much as I can't stand the Bushes, I'd take 41 over 43 anytime. At least 41 had a brain in his head.

[flordehinojos]

9. no bushes, not ever, not 41, not 43, not 44 or any other bush in power,

period. never forget. never again.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Right. Clinton knows how to 'play well with others'. nt

[flordehinojos]

8. i say again, PUKE, PUKE, PUKE!

:puke:

[unlawflcombatnt]

26. Re-read it. Puked again. This time I had projectile vomiting

Vinegar and honey make me barf twice as much as vinegar alone.
This time I barfed all the way across the room.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:


Ooohhh, no!!

I think I just ruptured my esophagus.


unlawflcombatnt

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[zann725]

35. My response (puke again)...exactly! (No need to "re-read" article, thanks)

And they called Kerry a "flip-flopper?!"

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. THIS is my major beef with the Clintons. It makes me sick.

:puke:

[bigluckyfeet]

10. Does Anyone Know

If Bill & Hillary live together,even sometime?....I believe they still have the house in New York state,and she has a place in DC.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Yes, they still live together when they can.

She's in DC most of the time and he's traveling the world to help AIDS victims, but when time allows, they're together.

[calimary]

34. I read here somewhere within the last week or so that people in

the New York suburb where they live have seen them at the multiplex every weekend taking in movies together. The impression given in the story about it, from the writing to the interviews with the locals was that they were still very much together.

[Biernuts]

31. Do you think he's sincere or posturing for Hillary? I can't tell.

[WI_DEM]

6. it's all part of the grand strategy to make Hillary president

everything the Clinton's do is calculated. By forging this relationship with the Bush's and giving some praise now and again to the chimp is to defange the right-wing and make Hillary look more moderate since the country at large seems to think she is some kind of liberal--of all things.

[CanSocDem]

7. Could it be called...

...a tiny left-wing conspiracy???

[corbett]

23. IMHO It's Working

I stand by my prediction that the Democratic ticket in 2008 will be John Kerry for prez and Hillary Clinton for veep. If I'm right, it will an unstoppable juggernaut with Bill campaigning to bring in the black vote and Hillary for the feminist vote.

[Pastiche423]

38. Hillary for the feminist vote?

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

[earth mom]

11. PUKE! And people still support the Clintons?!

:wtf:

That Bill or Hillary have NEVER pointed out each and every one of the pretzeldents crimes, is a crime in and of itself! Words can not express my disgust with the lot of them! :puke:

[katty]

15. makes me ill-pimping for the bushes!

[earth mom]

17. Pimping is exactly what it is!

:puke:

[Biernuts]

32. One thing I recall about Jimmy Carter - the 1976 election was very

close and Jimmy didn't always say the right thing in the campaign. But he said words to the effect look at how we govern, not how we ran. Could be the playbook for Hillay as well.

[IndianaGreen]

12. "Clinton said his respect for the current president has grown"

And he wants Hillary to become President so that we continue to puke under the monarchical rule of the Clintons and Bushes.

You don't think that a President Hillary would ditch the dictatorial powers that Bush has amassed?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. My respect for him has grown too...

it's grown smaller and smaller. In fact, you might even say it was ingrown. Like a toenail.

[katty]

14. Clinton don't pimp for the bushes!-I am going to heave

[Bridget Burke]

16. While in Rhode Island, Clinton also spoke at a Democratic fundraiser.

In support of Sheldon Whitehouse's run for the Senate.

06/27/2006
Bubba makes Southern appearance
Jim Baron, Times staff writer
©The Pawtucket Times 2006

....he aimed all his fire at the Bush adminstration and the Republican majorities in the Senate and House and touted Whitehouse as "a gifted public servant..

He said the policies of President George W. Bush and the Republicans have been to "consolidate wealth and power, elevate ideology over evidence and elevate attacks over argument. "We can’t build a world with more parters and fewer terrorists unless we think differently," the former chief executive declared....

Reverting to one of the slogans from his own presidential campaigns, Clinton said, "there is nothing wrong with this country that can’t be fixed by what is right with it."....

The number one priority of the Republican Party and Bush administration, Clinton suggested, is the repeal of the estate tax -- a.k.a. the death tax -- that affects about 1 percent of Americans, while at the same time they cut funding for college loans and oppose paying for the technology to check incoming cargo containers at America's ports to help fight terrorism.

www.zwire.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1713&dept_id=24491&newsid=16840074

Nary a compliment to any Bush in this speech.

[msmcghee]

19. It's wonderful to know that . .

. . worldwide extreme poverty could be eliminated for just $400 million dollars. What are we waiting for? And that much tax spread over the thousands of super rich who die every year should amount to just a few thousand dollars each. So, what are they bitching about?

:sarcasm:

Doesn't anybody proofread this crap?

[zreosumgame]

20. yes, he was the best republican pres in loooooong time

after all

[Bush_MUST_Go]

21. The neocons would love nothing better than Hilary for prez.

That would guarantee America another 4 years of automatic Clinton bashing.

America needs to start rebuilding our country & the stink in DC with a clean slate.

"Through his friendship with the current president's father, Clinton said his respect for the current president has grown."

To use the word respect & bush in the same sentence is an insult. *pukes*

[truthisfreedom]

22. $25M to $45M a year would wipe out extreme poverty in a decade?

what about the Gates Foundation? they're distributing what, $3B/year now, with Buffet's contribution? that's $3000M/year... wouldn't that wipe out extreme poverty in one or two months???

[unlawflcombatnt]

24. NAFTA & Clinton

Let's not forget Clinton's sellout on NAFTA.

Clinton was the President who signed NAFTA into law, despite overwhelming objections from his own party and the American people. And despite his campaign promises NOT to sign it unless labor and environmental protections were included in the bill, he signed it into law without them.

Bush has taken this very bad trade bill, signed into law by Clinton, and made it even worse.

NAFTA has done more damage to the American worker than any other single piece of legislation. And it was a "Clinton" who pushed it through, with the help of his Multinational Corporation backers.

No more Bushes. AND no more Clintons.

The American Corporatocracy needs to be brought down. And another Bush or Clinton will do the opposite. It will finalize the complete control of our nation by Corporate America.

There's an excellent book recently published named The Global Class War by economist Jeff Faux of the Economic Policy Institute. (It's about $25.) Faux describes Bill Clinton's disgusting advocacy and involvement in pushing NAFTA through Congress. Anyone even considering voting for a Clinton should read the 1st 50 pages of this book. It provides excellent insight from a "liberal" economist as to how Clinton sold out American workers on NAFTA.

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[Cookie wookie]

27. Clinton also signed the telecommunications

act which deregulated the media and allowed a few corporations to own it to the great detriment of democracy in the US -- not necessarily that he knew how it would turn out, but I'd love to hear some real contrition about it from him. Maybe he said something that had substance that wasn't published in the article. We know how that goes. Finding something nice to say about * is like someone in Hitler's time talking about how they admire his public speaking skills and all the while people are being carted off to the gas chambers.

Yes, let's don't hesitate to say something good about Satan, Jr. (sarcasm)

Sure, it's important to live on a higher spiritual plane, forgive and forget, look for similarities in people blah blah blah, which is the way Clinton is, but in this case aligning oneself with those people is the same as sleeping with the devil. In this case, when he does it, the whole world gets f'...ed.

[VegasWolf]

25. In the meantime, 10s of thousands are dying in Iraq and no Clinton even

gives a damn. They are part and parcel of the military industrial complex just like their good buddies the Bushes. Enough money from the Corporations and one can forget inconvienient little things like the deaths of innocent civilians.

[Clarkie1]

28. This is a bizzare statement.

"An estate tax on the richest one percent of Americans could raise $25 million to $40 million a year, enough to wipeout extreme poverty around the globe in a decade...."

That's not even a drop in the bucket against poverty in one state, let alone the world!

[sandnsea]

29. extreme poverty

People dying because they literally have no food, no clean water, no medicine. Reducing this kind of poverty would do more to reduce terrorist recruitment than any other thing we could do and it is incredibly inexpensive. $30 billion a year would provide clean water, food and education to every impoverished person in the world. Damn site cheaper than war. The world spends that much on ice cream.

[Clarkie1]

39. The post says 30 million...it must be a misprint, I assume.

No way will 30 million make even a small dent in world poverty.

[depakid]

30. Enabling Republicans

and legitimizing their policies is something Clinton does very well.

[Neecy]

33. what bullshit

He mildly criticizes the ninny for little shit like car emissions and the estate tax, and not one fucking word about the slaughter in Iraq and the lies that brought us there!

Bill Clinton needs to just to just go away....and stop enabling these killers.

[Biernuts]

37. Pretty hard to do that since he signed the bill making Iraq

regime change the law of the land.

[Gloria]

36. The blurring of the lines doesn't help us...unfortunately, it seems

the entire party wants to "blur the lines". It is really maddening.

[mitchum]

40. "Thou shalt not speak ill of another republican"...

apparently, Clinton is following Reagan's eleventh commamdment