Bill Clinton to Deliver Major Policy Address at Hofstra (TODAY)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=56517

Former President Bill Clinton to Deliver Major Policy Address at Hofstra Presidential Conference; Satellite Feeds Available Nov. 10, 11

11/10/2005 10:35:00 AM

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Melissa Connolly, 516-463-6818, or Ginny Greenberg, 516-463-2581 or [e-mail], both of Hofstra University

News Advisory:

Reminder: Satellite Feeds Available, Nov. 10 and 11:

Former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton to Deliver Major Policy Address at Hofstra Presidential Conference; Today, Nov. 10, at 4:30 p.m.

William Jefferson Clinton will deliver a major policy address at Hofstra University's 5,000-seat Hofstra Arena in Hempstead, N.Y. at 4:30 p.m. today, Thursday, Nov. 10. The University's Cultural Center is hosting its 11th Presidential Conference titled William Jefferson Clinton: The "New Democrat" From Hope, Nov. 10, 11 and 12, featuring President Clinton, many of his former cabinet members, historians, biographers and journalists from around the country.

Highlights from President Clinton's Hofstra address and from the first day of the conference will be made available on a satellite feed. In addition to President Clinton, other dignitaries appearing at Hofstra University on Nov. 10 include Madeleine Albright, Al From, Leon E. Panetta, Gary Hart, Slade Gordon, John Podesta, Donald Baer, Stanley Greenberg, Robert Rubin, Richard C. Holbrooke, Paul Begala and Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III.

Distinguished guests on Nov. 11 include William J. Perry, Janet Reno, Richard W. Riley, Scott Ritter, Joe Lockhart, David Gergen, Donald A. Baer, Gary Hart and Gene Sperling.

Satellite feed information:

EVENT NAME: CLINTON SPEECH

FEED DATE: TODAY, THURSDAY, NOV. 10, 2005

FEED TIME: 8 - 9 p.m. ET (20:00 - 21:00 (30))

COORDINATES: KU-BAND: AMC-6 (K) / TRANSPONDER 22 / AUDIO 6.2 & 6.8 DOWNLINK

FREQ: 12140.00 (H)

STATUS: FIRM

and

EVENT NAME: CLINTON CONFERENCE

FEED DATE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2005

FEED TIME: 3 - 4 p.m. ET (15:00 - 16:00 (30))

COORDINATES: KU-BAND: AMC-6 (K) / TRANSPONDER 22 / AUDIO 6.2 & 6.8 DOWNLINK

FREQ: 12140.00 (H)

STATUS: FIRM

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. Is he still in control of policy here?

[Divernan]

2. Helluva lot of influence, if not "control". You got a problem with that?

Your post indicates if he's not "in control", he should not speak.
If you meant something else, please elucidate. You would prefer Hofstra had set up a conference with Bush, Rice, Rove, Cheney, et al? Do you believe that only people "in control" of policy should be allowed to speak on the subject?!?!? Where are you coming from on that?

Pres. Clinton has great insight and instincts on governmental policy, especially foreign policy, which is one of the reasons he is so well respected around the world. I look forward to hearing his comments. It's also great timing, given the stunning rejections of the GOP candidates in Virginia and New Jersey.
I only wish he and Al Gore could come to some rapprochement, so that Gore would have been included in the program.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. No, I just think it's weird that it's called a "policy address"

Maybe he should continue giving the SOTU address every year too!

[Divernan]

4. That's a stretch analogy to SOTU, but even then the Dems

give a response to the SOTU every year. The SOTU is a subset of addresses, and it can only be given by a president. An address is simply a written or spoken communication (according to the Oxford Dictionary). As in, I'd like you to address your passive aggressive, sarcastic reactions to Clinton being described as giving a policy address.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Thanks for the unwarranted diagnosis. BTW, the world would be a better

place if BD was still in charge of "policy"

[madfloridian]

12. Just remember he and Hillary are not against this war in Iraq.

That is a point to remember. If you want out of Iraq ever.

[alkaline9]

6. you know there's just something about clinton...

He is so easily likable. I have a very liberal friend (26 years old) who would fall all over herself for a chance to be with the man. Even my mom has said that she'd have to say goodbye to my dad (married 35 years) if Bill came knockin.

I think the more he speaks (without Bush Sr around) the better it is for the Dem party. He has massive appeal, maybe more so than any dem since. Some ultra liberals (myself included) might think he's a bit of a centrist, but he's still one of our best in my opinion. He can't be that bad, after all he did smoke up in college :p

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

8. It is always a bit of a shocker to hear him interviewed, cause it

makes me remember that Presidents can be intelligent, knowledgeable, and articulate.

[second edition]

7. Why is a former President delivering a Policy address?

Has he been asked to do this by the Democratic party, is this to be the Dem's policy address. Speeches like this confuse people. Please- someone, any answers?

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

9. It's an annual Presidential Conference, see the opening post for

details.

[madfloridian]

10. Yep, read all about it at the DLC website.

Why do you think the news has been filled with "where's the Democratic plan?" Laying the groundwork with their own plan....ahead of the DNC conference in Phoenix in December.

The Clintons are still in charge in their own minds, and the war is not going to end. Hillary truly means it, I think, when she is not willing to set a withdrawal date.

www.ndol.org

And in case you don't think I am right...keep an eye out for all those who say we have to win. Some are changing their tunes on the war sincerely...it is pretty obvious. Some are changing their tunes on the pulling out of Iraq...also pretty clear. But watch the ones who say we have to win, we have to stay. That is the DLC policy, because they were all for this war.

[madfloridian]

11. And the people listed in the OP...Third Way as well.

http://www.third-way.com/

It is a whole other way of looking at the world through New World Order eyes called Progressive Internationalism.

[madfloridian]

13. Here are the originals in the Third Way,..now being resurrected.

"Starting with Bill Clinton's Presidential campaign in 1992, Third Way thinking is reshaping progressive politics throughout the world. Inspired by the example of Clinton and the New Democrats, Tony Blair in Britain led a revitalized New Labour party back to power in 1997. The victory of Gerhard Shroeder and the Social Democrats in Germany the next year confirmed the revival of center-left parties which either control or are part of the governing coalition forming throughout the European Union. From Latin America to Australia and New Zealand, Third Way ideas also are taking hold."

"On Sunday, April 25, 1999, the President Clinton and the DLC hosted a historic roundtable discussion, The Third Way: Progressive Governance for the 21st Century, with five world leaders including British PM Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Dutch PM Wim Kok, and Italian PM Massimo D'Alema, the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and DLC President Al From."

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentid=895&knlgAreaID=85&subsecid=109

Just think about it.