Bill Clinton advocating on CNN - Live!

[bridgit]

Yeah, it's been a tough primary up till now. But it's still good to see him present matters on the merits. Leave the snark at your clicker. Tune in and listen to how it used to be.

[chelsea0011]

1. Great speech. I'm voting for him. What's he running for?

[bridgit]

8. CEO of WalMart?

Not with an overview of local, regional, national & international policy matters such as that

[Blue_Roses]

11. lol

:rofl:

nice one

[blm]

2. He was amazing in 2004 using his 3wk book tour and high profile to advocate in support

of Bush's decisions on terrorism and Iraq war and defending Bush against the 'criticisms of the left' as he called it.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/

Ah....how it used to be not long ago.....just amazing.

[bridgit]

7. "Says Bush 'couldn't responsibly ignore' chance Iraq had WMDs"

I'm sorry the world is a scary place. And I wish for you nothing more contentious than to wait in line at Starbucks. Where the nit-picking takes place over vinte, or grande

"So I thought the president had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, 'Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process.' You couldn't responsibly ignore a tyrant had these stocks," Clinton said.

Pressed on whether the Iraq war was worth the cost to the United States, Clinton said he would not have undertaken the war until after U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix "finished his job."

Weapons inspectors led by Blix scoured Iraq for three and a half months before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 but left after President Bush issued an ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to leave the country.

"I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack," Clinton said.

Clinton blamed the Abu Ghraib prison abuses on poorly trained National Guard personnel and higher-ups in the Bush administration.

The former president said he was not surprised by the abuses committed by U.S. forces at Abu Ghraib but that he was surprised by their extent.

"There is no excuse for that," Clinton said.

Clinton blamed the abuses on the higher echelons of the Bush administration.

"The more we learn about it, the more it seems that some people fairly high up, at least, thought that this was the way it ought to be done," he said.'

[blm]

9. Defending Bush for the very decisions his Dem opponent was criticizing? Can you recall any other

election when that happened....when the last Dem president repeatedly defended the GOP president from the attacks the Dem nominee was directing at his military strategies?

Save your line of Clintonism for the gullible.

[bridgit]

12. It was suggested very early on the one leave their snark at their clicker...

A most humble & timely thank you for demonstrating that BO supporters simply do not have it in them to be much more, or anything other than snarky in the course of their looking right past the matter at hand, good job :thumbsup:

Clinton was referencing, among many other items, the cost of bring the health care systems of other countries here to the states, and how as a result of our deficit those systems would not translate yen for dollar, but exponentially upwards...

You're stuck!! You can't see past what you are not willing to see to begin with. Even if that info you may even agree with, or benefit from.

I find comfort in knowing that the sum of this world is greater than the snark of folks such as yourself.

[blm]

13. This isn't snark to me. I am dead serious about open government and those GOPs and Dems

who work to protect secrecy and privilege.

I 'suggest' that if more Dems would care about their duties as citizens we wouldn't need to be concerned about what is being done by our government that has been closed to us for decades.

[bridgit]

15. Open government? Grab your ankles cause here it comes: Cornel West on Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXj3_pjTTwg I otherwise agree...more Dems, not just BO supporters, need to care far moe

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

3. where is my existential angst emoticon?

[Recursion]

4. You mean this one?

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

5. very nice. I feel a little more like a Picasso, though, you know, with tits for knees and shit.

[bridgit]

6. Have DS1 work this up into some kind of gif

[Tropics_Dude83]

10. Bill needs to crawl back under his hole

What a sorry power hungry whiny probable racist. Too bad what's "owed" to him isn't coming.

I used to love Bill Clinton amazingly enough. Now I despise him.

[bridgit]

14. Oh yeah, I hear'ya, fuck that stupid piece of shit...