NOT!
Posted on 09/18/2005 7:54:26 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Ex-president Clinton, whom President Bush has rewarded with a prominent role in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, returned the favor on Sunday - by blasting Bush's economic policies as racially divisive and saying that New Orleans' black population was right not to trust him.
Asked why African Americans believed race was a factor in relief efforts so far, Clinton told ABC's "This Week": "This is a matter of public policy. And whether it's race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, poverty goes up and it disproportionately affects black and brown people."
"And in Louisiana," he added, "if what you do affects poor people disproportionately then it will disproportionately affect black people."
"That's what they did in the 80's and that's what they did in this decade," he continued. "In the middle, we had a different policy. We concentrated tax cuts on low and middle income working people."
After listing programs during his administration that he said helped poor blacks, the ex-president claimed: "We know what works. And we had a program that was drastically reducing poverty and they got rid of it and they don't believe in it."
Clinton also sought to deflect blame away from Louisiana state and local officials for bungling Katrina evacuation efforts.
Asked whose fault it was that New Orleans' bus fleet wasn't pressed into service, Clinton said:
"All I can tell you is that when James Lee Witt ran FEMA, because he'd been both a local official and a federal official, he was always there early and we always thought about that."
Clinton said that because both he and Witt came from backgrounds with "a disproportionate amount of poor people . . . we were sensitive to the racial issue."
The Bush's evacuation plan, he claimed, made no provisions for poor blacks:
"You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle class people and up. . . . If we really wanted to do it right, we would have had lots of buses lined up to take them out and also lots of empty vans."
The ugly spector of class warfare has resurfaced. Expect to see this more and more as 2008 approaches.
Which Clintoon is running in 2008?
That SOB needs to have his charter revoked by THE PRESIDENT.
Which Clintoon is running in 2008?
great question. you won't get a straight answer from either of the two.
The obvious question is how?
Second question, Mr Lewinsky, what did you do to help New Orleans blacks.
Why, oh why, does GWB continue to play pattycake with that POS?
Here we go again. Billy has gotten his OLD LIBERAL DEM PLAYBOOK out again --- reading verbatim, this time from the "How to create racial division" strategy section.
This maggot makes me puke. He should have been convicted by the House and thrown in jail for treason, and numerous other crimes. He, like the rest of the radical left, are so anti-American and hate-filled, they just cannot stop hurting this country in their sick, perverted attempt to regain POLITICAL POWER.
I guess Clinton hasn't seen the stats which prove there is less poverty today than at any other time in our nation's history.
And he is also ignoring that Bush has outspent Clinton, by double, what is done to help those in poverty.
How do tax cuts help someone who is on welfare and not paying taxes anyway? Parsing words again.....
I wonder what Bill Clinton has done lately for the black child he fathered? The kid should be about 15 years old by now.
Words fail me.
Why, oh why, does GWB continue to play pattycake with that POS?
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Only God knows the answer to that question, and it makes me almost as ill as Clinton does....when will the Repubs learn how to fight?
How many times does W have to read sh*t like this from the rapist and CONTINUE to prop him up?!
This says more about Clinton than Bush, none of it good.
this guy doesn't have a soul
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