Posted on 01/31/2008 7:02:48 AM PST by xtinct
Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday.
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren."
At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? "Slow down our economy"?
I don't really think there's much debate that, at least initially, a full commitment to reduce greenhouse gases would slow down the economy….So was this a moment of candor?
He went on to say that his the U.S. -- and those countries that have committed to reducing greenhouse gases -- could ultimately increase jobs and raise wages with a good energy plan..
So there was something of a contradiction there.
Or perhaps he mis-spoke.
Or perhaps this characterization was a description of what would happen if there isn't a worldwide effort…I'm not quite certain.
You can watch that one clip HERE or you can watch the whole speech at the website of ABC News' great Denver affiliate KMGH by clicking HERE.
It's worth watching -- he also pushed back against a 9/11 conspiracy theorist heckling him.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
1. We are NOW required to use the political correct term --> climate change. (Kind of like the libz like to be called progressives now - except all of their progressive ideas come from 1920s guys Karl Marx, Musollini, and Stalin... wink)
I bet the beast thinks that joke about sending Bill to Antarctica for a few months to campaign there may be moving towards reality.
“I promise to put the US economy in the toilet! Will the Republicans put the economy in the toilet? Hell, no! They don’t care! The earth is heating up, and they won’t do anything about it! But I will! I’ll throw us into a recession so deep that all your local businesses will close up shop!”
It sounds like Jake Tapper is an Obama girl.
SHOOOOOOOOO
Very scary rhetoric....
Make the USA a third world country, eh, Bubba?
Aw.. new age religion unfolding ... TAX US save the world.
What a MORON! ... He should pay me to take him on a Snipe Hunt!
So the recession at the end of his term was on purpose?
Bill keeps giving Republicans more to use against HRC in the fall. I love that he is out there talking.
He is always so full of sh!t.
This moron was president...
“I’ve got mine,”
I’m tellin ya Bill is punching his ticket for Ft. Marcy Park with this kind of talk!
A terrible “accident” at just the right moment could bring out a huge sympathy surge for Hillary
Zimbabwe and Mugabe are leading the way on this issue.
I have only two words to say to Slick Willie but I can’t say them on this forum!
OK Bubba, who do you want to lay off first?
He finally jumped the shark with this one. With a triple somersault, yet.....
“Slow down our economy”
just parrotting what his marxist wife plans to do
Ole Billy forgot he wasn’t supposed to admit global warming is ONLY ABOUT global economic control.
Indeed he must have gotten no sleep at all last night :)
My question to Bubba:
WHAT ABOUT CHINA BILL, SHOULD THEY SLOW DOWN THEIR ECONOMY TOO???
oh, no... the emerging third world can’t be stifled in its consumption because that would be saying “we’ve got ours, screw you.” (according to libs I’ve talked to)
Besides, what would we do to “enforce” the throttling of consumption in countries that don’t bow at the PC altar?
And the horse he rode in on!
Just elect Hillary and the economy will slow down plenty, with or without global warming.
Still a classier looking bunch than what you’d find at today’s unemployment office.
It’s good to see that despite their circumstances, they still ‘kept up appearances’, whereas today it’s pajama bottoms, puffy jackets, and crocs.
Where is all that MSM and RAT handwringing over this like when they smeared Dick Cheney with talking down the economy in 2000?
Yep!
I swear- I thought this was Scrappleface.
“I have only two words to say to Slick Willie but I can’t say them on this forum!”
Is the second word “you”?
ROTFLMAO!! bttt
Twice!!!
Yes sir!
Did the Beast define “common good?”
God help our Republic if this Socialist Megalomaniac gets into the White house!!!
Apparently, Monica sucked out his brain cells as well.
Gee, considering their own conspicuous consumption, I don’t see the Toons practicing what they preach...
http://www.conservativerepublicans.com/
ConservativeRepublicans.com Promises to Back Clinton if McCain Becomes the GOP Nominee
Published 01/31/2008 - 10:38 a.m
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(PressMediaWire) - Today ConservativeRepublicans.com announced its provisional support for the Clinton campaign, should John McCain win the Republican nomination.
“I’ve always thought I was loyal to the Republican party, but this whole mess has made me realize I am loyal first to Republican principles and to the integrity of the Republican party,” says Jed Merrill, who manages a network of over fifty major political websites including TexasRepublicans.com.
“By voting for McCain we are sacrificing the Republican soul. The conservative side of the party is based not so much on a political platform as a moral bond of integrity, and having reviewed McCain’s record, it is clear that John McCain not only does not share our values but would fight against them,” says Merrill.
Other prominent conservatives have made similar judgments, including Paul Weyrich, founder of National Right to Life, who on Monday said of McCain, “I will not vote for him. I can’t. It’s a case where worse would be better. If [Hillary is elected], she’ll do enough damage that two years from now we can recover politically if they don’t shut us down. I think after two years of her that there’ll be a real reaction—just like there was with Carter and there was a big one with [Bill] Clinton. It would be better than McCain, who would fight us on everything.”
[Source: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/vernon/080128 Italics added.]
Merrill calls John McCain an honorary Democrat who John Kerry was willing to take a political risk on as Vice President in 2004. “What would have happened if Kerry was incapacitated or killed, like JFK? If McCain was not a Democrat in principle, I would think the Democrats would have backlashed against the Kerry/McCain ticket suggestion. They didn’t.”
Jed, together with the network of sites he manages, excluding more recently acquired ConservativeRepublicans.com, was a big backer of President Bush in the 2004 election, controversially pointing Democrat websites such as VermontDemocrats.com and CaliforniaDemocrats.com to the Bush homepage.
Jed is a Veteran of the Iraq war, credited with intelligence work that led to the capture of Saddam’s chief bomb maker. (Jed was Database Manager for the Iraq Survey Group from July of 2003 to early 2004.)
Jed is also an entrepreneur and an investor. Currently Jed backs Mitt Romney for President as “the only Republican with a credible chance at restoring the Reagan coalition of social, economic, and national defense conservatives.”
Jed pins Romney’s loss in Florida to Florida Governor Crist’s “selfish act”, trading the Florida and American economies for a potential position in the McCain administration. He also wished former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is rumored to quietly support Romney and is popular with Floridians, had stepped up for Romney in opposition to Crist. Jed quotes British statesman Edmund Burke, who said, “All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.”
Jed also accuses McCain of campaigning on fear tactics, such as claiming only he can beat Hillary in a General Election. “Many said the same thing about Giuliani six months ago, and where is he?” McCain also suggests that “more wars” are imminent, as reported by the Huffington Post, another “fear tactic” according to Jed.
[Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/mccain-warns-there-will_n_83459.html ]
“McCain is a politician, not a leader,” says Jed. “He has never led America into anything but compromise. We should be asking ourselves, what can McCain do for America, since McCain is so busy wondering what America can do for him.”
Short answer: “He doesn’t know the first thing about how to help America. McCain has no experience with the economy, no plan for health care, and has gained much of his influence as a politician from acting the part of a victim, not a builder.”
Jed uses the word “victim” to reference McCain’s five years as a POW in Vietnam and also McCain positioning himself as victim of so-called “attack” ads by Romney in New Hampshire, ads that Romney countered were a fair and modest contrast of their records on taxes and immigration, and not personal.
“Let McCain run for President of Iraq. He has a 100 year plan for that country.”
As for Republican power, Jed says, “If we don’t have our integrity, we have no more right to power than the Democrats. Let Hillary win. We can recover from attacks from the outside, but McCain will eat us from within.”
http://pressmediawire.com/article.cfm?articleID=5087
Exactly. Looks to me like their polling has determined that if the economy doesn’t take a nosedive and soon, Shrillary’s chances are in the dumper. And it’s not slowing fast enough... plus it seems this is a pretty mild slowdown. So let’s egg ‘em on, right Bil? What a ****.
This kind of talk leaves the Clintons wide open for criticism. Global warming is not new, was talked about a lot while Clinton and Al Gore were in office. They expended no effort on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 on this very subject. Why, when they had a chance to do something, did they choose not to? If this is really the greatest issue facing mankind, why was nothing done when they were in office before?
ROTFLMAO!
Well... We did limit the amount of water that was consumed in a single flush durring the Clinton/Algore administration.
We won’t even force China to stop its staggering pollution. The only economy these people want to choke is our own.
Global Warming: “It’s the economy stupid.”
Paraphrase Bill Clinton: “My mother always told me I shouldn’t speak after 7:00 PM because I’m just too tired”.
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