****Speech delivered by Clinton at Georgetown University****

http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol_events/events/clinton_glf110701.htm ^ | November 7, 2001

[Howlin]

That picture was from no less than three or four years ago. Doesn't he look evil?

[Howlin]

"What is the single most dominant element of the 21st Century world," what would your answer have been?"

My answer? "Not your sorry A$$, if that's what you're looking for."

[Howlin]

I am mad for Fred Barnes......and he has had about enough of two things: Bill Clinton and Muslims.

[onyx]

He is evil. I take back my bet, since the photo is already 3 or 4 years old. Damn.

[GretchenEE]

As a public service, having deactivated the GagOMeter temporarily, after being struck by how many times blubba used the word "I" in the first paragraph (not to mention the whoppers he told, such as when he grew up during the Civil War), I submit this incomplete review of the first ten paragraphs. (I couldn't keep the GagOMeter silent any longer.)

This is at least how often blubba used each of the following words in the first ten paragraphs. I may have missed some. Use of "we" as noted here is when blubba is claiming victory or identification with a group, such as his administration, rather than making a general statement.

Watch Bill Clinton refer to himself in the first ten paragraphs
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I = 44 times
me = 5 times
my = 7 times
we = 12

It stood out that he often uses "I" when it is totally unnecessary; for example, where a factual statement could be made, he begins it by saying something like, "I want to tell you about how I handled this situation."

[Utah Girl]

Yeah, I know he's a mouth breather. He just looks like a lecher, standing there. Blech, I can't believe he won two elections as President and was the leader of the free world for eight years. I thought I despised him when he was in office, and that I would get over those feelings. My feeling of loathing that man and his wife just increase. BTW, where's Hillary been hiding out?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

And then there's this: One point I made ten years ago still seems to be particularly relevant ten years later, and I would like to begin with that.

He could have saved everyone a lot of time if he had just said, "Me, me, all the time ME...everything, all the time, ME."

Loathe is too mild a word to describe how I feel about this man and his butchy "wife".

[Howlin]

I could go through it line by line and drive us all insane, but ones like this:

I've come here too many times when I thought there were not enough students in this hall

particularly drive me nuts; I always think he's saying "Look how many people came to see me -- more than anybody else I've seen in here!"

[Outraged]

If we do these things we will create a more positive interdependent world.

Secretary General?...U.N.?...One world order?

[Howlin]

Here's another one:

"Now here's how I think you ought to think about this."

To me, that's awfully close to "We can't give you a tax break, you might not spend it the right way."

[Howlin]

[GretchenEE]

In contrast to the times the impeached, disgraced boy president used personal pronouns, I counted this many uses of "I, me," and "my" in President Bush's speech in Atlanta Thursday night. Just the first ten paragraphs. I didn't count the uses of "we" because Bush uses the word overwhelmingly to refer to us as a nation when using this word, rather than the giants on whose shoulders he might claim to stand within his administration.

Watch President Bush refer to himself in his November 8 speech
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I = 1
me = 0
my = 0

[tank_sherman]

"General Sherman practiced a relatively mild form of terrorism-"

Insult my esteemed forebearer, Billy boy? Them's fightin' words, you sorry SOB! Somehow, I think General Sherman's burning of Atlanta with the intent of preserving the Union is far less the act of a terrorist than what you did to the whole country for 8 long, long years by coddling real terrorists.

[RobbyS]

It seems like all his speeches: His thought so lacks structure that when he is finished, you remember nothing of what he has said.

[Golan Trevize]

Of course, Jerry Falwell was hammered for weeks for uttering a variation on the same theme.

This was exactly my first impression upon hearing of this speach.

The only difference between the two is the degree of political correctness associated with the alleged "sins" of our nation.

Both are wrong. The only people responsible for 9/11 are the sub-humans who flew our planes into our buildings.

[x]

Georgetown and America should be ashamed.

Was this blithering idiot ever President of the United States? How could that have happened?

For once I may even watch those Sunday Morning Shows to see if they give Clinton the drubbing he deserves.

Rockwell is doing his best to dissociate himself from Clinton's remarks, but if you tightened them up a bit and changed the author's name, he would probably print them.

The bad news is that Clinton is still around. The good news -- if there is any good news -- is that his remarks aren't going to make much sense or do him much good from now on.

[Golan Trevize]

Oops...speech, not speach.

[JohnHuang2]

Both are wrong. The only people responsible for 9/11 are the sub-humans who flew our planes into our buildings.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[nopardons]

That speech is THE most pathetic, illogical, abtruse, mind numbing , poorly written bunch of codswallop, that I have EVER heard. He makes screwy Louis Farrakham sound vauguely intelligent.

I also have heard parts of this. How come NO ONE has mentioned that bubba mispronounced and slurred words ?

[streetpreacher]

In Keeping with the "ME" thread:

I was commander-in-chief of the people…

…the best of the world that I worked hard for eight years to build

In the years that I served… prevented many, many more terrorist attacks than were successful. (Does anybody else catch the insinuation? Clinton prevented terrorist attacks while Bush was unable to prevent, or allowed, the Sept. 11 attacks!)

I've been going all over the world and I've been all over America going through this exercise so I'll take you through it.

Since you're living here and we've been doing reasonable well the last few years…

When I became president in January of '93 there were only fifty sites on the worldwide web. When I left office there were 350 million.

I was honored to be president at the first time in history when more than half the world's people lived under governments of their own choosing, and when America… and the societies were actually working, and working better…

The Florida Everglades I worked so hard to save.

In my last year as president we got 300 million dollars… to feed six million children…

I think I've earned a right to say this, I was the first president ever to recognize…

I tried to create a peace in the Middle East…

I think I have earned the right to say…

… bringing their kids to see me because they were so grateful that America had given them a chance to build their lives.