Posted on 09/21/2009 10:04:54 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
On Monday, former President Bill Clinton sat down with Newsmax CEO and Editor Christopher Ruddy for an exclusive interview on the eve of the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) gathering in New York.
In the wide-ranging, one-on-one session with Ruddy, Clinton reveals that he strongly disagrees with former President Jimmy Carter's decision to bring race into a discussion of the Republicans' criticism of President Barack Obama's healthcare policies.
Democrats have a good shot of passing a significant healthcare bill soon, Clinton said.
Clinton also offered advice to both Obama and the Republicans on how to avoid the divisive politics of the 1990s that marked his White House years.
The philanthropic CGI's four-day summit begins Tuesday, and about 1,200 participants will attend, including President Obama, who will give the event’s kick-off speech followed by about 60 other current and former heads of state.
Since the CGI began in 2005 as the brainchild of top Clinton aide Doug Band, it has garnered 1,400 pledges valued at $46 billion, financing programs in education, poverty alleviation, health, and climate change that have improved the lives of 200 million people in 150 countries.
During Clinton's interview with Newsmax, he took issue with Carter's recent declaration that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American."
Clinton's assessment of the comment: "I wouldn't have said what he did in the way that he did it because I believe that while it is true that some of the most extreme opponents of President Obama may also still have racial prejudice, I believe that 100 percent of those who are opposing him now would be against him if he were a white Democrat."
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What? We’d be against him even if he were a white Democrat? Surely I can’t be agreeing with Bill Clinton.
Obama plans to pass? Pass as in a football? Pass as in the old term meaning to pass himself off as white? Pass as in pass the healthcare bill?
The headline is very unclear.
Blue dogs know that scalding water is coming their way
I think it is pass as in flatulence.
LOL!
Astonishing to see Bill Clinton agree to a long interview with Chris Ruddy—of Vince Foster conspiracy fame (as well as Ron Brown).
Dang, Obama is such a radical lefty that he's making Bill Clinton look like a right winger...Man O Man.
I smell a rat!
They say nothing happens by accident in politics. Don’t know if that’s true. But democrats and Carter’s assertions that race is an issue has allowed Obama to go on the offensive against racism.
Obama has dismissed the claims of racism in a very professional way. But I think the whole thing was a set up, to distract from the healthcare debate that was destroying Obama’s popularity.
Even the Devil would admit that Carter was wrong. Nothing to gain by stating the galactically obvious.
"Rush and Bill Clinton Agree"
Good thing Clinton also said this:
"Democrats have a good shot of passing a significant healthcare bill soon, Clinton said."
Now we can tell them apart.
Ain’t but two ways in hell that ObamaCare garbage passes: either via the Dems use of the nuke option or the Repubs and some opposing Dems collapse.
“On Monday, former President Bill Clinton sat down with Newsmax CEO and Editor Christopher Ruddy for an exclusive interview on the eve of the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) gathering in New York.”
Where he will be meeting with railla odinga, bambi’s blood relation who murders Christians in churches.
clinton has been showing up everywhere, ain’t he?
Sniff. Sniff.
Can’t ya smell that smell?
ooo ooo that smell.
Democrats have a 100% chance of enacting healthcare, whatever they want, just vote the damn thing in and quit whining. They won, they control Congress.
They’ve got the majority, they just don’t have the balls.
I agree - but Richard Mellon Scaife is pro-Hillary.
What is up with the Ruddy/Clinton lovefest?
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