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Chinese Laugh At Clinton (Took $250k to expose Clinton stupidity)
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| 5/26/02
| China Times
Posted on 05/26/2002 3:52:11 AM PDT by Bommer
Visit to Shenzhen, Clinton Makes $250,000
China Times May 25, 2002
Beijing -- Former US President Bill Clinton yesterday made his first visit to mainland China since leaving office. The visit was at the invitation of a Mainland Chinese real estate firm which asked him to make a speech in Shenzhen, the topic was "The World Trade Organization and China's Real Estate Economy." After completing his half-hour speech, the real estate firm which invited him paid him an honorarium of US$250,000.
The symposium was hosted by noted Chinese master of ceremonies Yang Lan, and there were over 300 people in the audience, made up of CHinese, Hong Kong and American political and business celebrities, including Shenzhen Mayor Yu Huanjun, and the American Consul general in Guangzhou.
Today's Guangzhou Daily News revealed that Clinton's speech, which was scheduled to begin at 9:30 am, was pushed back over an hour when his flight was delayed. The 30-minute talk on "WTO and China's Real Estate Economy" was marked by not a few digressions and ad-libbed comments, leaving the impression that he did not have sufficient knowledge of the subject, that his focus was scattered, and mid-way through the presentation, several listeners were seen to be taking out their earpieces through which they heard the translation.
After the speech, members of the audience asked serious questions about the world economy and the political situation, including questions about the effect of WTO membership on Shenzhen's situation, which the former president had no way of answering. In answering a question on how he thought the middle east crisis could be resolved, he wrung his hands together and answered "I don't know, I really don't know." At this, a sound of suppressed laughter rippled through the audience.
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TOPICS: Announcements; Extended News
KEYWORDS: clintonignorance
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To: Bommer; TxBec
First Cahtah in Cuba and now Kringtone in Cheena! What Maroons, both! 
I'm Soo proud of Reagan and Bush as ex-Prez's. Neither have dishonored
the office during their service or as Ex-Prez's!
Thanks for the post and the Ping! Kringtone photo's coming up!
To: Bommer; TxBec
To: F16Fighter
More Legacy..........
i got away wif murder, rape and
obstruction ov justice. . .
i so proud o' myself! !
JESSE JACKSON and his mistress Karin Stanford (circled)
pose with Clinton and other Rainbow Coalition staffers on
December 3, 1998 -- five months before Jesse's love child
was born.
To: Erasmus
More Legacy..........
To: Registered
Do you have any photos of Clinoon behind bars (jail)?
Every time I find one to post as my Final Legacy, it blows up. 
To: ArcLight
He wasn't MY president.
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posted on
05/26/2002 10:55:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Semper Paratus
Who's laughing at who?
Clinton got 250 large to give a speech he probably wrote in the cab. Good luck to his book publisher.
You're right. The Chinese are reputedly hard bargainers in buisness deals. Der Slickmeister scammed this bunch for $250,000/30 minutes. Somebody ought to tell them about P.T. Barnum's famous quote. Clinton suckered (and is still suckering many) for vastly more and longer than 30 minutes in this country.
His autobiography should be an all-time hoot. Just get it from a library or a Dem co-worker.
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posted on
05/26/2002 11:17:43 AM PDT
by
xJones
To: TxBec
To: OldFriend
Interesting .... when there were beaucoup calls criticizing Clinton when he was prez, Brian Lamb felt he had to change the phone lines because "Clinton was polling so well and the calls were not reflecting the reality of the country" ... I guess that doesn't matter anymore.
To: Bommer
- "The instant that second plane hit, I said to the person with whom I was speaking, 'Bin Laden did this.' I knew immediately. I know what this network can do."
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Notwithstanding the above, or more precisely, because of it, hillary clinton, in a Senate speech yesterday, called on President Bush...and not her inept, depraved husband...or, for that matter, her inept, depraved self...to "come before the American people at the earliest possible time to answer the questions so many New Yorkers and Americans are asking...so that...a 9/11 doesn't happen again." |
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No sign of intelligent life above. The rapist virtually indicts himself as the proximate cause of 9/11...and his zipper-hoisted one-trick pony horse is too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the jig is up, that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age is not about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains. |
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- John Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."
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- Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."
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- The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . .
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- With all the media genuflecting before the press-conference podium of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its lack of analytic precision, its lack of depth.
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- The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.
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- Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .
- Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.
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- Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.
- Jimmy Breslin agrees. In Hillary Is the 'Me-First' Lady, Breslin laments:
- "At the end of all these years and years that are being celebrated this week, the national press of America consists of people with dried minds and weak backbones and the pack of them can't utter a new phrase for the language or show the least bit of anger at a business or profession or trade or whatever this business is that is dying of mediocrity."
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- Listen carefully to the clintons. You will hear a shallow parody of the class president. Not only do they say nothing; they say nothing with superfluous ineloquence. Their speeches are sophomoric, shopworn, shallow, specious. Platitudinous pandering piled atop p.c. cliché
- In seven years, they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
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- Even the clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism" with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent, one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt self-descriptiveness notwithstanding).
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- Before they destroy their backs along with their reputations, media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton brain should consider Edith Efron's, Can the President Think?
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hillary's head revisited:
- hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II
by Mia T
The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it. hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind... In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news." (More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")
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posted on
05/26/2002 12:19:19 PM PDT
by
Mia T
To: Bommer
"I don't know. I really don't know."This is the man who just got through offering to "help" Bush with the Middle East problem -- an offer the administration had no problem turning down. This is the man whose incompetence in that part of the world was forever on display throughout his terms in office -- from bombing camel tents and aspirin factories right up to his failed, ham-fisted, last-minute attempt to create a "legacy" for himself in that so-called "peace conference." Even with Barak as a willing stooge, even offering Arafat practically everything he wanted, he failed.
So the man who offered Bush his "expertise" in these matters flies halfway around the world and is paid a quarter of a million dollars to admit he doesn't know squat. The only surprise is that the Chinese didn't fall out of their chairs, that they didn't laugh so hard they needed help with their breathing.
To: Bonaparte;All
So the man who offered Bush his "expertise" in these matters flies halfway around the world and is paid a quarter of a million dollars to admit he doesn't know squat. The only surprise is that the Chinese didn't fall out of their chairs, that they didn't laugh so hard they needed help with their breathing. Someone, quick, tell me how I make a nomination for "Quote of the Day!"
To: Bommer
The laugh is on the Chinese for having Clinton speak in the first place. But then, given the many $millions of nuclear and missile technology that Clinton transfered to them, $250k in not that much of a payoff.
To: Mia T
You really need to stop putting that much info in each post.
It totally hinders download times for slower modems.
I have seen you do it on other Clinton posts....chill already, we have read it.
Maybe you aughta just place a link in the posts.
To: MeeknMing
LOL...I never tired of people being reminded Clinton's real "legacy"...
To: Mia T
A work of art...Thanks...
To: Godebert
Stop complimenting Clinton please.
To: dfwgator
Nor mine....
To: OldFriend
So you noticed that too.........CSPAN has long become C-SPIN on behalf of the demonrat party. Their calls are well screened yet you notice the overwhelming number of calls critical of all things American and all things pertaining to President Bush get on the air.
I watched about ten minutes of CSPAN yesterday morning and couldn't take anymore. It had been a while and I was amazed at how much worse it has become and I remembered why I no longer watch it.
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posted on
05/27/2002 3:58:50 AM PDT
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lonestar
To: Mia T
"The instant that second plane hit, I said to the person with whom I was speaking, 'Bin Laden did this.' I knew immediately. I know what this network can do." "What did he know and when did he know it."
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