Posted on 09/27/2006 9:46:04 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Bill Clinton Blasts Bush in Britain
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waded into the debate on the future of Britain's ruling Labour Party on Wednesday, warning that its achievements could be swept away if it lost the next election.
"I think your biggest problem right now is that people take your achievements and your ideas for the future for granted," Clinton told the Labour Party's annual conference.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, a close friend of Clinton, gave an emotional farewell speech to the conference on Tuesday after announcing he would leave office within a year.
The party, in power for nine years, has been torn by infighting over when Blair should go. Blair's popularity has waned over his support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, his policies in the Middle East and his pro-market reforms.
Finance minister Gordon Brown is favourite to succeed Blair but others could step into the race.
The party faces the biggest threat in years from the opposition Conservatives, re-energised by youthful new leader David Cameron, although the next general election is not expected until 2009.
"You have produced prosperity and social progress for so long it is easy for people to believe it's just part of the landscape . . . or (that) if you get a set of new faces in the driver's seat, surely they wouldn't change what's working?" said Clinton, watched by Blair and Brown.
"I have been there," he said, drawing laughter from the packed audience.
He contrasted the big budget deficits racked up by U.S. President George W. Bush's administration with the surplus the government had when Clinton left office in 2001.
"We were on our way to becoming debt-free as a country for the first time since 1837 . . . Now we've added trillions and trillions of dollars to the debt," Clinton said.
"I say that to remind you that it can change quickly," he told the Labour Party faithful, in a warning against complacency after its three successive election victories.
Labour had to tell people that Britain's successes - such as solid job creation and efforts to fight world poverty and combat climate change - were no accident, but due to the government, Clinton said.
It was important Labour continue to be seen as "the agents of change," he said, noting newspaper surveys that said most Britons believed it was time for change.
"The question for New Labour and the British people is not whether you will change, it is how you will change and in what direction," he said.
Classless HillBilly.
Bill Clinton favorite thought: It's ALL about me!!!!
NewsMax needs to just report the news instead of preaching to the choir with screeching headlines.
slick sure got out of town fast
He's morphing into Carter
Will he ever go away
Go where they love you and don't have to deal with you, slick.
pig!
I truly hope 41 will close out his association with him.
Did Bubba ever raise the subjects of terrorism and security in that speech? Just curious.
We cannot let her win the WH.
The country cannot endure them again.
What we need to do is repeal the twenty-second amendment so Clinton can run again and again and restore and maintain the utopia that existed during his previous terms. Such near-messianic talent as he has should not go to waste.
You can take the moron out of the trailer park, but...
He plainly shouted, jabbing finger and all in the now famous interview, "Look, I have never attacked President Bush...
With a red "straight" face, too!
Bwa ha haaaaaa!
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| "We were on our way to becoming debt-free as a country for the first time since 1837 . . . Now we've added trillions and trillions of dollars to the debt," Clinton said. Who the hell is he kidding? This is the U.S. Debt from the Treasury Department. Looks like Clinton added about 2.8 Trillion to the debt in 8 years. The surplus this fool is talking about was just the typical hooey you hear from any administration. Clinton's tried to project 10 years into the future and claimed they could wipe out the near Six Trillion we owed when he left office. That was genuine snake oil selling, as I've never seen anyone accurately project a one year budget. I wonder how the Clinton's factored in 9/11, Katrina, WOT etc. without knowing they were going to happen. |
/dripping sarcasm
LOL. That was my first thought also.
No kidding. Loyalty is one thing but this snake is just taking advantage of 41 while he stabs 43 in the back!
Sometimes the Bush's are way nicer than I could be!!
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