Posted on 08/14/2009 8:50:03 AM PDT by presidio9
Former President Bill Clinton urged a gathering of liberal bloggers and activists to unite behind President Obama and Democrats on health care and climate change legislation if they want a new progressive era to last up to 40 years.
Back in the spotlight after returning from a successful mission to North Korea that won release of two American journalists, Clinton delivered an hour-long keynote at the Netroots Nation convention Thursday in Pittsburgh, Pa. He told the group that as president he never had a Democratic filibuster-proof majority in Congress to push through health care reform, and pleaded for activists to seize the current moment.
"We can’t be in the peanut gallery," Clinton said. "We have to be actors. Don’t lose your energy because things don’t work out the way you want."
While most of his speech reportedly went over well with the liberal audience, the ex-president received heckles for past positions on gay marriage and the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. “Nobody regrets how this was implemented any more than I do. I hated what happened,” Clinton said.
... after which our Chinese overlords will enslave us all to collect their debt.
Imagine 39.5 more years of the present situation and trend.
40 years of progressive politics
1000 year Reich
Same tactics. Trying to make people believe they can create a “Utopia”.
Let me tweak and turn their latest phrase around on them:
NO YOU CAN’T
We can’t afford one year of “progressive” politics. How are these people progressive? Their remedies were tried in the last century, and found wanting. They’re not progressive, they’re regressive. People like Bill Clinton are still dreaming 1960’s fantasies.
I rebuke that!
Forget it, Bill. You’ll be lucky to get 40 months.
No, Bubba, you can’t have forty years of regressive politics...and before you ask, no, you can’t has cheezburger, either.
GO LEFT LIBS/PROGRESSIVES. UNCONTROLLABLY LEFT! GO GO! Until American has to Repent of you.
Clinton and Carville must be one in the same....except that one uses “can have” and the other proclaims “will have”.
...and no, I’m pretty sure Hillary won’t let you have a happy ending.
at this rate (if conservatives can get our act together) 2010 is going to be 1994 on nitro boast.
Hearing about anything from a Clinton or an Obamaloon on anything other than when they went to the bathroom is like hearing from Gore on science.
IKR? Isn’t socialist idealism dead yet? It’s been tried and failed.
I wish someone would turn Clinton in for organizing because I think it is illegal now.
Stupid me - it is only wrong if it is organizing against Obama’s politices - never mind....
Another wet dream Bill Clinton had last night.
If all men are created equal, that is final.
If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness,
the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward,
but backward toward the time when there was no equality,
no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary.
Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
President Calvin Coolidge
July 4, 1926
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