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Bill Clinton Warns Tea Party Anger Could Incite Right-Wing Extremism
Fox News ^ | April 16, 2010

Posted on 04/17/2010 5:09:30 AM PDT by Zakeet

Former President Bill Clinton warned Friday that the anger some members of the Tea Party movement express about higher taxes and the size of government could feed the same right-wing extremism that led to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

"Before the bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in America," Clinton said at a symposium commemorating the 15th anniversary of the bombing. "Meanwhile, the fabric of American life had been unraveling. More and more people who had a hard time figuring out where they fit in, it is true that we see some of that today."

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On Friday, Clinton appeared to draw implicit parallels between Tea Partiers -- who are accused by some critics of espousing racist and radical views -- and the far-right militia veterans that carried out the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

"This Tea Party movement can be a healthy thing if they're making us justify every penny of taxes we raised and every dollar of public money we spend," Clinton said. "But when you get mad, sometimes you wind up producing exactly the reverse result of what you say you are for."

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Bubba wants you Freepers to cool down before you blow up another Federal office building

1 posted on 04/17/2010 5:09:30 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Another pathetic attempt by Clowntoon to stay relevant.


2 posted on 04/17/2010 5:11:13 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Zakeet

What is it with white liberals. They think they know best for the entire world and all they do is destroy it.


3 posted on 04/17/2010 5:11:53 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Luke 22:36 ......and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.....)
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To: Zakeet

The perverted serial-rapist, socialist hillbilly incites anger in me as does his wife and Jimmy every time they publically open their mouths.


4 posted on 04/17/2010 5:11:59 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: Zakeet

If he’d really like to fix all the issues here...just tell the senators and representatives that they’ve got 100 days a year to spend in DC...and then must return home.

Watch CNN, Newsweek, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, and the rest start to sweat. Without the players on the field...there isn’t much to argue about. If you need to get something done...you either do it in 100 days or just wait till next year. Doesn’t leave much for argument, and folks start to calm down a bit.


5 posted on 04/17/2010 5:12:10 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Pfft ...


6 posted on 04/17/2010 5:12:32 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Zakeet

He will become as looney as Jimmah Carter.


7 posted on 04/17/2010 5:12:37 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Make it stop, please.)
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To: thethirddegree
Another pathetic attempt by Clowntoon to stay relevant.

Just part of the continuing coordinated attempt by democrats to suppress legitimate dissent. It may also be a revival of the old "vast right wing conspiracy" theme he and Hiliary employed in the past.

8 posted on 04/17/2010 5:13:39 AM PDT by johniegrad
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and the Brown Shirt Media carries this assholes message for him. What about Don Adams, or Kevin in Missouri, or the couple in New Orleans the other night. Oh, they are conservative. It is open fricking season on us. Well keep it up. Soon it will be open season on everybody.


9 posted on 04/17/2010 5:15:00 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Here’s the 1995 *FEVER* he is referring to:

In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton’s first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations

(from wiki)


10 posted on 04/17/2010 5:15:16 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: Zakeet

By addressing us as the ‘right’ side, he’s admitting he’s on the left (?)
When discussing Oklahoma City, the ‘progressives’ always leave out the fact that the heinous act was committed on the anniversary of the Waco, Branch Davidian catastrophy.
Timothy McVeigh’s interview was on Rachael Maddow’s program. Anyone get any insight? I just couldn’t watch her disect motives.


11 posted on 04/17/2010 5:15:38 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Zakeet

I remember his wife’s screaming rant aboutfree speech several years ago when she was a Senator and the President was George Bush. Maybe he needs to listen to that; her angry rant was worse than anything I’ve heard from the TEA Party.


12 posted on 04/17/2010 5:17:20 AM PDT by winkadink (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell)
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Bill believe the people of the United States should be like fraternity initiates, we should bend over, take the hit, and say Thank You Sir, may I have another?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ


13 posted on 04/17/2010 5:18:10 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: sodpoodle; All

I seem to recall that fever. I noticed a sudden attraction to overweight interns young enough to be my daughter. Mustn’t have had it as bad as old Clintoony though, it lasted about 3 nano-seconds for me.


14 posted on 04/17/2010 5:18:59 AM PDT by LurkLongley (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam-For the Greater Glory of God)
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To: Zakeet

This propaganda crap that libs are spouting is shooting them in the foot. Tea Partiers and everyone else are on to it and simply make fun of it.


15 posted on 04/17/2010 5:19:02 AM PDT by albie
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The Oligarchy gets antsy...when the peons and peasants start getting uppity....they’re sending the Massa down out into the fields...to talk the boys down...


16 posted on 04/17/2010 5:19:47 AM PDT by mo
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To: sodpoodle
“In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton’s first term, and began a personal relationship with him”

Yes, but as an intern, working pro bono, servicing - opps, serving her president in his time of need; does this mean that she was a patriot?

17 posted on 04/17/2010 5:22:04 AM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: Zakeet

Increased Gov’t control could result in more Wacos.


18 posted on 04/17/2010 5:22:14 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Zakeet
Post Sandy Berger Revisionism.


Calling Jayna Davis, please pick up the red courtesy phone.

19 posted on 04/17/2010 5:22:25 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Zakeet
Can anyone name one elected Republican who spoke against what Clinton said, anyone? Not Rush or Levin etc. but our elected officials?
20 posted on 04/17/2010 5:25:41 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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