Posted on 12/18/2002 6:43:53 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
That and they know if they don't tow the line MacAwful won't give them any of that DNC money.
Also, Liz Smith as political pundit? ahahahaahaha!!
His speech (attendees paid between $500-650 for the honor) included the following:
“Interdependence carries new dangers which arise from our openness and vulnerability to people who do not reap its benefits, who do not recognize its responsibilities, do not share our values. Who are these people? Half the world’s people live on two dollars a day, they reap no benefits; a billion people go to bed hungry every night; a billion people have no access to clean water; 130 million don’t go to school at all; 10 million children die every year of completely preventable childhood illnesses. This year one in four people who die across the globe will perish from AIDS, TB, Malaria and infections related to diarrhoea.
Most of them are little children who never got a glass of water in their entire lives. The world’s present condition is unacceptable and I believe unsustainable.”
Is he pulling statistics out of his rear, or is there any truth to these allegations?
Hollings gets off the hook because he is a democrat and is firmly a puppet of the trial lawyers...even more so than any other democrat.
If there are a billion people go to bed hungry every night; a billion people have no access to clean water; 130 million don’t go to school at all;
Does that mean that of those billion people that go to bed hungry and have no access to clean water 870,000,000 still get up and go to school in the morning?
Sounds a bit far fetched to me but then everything that clintoon says is far fetched and idiotic.
A special Care Package thank you to Aggie Mama and SuziQ. Aggie, those children's drawings are fantastic and your kids are so adorable.
And thank you to all of you who have helped out this year. If I didn't email you a thank you, it's because I didn't know your screen name. I am grateful nonetheless.
I recently had a debate on The Charlie Rose Show with, among others, Professor Harold Koh. The subject was regime change in Iraq and the related question of intervention in its favor. (If the name Harold Koh is unfamiliar to you, it is because he was President Clinton's undersecretary for human rights.) In the course of the exchanges between us, he must have pronounced the words "multilateral" or "multilateralism" several dozen times. Whoever taught him these terms did a thorough job. He could fit them into any sentence at any time. If he will allow me to summarize his view (and the transcript would bear me out here), Professor Koh had nothing much against regime change or indeed against intervention, so long as it was brought about in a "multilateral" manner.
One could have stooped, of course, and been "partisan." The Clinton administration, served by Koh, allowed itself to bomb Sudan without demanding inspections, without resorting to the United Nations, without consulting Congress, and without even telling several of the Joint Chiefs. The same administration bombed Baghdad from the day that the impeachment trial of the president began until the day that the trial was over, again without troubling to pass any of the above tests. In another episode, Madeleine Albright was instructed to veto a Czech motion calling for strengthening U.N. forces in Rwanda to "pre-empt" the genocidal plan prepared by Rwanda's racist government. [snip]
[snip]Tautology lurks here. In October, I went to speak at a meeting at the Labor Party conference in Blackpool, England. Tony Blair had carried the day in the plenary session, but many delegates were muttering darkly about the "unilateral" or "go-it-alone" attitude of the United States. I suggested that, if this was indeed the problem, the solution was ready at hand. Simply support the U.S. position against the Iraqi or Russian or French one and—presto—the U.S. position would no longer be "unilateral." I was promptly made aware of what I already knew—that the true objection to the policy has little to do with its "unilateral" character.
The supporters of German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder were the next to make the same mistake. Of course, they said, something must be done about Iraq. But how can America expect to do this without European support? A good question, but posed by people who would not stay for the answer. The most dada version of the dilemma was stated by Sen. Tom Daschle, who for weeks appeared to say that if only more people would endorse the president's policy, why then, he might be induced to support it himself! But in the meanwhile, he could only frown upon anything "unilateral." [snip]Slate
If this and the bit about children never drinking water were true, wouldn't entire continents be completely devoid of human life? I haven't seen any shortage of people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East or, for that matter, anywhere in the world. Of course, Clinton's words are dutifully reported by the sycophants, and never questioned.
Krauthammer sums up in this paragraph what really made me even angrier at Lott than I already was.
Lott has subsequently provided even more evidence of his moral unfitness for leadership. In desperation to save himself, the clueless Lott has now groveled his way to supporting affirmative action. Two weeks ago he was pining for 1948 segregation; now, on BET, he embraces 2002 racial preferences--without even a pit stop at 1964 colorblindness! It's an amazing trajectory, and a disgraceful one. It can only happen to a man without a principled bone in his body on the issue of race. Townhall.com
I would add just that Lott doesn't have a principled bone about anything. In this statement Lott tars every American for his new found pandering to blacks. From the BET transcript, NYTimes:
GORDON: Let's talk about the King holiday.
LOTT: I want to talk about the King holiday. I want to go back to that.
I'm not sure we in America, certainly not white America and the people in the South, fully understood who this man was; the impact he was having on the fabric of this country.
OMG! I just about flipped my wig when I heard this one! This SOB drags all of us "white Americans" through the "we knew white America was racist" black extrememist mud just so he can spin HIS vote on the Martin Luther holiday. $&*# %$$^#@ %##@&$#!!!!!!
You are correct AG!
Mountaineer, the problem with clintoon and his sycophants is that they ARE communists deep down inside but will never admit it.
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