Posted on 04/24/2005 6:35:16 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Former US president Bill Clinton rallied in support of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party, urging British voters to turn out in force for a May 5 general election.
Appearing on a giant screen at a Labour Party meeting in London, the former Democrat leader warned that when a country has "a progressive government in power, our people get a little easily disillusioned."
"They don't like this policy or that policy. They sometimes fall into the trap of thinking it doesn't matter and there are no consequences."
"But if you believe that look at the difference in the US between now and four years ago," he said, in a reference to the election of President George W. Bush, a Republican, in the United States.
Clinton's remarks were made after Blair gave a speech outlining his party's ambition to combat poverty in the developing world.
In the fight against global poverty, Clinton argued that global leadership was key to making a real difference.
"We just need leadership and Tony Blair, (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Gordon Brown and New Labour are providing that leadership," he said.
"I'm just here to say thank you, amen and go get 'em," he concluded.
In reply, Blair paid tribute to Clinton as a "fantastic friend and supporter", before quipping: "Thank heavens Michael Howard is running against me rather than Bill Clinton," referring to the leader of the main opposition Conservative Party.
Answering a question on whether Bush wanted Blair to be triumphant on May 5, White House spokesman Scott McClellan had said earlier this month that the issue would be "decided by the people in the United Kingdom".
"We don't tend to get involved in internal political matters," he said.
"But Prime Minister Blair has been a good friend of the president and a strong ally in the war on terrorism and we appreciate the partnership that we have with Prime Minister Blair and his government."
Good. Let's see now that Bush is the US president the usual leftist British and European presses will bash Bill Clinton just as when he was in the White House.
One of the most persuasive lies American liberals and Euroepan/British leftists have spread is that "Everyone loved Bill Clinton. It's Bush that has alienated Europe!". Not so. I remember the nasty leftist attacks on Bill Clinton in 1998 and over Kosovo in 1999.
I guess when you think you are king of the world you can stick your nose in any election anywhere.
That criminal, reprobate, impeached, sociopath just cannot stay out of the limelight, now can he??? Just the man you would want to use AS SOME FORM OF CREDENTIAL.....(major barf alert)
Clinton has no sense of what is appropriate and what is not. This is but yet another example.
What I hope gets more coverage is how Clinton bad mouthed George W. Bush. George needs to get rid of Clinton, it's only helping the Clintons.
Kiss o' death!!!
Exactly my thought. Now Blair will lose the election. And it looked like he was going to win!
....and backs Communist Party in China.
I wonder why? Could it be that "progressive" governments are corrupt and incompetent?
holy smokes! that dufus is becoming a political Art Linkletter.
...it's Saturday Night!!!!
This must be the "Great Moments in the History of White Trash" episode.
I mean, really, is this any shock at all?
"a progressive government in power, our people get a little easily disillusioned."
What does that sentence mean? Am I dense or what?
I think he's basically saying that the stupid people don't appreciate all the things the progressives/socialists are doing them for.
I think he's basically saying that the stupid voters don't appreciate all the things the progressives/socialists are doing them for.
Re your name, it must be nice to be wealthy living in Orange County(?).
Is it just me, or is Clinton starting to look more and more like Krusty the Clown?
No...I said I was Rich in OC, I didn't say I was wealthy in OC. It is a nice place to live, though.
It means that people interested in politics are pretty idealistic.
People got disillusioned when George Bush didn't step in to save Terri, and progressives get dismayed when countries go to war - simple as thtat
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