Posted on 07/10/2005 9:29:30 PM PDT by bitt
Ex-President Bill Clinton criticized Sen. John Kerry on Friday, saying he lost his presidential bid last year because he was soft on national security.
Addressing Colorado's Aspen Ideas Institute, Clinton dissected Kerry's campaign with event moderator Walter Isaacson.
According to the Aspen Times, Clinton "blamed the Democratic candidate's soft stand on security" for his defeat.
He recalled that while campaigning on behalf of the Massachusetts Democrat last October, "it was clear even Kerry's supporters weren't clear on the candidate's position on national security."
"I think, in the end, he lost in a close race because of the security issue," Clinton told Isaacson.
He also said Kerry didn't do enough to reach out to rural voters, who were likely to support Bush.
"You can't win an election in this country unless you talk to people who you think aren't for you," Clinton said. "A person who wants to be president has to be at home with issues and people when he knows he's on the losing side."
Clinton was accompanied to Aspen by his wife, 2008 presidential hopeful and Kerry rival Hillary Clinton. Sen. Clinton was scheduled to address the Aspen Ideas Institute Sunday afternoon.
Clinton coments that he chatted with Zubier Pasha in Khartoum.....and Kerry stares at the wall.
Bill says it was the Kizmat of a thousand years.....and Kerry stares at the wall.
Someone else says it was glorius Saib...like the Buckle of Queen Victoria.
And Kerry looks around the room to see if dinner is being served.
"Oh my Beloved...I must worship in the Mosque in Khartoum...and then the one in London...and then Washington and Constantinople....and then all Islam will know that I am the expected one.....the true Muckdee"!
John Kerry is now fixed on Bill after his speech......but is still wondering if dinner is being served.
meanwhile in the room a few feet away...Saudi's brood over rumors that China will be getting contracts to build Mosques...inthat their tender is beyond the Whabbi reach to match.
French diplomats mutter in the background that they used to have Emperors and had ships which had guns.
Jamie Goerlick stands frustrated as her conversation with Bashar Assad is going nowhere...infact he hasn't said a word...and she has talked for 20 minutes.
A Democratic Congressional aid is having an addiction reaction moment when he breathes in air which smells like Sharpie pens....memories of hours blacklining pages with Sandy Burger looking over his shoulder.
Kofi Annan holding a phone gestures to Bill Clinton that Zubier Pasha is calling about U.N. money transfer ...and wants to know if he can sponser athletes for the Olympics in China and get a write off.
Hillary broods in the corner upon learning that she is penciled in for a return visit to that @itty little country.
Pilgrimage to Cecil Rhodes grave next week.
John Kerry is confused....as he heard...."He's burried under a Rock"....but it kinda sounded like someone said Iraq.
"it was clear even Kerry's supporters weren't clear on the candidate's position on national security."
Duhh!
Well didn't he? Didn't John Kerry say, in fluent Redneck, "Can I get me a hunting license here?"
Hillary Clinton 'Outraged' at Bush Security Failure
Including Charlite's personal opinion,
(she has SOME NERVE!-how about WJC's failures?)
NEWSMAX.COM | JULY 10, 2005 | CARL LIMBACHER & Staff
Posted on 07/10/2005 9:27:47 PM PDT by CHARLITE
""You can't win an election in this country unless you talk to people who you think aren't for you," Clinton said. "A person who wants to be president has to be at home with issues and people when he knows he's on the losing side.""
He is right, of course.
It is unfortunate she has him as an asset for her own campaign.
I actually think she will hurt the idea of a woman for Prez. In fact look at the dem women --- Boxer, Pelosi, clinton ---
What a piece of work
Coming from a man who ignored terrorism for 8 years because he was afraid of bad poll numbers
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The Hitlery quest for absolute power steams right ahead. Algore, now J.Effen gets knocked aside.
"Ex-President Bill Clinton criticized Sen. John Kerry on Friday, saying he lost his presidential bid last year because he was soft on national security.
That's like a cotton ball calling a marshmallow soft and white..."
Well, at least we now know who Hillary will choose as her SecDef should she... cough cough Win.
He did have a position on defense. He had a PLAN, don't you remember.
Is that the group of libs who, along the lines of the DLC, were meeting as a think tank trying to propose concepts as to how to get out of the wilderness? Modelled after some conservative organization Gingrich used? (Heritage? in the early days)
Naturally giving away, trading, or the out right selling of US military secrets to the Chi-Coms...
Is Bubbah's version of 'hard ball' no doubt.
Talk about'cher pot calling your kettle black....sheesh.
I did an internet search that makes me think Aspen is an OK organization, but very liberal, and NOT the group I suggested... Not certain, but I don't have more time to look into that now.
It also didn't help him that he was running against the greatest President since Reagan.
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