Posted on 09/18/2005 5:19:06 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
LONDON--Former President Bill Clinton described the devastation from Hurricane Katrina as "a positive thing for our country" on Saturday (9/17/05).
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4's Today program, Clinton said that the disaster could encourage Americans to view government involvement in their lives more positively, something the Democrats wanted.
"I think [Katrina] is likely to make us far more sensitive to ...to the importance of effective, good government after repeated decades of often voting for the party that condemned government," Clinton said.
"You know, we all hate government until we need it. So as a Democrat I think that is a positive thing for our country."
Clinton also expressed hope that the disaster would bring the races closer together.
"I think people were very sensitive to the fact that it disproportionately affected Americans of color, principally African Americans, and low income Americans," Clinton said. "So I think it is likely to make us far more sensitive to things that divide us, to fight them."
President Bush has appointed Clinton, along with his own father, former President Bush, a special envoy for New Orleans, and the surrounding area.
Ah come on Bill, you and your party have done all you possibly can, and are still doing it to divide this nation. Your plan has worked brilliantly but I for one hope against hope that someday the people will actually catch on to this despicable plan and kick all of you radicals out of their party.
Bill Clinton stinks, not thinks.
Bill's museum is the ugliest double wide I've ever seen.
And very ironic, given his supporters tendency to smear his victims as "trailer trash."
LOL! Literally. I'm so tired of that man.
Does anyone else think that there is no way Hillary can win the nomination, because people in the middle are just sick and tired of Bill and really don't want him on prime time for another 8 years?
I didn't think this before, but hearing him pontificate on Katrina, I'm just worn out and I wonder if others feel the same.
He's nauseating...but the media act like groupies around him.
He's doing it deliberately. He doesn't want her back in the White House any more than most Americans do. "The enemy of our enemy is our friend."
Now that's an interesting theory and I think you're right.
They seem like a competitive couple; why would he want her to have a chance to outshine him?
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