Posted on 11/17/2005 5:50:40 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Clinton: Americans 'reluctant to get to heaven' Says living wills 'will help to deal with the health-care crisis'
Posted: November 17, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Bill Clinton called 'Most Influential Man in the World' in current Esquire
In making a point about the importance of having a living will, ex-President Bill Clinton remarked that religious Americans are apparently hypocrites for having a fear of death.
"It's interesting to me that we always proclaim – especially certain numbers of us – that we're the most religious big country in the world," said Clinton. "It may be true, but we also seem to be the most reluctant to get to heaven."
The remark came at a speech this month before an audience of 5,000 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and was greeted by laughter and applause.
"Look, I only halfway mean that in the sense that I think that everyone has a moral obligation to live as long and as well as he or she can," Clinton continued. "But I do think the living will will help to deal with the health-care crisis."
The impeached president mentioned the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-injured Florida woman who was starved to death by court order after a long legal battle between her parents and her husband, Michael.
"We spend far more money on the last two months of life than any other country," Clinton noted. "And I think the only answer to that and maybe the good thing that came out of the terrible agony of the Schiavo family that we were all treated to for weeks is that amazing numbers of Americans including Hillary and me ... did living wills. We'd been wanting to do it a long time. We just kept puttin' it off and puttin' it off, and I saw that [tragedy] unfold and I said 'You know, I don't want to see Chelsea on television like that. Let's do the living will.'"
Clinton, who has just been named the "Most Influential Man in the World" by Esquire magazine, reiterated a common theme of his – that the U.S. will not always be the leader of the world.
"My view is that we won't be the supreme political, military and economic power in the world forever. We will always be a great nation if we do the right things. But as soon as China and India are as rich as we are then whether we've got the only military superpower is their decision and not ours. ...
"We should be trying to build a world at this unique moment in history we would like to live in when we're not the only big dog on the block."
In the Esquire piece, magazine editor David Granger says Clinton is now poised to become "something like a president of the world or at least a president of the world's non-governmental organizations."
Audio of Bill Clinton's speech at the University of Minnesota is available here. (Total length: 1 hour, 14 min.)
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"It's interesting to me that we always proclaim – especially certain numbers of us – that we're the most religious big country in the world," said Clinton. "It may be true, but we also seem to be the most reluctant to get to heaven."
"Look, I only halfway mean that in the sense that I think that everyone has a moral obligation to live as long and as well as he or she can," Clinton continued. "BUT I DO THINK THE LIVING WILL WILL HELP TO DEAL WITH THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS!!"
Clinton should talk. Then why'd he go and have heart surgery if he wasn't afraid of death?
I can't believe this man got elected twice.
Bet Vince Foster thought the same thing!
Oh god I needed a good laugh, hell I fell on the floor in a coughing fit.
And does he actually think he's getting into heaven!
"My view is that we won't be the supreme political, military and economic power in the world forever. We will always be a great nation if we do the right things. But as soon as China and India are as rich as we are then whether we've got the only military superpower is their decision and not ours. ...
"We should be trying to build a world at this unique moment in history we would like to live in when we're not the only big dog on the block."
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So what is the connection! If we kill each other off a little sooner we can save a few bucks as a nation and remain in the global race!!! Holy cow!!
The Democrats want to kill you.
Do you need another reason to vote Republican?
It is the secularists among us who worship at the altar of eternal youth who are afraid of ageing and afraid of dying.
clinton is like a stain on new carpet. its just annoying and will not go away. i think clinton should speak to jimma catuh about this heaven thing, as we know how pious and holy catuh is. does hillary have a desire to get to heaven too?
"And I think the only answer to that and maybe the good thing that came out of the terrible agony of the Schiavo family that we were all treated to for weeks is that amazing numbers of Americans including Hillary and me ... did living wills.
This man has to take every single item that has ever been in the news and turn it into a story about HIM (Rosa Parks, anyone?)
Did he happen to mention whether HE has a living will?
A barf alert would be most appropriate here.
He never got over 49% of the votes in either election, which is a good reason to require a 51% percentage to win an election.
It also didin't help that the Republicans had the two worst campaigners against him.
They didn't have a living will until the Schiavo case? LOL. Typical Clinton. If you believe that, you believe his stories about black churches being burned in Arkansas, his sitting in the back of the bus going to school (which was a mile away), his wife being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, etc. Clinton just needed a vehicle to bring up the Schiavo case again.
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