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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If anyone bothers to read or think about Clinton's glib run on sentences, they are pointless. He's a master of saying zero.
And Clinton is a deeply troubled deeply immoral opportunist. IF he is intelligent it was totally wasted.
Stuff like this is why we will always love Bill.
This is Hillaryous!!! Bill Clinton lechering us on our being hypocrites!!!
Naw.
What he is trying to say goes something like this:
We will not always be the big dog. (Me: Perfectly defensible position, although certainly not inevitable. Perhaps the least likely scenario of all is that 100 or 1000 years from now the military/political balance will be identical to that of today.)
We should therefore create a world where who is the big dog isn't that important, so that when we aren't anymore we will still be OK.
Me: The fallacy to this is the assumption that the next big dog will continue to honor the institutions we put into place when we were in charge to protect ourselves after we were superceded. Unlikely to say the least.
There are actually good arguments to be made about this point.
Often the American medical system results in the extension of death, not of life. We ought to be able to discuss this intelligently.
Just found this "beauty" of a thread!
"So Clinton advocates killing old people to send the to heaven quicker and have more money to spend on other social programs??????"
Naah. He aint smart enough to do that! He's just talkin' out the other side of his head. He thinks he's so clever if he uses a few buzz words for a certain group. Thinks they'll soon become putty in his hands. He'd advocate anything at all if it meant money or votes in his back pocket.
There! It's been fixed.
"Oh, I have never believed nor will I ever that hillereee would be president. She is inept as well. She avoids questions unless they are scripted. She can't handle impromptu anything and she screams like a banshee which is NOT Presidential and...she's just plain not smart or wise enough to hold the office. Neither was ole willie. I think the American people have had enough with one clintin in the White House. There are too many Americans who do not want to relive that horror and disgrace brought on us by the impeached former president."
Yes! Hilleree..is a banshee...and the rest is quite true as well. However, unless the majority of eligible voters stop being couch potatoes, and vote in the next election, we may find someone worse than Hilleree...
Thought you might want to read about this latest drivel.
Clinton, just another Death Cultists in the Party of Death.
But, of course, that is exactly the connection.
Clintoon as president of the world? Holy cats! That's a disgusting thought! This idiot and his mentor named Carter should retire from public appearances and statements immediately. They are a major embarrassment to the nation.
Bill will split hell wide open, just a matter of time.
Show me the way, Bill. I can't follow without someone like you to lead!
Hmmm .... sounds like Ol' Slick may be thinking about strapping on the dynamite vest.
If he does I bet Hillary isn't mentioned on it anywhere as having control over executing his wishes.
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