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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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>>>ex-President Bill Clinton remarked that religious Americans are apparently hypocrites for having a fear of death.<<<
Speaking of hypocrites, is this the same man who as President never missed an opportunity to display himself to the People, in his most traditional and saintly attire, in a respectable house of worship?
Every time this creep opens his mouth I ask my self why didn't he just keep it closed.
And bozos still pay money to hear this bullshit.
Sure doesn't say much for there intelligence.
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Yet more proof that Bill Clinton never picked up a bible.
clintin is a total and an enept moron. This excuse for whatever can't keep his face out of the news. He HAS to have his face in front of the camera. He's probably talking for her as well. Two inept morons. Keep talking willie.
Legacy: lewinsky
clintin..worst president this country has ever had. Bar none.
My indelible image of Clinton is that photo of him jogging in Grandpa Moses shorts outfit complete with gut stomach and white, pasty legs churning away.
I'd sooner wake up to a horse's head in my bed than with that Pillsbury Dough Boy next to me.
Leni
Correction.
Apparently he did claim somewhere in the article that he did get a living will. I sincerely doubt it, unless Hillary's father, Satan promised to keep him alive.
HANNIBAL, N.Y. (AP) — Some boys and girls in an Oswego County school district must sit in separate sections of their school buses following the arrest of two students for engaging in sexual activity on their ride home.
State police said a 14-year-old boy was charged in juvenile court with forcing a 13-year-old girl into a sexual act and a 16-year-old boy was charged with a misdemeanor count of sexual misconduct involving a 14-year-old girl.
Investigator Stephen Cadwell said the Hannibal Central Schools students were all on the same after-hours bus ride Nov. 7.
"These cases are coincidental," Cadwell said. "There was no conspiracy."
Superintendent Michael DiFabio said boys and girls now are riding separately on three after-hours bus runs, which service up to 15 students each from sports or extracurricular activities at the middle and high schools.
"Parents expect a safe environment, and this does not provide a safe environment," DiFabio said. "It's embarrassing for the district to admit things like this happened. I just apologize to the parents for having this happen."
The school and state police began an investigation after the 13-year-old girl told her mother. Both boys were awaiting court appearances.
Hannibal is 29 miles northwest of Syracuse.
Oh, and thanks a lot, Bill! Keep workin' on that legacy, man.
same mag who featured his disgusting cover photo. So, does the award mean anything? Of course not!
I don't recall a particular poll, but I do know there were lots of liberal wimmin swooning over Bubba. Makes me embarrassed to be female.
Now, George Bush in a flight suit or in his jeans and cowboy hat. . .there's something to swoon over.
Yet more proof that Bill Clinton never picked up a bible.
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Well, he sure did do a good job playing pastor and rebuking us all for such a selfish idea of wanting to live longer than we should.
No, I'm sorry Mr. Smith. You're too old and don't have enough political pull to get a heart transplant. According the the list of Hillary approved medical treatments your options are 1. starvation, 2. morphine overdose, and 3. pillow held over the face until you stop twitching.
This difficult decision could have been avoided if you only had a living will.
Bill Clinton is the south end of a north bound donkey.
Nice to see Clinton is bragging about his part in the decline of the United states
My first thought was about Clinton believing in his entry into heaven. I see no way that we would have the same afterlife after each of our respective deeds.
If I share "heaven" with a perjurer, infidel, engineer of gassing children.....then God is James Carville.
I find the idea risible.
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