Posted on 01/31/2008 7:02:48 AM PST by xtinct
Former President Bill Clinton was in Denver, Colorado, stumping for his wife yesterday.
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren."
At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? "Slow down our economy"?
I don't really think there's much debate that, at least initially, a full commitment to reduce greenhouse gases would slow down the economy….So was this a moment of candor?
He went on to say that his the U.S. -- and those countries that have committed to reducing greenhouse gases -- could ultimately increase jobs and raise wages with a good energy plan..
So there was something of a contradiction there.
Or perhaps he mis-spoke.
Or perhaps this characterization was a description of what would happen if there isn't a worldwide effort…I'm not quite certain.
You can watch that one clip HERE or you can watch the whole speech at the website of ABC News' great Denver affiliate KMGH by clicking HERE.
It's worth watching -- he also pushed back against a 9/11 conspiracy theorist heckling him.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
1. We are NOW required to use the political correct term --> climate change. (Kind of like the libz like to be called progressives now - except all of their progressive ideas come from 1920s guys Karl Marx, Musollini, and Stalin... wink)
I bet the beast thinks that joke about sending Bill to Antarctica for a few months to campaign there may be moving towards reality.
“I promise to put the US economy in the toilet! Will the Republicans put the economy in the toilet? Hell, no! They don’t care! The earth is heating up, and they won’t do anything about it! But I will! I’ll throw us into a recession so deep that all your local businesses will close up shop!”
It sounds like Jake Tapper is an Obama girl.
SHOOOOOOOOO
Very scary rhetoric....
Make the USA a third world country, eh, Bubba?
Aw.. new age religion unfolding ... TAX US save the world.
What a MORON! ... He should pay me to take him on a Snipe Hunt!
So the recession at the end of his term was on purpose?
Bill keeps giving Republicans more to use against HRC in the fall. I love that he is out there talking.
He is always so full of sh!t.
This moron was president...
“I’ve got mine,”
I’m tellin ya Bill is punching his ticket for Ft. Marcy Park with this kind of talk!
A terrible “accident” at just the right moment could bring out a huge sympathy surge for Hillary
Zimbabwe and Mugabe are leading the way on this issue.
I have only two words to say to Slick Willie but I can’t say them on this forum!
OK Bubba, who do you want to lay off first?
He finally jumped the shark with this one. With a triple somersault, yet.....
“Slow down our economy”
just parrotting what his marxist wife plans to do
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