Well, the reason is because of all those Hispanic people from Hispania.
Wait, isn't that in Europe?
Posted on 06/14/2009 3:40:13 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton has told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority
In a speech to the group on Saturday, Clinton said that given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here, Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.
Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."
Speaking in a hotel ballroom to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee during its annual convention, Clinton also praised Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, that was focused on the Arab world.
Clinton told the audience that it's important that they push government leaders for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He cited an experience in 1993 when he failed to persuade many Jewish-American and Arab-American business people to invest in the Palestinian areas because violence and bombings had deterred them.
"It just took one more bus bomb or one more rocket or one more incident and then people got scared of losing their money," he said.
As the U.S. continues to push for peace in the area, "I think it's really important to give the Palestinian people something to look forward to," Clinton said to loud applause.
Clinton, who wasn't paid for his speech, spoke in a wide-ranging 35-minute address that focused on people's identity in an interdependent world. He said the U.S. can't rely on its military might in global relations. "It has to begin by people accepting the fact that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," he said.
Correct, now it is controlled by crooked. lying politicians.
Well, the reason is because of all those Hispanic people from Hispania.
Wait, isn't that in Europe?
Good point. Maybe, in a throwback to those two very long terms starting in ‘93, he was reading the wrong poll numbers.
Other Religious Groups
Jewish....................................1.3%...1.2%
Muslim/Islam .............................0.5%...0.6%
Buddhist..................................0.5%...0.5%
New Religious Movements
& Other Religions.........................0.9%...1.2%
No Religion Groups
Agnostic..................................0.5%...0.9%
Atheist...................................0.4%...0.7%
Not a worldview group, but rather
individuals who stated:”No religion”.13.2%..13.4%
Total No Religion Specified..............14.1%..15.0%
Bubba’s gone native. I hope he doesn’t own any antique .22s.
Where I work it is probably 5% white, 1% or less black, the rest is Indian and Pakistani and the cleaning crew at night is Hispanic. The only place I see my own kind is at the local gun show.
Demographic forecasting in the US has generally been accurate and the only errors have been an underestimation of population growth and more specifically the underestimation of the expansion of current minority groups.
Texas for example in now a “minority-majority” state meaning that blacks and Hispanics combined make up greater than 50% of the population. And while that fact has had little political impact this far, it is likely to have a great political impact in the next ten years when Texas becomes a Democratic state.
At that point in time, the Electoral College math gets very difficult for the GOP when going into a presidential election, they have to spot the Democrats; California, Texas, New York, Illinois and Florida before the first vote is cast.
That’s 168 Electoral College Votes for the Democrats before you begin to add in the other Blue States.
The Stainmaker's true colors show. Long ago I told "Bo Snerdly" that before Clinton was President he would never play golf at a club that would have either of us as members.
ML/NJ
Yes, they conveniently forget that Spaniards - and Portuguese - are Europeans, and therefore, their descendants are of European heritage. Granted, some Latin American countries have large indigenous peoples populations or even mixed indigenous/African/European populations, but a lot of the people who emigrate to the US are of European descent.
Ok but I fail to see them as a Majority.
Whore
Actually, he's right. Bill Clinton and the rest of the Pit is cheering the de-Angloizing of America. Far easier to feast on when armed, dedicated Christians are in the minority, you see...
He says it with such glee in his voice.
He’s glad the Christians are being diluted and oppressed.
approx 2 million Muslims in America
approx 350 million Americans - approx 86% believe in God
Muslims are 0.006% of population
Obama says we are becoming a major Muslim nation
Where do these guys get their numbers?
Clinton, aside from being an glib opportunist and a rapist, is also the political equivalent of the war-time officer using the "just following orders excuse."
Let me explain. There is a facile mind, usually of political bent, which confounds the means with the ends. Like the muslims in the middle east who, like Clinton, believe that so long as it is done democratically, a totalitarian government is totaaly acceptable and Constitutional.
He slso confuses the Judeo-Christian culture of morals and ethics with the religion element in the purely religious sense. It doesn't matter if "new" Americans are Christian, Jewish or not, so long as they neither attack nor change the moral and ethical foundation upon which our Constitution and our county are founded.
Unfortunately, Replacing that foundation is exactly what muslims want to do, and damn the Constitution.
So a word of advice to both Clinton and Islam: Our Constitutional foundations are subject to change only by force of arms. Numbers are irrelevant in protecting the Constitution as it stands.
Give it your best shot.
Someone should suggest to Clinton that if he and Hillary would leave the country they would speed up the process by diminishing the country by two less people of European heritage. Since he’s so ashamed of his skin color he shouldn’t mind doing this.
Actually Clinton is wrong by saying the US will become a less Christian nation. Instead, due to growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S., America will become a more Christian/Catholic nation.
So what?
Perhaps he can take advice from, of all people, a Turk; No one could say it any better:
"Everybody must know that the Turkish armed forces will not tolerate the use of the opportunities of democracy by the enemies of the system as a means to dynamite the basic principles of our state...” retiring Chief of Staff General Huseyin Kivrikoglu, Turkey
Thank you for your clarity.
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