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Bill Clinton: U.S. no longer dominated by Christians and Jews
One News Now ^ | June 14, 2009 | Christine Simmons

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.




TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arabamericans; clinton; interdependence; judeochristian; muslimvote; us; x42
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To: LiteKeeper

The math is quite simple and you are right.

The fastest growing ethnic group in the US are Hispanics and the vast majority of Hispanics are Catholic.

Therefore, the largest growing religious group in the US are Catholics.


61 posted on 06/14/2009 5:01:22 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: livius

Indeed like they conveniently forget that Cardozo, who far outshone his classmates both as an undergraduate (starting when he was fifteen?) and in law school, could be reckoned an underrepresented minority several times over.


62 posted on 06/14/2009 5:03:30 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: liberalism is suicide

Maybe the speaking fees or honoraria are higher offshore so the problem will take care of itself.


63 posted on 06/14/2009 5:06:34 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: trumandogz

You are absolutely right. The Catholic Church is booming with Mexican and Central American immigrants. I would bet that people of the Muslim and Hindu faiths have actually shrank as a percentage of the total population of the U.S. over the last ten years.


64 posted on 06/14/2009 5:12:03 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk
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To: NYer
Clinton is only forecasting trends and he's right but Congress could change those trends anytime they feel like it, just as they did in 1924.

Cutoff the family chain and reduce the numbers to traditional levels and that would halt the transformation of the USA to a third world country in its tracks.

65 posted on 06/14/2009 5:13:52 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: NYer

‘...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.”’

Sorry, William, but it won’t be a positive thing.

Unless the loss of American freedom, as we have known it, is a positive thing.

Those of non-European heritage will not support the constitution, capitalism and the resulting freedom in the same way, for the most part. The minority of those that do will be shouted down—exactly like they are right now.

It’s already faltering.

America’s best days are indeed behind her.

The rest is a sloughing-off of dead layers of freedom.

The great experiment failed because the right abandoned it.


66 posted on 06/14/2009 5:15:32 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: NYer
Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage a heritage of cultural success, and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing "it's a good thing to live at the lowest common denominator."

Fixed.

67 posted on 06/14/2009 5:19:28 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: NYer

still an asshole and forever to be irrelevant....


68 posted on 06/14/2009 5:19:35 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: NYer

Clinton is an idiot.


69 posted on 06/14/2009 5:21:27 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: NYer
"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.

Like the Muslims do, right Bill?

71 posted on 06/14/2009 5:33:35 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: NYer
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

He is right. It has become an unmitigated multicultural mess that is heading down the road to hell as we become more so. I wonder if We The People will continue to accept this arrogant country/culture killing BS from these elitist bastards who wish to destroy us and all that our ancestors shed blood for?

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."

Hey Bill Clinton and all of you multicultural Marxist P-O-S. Up Yours! How's that for a "very positive thing"? So cultural and racial genocide is a very positive thing? Not in my lifetime AH!

72 posted on 06/14/2009 5:36:36 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: NYer

Someone forward with to the ADL and Progress for Pesach thugs. These morons are on the wrong side.


73 posted on 06/14/2009 5:46:00 PM PDT by rmlew ( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
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To: NYer
"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."

By 2050, Bill Clinton will no longer be here, either. And that is a very good thing.

74 posted on 06/14/2009 5:50:56 PM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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To: NYer
I am not talking about skin color, but I am talking about a set of ethics and heritage. Regardless of what Europe has become today, Western culture, which certainly includes Christianity, formed the ideological backbone of this nation. There would be no United States of America if it had been founded upon the political and religious cultures of Turks, Indians, or Chinese.
Multiculturalism makes all cultures equal, and they are not. There is no cultural, religious, or moral equivalent between Jesus and Mohammad, or Thomas Jefferson and Osama Bin Ladin.
75 posted on 06/14/2009 5:56:37 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: NYer
"I think it's really important to give the Palestinian people something to look forward to," Clinton said to loud applause.

So he too longs for a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv.

76 posted on 06/14/2009 6:06:52 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Talisker
"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.

That's exactly how I felt when I was young and stupid.
When I grew up (around 1974, when they invented the "palestinians") I learned to despise muslims with a passion --- not for who they are, but for what they do, genius...

77 posted on 06/14/2009 6:16:06 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: NYer

BUMP!


78 posted on 06/14/2009 8:19:10 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: trumandogz

For a minority-majority state, TX has continued to vote pretty red. It’s a state that’s had a significant Mexican-American population for quite some time now. Blacks are and have been a minority unto themselves as a voting bloc for a whole host of reasons.

I don’t think either party can count on the “hispanic” vote over time. As the 2nd and 3rd generations of immigrant groups become assimilated into the American culture the vote tends to be less monolithic. I’ve always believed in a generation or two “hispanics” will vote pretty much the way Irish/Italian/German immigrants’ descendents vote .. which is all over the place.

One example would be the Puerto Ricans who migrated in huge numbers into NY in the 50s/60s. Half a century later, they have, as a group, risen in socio-economic status. They have intermarried; most have assimilated. They are now largely middle class. Their socio-economic status will determine how they vote more than their demographic. Most Puerto Ricans I knew personally were more conservative than I ever dreamed to be!

So, I am not going to buy into the doom and gloom scenario for the GOP and/or Euro-Americans being some hopelessly out of power minority.


79 posted on 06/14/2009 10:11:55 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: EDINVA
For a minority-majority state, TX has continued to vote pretty red.

Texas has only been a minority-majority state for a few years and in that time the margins between Republican and Democratic voting margins margins have narrowed. Furthermore, the urban and suburban whites in Texas are trending Democrat and Obama won the major cites of Texas in 2008.

In ten years the trends are likely to more dramatic and it is going to be very difficult for the GOP to hold Texas.

80 posted on 06/14/2009 11:59:33 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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