Posted on 01/11/2011 8:09:13 PM PST by pissant
Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday waded into the debate about America’s political rhetoric in the wake of last weekend’s shootings in Arizona, saying the tone of the national conversation must change.
Speaking from Haiti on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake there, Mr. Clinton suggested that passionate political speech should not be directly blamed for the kind of violence that occurred in Tucson. But he said the angry back-and-forth of modern debate is not healthy.
“No one intends to do anything that encourages this sort of behavior,” Mr. Clinton told the British Broadcasting Corporation. But he said the political commentary should not “degenerate into demonization” because it “falls on the unhinged and the hinged alike.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I Second the STFU you Impeached Liar.
Bill Clinton is a self-serving egotistical JERK.
Bill Clinton has NO CREDITABILITY - none whatsoever.
Whatever Bill Clinton says just needs to be ignored - not repeated... just drown out with logic ...
“Mr. Clinton said that politicians and others who engage in verbal battle “cannot be unaware of the fact that – particularly with the Internet – there’s this huge echo chamber out there.””
Either Clinton is throwing his weight behind Administration efforts to regulate speech and the internet, or, ......................he has has taken on the mantle of our national conscience.
I know old Hunter got a kick out of it, but I think the SS might be visiting you now over your tagline, Jim.
Yeah, you never know. I might be hiding a nuke under my powerchair. If you see a mushroom cloud forming over our next tea party, you’ll know JimRob went off like a rocket.
Just make sure the wind is blowing south, not north!!
Good question - I heard tonight that 1 billion dollars went to Haiti and nothing has happened to help the people with housing, water, sanitation. The Red Cross lady said we should be grateful about all the bad things that haven’t happened. Right!
People like Bill Clinton are part of the Elite Globalists who are delighting in provoking us relentlessly so that they will get to use their FEMA prisons. This scenario helped me see how such a place existed in “Brave New World” for those misfits who didn’t want to go along and get along with the New World Order.
Just hope no one lights up around my chair. Would hate for the fuse to start accidentally. Oops, there goes Jim!!
Yup, and don’t forget FUBO FUBO FUBO FUBO FUBO!
You have to upgrade your nuke. The model with the fuse went out about 1944 after the first test. They haven’t seen the poor fuse lighter since.
These holier than thou Democrats . . . such a joke
The way this jackass conducted himself. Divisive, he and his bitch wife both . . and the nerve to tell others how to behave and be civil.
This is exactly the type of hypocrisy that does make the ordinary person angry. The elitist snobs who started this whole thing but their greedy nature and divisive ways.
Sounds almost like BJ is calling out Democrat hatemongers. Just today I saw a bumper sticker advocating ‘neutering’ Republicans while driving home - that apparently is what passes for humor among the Left.
Its always Rush’s fault. LOL!!
Meanwhile, Bill's nominal wife, our ugly and untalented Secretary of State, just said this:
"A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country."
Note the plural, required for a conspiracy. Presumably, Eric Holder is now hard at work tracking down the other killers. Hillary could not have meant extremists who were extremely schizophrenic, she clearly meant political extremists. Those political extremists not only intended to encourage this sort of behavior, they actually engaged in the behavior themselves!
So, Bill, you just contradicted your nominal wife. It will probably be the usual punishment: no nubile interns for a full week.
Let’s see... whose White House political operations division was called “The War Room”?
Hey Bill, you’re not relevant anymore...as much as you’d like to believe you are. In fact, all you are Bill is Obama’s Bit*h. What do you think about that you discusting pervert?
I don’t remember Slick being concerned about the “political tone” when Dubya was president or Sarah Palin was running for VP. Slick is a hypocrite.
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