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Bill Clinton Says Political Tone Must Change
NY Times ^ | 1/11/11 | Mike Shear

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: clinton; giffords; jackass; x42
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Spare us, Sick Willie. It wasn't us calling you a philandering liar & rapist that made you a philander, lie and rape.
1 posted on 01/11/2011 8:09:14 PM PST by pissant
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LOL. Wasn’t this the same Bill Clinton that tried to blame the OKC bombing on Rush Limbaugh?


2 posted on 01/11/2011 8:12:04 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Dear BJ,

'Rats need to STFU and obey the laws and Constitution and just get along instead of selfishly wanting to change the laws of economics and physics.

3 posted on 01/11/2011 8:12:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: pissant

Hey Bill: Shut up.


4 posted on 01/11/2011 8:12:18 PM PST by bigbob
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To: 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.

Bill,we all need a cigar!


5 posted on 01/11/2011 8:14:14 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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Why doesn’t that guy just shut up. The world would be a better place if he did. Who is going spout out next. Jimmy Carter?


6 posted on 01/11/2011 8:14:38 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: pnh102

yep....instead of Waco.


7 posted on 01/11/2011 8:16:16 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: pnh102

Doesn’t he have interns to rape?


8 posted on 01/11/2011 8:16:54 PM PST by max americana
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To: pissant

It sounds like Slick has run out of quarters?


9 posted on 01/11/2011 8:17:30 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("New laws are always a "good idea" until the first time you have to enforce them." - Unknown)
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***But he said the political commentary should not “degenerate into demonization” because it “falls on the unhinged and the hinged alike.”***

I happen to agree with him on this... And as soon as they stop demonizing us, the better.


10 posted on 01/11/2011 8:17:54 PM PST by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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Bill is right....he and all the other demoncrats need to sit down and shut up....

But alas that won’t happen.

America did elect Obama so I don’t have much hope.


11 posted on 01/11/2011 8:18:03 PM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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When I read the exerpt, and thought he was talking about himself j*****g off in a sink, it made sense.


12 posted on 01/11/2011 8:18:47 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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The same guy who famously said, “We help our friends and f**k our enemies.”

and

“You might want to put some ice on that.”


13 posted on 01/11/2011 8:19:15 PM PST by newheart (The trouble ain't too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. -Mark Twain)
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"Bill Clinton Says Political Tone Must Change"

It sure does. We need to get rid of all this Marxist b/s that the left is pushing down our throats! Listen to the people. We don't want what you're selling!!!

14 posted on 01/11/2011 8:19:15 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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In 2003, Hillary Clinton screeched “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

Cold text doesn’t do justice to the quote. Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0


15 posted on 01/11/2011 8:19:21 PM PST by fullchroma
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STFU, Willie....and, “put some ice on it”.


16 posted on 01/11/2011 8:20:04 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0
Does this include Hillary?


17 posted on 01/11/2011 8:20:38 PM PST by JoanneSD
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Yeah, now the tone should change. Now that Bill and Barack have destroyed everything we just need to shut up and take it. Spare me the KY, please.


18 posted on 01/11/2011 8:22:56 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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STFU BJ.
We are not a black dress for you to stain.

BTW, where did all that Haiti relief money go? It sure didn’t go to help the PEOPLE of Haiti. How about wading in on that subject.


19 posted on 01/11/2011 8:23:04 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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I Second the STFU you Impeached Liar.


20 posted on 01/11/2011 8:24:31 PM PST by troy McClure
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