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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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To: pissant

What is it with these retarded LibPervs? They think they can tell a tiger that hasn’t eaten for three days, that “tiger” is a bad word, and has been “banned”, so therefore, the tiger is not a tiger, and therefore can’t eat the DemoCrat!

Like the tiger is going to give a rats ass? All the tiger is thinking about, is how to best sink his fangs into the animated pile of food, disembowel it and eat it.

The tiger will civilizedly clean it’s teeth with the shards of what’s left of the Liberals bones.


41 posted on 01/11/2011 9:03:48 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi)
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To: pissant

HEY Bill - I heard nothing but crickets when your people were screaming Bushitler, Bush lied people died, 911 was an inside job, Bush Cheney is the anti-christ, satan etc...


42 posted on 01/11/2011 9:04:19 PM PST by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: pissant

Not Clinton again. Can’t America get a restraining order against this guy?


43 posted on 01/11/2011 9:10:33 PM PST by Hunton Peck ("Round up the usual Tea Partiers!")
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To: haroldeveryman

“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.”

My theory is that the demonrats have realized that the Bamtard is an irretrievable disaster, and they want Beelzebubba to be as visible as possible to create the impression that, “Yeah, we screwed up with the Kenyan Commie, but we still have adults over here and we’ll be offering you a good candidate in 2012.”


44 posted on 01/11/2011 9:13:48 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: pissant

“Political tone must change” starting with a new President!!!


45 posted on 01/11/2011 9:14:51 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Sioux-san

“1 billion dollars went to Haiti and nothing has happened to help the people with housing, water, sanitation”

A billion dollars and they couldn’t throw up some shacks and run some water pipes?

The wrong people are in charge of everything, and have been for quite a while. Even when Bush was elected, he didn’t clean the Clintonistas out of government—and it cost him.


46 posted on 01/11/2011 9:17:02 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: pissant
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Hank

47 posted on 01/11/2011 9:18:01 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (DeMint/Christie 2012...The Y'all and the Ball! - And DAMN CHRISTADELPHIANS TO HELL!)
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To: Beowulf9

He’s a great humanitarian, he’s a great philanthropist

He knows just where to touch you, and how you liked to be kissed

He puts both his arms around you, you can feel the tender touch of the beast

You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.


48 posted on 01/11/2011 9:18:13 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: Hunton Peck
Not Clinton again. Can’t America get a restraining order against this guy?

Wouldn't a 'gag' order be more productive?

49 posted on 01/11/2011 9:19:02 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

You’d have to ask Monica about that one...


50 posted on 01/11/2011 9:20:50 PM PST by Hunton Peck ("Round up the usual Tea Partiers!")
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To: pissant

Hey Bent Bill Shut up and Go away,YOU have DONE major damage here and personally are responsible for 9/11 which Killed Thousands,You should be in Jail China Gate Bill.


51 posted on 01/11/2011 9:20:58 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: pissant

Was he biting his lip when he said it.The work he has done for Haiti is a joke.


52 posted on 01/11/2011 9:22:51 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: pissant

Ah shaddup already and GO AWAY Billy Boy!!


53 posted on 01/11/2011 9:23:24 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: pissant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9— The chief White House spokesman told reporters today that President Clinton would like to punch the New York Times columnist William Safire in the nose because of a column on Monday in which Mr. Safire wrote that the President's wife, Hillary, had shown herself to be "a congenital liar." -- NY Times, 1996
54 posted on 01/11/2011 9:31:05 PM PST by Hunton Peck ("Round up the usual Tea Partiers!")
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To: pissant

oh truly & he ain’t be listenin’ to his wifey over the past couple o’ years when she spouts freedom of speech in government (pre-election)—’member that little diatribe?


55 posted on 01/11/2011 9:32:13 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT ( JC Webster's fav words: "the boiling pits of sewage" roflmao)
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To: pissant

Hey Bill: Kindly F*** off and take that doddering imbecile Jimmuh with you!


56 posted on 01/11/2011 10:05:38 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Post Toasties

Show some sympathy. It’s the only way a lib will ever get a pair.


57 posted on 01/11/2011 10:09:59 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Hunton Peck
You’d have to ask Monica about that one...

Ah she was not the one 'talking'. Old bjClinton that one his media protectors were telling us that he could compartmentalize... his private brain operated separately from his public brain.... and old bjClinton was reported to have been chatting with a US Congressman while being serviced. I always thought they were telling us he was a 'sybil'.

58 posted on 01/11/2011 10:12:02 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: pissant

Good! And scary u write that?


59 posted on 01/11/2011 10:14:51 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: pissant
It was wrog for us to talk about Slick Willies being a liar and doing his philandering and rape.

It is politically incorrect to go there?

And they will ID everyone on the net now, so that they can get their revenge for us lowering our rhetoric to tell the TRUTH.

Yes, the truth must become politically incorrect. ONLY THE ARISTOCRATIC LEFT WILL DEFINE WHAT IS TRUE, IN ANY WAY THEY WANT........... GET IT, YOU PEONS?/s

I reckon this is what Slick WIllie means to say, along with the entire Left Wing worm eaten caucus.Its time the left disappeared, along with ash-hats like Slick WIllie and Obama.We got a country to run.They have a country to destroy.

60 posted on 01/11/2011 10:15:28 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com2009/05/brack_obama_the _quintessentia_1.html)
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