Posted on 11/07/2011 2:05:41 PM PST by IbJensen
Bill Clinton says he can “sympathize” with the “resentments” that are fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests that have sprouted up across the country.
“They have an amorphous set of resentments for which I sympathize,” Clinton said in an interview with USA Today. “I don’t think Americans can continue this level of income inequality.”
But the former president’s advice to the Occupiers is that they need a clearer political agenda and that they should communicate more with political leaders.
“They need to have some idea of what they want the country to do. If I were in their position, I would invite politicians down to talk to them. I’d invite [New York] Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo down to talk to me. I’d invite the mayor down to talk to me in New York,” Clinton told the publication.
The 42nd president said the state of the country is currently so bad that it “has a disturbing feel, like the bad recession we had at the end of the 19th century, when there was a lot of partisan discord.”
But still, Clinton — who in a new book that will hit the bookstores on Tuesday warns that President Barack Obama has a “tough hand to play” in dealing with lawmakers – told USA Today that the president could still win a second term in the Oval Office despite the state of the nation’s economy.
“That’s what the Republicans are banking on,” he said about predictions that Obama won’t be able to win re-election given the country’s high unemployment rate.
He added, “But the American people have a funny way of figuring. If they decide that the unemployment rate is that high because the Congress refused to work with the president and their numbers remain markedly lower than his, he might win anyway. I still think he’s in pretty good shape.”
A hell of a lot better off! This masturbator's wife now runs America's foreign policy. She aids and abets Obama's dreams from his father of destroying America!
Meanwhile, this degenerate who disgraced the White House and the nation continues on opening his evil, lying mouth to further embarrass this nation.
If Chappaqua or Georgetown had mountains, snow and lifts, I’d be all for occupying them.
I’m surprised Slick Willie isn’t crawling tents trying to score.
Oh, are we supposed to care what this guy says?
Didn’t he make a lot of women feel “uncomfortable”?
He looks really bad in that photo is he ill?
He looks like John Gibson after a long, hard life.
He suffers from a rotting brain disease.
(I understand the reason he looks so concerned and pained is that he has hemorrhoids and he has to rely on that miracle Chinese drug Viagra.)
It is said that he wanders the halls of his Chappaqua mansion with a perpetual erection, but is confounded by the fact that today it doesn’t do him any good.
This CLOWN just wants his way into the Womyn’s tent.
Is he doing a Gabby Hayes impression?
As he ages, poor Bill forgets to put his upper and lower plates in his mouth.
Gabby Hayes was a lot easier to look at than is this goat!
Holy Cow, the draft dodging Arkie trailer trash looks like he has a full blown case of AIDS - if he does he must have picked it up on one of his African vacations. Recall the evil this creature has caused before you pity him.
An "amorphous set of resentments"? WTF? Hey, who needs rational thought, right? After all - "It's the Pandering, Stupid."
The Clintons - because the bottom is never low enough.
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