Posted on 11/21/2014 12:22:26 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Former President Bill Clinton said that “borders look more like nets than walls” and stressed global interdependence ahead of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty announcement.
“So we’re back to the struggle we’re in, the chase,” Clinton said in a speech at The New Republic magazine’s 100th anniversary gala Wednesday night.
“And every citizen, I believe, has an obligation in some form or another to build up the positive and reduce the negative forces of our interdependence, because one thing we do know — and it’s the reason I’m, I’ve been so upset about the shape of this immigration debate in America — is, in a world where borders look more like nets than walls, we are interdependent, whether we like it or not.”
“The president’s going to make his immigration comments tomorrow,” Clinton continued. ”As far as I can tell, every governor — every president in the modern era — has issued some executive orders affecting immigration. So I think it, I imagine he’s on pretty firm legal footing.”
“But here’s what I want to say about that. The United States is the best-positioned big country in the world for the next 20 years, positioned. We are younger than every wealthy country but my tiny homeland, Ireland. We are more diverse. We have this thicket of high-tech innovation and great universities. And we are beginning to improve our capacity to train people for jobs that are actually there,” Clinton said.
He was a Rhodes Scholar? Really? Or did they have hillbilly white trash affirmative action?
The Clinton Crime Family is desperate to avoid a repeat of 2008. Can they outflank the Chicago Mob on the left?
No. They are fundamentally lines of division. Stay on your side. Ect. That’s what a “border means.”
No. They are fundamentally lines of division. Stay on your side. Ect. That’s what a “border means.”
And sex with unwilling women is just sex, not rape.
Since the United States of America is no longer a nation of laws, feel free to ignore that pesky income tax one!
WTF? Has he been hitting the sauce?
Mexico sure knows damn well what borders are, considering that enforce their own stringently.
Truth is, he spent quite a bit of time traveling Europe meeting leaders, by his own account. This at a time when you couldn’t get visas into most of the nations he visited.
What the hell is he talking about?
Depends on what the meaning of is is.
Meanwhile, borders are borders. Idiot!
If only enough conservatives would get on board with that, it would be a great idea. I wish someone smarter than me could come up with a way to do it in a co-ordinated fashion. It would take some doing, as the gov takes our money pre-emptively.
So who asked you, Bent One?
Does that mean that I can call the IRS and say something fun, Bill?
I thought all these "exiles" from central America were journeying to the US via Mexico?
I’ve been saying all along that we should build a wall like the Great Wall of China. The Chinese figured it out 2500 years ago, why are we so behind the times? Obama’s sons could probably get jobs building it…but he’d rather have them riot-ready in Ferguson.
They don’t mind shuffling them through Mexico to the US, they just don’t allow them to stay in Mexico. They even helpfully provide literature to them on how to do it.
I think he must mean that the border is a net to catch democrat voters.
Great point.
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