Posted on 09/14/2003 8:23:09 PM PDT by Eric Hogue 1380 KTKZ
Edited on 09/14/2003 8:31:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Los Angeles -- Former President Bill Clinton, speaking at an African American church where Democrats have found comfort in the past, made his most forceful public indictment of the California recall Sunday, calling it a Republican power grab that goes beyond just the career of Gov. Gray Davis.
With his familiar raspy voice and a Southern twang made a little more prominent as he addressed parishioners, Clinton said the recall election is threatening to turn California into a laughingstock and a carnival.
Later, he told reporters the campaign to oust Davis isn't a right-wing "conspiracy" but an out-in-the-open attempt to "shred the Constitution."
"Yeah, Gray Davis and I have been friends for a long time and I don't want this to happen to him, but this is way bigger than him," Clinton said. "He's been elected governor twice. He's had a wonderful life. He's going to be just fine. It's you I'm worried about. It's California I'm worried about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out as soon as they make a tough decision."
Clinton then paused and said: "Don't do this. Don't do this."
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"Yeah, Gray Davis and I have been friends for a long time and I don't want this to happen to him, but this is way bigger than him," Clinton said. "He's been elected governor twice. He's had a wonderful life. He's going to be just fine. It's you I'm worried about. It's California I'm worried about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out as soon as they make a tough decision."
"It's you I'm worried about". Ohhhh boy, is that a classic sociopathic remark. What old Bill is really saying is that he's worried that it will reflect poorly on him, should the sheep think with their heads.
When Clinton and Davis entered the church, cheers drowned out the choir. Attorney General Bill Lockyer carried his infant baby on stage for Clinton to cradle as a church camera focused on them.
I'm going to trade my beer for Maalox in a minute.
Davis made brief remarks, telling the audience that "powerful forces" are behind the recall but that he carries around a phrase in his pocket that reads, "Nothing can happen to me today that the Lord and I cannot handle." Davis then pulled out a small card with a picture of Jesus on it, wrapped in plastic, and showed it to the crowd.
Powerful forces meaning California voters who have had enough of your lies and incompetence. Religion is the last refuge of a scoundrel, you bum. At least you could have removed the shrinkwrap off Jesus' pic before you commited blasphemy...
The governor got a wild cheer when he referred to Clinton as "president" instead of "former president" and then corrected himself. "Some days I wake up and wish he were still president," he said.
Awww looky, the whore misses his pimp : (
"I listen to all these kinda funny candidates and all their funny slogans," Clinton said, laughing. "It beats watching 'Friends' or reading or watching TV. I just watch California. But after a couple of days, it's not funny anymore."
Yeah Bill we feel your pain. After a couple of years in office, you weren't too funny either...
"Don't you think they would have recalled me after a couple years as president?"
Hey sinkmaster, you don't recall Presidents, you IMPEACH THEM. Remember??? Of course you don't remember that. That would be inconvenient.
I think I'll create a new drink: Vodka, Maalox, and ice...whirl in blender. I'll call it the "Yapping Clinton"....
Yesterday at the Iowa Rally .. the guy annouced Clinton as .. "The President of the United States"
I second that!!!!
Yepper. They'd just be slinging that Marxist propaganda like a squirt on a blue dress.
I heard it too, but what can you say about it? He's being what he has always been, and always will be. There is no depth to which he will not lower himself, and there's no shame he will ever feel. How one human can be so empty on the inside, so devoid of any decent quality, well......
And the sheeple continue to worship at his feet.
I thought I did...
Is there a link to a transcript of that remarkable Clinton speech?
I need to find it. A classic example of arrogance mixed with condescension, and spiced with runaway Elmer-Grantry-ism.
If it weren't so diabolical I could laugh.
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