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Clinton on recall: 'Don't do this' : Ex-president joins governor in fighting GOP 'power grab'
San Fran Chronicle ^ | September 14, 2003 | Eric Hogue

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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To: hole_n_one
thead s/b thread
61 posted on 09/14/2003 10:02:16 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Eric Hogue 1380 KTKZ
Where do I start?

"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"....

62 posted on 09/14/2003 10:11:29 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Davis has just been downgraded from eGray Hooker to 2 dollar whore...)
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To: Tunehead54
Thanks for the nomination! };^D)
63 posted on 09/14/2003 10:15:06 PM PDT by RJayneJ (To see pictures of Jayne's quilt: http://bulldogbulletin.lhhosting.com/page50.htm)
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To: deedgirl
Did anyone notice the comment Clinton made when the audience first greeted him with applaud.Something like, you make me think I'm still the President. What a inappropriate thing to say. I hope freepers will comment on this remark.

Yesterday at the Iowa Rally .. the guy annouced Clinton as .. "The President of the United States"

64 posted on 09/14/2003 10:25:22 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: concerned about politics
Shock can do wonders for a nation. I'm sure many have followed the same path. Clinton = new Republican voters.

I second that!!!!

65 posted on 09/14/2003 10:26:18 PM PDT by GUIDO
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To: concerned about politics
Dunno, but I'd like to know!
Of course if you were to even inquire about it, you'd be called a racsist bigot!!
66 posted on 09/14/2003 10:28:21 PM PDT by StayoutdaBushesWay
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay
Of course if you were to even inquire about it, you'd be called a racsist bigot!!

Yepper. They'd just be slinging that Marxist propaganda like a squirt on a blue dress.

67 posted on 09/14/2003 10:33:53 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Lucifers lefties are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: deedgirl
Did anyone notice the comment Clinton made when the audience first greeted him with applaud.Something like, you make me think I'm still the President. What a inappropriate thing to say. I hope freepers will comment on this remark.

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.

68 posted on 09/14/2003 10:48:28 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: hole_n_one
OK OK
Sorry.

I thought I did...

69 posted on 09/14/2003 10:56:29 PM PDT by Publius6961 (californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Add a slice of pineapple, a cherry and don't forget the 'bumbershoot'. Party, party!.....
70 posted on 09/14/2003 11:37:08 PM PDT by mrtysmm
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To: concerned about politics
Hey, the ACLU in past may have been an honorable institution, but now that the liberal mentality has infested it like a cancer, it`s just one more vile group of US haters who are now doing everything in their power to destroy it. The most people can do is just vote liberals out of existence, just pull the rug right from under them, but a lot of people don`t realize what they`re all about. Why? Because the MEDIA ignores it! I mean is there ANYTHING more vile than choosing to defend a group like NAMBLA that promotes the rape of kids? Are they freggin` kidding me? I bet 90% of the people in this country don`t even know about that, and as long as they are kept in the dark about liberals and their EVIL, people will keep voting for them. Just about every week, a new liberal comment or action comes my way, and it just blows my mind what they get away with. The latest being the PBS documentary of 911, where they promoted the destruction of the towers on"globalization" and US greed etc etc..They had on one
journalist describing the events on 911 said "when the towers fell it was poetic justice." SAY WHAT?? People falling from the towers is "poetic justice?" 3000 innocent people being slaughtered is "poetic justice"?And this guy was a writer (probably for the NY Times) Where`s the outrage? Why isn`t the media all over this guys ass? Meanwhile an interview that Arnold Schwarzenneger did 26 years ago is protested and hounded to death!
71 posted on 09/15/2003 12:46:24 AM PDT by scabbage (if Huey Lewis and Stevie Ray Vaughn made a record, could you tell who was singing?)
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To: All
-Bustamante Busted? MEChA ties, and more.--

-Total Recall- the Gray Davis Soap Opera--

72 posted on 09/15/2003 1:40:09 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)---)
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To: backhoe
"The Tale of Kallyfornia"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/982602/posts
73 posted on 09/15/2003 1:45:20 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Right-wing Crazy)
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To: EternalVigilance
Link is appreciated- thanks!
74 posted on 09/15/2003 2:05:13 AM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)---)
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To: c-b 1
Do republicans go and speak at churches? I have never seen it where I live.
75 posted on 09/15/2003 3:30:24 AM PDT by olliemb (GWB will win in 2004)
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To: olliemb
Occasionally a Republican running for local office will.
76 posted on 09/15/2003 7:10:23 AM PDT by c-b 1
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To: c-b 1
Please, someone... anyone.

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.

77 posted on 09/15/2003 9:44:45 AM PDT by Publius6961 (californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: All
Caption the pitcher from this luv fest!
78 posted on 09/15/2003 9:48:39 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Boss, I forgot to bring my tag line!)
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