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Obama Enlists Bill Clinton's Aid on Economy (Calls Impeached, Disbarred Rapist to Save Presidency)
Reuters ^ | Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | Caren Bohan

Posted on 07/14/2010 10:30:04 AM PDT by kristinn

U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to lift sagging confidence in his economic stewardship by enlisting the help of predecessor Bill Clinton, as a leading business group issued a scathing critique of the administration's policies.

Clinton, who presided over the 1990s economic boom, was to join Obama at a White House meeting with business leaders at 2:35 p.m. Eastern time (1835 GMT) to encourage job creation and investment, including in clean energy.

SNIP

Four months before the November congressional elections, Republicans have tried to paint Obama and his Democrats as anti-business.

Obama is increasingly turning to former President Clinton to help win over voters and the business community.

Clinton, seen by many in corporate America as sympathetic, has helped the White House by campaigning for Democratic candidates running in November's elections.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoeconomy; billclinton; democrats; economy; obama; thirdway
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To: kristinn
(Calls Impeached, Disbarred Rapist to Save Presidency)

he calls the very same Impeached, Disbarred Rapist who's wife is eying his job covetously. Clinton already damned him with faint praise about the gulf disaster....
....so I guess zer0bama really IS that dumb.


21 posted on 07/14/2010 10:45:41 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kristinn

Hey, since Clinton’s the best that the Obamaloon crowd-O-clowns can do, perhaps even the bumbling repulsicans can come up with a plan.

Or perhaps not.


22 posted on 07/14/2010 10:46:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: kristinn

The whiny little bitch running to Clinton every time he gets in a jam just reinforces how ineffectual, incompetent and immature he really is. The equivalent of a college kid running home to Daddy.


23 posted on 07/14/2010 10:46:57 AM PDT by IamConservative (I don't tweet, I toot...)
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To: kristinn

LOL you know you are hurting when you have to call on Clinton and Carter for help...

Sucks to be Obama. The truth has come out.


24 posted on 07/14/2010 10:47:50 AM PDT by Danae (If Liberals were only moderately insane, they would be tollerable. Alas, such is not the case.)
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To: ETL

25 posted on 07/14/2010 10:48:42 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Ev Reeman

All of it was ...


26 posted on 07/14/2010 10:49:16 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: IamConservative

” The whiny little bitch running to Clinton every time he gets in a jam just reinforces how ineffectual, incompetent and immature he really is. The equivalent of a college kid running home to Daddy. “

What you said.
This makes Barry look incredibly weak and pathetic.


27 posted on 07/14/2010 10:49:51 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Ev Reeman

Clinton, who presided over the 1990s economic boom,was birthed by many of Reagan’s tax cuts in the 80’s which led to the foundation of the 90’s tremendous economy.

The media should give credit were credit is due.


28 posted on 07/14/2010 10:50:26 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: circlecity
And the IT revolution which created a tech wave/bubble that can't be replicated.

Included in that was the sudden ability for ordinary folks to easily trade stocks at home on their PCs and thus drive up stock prices. Many didn't know what the hell they were doing and later lost their &sses. But some got quite rich...for a little while anyway

29 posted on 07/14/2010 10:52:45 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Ev Reeman

Clinton raised taxes 128 times as Governor of Arkansas

Liberals claim they were not tax increases but rather fee increases - for motor-vehicle registration, professional and trade licensing, the issuance of birth certificates, state analysis of water samples.


30 posted on 07/14/2010 10:53:46 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Ev Reeman
Actually, the Clinton boom had everything to do with a Repub congress and a right-leaning country.

If Clinton/HillaryCare had had their way there would have been a huge slump in the 90's.

31 posted on 07/14/2010 10:54:43 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Vaquero
Monica-Gate saved the slime ball from this...

"'We like your president. We want to see him reelected', former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way."

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003

CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.

Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.

For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.

Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.

China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.

In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.

How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.

As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.

To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.

Federal investigators [Cox Report] later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.

In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs.

Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.

"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.

Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.

Clinton recieved funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.

Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.

"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125

or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml
(this version hasn't the necessary hyperlinks, but the above doesn't seem to be available any longer)
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Related Stories
Richard Poe, "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal" (June 3, 1999)
Christopher Ruddy, "Russia and China Prepare for War: Parts I - VIII," NewsMax.com (March 9 -18, 1999)
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"As a globalist, [Bill] Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others."

From a 2003 Washington Post article:

"...a statement [Bill] Clinton made in February 2002, in which he told an audience in Australia, 'This is a unique moment in U.S. history, a brief moment in history, when the U.S. has preeminent military, economic and political power. It won't last forever. This is just a period, a few decades this will last.'

Clinton continued...

'In all probability, we won't be the premier political and economic power we are now' in a few decades, he said, pointing to the growth of China's economy and the growing economic strength of the European Union.

Whether the United States maintains its military supremacy, he said, depends in part on how much those other entities invest in their militaries, and Clinton said working cooperatively is essential to U.S. interests.

But he said he did not want to be misunderstood. 'I never advocated that we not have the strongest military in the world...I don't think a single soul has thought I was advocating scaling back our military.'

Source: Washington Post article from May 2003:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62253-2003Apr30&notFound=true

or find his remarks here (Talon News):
Clinton Predicts America's Decline:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/nw03/talonnews/0503/newswire-tn-050503d.htm

32 posted on 07/14/2010 10:54:55 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: kristinn
Clinton, who presided over the 1990s economic boom,

Point of clarification that "Rooters" will never share - Clinton did his best to wreck the economic boom of the 1990s that was put into motion by Reagan, Bush 41 and the 'Pubbie controlled Congress after '94. He lacked the ability to kill it, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

33 posted on 07/14/2010 10:57:00 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: kristinn

Clinton I am sure will be happy to drag him down even further in the polls. Though making him think he’s helping.


34 posted on 07/14/2010 10:59:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (The Lord made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.)
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To: kristinn
The Chamber's letter gave Obama credit for stabilizing the economy and preventing another Great Depression.

Chamber of Commerce still clueless.

35 posted on 07/14/2010 11:01:12 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: b4its2late
Clinton I am sure will be happy to drag him down even further in the polls. Though making him think he’s helping.

Ofcourse, Think about it. It is always all about Clinton. He wants to be remembered as the "successful" Democratic president. He wants to give interviews and tell how he did it and how he would have done it. There is nothing in this for him, short of saying he saved this loser's presidency.

36 posted on 07/14/2010 11:03:02 AM PDT by riri
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To: kristinn
“IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID.”

—James Carville, 1992

37 posted on 07/14/2010 11:04:27 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: riri

Yep, it’s all about me!


38 posted on 07/14/2010 11:07:16 AM PDT by b4its2late (The Lord made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.)
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To: kristinn

Oh indeedy - the Clinton’s have great economic DNA!!!!

http://www.radaronline.com/category/tags/roger-clinton


39 posted on 07/14/2010 11:07:49 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: kristinn
The Clinton's just won't go away, they keep getting regurgitated over and over.

Kinda like political anorexia.

40 posted on 07/14/2010 11:11:57 AM PDT by servantboy777
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