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[audience LAUGHS AT clinton!] Rambling Clinton strolls off with $250,000
The Guardian ^ | May 25, 2002 | John Gittings

Posted on 05/25/2002 11:24:06 AM PDT by Roscoe Karns

Saturday May 25, 2002

The Guardian

A rambling and expensive speech by the former US president Bill Clinton in southern China has gone down spectacularly badly, according to the Chinese press.

Many in the audience in Shenzhen, which comprised various dignitaries, found it so hard to follow that they took off the headsets providing simultaneous translation.

Mr Clinton was supposed to speak on Thursday about the "World Trade Organisation and the Chinese real estate economy," because a local property company was paying him $250,000 (£170,000) for the speech.

Instead he uttered platitudes about the need for "personal understanding" between US and Chinese leaders and reminisced about his first visit to China in 1998, when he held a successful summit with the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin.

Members of the audience, who had waited for hours because his plane was delayed, then asked him about international affairs and politics. "Although he had nothing worth saying, he kept going on," the Yangcheng Evening News commented yesterday.

Asked to predict the outcome of the Middle East crisis, Mr Clinton smiled ingenuously and confessed: "I don't know, I really don't know." The entire audience, which included the mayor of Guangzhou and 300 invited foreign and Chinese guests, burst out laughing.

Mr Clinton's chutzpah in collecting his fee without doing any homework has been widely noted. The Chinese Communist party's official People's Daily website reported it under the headline "Clinton reaps $250,000 in 30-minute speech in Shenzhen."

There was no apparent note of censure in the Chinese press comment yesterday; instead, the response seemed to be a hint of admiration that he could get away with. It was noted that Mr Clinton had earned only $100,000 for a speech to the Fortune Forum in Hong Kong last year.

He arrived in China from Japan, where he received an honorary doctorate at Nihon University and lectured on globalisation. Observers in Tokyo suggest that the Japanese press would have been far too polite to say that his speech there was less than riveting.



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To: Shooter 2.5
The Fox Network could auction off a chance to be in the ring with him.

Only if the procedes went to "radical right" causes!

61 posted on 05/25/2002 1:41:09 PM PDT by dirtbiker
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To: Randjuke
Yes, I agree - but this statement: "a hint of admiration that he could get away with it" - says it all! 1992-2000 was based on allowing him to "get away with it".
62 posted on 05/25/2002 1:42:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: Enterprise
If he is drinking a lot he will eventually get cirrhosis of the liver. If he is doing a lot of cocaine it won't be much longer and he will have a fatal stroke or heart attack.

We could NEVER be THAT lucky!!!!!!!!!

63 posted on 05/25/2002 1:47:13 PM PDT by dirtbiker
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To: Roscoe Karns
"Although he had nothing worth saying, he kept going on," the Yangcheng Evening News commented yesterday.

How can they expect us to believe this was news to them?

64 posted on 05/25/2002 1:52:20 PM PDT by GretchenEE
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To: ex con
I thought it meant woman in name only.

Are we really sure that Hitlery is a woman? I always thought she was the "one that wore the pants" in that couple, mainly cuz Bubba couldn't keep his on!

68 posted on 05/25/2002 2:09:19 PM PDT by dirtbiker
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To: ex con
There you go insulting trailer park trash."
You know, you're right.
69 posted on 05/25/2002 2:09:47 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Yes. And years later, when the full truth is known, his name will replace Benedict Arnold's in the lexicon.

Succintly, this occurred in my books, Jan 20 1993, when Klinton spoke "I William Jefferson Bythe Clinton, swear to uphold the United States Constitution...

70 posted on 05/25/2002 2:16:54 PM PDT by Atilla_the_Hun
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To: Clara Lou
Even Billy boy's mother had to lay still and moan a few times for her money!
71 posted on 05/25/2002 2:21:17 PM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: Atilla_the_Hun
YOU BET IT DID!

And I had no idea that the peace accords forced Israel to release Atta. That just makes me SICK.

72 posted on 05/25/2002 2:21:46 PM PDT by Republic
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To: Roscoe Karns
Members of the audience, who had waited for hours because his plane was delayed, then asked him about international affairs and politics.

More to the truth, his orgasm on the stewardess was delayed.

73 posted on 05/25/2002 2:26:54 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: prophetic
its a pity he knows too much about the USA National Secrets

I'm concerned that he may continue to spew what he knows to folks who still wishes to harm America. Just look at the creep Jimmy Carter and his fawning over Fidel Castro.

They probably already have all that information. He would have sold that in a New York minute for bribe money.

74 posted on 05/25/2002 2:37:30 PM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: Roscoe Karns
>>Mr Clinton's chutzpah in collecting his fee without doing any homework has been widely noted. The Chinese Communist party's official People's Daily website reported it under the headline "Clinton reaps $250,000 in 30-minute speech in Shenzhen."

Wrong. An endless line of people and groups willing to pay this utter disgrace of a man $ 250,000 for doing and saying nothing is the real news that needs to be noted. Blaming Clinton for people wasting their money is like blaming silverware makers for Rosie O'Donnell being the size of a house.

75 posted on 05/25/2002 2:39:51 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
I can't wait til they find Clinton, just like they found Elvis. On a toilet, with his tool in his hand, piles of pornography, fat, bloated, and pumped full of prescription, and recreational drugs. It would be a fitting end to a dirtbag like him. Better yet, I'd like to see him repatriated to Russia, his homeland where he can enjoy his drug use at a much cheaper price, in a run down ghetto. I do sincerely hate this guy.
76 posted on 05/25/2002 2:42:54 PM PDT by MadRobotArtist
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To: Rebelbase
X-42 whores himself again.

HEY! Come on now - you're putting down an entire working class there.

77 posted on 05/25/2002 2:44:16 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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To: .38sw
RE: #9

a fool and their money soon part.

78 posted on 05/25/2002 2:51:36 PM PDT by maui_hawaii
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To: dighton
So true. They get what the deserve.
79 posted on 05/25/2002 2:51:51 PM PDT by kassie
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To: Roscoe Karns
The CCP knows Clinton does not know his back-side from the Great Wall, and hence the CCP profited greatly from his and his foreign policy makers ignorance.
80 posted on 05/25/2002 2:59:26 PM PDT by maui_hawaii
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