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.
Only if the procedes went to "radical right" causes!
We could NEVER be THAT lucky!!!!!!!!!
How can they expect us to believe this was news to them?
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!
Succintly, this occurred in my books, Jan 20 1993, when Klinton spoke "I William Jefferson Bythe Clinton, swear to uphold the United States Constitution...
And I had no idea that the peace accords forced Israel to release Atta. That just makes me SICK.
More to the truth, his orgasm on the stewardess was delayed.
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.
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.
HEY! Come on now - you're putting down an entire working class there.
a fool and their money soon part.
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