Posted on 03/16/2003 7:21:16 AM PST by TLBSHOW
Bill Clinton: U.S. Should Be Weaker
Many of you may not believe this, but it's true: the last thing I want to do on this program is talk about Bill Clinton. He's the past, but he keeps speaking up and I just can't avoid him when he does. Clinton spoke at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and double-dissed President Bush for his handling of the U.S. economy and Iraq. He also went after his supposed best buddy Tony Blair on this need to disarm Saddam.
What really jumped out at me in Clinton's speech was his remark that the United States should be strengthening the United Nations and other mechanisms of cooperation. Quote: "We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block." He wants us to be weaker! A growing cabal of Democrats actively seek to diminish U.S. standing, both economically and militarily. This is amazing. The Democrats are setting themselves up to benefit if the U.S. economy crumbles or if the war in Iraq goes horribly. It's sick.
Note that Clinton says "when" we're not the biggest power, not "if" we're not. Frankly, most past presidents have a view more like Bush and Reagan of America's kindness and superior form of government than Jimmy Carter and Clinton. Our economic system is the most humane in the world - and the American people are a special people. It's freedom that made our nation great, as socialism and communism sought to kill that freedom and make us all slaves to the government. Support for those feel-good systems explains why Clinton and Carter are more popular outside the United States than they are here.
Clinton made the wrong-headed point that Bush's 2001 tax cut erased the surplus. Of course, there was no surplus only a "projected one" based on inflated Commerce Department figures. Besides, the Bush tax cut consisted of $300 and $600 rebates costing $50 billion. How is that responsible for a deficit of $400 billion? Does 400 minus 50 equal 350 or does it somehow equal less than zero? The deficit is caused by all the larding up of the budget, led by Democrats, but which Republicans haven't done a whole lot to slow down. Despite all of that, the deficit isn't that big a deal, expressed as a percentage of GDP.
Madeleine Albright was the first to talk about how we don't want to be the lone superpower, and Jimmy Carter is out there fully guilt-laden over the primacy of the United States. So I guess we know why Clinton slashed defense and intelligence spending in the face of all these terrorist threats and attacks. He wants a weaker United States. This is why Clinton talks about the signing the Kyoto accords which would destroy our economic system - in the face of stories like that one out of Ottawa saying that pine trees pollute. He doesn't believe in what Reagan called "the shinning city on the hill." We're going down, and Clinton wants to help us get there.
Wishing won't make him go away. Clinton is actively working to become the next General Secretary of the United Nations.
Won't that be just peachy?
One with a lot of sharks swimming around under it.
And to provide further clarity of this point, Hillary Rotten Clinton is now a member of the Armed Services Committee. Doesn't that help you sleep more comfortably at night?
She is running, she must know something we dont , becuase even the liberals at my work wont vote for her, because of her husband.....
He spent too much time snorting "dat shit", and never comments in a rational way any more,
Yeah, there are good arguments against this war, but you'll never hear one of them from Bill.
He spent too much time snorting "dat shit", and never comments in a rational way any more,
Yeah, there are good arguments against this war, but you'll never hear one of them from Bill.
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