[Peace-discuss] Fw: Clinton's no liberal hero

[David Johnson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Johnson" <dlj725 at hughes.net>
To: "C. G. Estabrook" <cge at shout.net>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Clinton's no liberal hero


> But Carl,
>
> Bill Clinton is such a likable guy.
>
> He is so charming, plays a great saxaphone, and swears he didn't inhale 
> when he smoked marijuana during his college days.
> In the last several years he has been doing wonderful humanitarian work.
>
> Unlike the crude Jimmy Carter who has been involved in actually working on 
> building houses for Habitat for Humanity and using the Carter Center to 
> monitor elections in other countries ( but banned from doing so by threat 
> of arrest in the U.S. ) and doing international conflict resolution, and 
> as a result of stating documented facts about the right-wing Likud 
> government in Israel, not being allowed to speak at the 2008 Dem 
> Convention.
>
> Bill Clinton on the other hand is more " sophisticated " and is working 
> withing the system as a " realist " by soliciting funds for the Tsunami 
> victims with George W. , which resulted in the funds being used to promote 
> hotel resort development and paying Sri Lanka police overtime pay to 
> prevent Tsunami victims from returning to their beach front property where 
> the hotel resorts were going to be built, and last but NOT least, lets not 
> forget Bill's pimping rejected FEMA trailers to Haiti causing illness at 
> OUR taxpayer expense.
>
> Hell of a guy that ole Bill Clinton, I just don't understand why you are 
> bad mouthing him Carl ?
> Shouldn't we all admire him and hope our sons grow up to be just like him 
> ?
> Never mind his " accomplishments " ; NAFTA, China Trade Preference Treaty, 
> WTO, GATT, The Federal Crime Bill ( the groundwork for the Patriot Act ), 
> The end of welfare as we knew it, the repeal of the Glass Stiegall Act 
> that caused the economic melt down of 2008, the bombing of Belgrade and 
> Serijevo ( resulting in thousands of innocent deaths ) in order to destroy 
> a successful NON-Market economy in order to benefit the U.S. and European 
> Banks, his Secretary of State Madeline Albright's statement that the death 
> of over 250,000 Iraqi children was " worth it ". Last but not least, his 
> famous statement about " triangulation ". That is, no matter how bad and 
> more like the republicans the dems would become, working people and the 
> Left would still vote for him and other corporate dems because they have " 
> no where else to go ".
>
> What a great man and a role model for democratic politicians.
> Don't you just love him ?
> With political " friends " like Bill Clinton, who needs enemies !
>
> David Johnson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C. G. Estabrook" <cge at shout.net>
> To: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 7:21 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Clinton's no liberal hero
>
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