September 24 at 3:07AM
Bill Clinton Praises Barack Obama on The Daily Show
Bill Clinton talks to Jon about the financial crisis, alternative energy, and what he would have done differently. He also confirms his endorsement of Barack Obama, and the efforts he and Hillary are making to help get him to the White House.
Do you think the Clintons' efforts are making a difference in the election?
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Jon, you are truly my hero and idol, and your show is pure genius; by far, the best thing on television. Having said that, last night is the first time I've EVER disagreed with you. I saw David Letterman the night prior in which Bill Clinton was interviewed. Your guest was 'spot on,' as Sarah would say. He could NOT bring himself to say Obama's name, as Chris Rock said; he even avoided it so much that it began to feel uncomfortable. He went on to praise Palin and McCain, and though he said he was backing Obama, he never offered equal or even fractional praise for him. I should say that, blow jobs aside, I voted for Bill Clinton and thought he did great things as president; he's a brilliant man. However, I do believe he is brilliant enough, and bitter enough, to have a hidden agenda here. I think he's talking specifically to 'on the fence' voters and Hillary voters, and I don't like it one bit. PLEASE review his past interviews and, if you agree, expose his agenda as you do with the other crooks in politics, and then let the chips fall where they may. Thanks for your show and perspective; you're the only reason we don't go crazy watching this election!
Maria B., Atlanta
I included this article that said it well:
A Note to Bill Clinton, by Paul Slansky
Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin — sorry, Palin/McCain — administration to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.
But that's not what you're doing, Bill, and it's not going unnoticed. We see your rage, Bill, it's too huge to hide. We see that — as Chris Rock so brilliantly pointed out — it pains you to even speak Obama's name. We see you petulantly rooting against him even as you go through the motions of doing the barest minimum on his behalf to avoid being blamed if he loses.
You're not fooling anyone, Bill. You've gotten so caught up in yesterday that you've stopped thinking about tomorrow. You have the power to influence millions of voters and you're spitefully sitting on it. Surely you've noticed what's going on in the country. Surely you're aware of what's at stake on November 4th. This is not a game that you can afford to take your ball and go home with if you don't get to play the position you want. An Obama loss will most certainly be part of your legacy.
There's still time to fix it. How about this for an October surprise? Bill Clinton gets on the road and spends every day until the election sincerely and wholeheartedly communicating the urgency of electing Obama. You're the greatest politician of your generation, Bill. Surely you can fake enthusiasm for a month.
Oh, and stop talking about how much you like Senator McCain. Have you forgotten the vile joke he told a decade ago at your wife's and daughter's expense? Let me remind you: "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? She's the child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton." Are you saying, Bill, that you can forgive McCain for calling Chelsea "ugly" but you can't forgive Obama for defeating Hillary?
If Obama loses a close election — one in which even one state where you could have made a difference goes for McCain because you sat home and pouted — it will be on you. We will remember that you couldn't be bothered to rise above your petty resentments for something as trivial as saving your country from the enemies of everything you profess to believe in. We forgave you for Monica, Bill, but we won't forgive you for this.
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
I did some research tonight and I guess the actual name of the paper Wolfowitz drafted in 1992 is "Defense Planning Guidance."
But I also found out that you can't really know much about somebody like Senator Biden from watching Meet the Press. Over his years in the Senate, he's sold his soul to the devil and bought it back many times. As it turns out ,foreign policy is his strength primarily by reputation. In reality, it's his weakness! He's been dead wrong much more than he's ever been right and much of what he's done is suspect. What the hell is Obama doing with him? It's a bad match. He's a diplomatic war monger, a mess. I hope Sarah Palin is doing her homework. She'll be able to defeat him easily based on his atrocious record.
Wow, I'm disillusioned. With any luck Biden will retire in four years. I imagine he'll at least win back his seat in the Senate. Delaware is teeny weeny state- no easier to win or lose than an election in Alaska. That's for sure. "Uncle Joe" and "Uncle Teddy" both gotta go. They've been there too long. They're disgusting. I wish I didn't have such a dirty government. None of them can be trusted. Ugh!
http://antiwar.com/zunes/?articleid=13361#
The real issue at hand is who will take power away from the minority (The rich and/or the right) and hand it back to the overwhelming majority (The dying middle class, the parents of the next generation of American leaders)
Are you well off?
I know I'm not. Whose going to be there for me, McCain or Obama? It not rocket science.
Do you smell what Barack is cookin'?
Yeah, what a phoney Biden is. Did you see this one? What's he going to do? Indict himself? What a sell out Obama is!
Washington guardian.co.uk, Wednesday September 03 2008 19:32
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats' strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.
When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would "pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration", Biden answered in the affirmative.
"We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that's occurred," he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.
Members of Congress are "doing the right thing, they're not making false accusations about anything … they're collecting data, subpoenaing records, they're building a file", Biden said.
"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law."
Obama sounded a similar note in April, vowing that if elected, he would ask his attorney general to initiate a prompt review of Bush-era actions to distinguish between possible "genuine crimes" and "really bad policies".
"[I]f crimes have been committed, they should be investigated," Obama told the Philadelphia Daily News. "You're also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we've got too many problems we've got to solve."
When asked about his comments by Fox news today, Biden said he has no evidence that criminal charges would be warranted and no intention of pursuing action against the current president.
"What is true is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by anyone," Biden said, adding: "But, you know, there's been an awful lot of unsavoury stuff that's gone on. And the mere fact … that it occurred in a previous administration doesn't mean [a subsequent] Justice Department, if, in fact, there's evidence, shouldn't pursue them. "But I have no evidence of any of that. No one's talking about pursuing President Bush criminally."
Congressional Democrats have issued a flurry of subpoenas this year to senior Bush administration aides as part of a broad inquiry into the authorisation of torturous interrogation tactics used at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Three Bush White House veterans have been held in criminal contempt of congressional committees for refusing to respond to subpoenas in an inquiry on the firing of federal prosecutors: former counsel Harriet Miers, former political adviser Karl Rove, and current chief of staff Josh Bolten. The battle over Miers's and Bolten's testimony is currently before a federal court.
· This article was amended on Thursday September 4 2008. We originally omitted the word 'administration' from our headline. This has been corrected.
It's soooo sad. If only Senator McCain had the honesty and courage that our gal Hillary has- to look the American people in the eye and admit that he made a mistake in voting for the war in Iraq- he would win this election. But, I know he's too stubborn to admit he was hoodwinked. And then there's the surge and victory in Iraq. But everybody understands that once we're involved in something like that, we have a responsibility to our troops. It just isn't a good thing to make our troops feel like their sacrifices have been for nothing. McCain has already been through that himself. He just wants to resolve this war in Iraq in a way where our men can return with honor. People understand that about him on a subliminal level which is why he isn't usually attacked on that front. But I'm sure he's getting all sorts of mail requesting him to clean up that mess in Washington.
On the other hand, it's funny that that buffoon Michael Moore, who claimed that Senator Clinton lost his vote because she voted for the war in Iraq, endorsed Obama because he didn't, and then proceeded to make an impassioned appeal to Caroline Kennedy of all people, to "pull a Cheney" and become Senator Obama's running mate. She actually would have been a better choice because Senator Biden was more complicit in getting us into that war than either Senator McCain or Senator Clinton. But it's really cute that Michael Moore has that little crush on Caroline Kennedy. He's so silly. He really is. I get a huge kick out of his antics. My favorite professor is a Michael Moore fan. He's a marxist-anarchist type. Talk about mavericks! He constantly at odds with the rest of the department. Good thing he's got tenure.
And now I've decided that I have to quit this blogging thing. It gets addictive. I'm becoming a political junkie. I've been at it pretty steady for about 3 or 4 days. I just finished a project for school- so much writing. And I'm pretty sure no one will read it except my professor. No one reads academic writing. But anyway, I promised myself when I was done that I wouldn't sit here in a chair all day at my computer while the real world is out there.
I sure won't miss reading all the slander about the Clintons. I'm very sorry that Senator Clinton didn't reach her goal. When Senator Clinton gave her concession speech, there was a lot of weeping out here in little people land. I don't know that we were crying for her, more like ourselves. We knew it would probably be a long time before we had the opportunity to elect someone who would fight for us as she would have. We women are getting tired of men and their egos and their pissing matches. We are tired of leaving things to men and postponing the better world that women would help to create.
McCain/Palin 08
LOOK JON STEWRT HAD BILL ON THAT SHOW AND NEVER MENTIONED THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT, you could have rosted him!!! and sed like, so you dont feel the least bit gilty for the community reinvestment act and mandating fredy and fanny to exept lowincome home lones???!!! hahaha this is bipartezen now bush will compleatly socalize the entire lending indistry!! if we recover from this we can ruin heath care next!hahaa
hear get your righters to read befor you have a gest on you will have a better show.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200809262045/editorial/do-we-really-want-to-socialize-our-financial-system-part-1.html
OH GOD! I LOVE YOU BILL. I THINK YOU ARE THE BEST.
It's soooo sad. If only Senator McCain had the honesty and courage that our gal Hillary has- to look the American people in the eye and admit that he made a mistake in voting for the war in Iraq- he would win this election. But, I know he's too stubborn to admit he was hoodwinked. And then there's the surge and victory in Iraq. But everybody understands that once we're involved in something like that, we have a responsibility to our troops. It just isn't a good thing to make our troops feel like their sacrifices have been for nothing. McCain has already been through that himself. He just wants to resolve this war in Iraq in a way where our men can return with honor. People understand that about him on a subliminal level which is why he isn't usually attacked on that front. But I'm sure he's getting all sorts of mail requesting him to clean up that mess in Washington.
On the other hand, it's funny that that buffoon Michael Moore, who claimed that Senator Clinton lost his vote because she voted for the war in Iraq, endorsed Obama because he didn't, and then proceeded to make an impassioned appeal to Caroline Kennedy of all people, to "pull a Cheney" and become Senator Obama's running mate. She actually would have been a better choice because Senator Biden was more complicit in getting us into that war than either Senator McCain or Senator Clinton. But it's really cute that Michael Moore has that little crush on Caroline Kennedy. He's so silly. He really is. I get a huge kick out of his antics. My favorite professor is a Michael Moore fan. He's a marxist-anarchist type. Talk about mavericks! He constantly at odds with the rest of the department. Good thing he's got tenure.
And now I've decided that I have to quit this blogging thing. It gets addictive. I'm becoming a political junkie. I've been at it pretty steady for about 3 or 4 days. I just finished a project for school- so much writing. And I'm pretty sure no one will read it except my professor. No one reads academic writing. But anyway, I promised myself when I was done that I wouldn't sit here in a chair all day at my computer while the real world is out there.
I sure won't miss reading all the slander about the Clintons. I'm very sorry that Senator Clinton didn't reach her goal. When Senator Clinton gave her concession speech, there was a lot of weeping out here in little people land. I don't know that we were crying for her, more like ourselves. We knew it would probably be a long time before we had the opportunity to elect someone who would fight for us as she would have. We women are getting tired of men and their egos and their pissing matches. We are tired of leaving things to men and postponing the better world that women would help to create.
McCain/Palin 08
I did some research tonight and I guess the actual name of the paper Wolfowitz drafted in 1992 is "Defense Planning Guidance."
But I also found out that you can't really know much about somebody like Senator Biden from watching Meet the Press. Over his years in the Senate, he's sold his soul to the devil and bought it back many times. As it turns out ,foreign policy is his strength primarily by reputation. In reality, it's his weakness! He's been dead wrong much more than he's ever been right and much of what he's done is suspect. Senator Obama needs a new running mate. Biden is a bad match. He's a diplomatic war monger, a mess. I hope Sarah Palin is doing her homework. She'll be able to defeat him easily based on his atrocious record.
Check out this link:
http://antiwar.com/zunes/?articleid=13361#
The more I think about it, Senator Obama would be an absolutely brilliant attorney general. Aggressive, high profile. Yep. I think that people who have been comparing him to JFK simply had the wrong brother.