Seems a bit convenient, focus group? Now I'll check the link...

This is nothing but preemptive ass-covering in an attempt to benefit Hillary.

Enquiring minds want to know.

My brother was correct about him all those years ago. I couldn't see.



Then. But now I do.

and the degradation of the Democratic party: so many ills were let out of the box.

that triangulation is still the tool of choice for his wife.

that were a main part of Financial Deregulation with the Repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999 that he admits was a mistake. Those derivatives and other factors contributed to the housing/mortgage boom and Financial Crash of 2008.

Clinton and US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in 2000.

and that may be a gross underestimate.

Go home and count your money, Bill. Nobody wants to hear from you anymore.

Gads, Summers looks like a human toad created by Dr Moreau.

I wish you and your wife would go back to Arkansas and never to be heard from again.

conference this week the article states. I wonder how that went for the organization and thousands incarcerated for strict sentencing and longer time served.

*There is a VIDEO in the article where he discusses many of his policies. *Open the X-Post Link on this page, get to the main article inside and SCROLL DOWN the big white space gap to get to the main HuffPo LINK to open and see the rest of the article & VIDEO.

Photo: Bill Clinton at NAACP conference this week.

If this is a violation, I'll remove it, but I think that it was locked in the Breaking News forum because it wasn't breaking, but I'm not sure.

So, here's the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-is-sorry_55a83397e4b0896514d0e220

I haven't read it, but thought the readers might want to not have to click through so many other threads to get to the link.

Thanks.

illustrated an OP as I did, and don't want to redo all that or don't have time. And I prefer some 'body', over a thin blue line among thousands here if there's time and a choice. The Op I placed late last night was based on the HuffPo article of the same day, July 17 which said "Edited: 2 Hours Ago". That changed hours later to a specific time. The basis of the lock should not really be got into here IMO. Thanks for your comments HappyPlace, nice handle.

Rules can be confusing sometimes, for me.

Anyway, great article.

I can't for the life of me understand why so many seem to support a candidate with so many negatives.

That there is a huge war chest, I get that, and a famous name and a lot of experience in office.

But looking at the details of that experience, I'm not optimistic and think that the wrong candidate will lose the general election with so much baggage, while Sanders speaks to so many people across the political spectrum.

and Larry "God I'm So Smart I Amaze Myself" Summers -- and then, to make matters worse, they actually listen to them. Apparently, the DLC types aren't "evolving" quite as quickly as they'd like us to think.

"Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me." -- Dr. Amy Wong, Futurama

on a gibbet.

or are Bill's for both of them?

He knows it, and he knows WE know it. And, fair or not, some of his sins (so to speak) are going to also taint Hillary's campaign ("Oh my God, not another Clinton!&quot .

So I'm sure his taking the heat now (such as it is) is partly to deflect it from Hillary as much as possible.

The Jebster doesn't have quite the same problem, since he was never touted as part of a "two-for-one" deal. Not that G.W. will be apologizing anytime soon, anyway.

Disclaimer: My opinion, not to be confused with the opinion of someone who might know what they're talking about. Take it with as many pounds of salt as you see fit.

"Derp"?

"Uhhhh . . . "?

"Whoops!"

But hey, thanks for the mea culpa, President Van Winkle!

article which states "Clinton's 1994 omnibus crime bill included mandatory sentences, even for minor offenses such as drug crimes. It also contained a federal "three strikes" provision which imposed LIFE SENTENCES for anyone convicted of a violent felony after two or more previous convictions."
The article continues stating that addressing the NAACP conference on Wednesday (July 15), Clinton admitted his tough crime laws LED TO SWELLING PRISON POPULATIONS. "I signed the bill that made the problem worse. "And I want to admit it". In a *VIDEO Clip in this HUFFPO article Clinton discusses his criminal justice policies.

Bill Clinton Speaking Wednesday, July 15 at the NAACP Conference in Philadelphia.



- THE DAILY BEAST published an article on July 15, the day Clinton addressed the NAACP conference, about the former president's recent admission of mistakes regarding criminal justice policies entitled, "BILL CLINTON: I MADE CRIMINAL JUSTICE 'Worse'." According to The Daily Beast article, Bill Clinton said at a NAACP meeting in Philadelphia on Wednesday that he made a mistake by signing the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act that lengthened federal sentences for many crimes. "I signed a bill that made the problem worse. "And I want to admit it."
Clinton sounded a lot different when he signed the (1994) bill : "Gangs and drugs have taken over our streets and undermined our schools. Every day, we read about somebody else who has literally gotten away with murder."

The act, co-written by Joe Biden, promised GREATER FEDERAL FUNDING FOR STATES if they enacted stricter sentencing laws for violent offenses. In addition, it provided MONEY FOR EXTRA PRISONS, FUNDING 100,000 FOR POLICE, CUT HIGHER EDUCATION assistance for inmates, and created 60 NEW DEATH PENALTY OFFENSES.
Finally, the bill created THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT and BANNED the SALE OF ASSAULT WEAPONS.

Source: The Daily Beast, "Bill Clinton: I Made Criminal Justice 'Worse'", July 15, 2015.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/15/clinton-i-made-criminal-justice-worse.html

* DU OP in LBN-Latest Breaking News section, on The Daily Beast article, "Bill Clinton: I Made Criminal Justice Worse".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141147333
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- THE NEW JIM CROW -



- MICHELLE ALEXANDER, Civil Rights litigator and legal scholar revealed much about the growing private, for profit US prison industry which is the largest in the world in her book, "THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS" (2010). Her extensively researched work which exposes the rebirth of a caste-like system of an earlier era is widely acclaimed and received the NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary work, Non-Fiction in 2011.

- THE NEW JIM CROW Website with a BOOK TRAILER VIDEO of author Michelle Alexander speaking about her new work.
http://newjimcrow.com/about/book-trailer

I remember the political climate of the time but was complete capitulation to the right wing necessary?

Since the repeal of Glass-Steagal, they've specialized in all kinds of Wealth Management under the direction of Vice Chairman and former Sen. Phil Gramm:

http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

He did a lot of things right too.

rather than any administration policies, to be fair. When the bubble popped in 2000-2001 all of it went away.

The facts don't bear it out.

in wages and employment during the Clinton years.

Clinton presided over eight years of job growth, with job growth at roughly equal rates in the first and second halves of that eight-year period, and the internet bubble inflated only in the second half.

Yes, dotcoms went to ridiculous levels — but people weren’t borrowing vast amounts to buy them, so there wasn’t a deleveraging crisis when the bubble burst.

The point here is that while there was irrational exuberance in the 1990s, the Clinton-era expansion wasn’t fundamentally unsound the way the expansion of 2003-2007 — the “Bush boom” — was.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/a-tale-of-two-bubbles/

was no exception. The historical pattern shows it is not simply a matter of luck that wages are higher and unemployment lower under Democrats.

to execute Rick Ray Rector, a death row prisoner with severe cognitive deficits?

Is he sorry for the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost because of NAFTA?

Is he sorry for making so much money out of the Haitian earthquake situation?

comments by him over time about his policies. He's the one coming out with the mea culpa talk the press is picking up, since May at least to assist HRC's campaigns I expect. As to the sincerity of it, I can't comment on that, too cynical anymore.

gets caught, he is sooooo sorry.
He knew he did something wrong while
he did it, and the carpet is totally ruined.

Billyboy,I feel your pain, NOT.

just a pop tune that meant nothing.

The sad thing is he could have been one of our greatest presidents but it just wasn't in him. He had to triangulate to win the approval of the right and big money crowd which for some reason he craved. In the end he helped unravel some of the triumphs of the New Deal and set the country back.