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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:07 PM
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Bill Clinton Strikes Back at Rachel Maddow
Bill Clinton struck back at Rachel Maddow Monday without even using her name.


While speaking alongside Tony Blair at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Clinton took exception with comments Maddow made on her program in March.

"One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I'm a closet communist," he said, according to Politico.

"What she meant by that was I didn't necessarily follow their 'conventional wisdom,'" he said. "I said, 'What do you mean?!'"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/bill-clinton-strikes-back_n_716445.html


touchy, touchy, touchy, Big Dawg ;)
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:10 PM
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1. Bill has never been known to have the thickest of skins......
..... and in a battle with Rachel, he'll lose every time IMHO.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:10 PM
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2. Hey Big Dawg, Rachel didn't coin that term. It's been around
for years.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:11 PM
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3. I guess Rachel will kick him in the balls tonight.
Hell Billy, she was kind to you compared to how Amy Goodman treated you on the air.

Maybe she meant you were the Rodney Dangerfield of politics.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:16 PM
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4. Hey Bill, just because Trent Lott thinks you're liberal doesn't mean you are. eom
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:22 PM
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5. He was certainly the best classic conservative President since Eisenhower...
In an age when the U.S., politically, lunged to the right, that isn't surprising.

But Republican, no. If he had been a Republican he never would have been impeached.
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alsame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:25 PM
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6. NAFTA, DOMA and DADT, Bill. nt
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:28 PM
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9. And 'welfare reform.' It's like he thinks we didn't notice all that. nt
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DonCoquixote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:26 PM
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7. Bill
Whatever success you had did not come from things you did, but simply that you did not follow the slash tax policies of the GOP. Granted that was a lot, but it was far from enough, plus your influence has done enough to ruin what potential Obama could have had, you and your damned wife, whose foreign policy might as well make us a colony of Israel.
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PopSixSquish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:27 PM
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8. Now I Love the "Big Dawg" But He Needs to Let It Go (n/t)
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Maccagirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:36 PM
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10. He's touchy when it comes to questioning his policies
But call him a douchebag (like Tom DeLay did IIRC) or call his daughter "homely because her mother is Hillary Clinton and her father is Janet Reno" (John McCain) and he's just peachy with that and gratefully accepts their "apology".
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:46 PM
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11. I love the NAFTA replies
NAFTA was Poppy Bush's baby.

Most "Progressives" think it's Clinton's.

The GOP Meme Machine worked its magic with that one.

The reason why I used irony quotes around "Progressives" is simple -- Progressives are highly intelligent and perceptive. At least that's what they've told me. And highly intelligent and perceptive people wouldn't make a stupid mistake about that kind of thing -- the sufferings of the working man and all that.

--d!
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 05:07 PM
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16. Yes, Bush put it on the fast track after he lost the election and signed an agreement
with Canada and Mexico on December 17th, 1992. However, it was Bill Clinton that signed it into law on December 8, 1993; it went into effect on January 1, 1994.

Clinton could have stopped it, but did not.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:50 PM
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12. But he was the best GOP president since Abraham Lincoln!
And it is that FACT that most enraged the Repukes.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:59 PM
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13. "While speaking alongside Tony Blair"
...after picture after picture smiling away next to Bush Sr...

Know what Bill? Shut up.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 05:24 PM
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18. Poodles of a feather yap together.
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 04:59 PM
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14. C'mon, Bill, it's not like it's never been said before...
“I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we’ve had in a while.”
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 05:05 PM
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15. Oh BS. Liberals have been calling him that even before
Rachel came on the scene. He was one of the founders of the DLC and if you go to their website and read what's there, it has Republican Lite stamped all over. Common Bill, you know what your politics are. We know that anyone with D after their name is considered a commie pinko bastard by the right so really Bill, whom are you trying to impress?
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 05:16 PM
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17. And guess what Rhodes Scholar? You were and she is right.
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