BILL CLINTON

Was Bill Clinton Too Soft on Republicans?

Many Democrats crave red meat rhetoric in battling GOP

Sep 5, 2012 by David Mark

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Former President Bill Clinton made the case against Mitt Romney at the Democratic National Convention - but not too hard. And that's not really what a lot of Democratic partisans want to hear.

The rap on Obama by supporters is that he was too accommodating with Republicans during the first two years of his presidency. Only after Republican picked up control of the House and made gains in the Senate did Obama get tougher with the opposition.

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CanisCanemEdit

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Clinton on Wednesday: "Democracy doesn't have to be a blood sport. It can be an honorable enterprise."

That's right, Bill. Blood wasn't your bodily fluid of choice, now was it?
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MongoAPillager

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and the hits just keep coming ; }
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Sonny

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At least he didn't kill thousands of innocent people as a result of his lie...Not like some other presidents of recent past did!
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@Sonny - Unless you count the thousands of innocent brown people that died during Bills missle attacks on Iraq so that the attention would be taken off of the Stained Blue Dress.
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@CanisCanemEdit --So you say....But then its easy to make all sorts of unsubstantiated wild and weird accusations...Hell, the far right does that all of the time.
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mimi57

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That's funny!
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prometheus

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Clinton beat Romney out of his magic Mormon underpants....

Glorious
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Sonny

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steve-chicago

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Great question... Bill Clinton too soft...
Monica has to be laughing... this stuff is too funny.
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@Sonny I guess he should be a virgin to be President . It's in a man's nature to be sexual.
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Sonny

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@ann ---Hopefully a woman's too.."wink-wink"...
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ann

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WHAT A GREAT SPEECH AND A GREAT PRESIDENT . I think He was hard on them and he back it with facts.
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Wonderful speech, by one of our greatest mordern Presidents. When he was finished the reps had little left to hide behind.
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Oh darn, the Mods deleted the reply before I could read it.
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"I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside but burns for American on the inside," Clinton gushed."

I just gotta do this...don't get pissed...it just came to mind.

LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Duane Alezando Commacho...
Five time Ultimate Smack Down Champion...
Porn Superstar...
and President of the United States...
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MongoAPillager

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you'll laugh,you'll cry,you,ll hurl, but you will watch :+}|
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Thumper

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now thats funny rat thar; i dont care who u is.
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Decent-Dissent

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It is impossible to critique perfection. The best pollitician ever, brought the ruckus by calling lies lies and forshaddowing republican devistation
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Sonny

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@steve-chicago ---Still better than killing innocent people with a lie.
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If Bill Clinton/Barack Obama could both be in office Prez/Veep-the GOP would get slaughtered in every debate until these men died
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steve-chicago

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And the big finish... "And I still say, I did not have sex with that woman". Clinton, you are just too funny.
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prometheus

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How can the GOP's Ayn Rand inspired rhetoric, ever compete with the people powered ideology of Obama??

I'll tell you, it CAN'T!!!
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Fishbone345

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Ayn Rand is horrible. If you approach her books from a non-rhetoric filled point of view, she can barely spin a tale and her characters are awful as stand alone.
If you seek her books for rhetoric and to make yourself feel good about what she's writing about then she's great.
Her audience reveals just what's going on. Literary genius this woman is not.
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Jackie312gm

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Glorious moments at the democratic convention. I am so emotional, democrats are so overjoyed, so much happiness. Wake up!! November is coming!!
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renee

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That was a big boost for the dems without a doubt, we'll see if that helped obama in the polls.
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Jackie312gm

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Bill Clinton sounded pretty good singing at the democreatic convention last night. "I'm your puppet" borrac husain obama number one puppet bill clinton. His next song is " I DID NOT INHALE " to be release soon on the democratic label. Other songs performed by bill clinton on the democratic label. " I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN" very good performance of BS...
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NO----BILL CLINTON ROCKED!!--- BEST SPEECH EVER. He's THE BEST President this country's had since FDR, and I think he's going to put President Obama right up there too.----FIRE IT UP --- FORWARD.
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steve-chicago

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Clinton, you are too funny. "And I still say, I did not have sex with that woman".
I miss those days, very entertaining.
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When he relaying his experiences working with the Bush's, it almost sounded as if he was chastising Obama and the Dems for not working with Boehner and the Republican Congress! He IS good at this kind of thing, after all.
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President Clinton got his points across without calling anybody a bunch of names. That is the Republicans style and what they are becoming famous for. It seems a shame when your followers are not smart enough to have good discussions without sinking to name calling like little 10 year olds.
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renee

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Republicans call us liberals, parasites and a lot of more unwelcome names, can you more specific?
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renee

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I meant can you be more specific?
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AlexanderKM

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Hahaha, oh how the hypocrisy rings true day in and day out. Both parties remind me of spoiled little kids in the back seat of a car yelling "MOOOOM he's poking me!" "Daaaad! She said I'm fat!" It's an endless cycle of blame, counter-blame, call names - on BOTH sides.
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He could have been easily vicious, but that was one of his points. The republicans have been doing nothing but insulting the President, and not saying anything about what Mitt would do if elected .
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renee

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Doesn't surprise anyone, that is just their common nature.
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Kellyite9

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A little, he could have been more vicious, but that was one of his pts. The republicans have been doing nothing but name calling and insulting, he said he would like to know what Mitt would do if elected.
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I thought he gave a winning speech
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It was probably because of his past record, his legacy; he didnt want to appear again as just another hypocrite; look what I found on the internet. the real clinton legacy: Its from the Progressive Review; talk about irony: http://www.prorev.com/legacy.htm
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Thumper

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SAM SMITH of the Progressive Review wrote the first book (Shadows of Hope, University of Indiana Press, 1994) deconstructing the Clinton myth. The Review provided extensive coverage of the topic, for which Smith was banned from CSPAN and Washington public radio station WAMU
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wow'when i badmouth bill i going to do it quietly..ARKANSAS SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME
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Thumper

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@MongoAPillager LOL...... true. funny, but true.
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Bill the Thrill did not hit it out of the Park...He hit out of this world and did it with style.
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Thumper

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see, not even facts can destroy an illusion built by ideology.
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renee

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You have no other choice but to deny Real Leadership when all your cards get on the table.
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Sonny

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You ought to know!...LOL!
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No. Clinton made the points that are relevant and showed that we will get out of this mess more quickly if we work together. Lots of rhetoric is tossed around during campaigns, but at the end of the day we're all Americans who love our country. Neither party has all the good ideas. Obama's 1st term could have been much more constructive had the Tea Party not made Compromise a dirty word.
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