President Clinton Quote....

[readmylips]

"Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology." President William Jefferson Clinton, 6/4/04


Evidence baby....you hear that bush and religious cronies.

[Gloria]

1. My ears perked up on that one............

he had a few other nuggets in that speech at the Book Expo...

[Mikimouse]

2. Bush response...

The All of Whut????

[Vickers]

7. lol!

Took me a minute, but DANG that's funny!

[Mikimouse]

8. I get scared when I see myself beginning to think like *...

time to up the prozac doseage! Mmmm. Thorazine......

[jean]

3. Isn't that a gem!? I hope we can see a transcript or else I'll have to

transcribe one from my tape!

I linked this thread to one I started (before seeing yours :dunce: )
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1733272

Wouldn't it be a pleasure and huge relief to talk about Clinton's Book TV speech instead of having to wade through all the Reagan hate on DU?

[Lindsey]

4. Is Clinton going to do a nationwide book tour?

I stood in line for Hillary and was not disappointed. I'd give my left ear to meet Bill and have him sign his book!!!!!!!

[jean]

5. I think so - the Knopf guy who introduced Clinton said 'the author' has

pledged to work very hard promoting the book. There must be a schedule somewhere.

[AP]

6. He also makes the point that we shouldn't be able to try new ideas, and

drop them and try new ones if they fail. He said that's what FDR did.

He says that when you're only ideologically motivated, you refuse to try new ideas if they dont' fit into your ideology.

It's the same ideal. Try something. Evaluate the results. If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn't work, stop doing it.

Republicans believe that the ideology is the most important thing. Eg, they want small government at all costs. Even if you start seeing the economy shrink and rich people getting much richer as a result of a small goverment which can't guaranee a level playing field, they'll keep striving for a smaller and smaller government despite the fact that that one of the benefits of small goverment they promissed was that it would make the economy grow.