Bill Clinton: The Common Good

[kpete]

Bill Clinton: The Common Good
By: John Amato @ 10:38 AM - PDT

President Clinton gave a speech today being hosted by The Center for American Progress at Georgetown University. He's calling it the "Common Good" which articulates the alternative to "compassionate conservative. "In both the civic and faith realms, a commitment to the common good means pursuing policies and community actions that benefit all individuals and balance self-interest with the needs of the entire society."

VIDEO AT:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/bill-clinton-the-common-good/

[Roon]

1. Newsmax warned about the phrase "common good"

They said that was the libs' new buzzword and they equated it to communism.

[pinto]

9. Sorry Newsmax, Catholic churches have also endorsed the phrase

as a tenet of their historical role in society, working for the Common Good. It's the cornerstone of many liberal churches' position in a secular, pluralistic society.

[ShortnFiery]

2. The nasty a** Right Wing pundits are already spinning this

slogan (The Common Good) into Pablum. :(

BTW Gawd! What does it take to get that Right Wing Bastard Glenn Beck off of Headline News Prime? I swear he's nuttier than O'Reilly. :thumbsdown:

Yes, The Republican Noise Machine and their lackey butt boy pundits in Hate Radio and Cable are already tearing this to shreds. :grr:

[Drum]

3. I'm for the common good.

And I believe that in 1776 there were some loudmouths in taverns trash-talking Tom Paine's "Common Sense" as well.

If fervently believed, ideas will come up against resistance...if they strike a chord in enough citizens, voila!

Maybe it's time for a re-printing of that....

EDIT to add: http://www.bartleby.com/133/

[Justyce]

4. I miss having an intelligent, compassionate

president so much. Hell, I just miss HIM!!

[mikeiddy]

5. A better way to say "common good"

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Let the bastards try to trash that . . .

[sinkingfeeling]

8. "Common Good" almost made it into the Constitution..

House Debate, 15 Aug. 1789; Annals 1:731, 738
The next clause of the fourth proposition was taken into consideration, and was as follows: "The freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble and consult for their common good, and to apply to the Government for redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.


http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs14.html

[sinkingfeeling]

6. "The common good"...that's a phrase I haven't heard since 2000.

Whatever happened to the 'common good' of the nation? Never heard anybody in the Bush administration use the term. God Bless Bill Clinton.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. And They're Trashing The Idea

Ummm, Hey Idiots on the radical right!!!!

The country was founded on the concept of promotion of the "common good"!

Not something like the "common good".

EXACTLY like the "common good" is what the founders had in mind.

Buffoons! There is NO WAY you can denigrate this notion, unless you hate this country.
The Professor

[LSparkle]

10. Also shortened to "commons" -- as in parks (Boston Common), etc.

Things we all have the right to -- clean water, roads, police protection, etc. Things that make us a CIVILIZED (ha!) SOCIETY and not just a pack of animals.

The Thugs would take us back to caveman days, when it was every man for himself. The rich would have their private security companies and the rest of us would rot in the streets.