TORONTO – Former President George W. Bush called former President Bill Clinton "his brother" and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.
Bush said that he never liked it when previous administration officials criticized his government but said Clinton was respectful and never did.
Bush declined to criticize the Obama administration. Bush said there are "plenty of critics in America."
Toronto's convention center, a couple hundred protesters demonstrated outside. The organizers declined to say how much the men were paid for the event, called "A conversation with Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton." Ticket prices sold for around C$200.
Asked why he didn't stop the killing in the Rwanda genocide when he was president in 1994, Clinton said he had no excuse or defense.
"It's one of the two or three greatest regrets of my presidency," Clinton said.
Clinton said the U.S. could have saved 250,000 or 400,000 of the 800,000 people who died had he sent about 20,000 troops. Bush defended Clinton, saying 20,000 troops could not have been mobilized quickly.
Suupporters of either of these amazing pieces of garbage must be so proud!?!
When it comes to TV news, Fox is as good as it gets, and enormously better than the rest, but the following shows Fox isn't nearly good enough.
This is an obvious publicity and ratings move, but it does nothing to bolster the channel's credibility. Prejean is beautiful to be sure, but she's a bit of an airhead, so unless she's going to be in a bikini, Fox should not be showcasing her.
Of course, if she'd agree to appear in the same state as she did in the pictures that have surfaced, she should be on every Fox program everyday!
Do you think Dennis Miller is a despicable scumbag too?
Donald Trump is batting .500 for the week. He did the right thing today in declaring that Carrie Prejean would keep her crown. Last Sunday night it was quite a different situation when he "hired" Joan Rivers to be his Celebrity Apprentice over Annie Duke.
I had never heard of Duke before she showed up as an aspirant, but she emerged bigger than life, demonstrating week after week that poker players, at least this poker player, if phenomenally competent across a wide spectrum of tasks. If you saw the show, there''s no need for me to detail it all, and if you missed the show, you missed something dynamic.
Duke, along with former Playboy model, Brande Roderick, who was stunningly beautiful and nearly as dynamic, was marvelous to watch. She played the game brilliantly and unbelievably competently, and while her efforts doubtlessly greatly increased her exposure and the way people will come to regard her, what she got on the show was a near nonstop diatribe of insults and worse from Joan Rivers who, was no slouch in representing septuagenarians as not only still capable, but resoundingly so, even if there was an undercurrent of feeling that Rivers was amazing "for her age."
But in the overall, Duke deserved to win, and when you couple that with Rivers outrageously despicable behavior, it should have been no contest, and, in fact, it was. I realized halfway through the three hour show that Rivers was going to win. There was simply no way Trump could subject the still-astute coming and his friend to the indignity of losing. later, I was mad at myself for not realizing all that last week when the finalists were announced.
The point is that I found Trump's actions on Sunday night to be so vile that I vowed never to watch the show again, and it hurt because, as I indicated, this Apprentice had actually been thrilling. I sat there with my mouth open at times as Annie weaved her way through obstacles and my eyes bugged out when, in the final, she'd raised three times as much money for her charity as Rivers did for hers.
Yet she got almost no respect from Trump and horrendous verbal abuse from Rivers. I felt Duke's pain and humiliation probably more than she did. So I was furious - genuinely so this time. I never wanted to see Trump again.
But then along came the real world, and when it counted, Trump did the exact right thing and awarded Carrie her crown. Then Carrie took over, and much of what she said was right and good until...
She started whining about how she'd been wronged and how it should be unconstitutional because she was vilified for her free speech. Wrong, you dumb... what were those words Hilton called her again?
No one stooped her from speaking her mind, they were outraged(wrongly) by what she said, but the right to free speech is only consequence-free with respect to the government arresting you. Anyone who speaks her mind can otherwise suffer all sorts of unanticipated results, so the bottom line is that while all went right, I'm far less sympathetic to Ms. Prejean than I was yesterday.
She should have been criticized because her pageant answer was stupid, and her comment today was more so, She may not be stupid herself, but now she has an uphill battle to prove it.
Why does Rush Limbaugh want to deprive people of decent healthcare? He was railing against Obama again today about how Obama is pressuring healthcare people and companies into concessions which, from their POV will hopefully preclude greater pressure and legislation later. Limbaugh called them fools. He said they're only doing it because they're scared. He says Obama is muscling them into submission.
Exactly!
Now I hate Obama as much as anyone, but the tactics he's employing to get his agenda passed as nothing short of admirable, presuming they don't lead to some form of totalitarianism. His tactics are exactly what I expected Bush to do with his Republican majority, but Republicans in general, and Bush in particular, were so amazingly weak and unconcerned that they did virtually nothing.
Limbaugh cited the 50 million figure the Dems claim is the number of people who lack health insurance. He claimed the figure was not true. He's probably right. So how many are there, Rush? Pick a number. Whatever it is, that's the amount of people who are is serious jeopardy that you and Bush and the Republicans are responsible for.
One statistic we know for sure is that fifty percent of people who file for bankruptcy do so because of overwhelming healthcare costs. many of these people (again, pick a percentage) will be ruined forever because they were unlucky enough to get sick or hurt. And many of their health problems weren't even catastrophic - except to their financial health.
And you simply don't care. You've got yours. Bush certainly has his. I don't trust Obama and the Dems to do anything right, but they're doing what you and Bush and the Republicans never did - i.e. something.
Do you think Dox would have changed his position on "green energy" if he could?
For those unfamiliar with the Dox Paradox, it involved the idea that non-polluting, renewable energy could be competitive with oil, coal, and natural gas. All we had to do was raise the price of everything we burn today.
OK, so in his defense (and to my knowledge), he never claimed that "green" energy would be cheap he only claimed that we'd be better off if we switched.
And that's where any defense of Dox and his idiotic supporters must end because not only does "green" energy not take into account all the polluting, environment raping it takes to get "green," which means there's no evidence we'd be better off, but he failed to realize that niche environmentalists weren't going to simply step aside and allow, for example, wanton bird slaughter as the price for more wind power. or even solar farms which must be located somewhere - which includes anywhere but in America.
So it might not even be a year since I had to forcibly remove Dox from my neighborhood because I could no longer deal with stupidity that I felt would be terminal, and we now know for certain that Greens are blue about future prospects. Not only is wind energy not going anywhere, but the green flagship, ethanol, is mired in controversy, and when it becomes un-mired, it will become the proper subject of mockery ridicule it deserves to be, as well as a prime example of what happens when the free market is artificially manipulated by Dox-like people in government.
But don't get me wrong, I wanted Dox to be right. I just didn't think we could change the laws of physics enough to make that possible. So it's wind - no, ethanol - no, solar - no, electric cars - no, global warming - no, and Dox - hell no!
Amidst all the weeping and gnashing of teeth on both sides of the homomarriage issue there arose a defense of Carrie Prejean (who needs none) that her position is exactly the same as the opinion one Barack Hussein Obama holds, namely that we don't need no symmetry in marriage.
And if you heard the clip of Obama at that religious guy's forum or debate or whatever you call it, Obama did absolutely say that he felt marriage should be between a man and a woman. So there are at least two problems:
1) How did we ever reach the point where marriage and same sex could appear in the same sentence together, and...
2) Since there is no material difference between Carrie Prejean's answer to that disgusting creep and the disgusting creep of a candidate's answer to Richard Dawson at his Family Feud retreat, and since Prejean has said that she was concerned she'd get such a question, why hadn't she prepared the following answer:
"For me, I share the same opinion as that of our President, Barack Obama, in that I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman."
Case closed. Any furor thereafter would have to be directed at the Hypocrite-in-Chief at least as much as little Carrie Prejean.
Which raises the bigger question: why can't conservatives ever get anything right?
Funny and educational.
And did you hear her bring no joy to Joy Behar?
(approximation)
Behar: Why don't you get waterboarded?
AC: Why don't you get aborted
HEY-O!
Rush has picked up on a comment by pollster, Frank Luntz, about healthcare and run it into the theater of the absurd.
Luntz apparently told Republicans that if they don't say that there's a healthcare crisis, they risk further marginalization.
That incensed Limbaugh, and thus he risks marginalization.
He took the Luntz comment and did exactly what liberals do - he took it to mean something that was never said. In this case that Republicans had to agree that there was a crisis that only government could solve.
But the original Luntz statement apparently said nothing of the kind. He only said one very narrow thing: Republicans must acknowledge there's a healthcare crisis.
For the record, I've been saying there's a crisis for over a decade, and I said back then that if Republicans failed to act in increasing competition and incentives among companies involved in healthcare, they would bring about the very system they, and I, feared most - government run, single payer healthcare.
And Republicans did exactly that - they failed to act. And all of that time, Limbaugh denied there was a crisis. Now, anyone who doesn't think there is a crisis deserves to be marginalized - and that's just for starters. The worst part is that it might now be too late to avoid the horrors of a government run system, and yet Limbaugh's tune remains the same.
But even if Republicans do finally acknowledge the crisis, they are now powerless to act, and so they will likely try to get the best deal they can in a government controlled system. That's one great job they've done, and a great reason why they are where they are, not to mention where they are going.
And if Limbaugh is the best leader conservatives have... and he absolutely is, it's going to be an ugly rest of your lives!
