Raw Alex, one of your favorite leaders speaks!

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Originally posted by grimm@Nov 18 2004, 08:33 PM
the people waiting for himto fail confuse me. if he fails, our country fails, what do you get, an "i told you so"? id rather have some success in government, regardless of th party.

I was just watching the news (evil liberal CNN news) and they were showing the opening of the clinton library, in particular Clinton's remarks. Mad me eremember why we elected him in the first place.

He's standing in the rain without an umbrella and almost shouts "Am I the only one that like both George Bush and John Kerry." to start his comments... Very good message of united and working toether... Short, to the point.....

edited in again: found the full text, this is the section I saw...

"I believe our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. And while we have to fight our enemies, we can't possibly kill, jail or occupy all of them. Therefore, we have to spend our lives trying to build a global community and an American community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

What are those values? And I want to say this. This is important. I don't want to be too political here, but it bothers me when America gets as divided as it was. I once said to a friend of mine, about three days before the election -- I heard all these terrible things -- I said, "You know, am I the only person in the entire United States of America who likes both George W. Bush and John Kerry, who believes they're both good people, who believes they both love our country and they just see the world differently?"

What should our shared values be? Everybody counts. Everybody deserves a chance. Everybody's got a responsibility to fulfill. We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

So I tell you we can continue building our bridge to tomorrow. It will require some red American line-drawing and some blue American barrier-breaking, but we can do it together."