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Title: President Clinton warns of growing polarization
Source: Yahoo - AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712 ... n_re_us/governors_bill_clinton
Published: Jul 12, 2008
Author: ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Post Date: 2008-07-12 21:53:59 by Rotara
Keywords: None
Views: 322
Comments: 7

PHILADELPHIA - Former President Bill Clinton warned Saturday that the country is becoming increasingly polarized despite the historic nature of the Democratic primary.

Speaking at the National Governors Association's semiannual meeting, Clinton noted that on the one hand, following the early stages of the Democratic primary, "the surviving candidates were an African-American man and a woman."

Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, battled for the Democratic nomination into June with fellow Democrat Barack Obama, son of a white mother and black father.

But this achievement was overshadowed by a growing distance between Americans, said Clinton.

"Underneath this apparent accommodation to our diversity, we are in fact hunkering down in communities of like-mindedness, and it affects our ability to manage difference," Clinton said.

Clinton developed his 44-minute speech from themes he said he drew from a new book, "The Big Sort," by Bill Bishop.

He cited statistics compiled by Bishop that found that in the 1976 presidential election, only 20 percent of the nation's counties voted for Jimmy Carter or President Ford by more than a 20 percent margin.

By contrast, 48 percent of the nation's counties in 2004 voted for John Kerry or President Bush by more than 20 points, Clinton said.

"We were sorting ourselves out by choosing to live with people that we agree with," Clinton said.

Clinton has often meshed big picture admonitions with new books whose ideas he admires. He drew similar conclusions in 2000 following the publication of Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone," on the decline of civic engagement in the United States.

Among the approximately two dozen active governors in attendance Saturday were some of the 11 who backed Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Gov. Timothy Kaine of Virginia said he wasn't worried about how President Clinton might view his support for Obama.

"We're human beings, too, so there are feelings, but we understand this is a team sport, and we come back together as a team," Kaine said.

After weeks of not speaking to each other, Obama last month reached out to President Clinton and asked him for help winning the White House. Clinton had portrayed Obama as too inexperienced to be president.

Clinton concluded his speech by reminding governors, who are marking the association's centennial, that the issues they face today are similar to problems President Teddy Roosevelt grappled with a century ago.

Those include inequality among rich and poor, immigration and energy policy.

If those issues are dealt with, "We're about to go into the most exciting period of human history," Clinton said.

"If we don't, in the words of President Roosevelt, dark will be the future," he said. "I'm betting on light — I hope you are, too."

(This version CORRECTS that some, not all, of the 11 governors who backed Obama in the primary were in attendance Saturday.)


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#1. To: Jethro Tull, Cynicom, lodwich, James Deffenbach, Christine, Original_Intent (#0)

"We were sorting ourselves out by choosing to live with people that we agree with," Clinton said.

As opposed to the opposite.

What a freakin asshat. ;-)

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Rotara  posted on  2008-07-12   22:04:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Rotara (#1)

by choosing to live with people that we agree with

We'll have to "CHANGE" this nonsense ... you will live with people that you disagree with for diversity's sake.

You will give up your guns ...

And I will sell tickets to the knife fights !!!

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

De La Boétie

noone222  posted on  2008-07-12   22:25:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Rotara. all awake Americans here (#1)

Asshat bump IS INDEED in order here.

Cigar-pumping bump.

Lod  posted on  2008-07-12   22:38:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: lodwick (#3)

Stir the racial shit pot bump.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-07-12   22:43:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Jethro Tull, people (#4)

I am not trying to stir the pot, but, if we cannot admit that it is simmering here, we are gonners, and are kidding ourselves.

At this late point, I have no good answers. Only prayers for help.

Lod  posted on  2008-07-12   23:14:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: lodwick (#5)

I meant Clinton was. Sorry about that.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-07-12   23:17:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Rotara (#0)

Former President Bill Clinton warned Saturday that the country is becoming increasingly polarized despite the historic nature of the Democratic primary.

Great news for Al Gore's polar bears!

Clinton developed his 44-minute speech from themes he said he drew from a new book, "The Big Snort," by Bill Bishop.

Bill could have written that himself.

following the publication of Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone," on the decline of civic engagement in the United States.

Silly me, at first I thought that was describing another activity Billy Jeff is famous for.

The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke

DeaconBenjamin  posted on  2008-07-12   23:17:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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