I really wish Slick Willie would just go away. I really, really do.
Former President Bill Clinton was in Sin City this week at a fundraiser and had some observations on this year's election which is now less than four weeks away.
Excerpts from the Las Vegas Sun:
"This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in," Clinton told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in Las Vegas. "For six years this country has been totally dominated - not by the Republican Party; this is not fair to the Republican Party - by a narrow sliver of the Republican Party, its more right-wing and its most ideological element."
"When the chips are down, this country has been jammed to the right, jammed into an ideological corner, alienated from its allies, and we're in a lot of trouble," he said.
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"The Democratic Party has become the liberal and conservative party in America. If you want to be fiscally conservative, you've got to be for us. If you want to conserve natural resources, you've got to be for us," he said. "If you want a change of course in Iraq...you've got to be for us."
Did you catch that? The Democrats are the liberal and the conservative party. What did Clinton do after he made that claim?
Clinton also attacked Republican tax cuts, describing a repeal of the estate tax as the GOP's top legislative priority. "They may think I should be able to give Chelsea every nickel, but I don't," Clinton said.
So, the Democrats are the fiscally conservative crew...as long as you don't want to cut taxes. That's Clinton wanting to have it both ways just as he did the entire eight years he was in office. And who exacty does Bill Clinton want to give his estate to if not his only child, Chelsea? The Government??
I'd love to see this guy's will.
It occurs to me that the only person jammed into an ideological corner is Bill Clinton himself. He ran for President in 1992 as a moderate Democrat and managed to pull the wool over the eyes of enough people to get elected. Now, he's going out and calling the Democrats a conservative party. The Democrats are calling themselves everything but what they are to try and raise money and get votes.
That's an ideological corner, alright.
William Smith
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