Thursday, October 19, 2006

Bill Clinton on Liberalism and Insanity

Clinton's Georgetown University Speech (Video)

In a speech delivered at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Bill Clinton addresses the insanity that rules the nation. He touches on some of the striking differences between liberalism and the brute of conservatism.

God, a president who can reason and talk outside of combative mode! Those were the days.

We believe in mutual responsibility. They believe that in large measure people make or break their own lives, and you're on your own.

We believe in striving, at least, to cooperate with others, because we think that there are very few problems in the world we can solve on our own. They favor unilateralism whenever possible and cooperation -- (chuckles) -- when it's unavoidable.

And you may think that's laughable, but even today in the press there's a story that -- about the administration's new policy on national security in space, which points out that 160 nations were asked to vote to begin negotiations -- not to prejudge the outcome, just to begin negotiations -- on making outer space weapons-free, and the vote was 159 to 1 to do it. We were the only country that didn't do it.

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