ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is warning Democrats that anger, apathy and amnesia could be the keys to defeat in the November election.
Clinton spoke at a fundraiser Thursday evening for Democratic Senate candidate Mike Thurmond, who is seeking to unseat GOP incumbent Johnny Isakson. In his 30-minute speech, Clinton told the audience that Americans are angry with reason.
“But when you make an important decision in your life when you’re angry, there‘s an 80 percent chance you’ll make a mistake,” he said.
Calling the current national mood “a crazy time,” Clinton said Republicans think Democrats are disillusioned and confused, and that Americans are eager to hear a message that makes sense.
“To have an election based on anger, apathy and amnesia is nuts,” he said. “That‘s exactly what’s going on all over America today. This election should be about what are we going to do now.”
Clinton also told the crowd that the Obama administration will not get credit for its work on health care, financial reform and the economy until people get back to work — and that Republicans are capitalizing on that environment.
“They’re up there in Washington acting like the Democrats caused all these problems,” he said. “They say, ‘Let’s throw them out again so we can get back in and do what we did before.’”
The Democratic Party has deployed Clinton as a rainmaker for candidates across the country, but his stop in Georgia was personal. He and Thurmond have a relationship dating back to his first term as president, when Thurmond worked on the welfare reforms championed by Clinton.
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JeffW65
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:31amWhere’s my soda and cigar?
Report Post »Alydia
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:23amHeck, they have always been apathetic, just keep sending the money! Did he mention liars also?
Report Post »NRA_Don
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:19amI have to say that Clinton is right. America was angry and we elected Obama and the Democratic Congress America has now seen the mistakes made while angry and will now correct the problem. We are still angry, but with clear vision this time!
Report Post »american1st
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:15amThe blame the republicans, blame bush, lets not go back to what we did before narrative, falls apart when you realize it was bushes liberal policy’s that were largely responsible for his share in this mess, America doesn’t want what we had before or want the neo-con empire building either, we don’t trust the republicans to do whats right, we just trust the democrats less!, We know what progressive socialism will do.. we hope (in-spite of having no reason to believe it) that the republicans have heard us and will turn away from politics as usual and actually represent the people. All i know for sure is that they can parrot the mood of the people back at us in talking points, i hope they can do more, if not the anti incumbent movement will continue in every election until they do…
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:11am“anger, apathy and amnesia”
Sounds like the typical Liberal argument!
“Anger” -Yes- America is angered over the direction that this Country is heading due to the the pathetic excuse for a President Obuma
“Apathy”- Definition of a Liberal. Lives at home with momma, waits for their food stamps and crys about what he deserves!
“Amnesia” – Need Americans be reminded of what Socialist policies have done to Europe.?
How about communist nations like China and North Korea!
All you Libs can’t be that dumb? Can they?………….I’m just saying!
Report Post »Squishyface
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 10:58amAre all liberals this dumb?
Ever heard the term ‘*******’?
Report Post »bearlyme
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:06amHere’s the good news. This guy is considered the best they’ve got. He complains that voters who cast a ballot in anger risk an 80% chance of making a mistake. i agree. That‘s exactly what happened in ’08. People were angry at George Bush and voted that anger and got Obama. That made it a 100% probabilty they would end up with someone who was a mistake. Man, did they make a mistake. Johnney, you should send the DNC a thank you note for sending Bill Clinton out to wage war on you. He continually reminds voters with his stupid remarks why they should vote for Johnney Isakson.
Report Post »rfpzzzzz
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:03amLewinsky , the Clinton humidor.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:00amPriming the electorate for HILL to run in 2012 there “first GUY”? What would you call him anyway? hahahaha (Besides moron) :)
Report Post »kb1200cc
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 2:14pmThe other things Id call him I cant put in this post.
Report Post »rocktruth
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:55pmClinton “This election should be about what are we going to do now.”
Yeah, spend us even more into oblivion.
Report Post »ReGul
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:46pmBalance..Balance….Balance….
Perhaps this “anger” he speaks of explains why all of these Dems are in positions of power today??…The Evil Bush Admin. is at it again….gee whiz…it never ends….
Report Post »Teezer
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:26pmI still don’t think they get it. Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of all of the supposed accomplishments Slick is so proud of. I think the mid-terms are going to be a HUGE surprise for many people.
Report Post »tchrgabe
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:22pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Tess_Comments
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:22pm“To have an election based on anger, apathy and amnesia is nuts,” he said. “That‘s exactly what’s going on all over America today. This election should be about what are we going to do now.”
The American Voters are continuously told half-truths during campaigns. A little anger on their part makes the vote more interesting. By the way Bill we remember your history and the way your people left the computers before you left the White House. What happened to all the W’s?
Report Post »notimeforthis
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:19pmThe Clintons are Progressive Politicians! They see Washington and power as a strategic game to be won. He is soothing the dems saying Americans are stupidly angry, and we just have to give them a piece of dribble that they can understand. He knows that Obama is not a politician, and a poor leader.
Report Post »He knows this because he did it so well. Spin Spin Spin. The real problem Bill is Americans are starting to realize that BOTH the dems and the republicans are out for self preservation of the status quo. News FLASH! We don’t trust either of you! We just cannot afford to take any democratics word that they son‘t fall in line for more of OBAMA’s agenda in 2011. DEMOCRATES CAN’T BE TRUSTED! PERIOD! Oh Yes we may have to keep throwing politicians out of Washington until they get the message: No more Lobbyists! No more 2000 page bills that can’t be read. Stop the pork!
Take a pay cut! Take term limits! It may take years!!! But devoted American‘s who don’t want comfort over freedom will stay vigilent, becuase eventually we will have neither!
Rose2010
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:47pmYou are right; we can’t trust either party. The first thing we have to do is get rid of the Dems in charge in order to try and slow the downward slide we’re on. Then we need to keep replacing people, both Dems and Reps every time they vote in a way contrary to the good of the country. Eventually, hopefully, they will learn that they are sent to Washington to do perform a service and their staying power will depend on how well they do that job and for how long they can keep it up.
Report Post »rocktruth
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:53pmI agree,
Report Post »Cut spending now!
The entire government should take at least a 20% cut in all salaries and entitlements across the board.
Learn to live with less like most people.
Fireball53
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:34pmWe need true CITIZEN representatives. Join GOOOH.com (pronounced go) and be active in the process of selecting the next candidate for the House from your district. This is NOT a party but a PROCESS of selecting a candidate that is NOT beholding to a party or special interest, only to “WE THE PEOPLE” that select them from among ourselves.
Report Post »PunditPawn
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:19pmThe only thing Obama got right was weaseling Snowe and Collins to vote for his sorry agenda. He would have been irrelevant 6 months into his term had they supported their own party. I don’t think the party is always right, but when you are so far out of power like the Republicans were, the only thing you can do is huddle together. Instead, Snowe and Collins actually played for the other team and now a trillion dollars is just gone… gone into anti-revenue generating Government and Union jobs or thrown out the window at GM and cash for clunkers. Republicans will now have no money or budget to work with after November because of two liberal women.
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:18pmClinton…” Clinton said Republicans think Democrats are disillusioned and confused, and that Americans are eager to hear a message that makes sense.
Report Post »As a Conservative I know they are not disillusioned or confused, and thats what scares me. These people “democrats” and some republicans will do anything to stay in power. They will sell out the nation and bring it down to the lowest denominator for the power to say what goes in this country.
notimeforthis
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:30pmYes! Yes! Yes! They want the same game! Game Change!It’s called survival of the fitest!
Report Post »Hey Liberals you get Darwin right! They don’t get God and country! So give them what they understand. Loss of politcal survival!
dressseller
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:16pm“But when you make an important decision in your life when you’re angry, there‘s an 80 percent chance you’ll make a mistake,”
maaaaybe. ..but I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can be mad and still make an intelligent election choice. ..Besides.. we’re not so much MAD…….as we are DETERMINED.
“To have an election based on anger, apathy and amnesia is nuts,” he said. “That‘s exactly what’s going on all over America today. This election should be about what are we going to do now.”
yeeeaah. …and to have an election based on empty promises of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ is more nuts. …And make no mistake..this election IS about what ‘we are going to do now.’
“They’re up there in Washington acting like the Democrats caused all these problems,” he said. “They say, ‘Let’s throw them out again so we can get back in and do what we did before.’”
Report Post »We are not all up there in DC….and we know that Dems & Repubs helped to create this mess we are in today. That is precisely WHY we refuse to let any of you get back in and ‘do what we did before’. ….The American people want REAL hope & REAL change.. and that will only come from restoring God to His rightful place in our country.
dynodonc
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:15pmSince when does “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” Clinton have ANY credibility???
Report Post »Edwardosan
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:49amI guess that depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is….lmao
squeezeboxdood
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:22amTalk about Credibility?? Clinton was the prez when my youngest son was a teenager. He got in trouble with the law fairly regularly. His excuse was, “Well, Clinton did it and he got away with it, why can’t I?” Yeah…good example for our youngsters. He was impeached but he refused to leave office. He shouldn’t even be given a forum to make his stupid comments. And to think I have that jackass’ signature on my military retirement certificate. Makes me sick
Report Post »Leslie_Benedict
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:14pmSlick knows Obowmao makes him look good.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:13pm“But when you make an important decision in your life when you’re angry, there‘s an 80 percent chance you’ll make a mistake,”
That is a great quote and describes the situation Democrats are in right now, Americans voted in anger for obama and the rest of his communist crew and now they realize it was a huge mistake.
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:38pmOh! I thought that is what Bill was refering to.
Report Post »phoenixbetrayal
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:54amHell, isn’t anger why that clown got voted in as well? Everyone hates a Bush, so in anger we vote a clown in first and a then a socialist after Bush 2.
Report Post »Wanting a better America
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 5:32pmI agree with your comment about voting angry is not a smart thing to do. However, look within you angry people who are on this web site in praise of the mad men and women ranting without any solutions in mind. America should pull together to find solutions and stop demeaning those who do!!
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:11pmCome on… ya know when he‘s waggin that finger he’s lyin!
I’ll say this much though….. I’d take a lyin Bill over Obama any day!
Wait did I just say that out loud… LOL
Report Post »solvitur ambulando *** Deo
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 4:07amDID you really say that????? Watch your language! LOL. (Alas, how do so many people fall for his line?)
(Opps… my computer is acting up again. Happens every time after going on whitehouse.gov site. Got to stop going there!!!!)
Report Post »mittyy
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:06pmLets not forget this is the man who left office saying he balanced the budget but in fact they all cook the books to make it look like it. Only a projection 0 deficit.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:32amMITTYY-Great Memory!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:05pmHe’s wrong…You can blame it all on Progressive stupidity run amok… Period!
Report Post »Jabril
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:48pmWhat does that even mean?
Report Post »poppopschell
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:03pmIts’ really is strange when Clinton actually sounds conservative when compared to Obama. I hope all GOP candidates will pride specific ways to get us out of this moral and economic mess. Clinton is right in that we need to come toghjer and solve this disater rather than simply calling names.
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:13pmHear Here!
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:35pmand that is why Hillary is running in 2012.
Report Post »sgallion1
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:47pmIt’s kind of funny (and ironic) that when the Obama crownies pulled the “race card” to get Obama in over Hillary; Bill Clinton said, “This is a fairytale! These people are using the race card to make this guy look they he can do no wrong; and they will continue to use it!”
Sure sounds like Americans are now feeling the same way he felt then. Who has amnesia?????
Teezer
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:02pmNo, Bill, what threatens dems the most begins with the letter “O” and ends with “bama.”
tchrgabe
Posted on September 9, 2010 at 11:22pmThats right Teezer, the problem lies with the pestalent idealogy of Marxist-Socialism that permeates the democratic party. I think I mispelled pestalent, it might not be word even. Well, me vale ese.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:42amIt’s not just Obama but his Ideology!
Report Post »CruzerDog
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:43am“But when you make an important decision in your life when you’re angry, there‘s an 80 percent chance you’ll make a mistake,” he said.
Yes Bill, this probably happens too when you get Horny, like with Monika….
Report Post »A Man For All Seasons
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 12:49amIts funny how Bill and Hillary start to make a little more sense when gearing up for an election. It isn’t apathy or any of those things it is their whole agenda. All they want to do is spend more to socialize the US and tax the businesses and small businesses that create jobs. In the end that leads us to socialism and eventually a tyrannical communism.
Report Post »aafriend
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 1:38amMr Clinton i hate to break the news to you, The American people in this country are standing up against socialism greed and corruption. politicians have been playing the American citizens like puppets with there self interests long enough. save all the psycho babble manipulating and placating the American People. The game is over and the the American People of the United States of America will persevere. notice the word American. This is not the United States of Washington, it is the United States of America. all the folks in Washington need to get a little humility and get there egos down to the right size. one nation under god, not one nation under Washington.
Report Post »aafriend
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 1:45ami would also like to remind all the talking heads, this is not about Republican or Democrat, both parties start doing right by the American people or they will be voted out . The American People are reading between the lines, we are looking for sincerity,truth,values and integrity in our leaders, examples to our children. this is not about any one party any longer. The American people move this country not politicians.
Report Post »iatoala
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 7:13amI live in Ga and didnt even know Johnny was up for election. I can tell you Bill’s wasting his time here.
Report Post »thunder4570
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:09amI am glad we have so many father figures to tell us that we are too stupid to know what is good for us. I am surprised nobody has suggested canceling the elections until we come to our senses!
Report Post »Peters
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 8:45amCan anyone, anyone shine a light . . . over there in the corner in the crevice; there . . . right there; see it? Before it moves again . . . step on it.
It’s so ironic, Obama being from ChiTown and all . . . calling on Billy Flynn to do the spin. Remember the movie version of Chicago . . . Richard Gere, attorney with all the “razzle-dazzle?”
Why is it when ever there’s a bloody murder on the streets of political America this guy keeps showing up . . . to get the crooks off the hook and back on the streets . . . “It’s all a circus . . a three ring circus . . . .” Obama, “You’re working with a star.”
Take it away Billy:
“Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
Give ‘em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give ‘em the old hocus pocus
Bead and feather ‘em
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?
What if your hinges all are rusting?
What if, in fact, you’re just disgusting?
Razzle dazzle ‘em
And they’ll never catch wise!
Give ‘em the old Razzle Dazzle
Razzle dazzle ‘em
Give ‘em a show that’s so splendiferous
Row after row will crow vociferous
Give ‘em the old flim flam flummox
Fool and fracture ‘em
How can they hear the truth above the roar?
Throw ‘em a fake and a finagle
They‘ll never know you’re just a bagel,
Razzle dazzle ‘em
And they’ll beg you for more!
Give ‘em the old double whammy
Daze and dizzy ‘em
Back since the days of old Methuselah
Everyone loves the big bambooz-a-ler
Give ‘em the old three ring circus
Stun and stagger ‘em
When you’re in trouble, go into your dance
Though you are stiffer than a girder
They’ll let you get away with murder
Razzle dazzle ‘em
And you’ve got a romance
Give ‘em the old
Razzle Dazzle
Give ‘em the old Razzle Dazzle
Razzle dazzle ‘em
Show ‘em the first rate sorceror you are
Long as you keep ‘em way off balance
How can they spot you’ve got no talent
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
And they’ll make you a star!”
Compliments of YOUTUBE . . . and Billy of course
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on September 10, 2010 at 10:29amAll this from a former POTUS who “did not have sexual relations with that women” Does not know the definition of “IT” When criticized about the conduct of the administration replied “SO WHAT” Oficially pardoned Marc Rich, a fugitive who had fled the U.S. during his prosecution, was residing in Switzerland. Rich owed $48 million in taxes and was charged with 51 counts of tax fraud, was pardoned of tax evasion. He was required to pay a 100 million dollar fine and waive any use of the pardon as a defense against any future civil charges that were filed against him in the same case. Critics complained that Denise Rich, his former wife, had made substantial donations to both the Clinton library and to Mrs. Clinton’s senate campaign. (source wikipedia) along with 139 other criminal pardons, second only to the truth telling Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon. What a shining example of George Washington and our founding fathers.! It made me sick then and it makes me sick now.
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