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Tonya
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Former President Clinton Addresses UM Graduates
POSTED: 5:00 pm EST March 1, 2007
UPDATED: 8:24 pm EST March 1, 2007
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Former President Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, addressed graduating University of Miami students as the speaker for the 2007 Spring Convocation Thursday afternoon.
Clinton told the college students that they were inheriting an unequal, unstable and unsustainable world.
"Half the world's people still live on less than $2 a day, a billion people have no access to clean water, a billion go to bed hungry every night," Clinton told about 7,000 University of Miami students at their spring convocation.
Clinton gave students plenty to be concerned about, warning of global warming, the health care crisis, the Iraq war and even addressing student concerns about job outsourcing. But he also outlined a plan for global change and challenged students to form their own answers to the world's problems -- even in small ways.
"If you are a mentor to a kid who needs a helping hand ... it all counts," Clinton said. "Part of living in this country is some sort of service."
Though he admitted missing his role in the White House, Clinton said he's realized he can often get more accomplished now than he could as president, without the red tape of politics slowing him down.
Under The William J. Clinton Foundation, he's brokered deals with snack and soda companies to keep them out of school in a fight against childhood obesity and negotiated to get cheaper AIDS drugs the Bahamas.
The 42nd president of the U.S. said citizens must do a better job at cultivating partners in the world, instead of adversaries.
"It is never possible to kill, jail or occupy all your adversaries," he said drawing cheers from students. "We must try to have a world with more partners and few enemies."
When asked what he would do if were president now, Clinton said he would "move to a different course on Iraq. I would essentially do what the Iraq Study Group recommended."
He said he would cut the number of troops in Iraq, but send more to Afghanistan to prevent it from becoming a breeding ground for terrorism. A massive effort toward a "clean, green independent energy efficient environment" also topped his list.
He drew several standing ovations from students and warmly embraced his former secretary of health and human services and UM president, Donna Shalala, who led a question and answer session following Clinton's 30 minute speech.
"It empowered me a little that I can actually do something to improve this country," freshman Felipe Yanez said after the speech.
The former president only briefly mentioned his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who recently announced she is running for president in 2008. He marveled at how their roles had changed as she advances in politics and he in social service, saying "it's like we changed roles on the dance floor."
For more information on Clinton's speech to the graduates, visit UM Events - Bill Clinton. Copyright 2007 by NBC6.net. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.nbc6.net/education/11147454/detail.html
Clinton’s Anti-Poverty Legacy
A sanguine Jonathan Alter reported for Newsweek from the front lines of Clinton's poverty tour in "Trade Mission to Misery, USA." Alter wrote: "It's hard to believe, but Clinton is the first American president since Franklin Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation -- a stunning reminder of generations of neglect. Unemployment at South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, the nation's poorest census tract, is 73 percent; alcoholism is off the charts. The other stops on the seven-state 'poverty tour' were less desperate but plenty grim. Even so, I came away strangely hopeful."
(Speaking of neglect, Alter didn’t note how many Newsweek articles he’s written on Indian reservations).
Alter also defended Clinton's record on helping alleviate poverty: "As President, Clinton has quietly done more for the poor than some liberals admit. The rising economic tide has pushed unemployment for blacks and Latinos to historic lows; half a million former welfare recipients have been hired by the private sector." Minorities also benefited in this way from the Reagan recovery, but you didn’t see it touted in Newsweek. Alter also boasted: "He never properly highlighted his expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit or gave it a jazzier name. But that $30 billion a year in direct payments to the working poor -- rewarding those who just scrape by -- is arguably the most successful anti-poverty program in a generation." Alter concluded: "Clinton has another New Markets tour planned for the fall, starting in Newark. If he makes 10 or 12 more such trips before leaving office -- cajoling, coordinating, leveraging, leading -- then his domestic legacy will move to the higher plateau he covets."
In U.S. News & World Report, Franklin Foer and Jodie T. Allen were more skeptical, wondering whether Clinton's poverty tour would yield results after years of little progress in "Is Poverty Fixable?" Foer and Allen were not so sure: "While poverty here has shrunk considerably, progress has been concentrated on the fringe of rapidly growing metropolitan cores such as Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Birmingham, Ala. Here, in the remote hills of Kentucky and West Virginia, however, the poor have only inched ahead," but they concluded "Symbolism -- a reminder the the poor exist -- has its virtues, too....even if the President's initiative rings hollow to expert ears, it resounds appealingly in the hollows of Appalachia."
http://www.mediaresearch.org/magwatch/99/mag19990713.asp
Bill Clinton to Solve Global Poverty
Clinton Global Initiative: http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091900242.html
Bill Clinton
On the issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/Bill_Clinton.htm |
Chrishayden
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But REAL Black people don't love him!
I wish he'd have a coronary next time some teenager is giving him a blowjob. |
Tonya
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ALLLLLL politicians are sociopaths. ALL OF THEM...
What do I care about his blowjobs; I’m just glad he’s not out killing mofos (or at least a mofo that's been proven in a court of law...LOL!).
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Cynique
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Right. Bill Clinton is no worse than many of the other presidents we've had. Those who are harbor this pathological hate for him simply reveal that they naively invested all of their hopes in a mortal man and are devastated because he fell short. Actually, ending up with a great president can boil down to being a pleasant surprise and a lucky break. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 03, 2007 - 11:42 am: |
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What do I care about his blowjobs; I’m just glad he’s not out killing mofos (or at least a mofo that's been proven in a court of law...LOL!).
(He killed about 500,000 Iraqi children--but I guess they aren't people.
He killed a bunch of Sudanese when he bombed their medicine factory claiming it was producing arms--but they ain't people either
He killed Ricky Ray Rector--but he was black and retarded and Billy Boy is white and we have this doglike desire to have some white man, no matter how murderous lying and lowdown to come pat us on the head
He killed a bunch of Serbian civilians--well, are they white enough to count as people for you?
Obviously you aren't paying attention. If he kills you, you might not even notice.
Those who are harbor this pathological hate for him simply reveal that they naively invested all of their hopes in a mortal man and are devastated because he fell short. Actually, ending up with a great president can boil down to being a pleasant surprise and a lucky break.
(You are so dumb if it was raining soup you'd be outside with a fork. To tell you what you don't know about a good president would take me all day) |
Cynique
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I question every thing you wrote in your post, chrishayden. It's full of over wrought half-truths and wreckless rhetoric. How can an idiot like you tell anybody what constitutes a good president because you've never been around when we had one. So STFU, lame brain. |
Chrishayden
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Cynique:
I...I.. had this DREAM about you..... |
Cynique
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Yawn. |
Mzuri
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I LOVE BILL C!!!
AND YOU SHOULD TOO CHRIS HAYDEN!!!
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Cynique
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Chrishayden does love Clinton. Just the thought of Bill fills Chris with a raging passion and a seldom-achieved erection. snort. |
Chrishayden
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Chrishayden does love Clinton. Just the thought of Bill fills Chris with a raging passion and a seldom-achieved erection. snort.
(Still wishin and a hopin, eh? I'll save some of this trouser treat for you, boo! |
Mzuri
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Cynique
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Eeeew is right! |
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