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>Yes, how awful--to actually engage the man in debate and to tell the
>guards to allow him to stay.
>
>-- Luke
The "debate" was pretty stupid. What the guys point about the "North" Vietnese was was unclear, and the answer that the NVA had the "fifth" largest military force in the world was utterly lame if it was supposedto explain or justify how that force beat the militarily mightest nation in recorded history. Be that as it may.
Clinton's gesture is typical, a symbolic nothing ("I feel your pain"); it would be more impressive from someone who had not abolished welfare, repealed habeas corpus, ensconced Reaganism has the ruling philosophy of the DP, and rammed through GATT and NAFTA, meanwhile launching cruise missiles at random to distract from his domestic embarassments.
I miss Richard Nixon. For all his creepy personality and attacks on the Constitution he did more good for this country in any week in office than Clinton did in eight years.
jks
>
>
>
>On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
>
> > Lest our hatred for the loathsome atrocity known as the Dumbocratic
>Party
> > fade, this little gem from the AP, which summarizes the man and his
> > politics.
> >
> > -- Dennis
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > Copyright 2002 Associated Press
> > AP Worldstream
> > HEADLINE: Security guards toss heckler out of Clinton speech
> > DATELINE: BRISBANE, Australia
> > BODY: Security guards forcibly removed a heckler from a charity dinner
>Friday
> > after he stood up and began arguing with former U.S. President Bill
> > Clinton.
> >
> > The man, a paid guest at the black-tie dinner, was carried out of the
> > function attended by 700 people after a verbal clash with Clinton. Seven
> > minutes into Clinton's speech, the man, whose identity was not
>immediately
> > released, began objecting to the former president's comments on the war
> > against terrorism and said that the United States had been beaten in the
> > Vietnam war.
> >
> > "Hang on, North Vietnam beat you. They shot you down," the man shouted.
> >
> > Unfazed, Clinton pointed out that North Vietnam had the fifth-biggest
>Army
> > in the world.
> >
> > "The Viet Cong were the terrorists," he said.
> >
> > As the heckling continued and other guests told the man to sit down and
>be
> > quiet, Clinton invited him to address the dinner in his place.
> >
> > "I'd be happy for you to give this speech. I've been talking every
> > night. I'm tired," he said. Clinton is on a speaking tour of Australia.
> >
> > Security guards moved in to take the heckler away, but Clinton urged
>them
> > to let him stay.
> >
> > "Be nice to him. Listen, most of these things are highly
> > predictable. Don't throw him out," Clinton said. "Let him sit down. Just
> > sit down and have a good time. Relax, chill out."
> >
> > But as the interruptions continued, guards moved in and carried the man
> > out.
> >
> > It was not immediately clear if the man would be charged with any
>offense.
> >
> >
> >
>
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