VIDEO: Clinton-Bush Haiti Relief Ad
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At President Obama’s request, President Clinton and President Bush are working together to raise money for Haiti relief. For something this important, we can put differences aside for a moment.
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I’d like to see Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston put their differences aside for Haiti as well.
Shouldn’t Limbaugh be outraged that Dubya is politicizing and trying to get in good with the black folk?
Though it is going to make it harder for Democrats to campaign in 2010: If W. was/is evil incarnate, why are you making him co-chair of the Haiti campaign for, of all things, disaster relief?
Bravo, Farris, for completely missing the point of Oliver’s post.
Even if the Dems were planning to run a 2010 campaign on “Bush was EVIL!”–which they wouldn’t–it would be worth losing that campaign angle to do some good in Haiti.
And Limbaugh complains that Obama’s going to politicize this tragedy? Fuck him, and fuck you.
SaveFarris: “I’ll take ‘Completely and Utterly Missing the Point’ for $500 Alex”
Because, sadly but true, there are too many Republicans who won’t listen to anyone with a D after their name, no matter how nonpartisan or right the cause may be. So, we need a well-known Republican to stand up and say, “it’s okay, it’s the right thing to do, to help these people in need.” I’m surprised that the elder President Bush wasn’t asked to speak as well, given the improvement in relationship between himself and Mr Clinton over the years, but I guess it’s time for his son to be the visible “former President Bush.” Younger, and better able to handle the traveling and stress. And good on him for doing it.
And I can’t believe you would be so low as to take a dump on Democrats in a thread in which our host points out, after years of criticising President Bush, that we can still work together to do the right thing. Truly, you have given up any pretense of character or rational behavior and have become a hindrance to any kind of decent discussion here. Are you proud of yourself for this? Everything you do here anymore is disappointing.
LOL,
You notice Ollie didn’t actually say anything nice about GW himself, he only said we can put our differences aside for a moment. One must suspend all belief to think that an administration whose mantra is to never let a crisis go to waste isn’t going to politicize this humanitarian venture. Give me a break. And look at the rest of you as an example, using this to try and hammer Republicans and conservatives for political points. Such hypocrites.
and while we are in the suspenion of belief mode there’s this;
“Even if the Dems were planning to run a 2010 campaign on “Bush was EVIL!”–which they wouldn’t”
How gullible do you think we are? Let’s repeat the tagline …which they wouldn’t. Sure they wouldn’t.
… because he’s the only living Republican president who isn’t a senior citizen.
I thought you would have run with the clintonbushhaitifund.org name.
What’s your point, that everybody’s human?
So, the headline is: Oliver Willis doesn’t care about seniors?!?
Either Bush is a good man for the job or not. If he is, then Obama’s entire rhetoric from the campaign (and the first 12 months of his administration) is null and void thus calling Obama’s character into question. If he isn’t, then Obama is making a horrendous mistake which calls his basic competency into question.
You choose.
The putting differences aside for a moment?
For Barack Obama, that lasted less than 24 hours.
Unbelievable.
That’s because he was only trying to be all “humanitarian” (typical liberal!) and make points with the YouKnowWhos (wink wink, if you know what I mean, and Lee Atwater thinks you do). Thank goodness assholes like you and Rush Limbaugh are on the case, trying to bring everybody together to not donate to the cause.
“an administration whose mantra is to never let a crisis go to waste”
The actual quote: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
It’s Politics 101. He means that a particular crisis may increase your political capital in such a way that you may proceed with an particular agenda which would have been more difficult to accomplish previously. Here’s an example:
1. PNAC desired regime change in Iraq to a more democratic and moderate one. 99% of the world did as well.
2. PNAC does not have the political capital to do regime change by direct means, which would be supported by a far smaller percentage of the world’s population.
3. 9-11 happens.
4. Along with a few tweaks, such as suggesting that we’d be welcomed as liberators, the war would pay for itself, as well as having a PNAC friendly administration to work with, the political capital in America was such that PNAC could achieve their wish.
Only a wingnut (on either side I’ll admit) sees pure concentrated evil in using serious crisis to advance the other’s political agendas, but not their own agendas.
Well done professer timmy,
And this is what you consider a good arguement to show how Obama won’t politicize a Haitian aid mission? Are you a campaign consultant for the Democrats in Mass.?
Obama will benefit from managing the mission any kind of right, doesn’t mean it’s the main purpose of it. Would the only right way to help be to do so while killing puppies with a hammer just to make sure no one end up respecting him? Or not help at all?
Look, here’s Bush working along. He’s there so people like you give a shit. Your great leader’s there, no guilt, doing the sensible thing won’t make you a liberal! But no, you’re too busy hating the party in power. A hundred thousand people died already and more could end up starving if relief isn’t provided and fast. And you oppose it because your opponents could get the credit!
Dennis, Farris, you, is there any low too low for you? You are trash, please go hang yourselves.
And this is what you consider a good arguement to show how Obama won’t politicize a Haitian aid mission?
No. They’re obviously politicizing this. As MantanteDodo said, “He’s there so people like you give a shit.”
The conservatives in this thread are inhuman vermin. Kill yourselves.
One right move does not negate or offset Mr Bush’s record. It’s one right move, from a man who has chosen to keep his peace after leaving office and so is the least tainted by the Republican obstructionism and noncooperation of the past year. This neither reforms him nor recasts him. It simply makes him the only national Republican figure who can stand up for the right thing next to the President without catching thousands of boots up his ass from Republicans for “0consorting with the enemy.”
As said below, he’s there so people like you might actually give a shit.
Indeed inhuman.