Loved Clinton's Speech!

You are very brave to state this publicly on mylot. The rightwingers and tea party people will come out and try to destroy you. They did it to me and they gang up in a horrible way. So I do not answer any political posts any more. I do not live in the USA but my country is close and when the US sneezes then we get pneumonia

Hi lelin, I agree that it was a great speech and although not an American, I follow politics very carefully and I think there is much truth in what he had to say. The right wingers have taken over Canada and still have three years left in their mandate, which is very scary. You live is a great and free country and it's good that you can express the way you feel, just as others have a right to disagree with you. It will be interesting to see the choice that people will make in November. The important thing in my opinion is getting out the vote. When you get a high percentage of people voting, you know that you have the choice of the people, no matter who wins - and that's what democracy is all about. Blessings.

See what I mean re being attacked? I am so happy that you did not respond in the same way

Clinton is a favorite in the Democratic party. He has always been an inspiring speaker. His speech was fantastic. I thought he did an excellent job contrasting between the two candidates.

Yes, I watched it live. The guy really nailed it. ARITHMETIC. I see you have collected the usual motley assortment of right-wing crazies. Let's see if I can get this straight. The prosperity while Clinton was in office was a result of the actions taken by George H. W. Bush and the recession after Clinton left office was Clinton's fault. the recession obama inherited from W is Obama's fault. These guys never accept responsibility for screwing up in a big way. It is always somebody else's fault. We are short a trillion dollars in revenue because of tax cuts? Well, that is because the tax cuts weren't big enough. No WMDs in Iraq? We never said they had them. Some people are incapable of handling reality. If the facts disagree with ideology--the facts must be wrong.

Hi s speech was great!!! I enjoy a lot he one of the best speaker around and every thing he said was fact the right wing nut will try to chnges his words around they are trying to do it now and you are right is is plain simple arithmetric im going to see if his speach is on you tube to send to some friend who are not on fb they were right now they do not want to vote for any one they live in wisconsin maybe I can get her and her mom to vote to the left with this great speech ok have a great day.

It is simple arithmetic if you use the right number to start with. First you start with a growing economy when President Clinton was elected. After the Clinton tax hike the economy grew at a slower rate than expected and real wages decreased. While the economy did grow from 1993 to 1997 it was not what was expected. Once he worked with the Republicans and reduced the Capital Gains tax from 28% to 20% the economy grew by 1/3 over the previous year and real income increased by 1.7% rather than declining. http://www.myheritage.org/news/the-truth-about-how-the-clinton-tax-hikes-really-affected-the-economy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=MemberBriefing090512

I also enjoyed Bill Clinton's speech yesterday. 'Twas nice to see the man is still very charismatic. I especially liked his facts stating and simply "arithmetic" pitch.

I am Canadian but if I were American I would not vote for Obama. When Clinton was president, he cooperated with the Republicans and cooperated with them, but Obama will not. He wants his way and no other. He wants everyone in America to pay for those who will not and cannot pay for their healthcare. Consequently you will all get poor healthcare. If you want to see your future, just come up here and see how long it takes you to wait for a necessary operation. And I do not think americans should pay for a woman's elective abortion.

So you are going to vote for Obama based on President Clinton's speech. Here I thought it was Obama running for office not Clinton. But let's look at some REAL ARITHMETIC... 5$ Trillion dollars spent just by President Obama. NO Federal Budget the entire time President Obama has had office. Obamacare won't keep health care costs down. Afghanistan is worse. Egypt is worse. Syria is worse. Americans are going to pay more than ever before for health care. Medicare recipients are beginning to see major problems in just seeing a doctor. More people on Food Stamps than ever before. Still an 8% unemployment rate. Gas prices are higher than they were in the Bush administration. Grocery prices are higher than ever and are going up again due to inflation. We aren't energy independent. CO2 levels worldwide are increasing. Energy prices are rising due to restrictions on coal and fossil fuels. People forget that this is cheap and affordable energy. Without cheap energy, the poor can't afford their electricity bills. Solar and wind are just too expensive to be affordable. The unemployment rate is still at 8%. Wages have dropped since he has been President. Still losing more jobs each month than are being gained. The list goes on... Now what part of that really makes common sense for re-electing President Obama? Unfortunately, as good as President Clinton's speech was, it doesn't negate the economic facts or the economic realities. There is no doubt President Clinton is a good speaker. But the realities really speak for themselves. No endorsement is going to change the basic fact that President Obama has been demonstratively a poor leader who spent all his capital on a health insurance bill that benefits the insurance companies more than benefits the American people.

Well, I see you have some responders who did not read your discussion properly and I have to chime in here. I heard part of it and he's a really great speaker but what I want to say is regarding your remarks about how people react to your politics. You see it here in this discussion with people disagreeing with you when you obviously want to talk with kindred spirits. I know how that feels! I belong to a board of musicians and used to enjoy political discussions with them until the past 6 years when everyone became to partisan and unable to separate party with personal philosophy. I know how you feel when you say people tear you apart for your opinion. I quite posting in that particular room--they were 98% liberal and I'm a conservative. We just could not have a civil discussion because they were so adamant and refused to accept a different point of view. And here I see the same thing in reverse! I respect your opinion and you're entitled to it. I'm just mainly posting to tell you that you have support for your opinions from a Tea Party admirer (there are no chapters near me or I'd be a member) and Republican--actually, I'm an Independent that is forced to be a registered Republican so that I can vote in the primaries. If there was no disagreement allowed, we would still have a king and queen and be living in tyranny. So you keep on offering your opinions. Don't let anyone intimidate you. That's what this country is all about. If someone doesn't like it, they don't have to read it. That's freedom and I thank God for it.

Clinton said the same thing that all democrats say in their speeches. He tried to scare everybody into voting for their party by telling them all the bad things the republicans will do if they get elected, even though it's all hogwash. Even the fact-checkers had to admit that what he was saying about the republicans and what they want to do was not accurate. That doesn't stop a politician from saying it though. He was trying to further the democrat party line and get Obama supporters all fired up and feeling good, which is exactly what he did. Political speeches, especially at a party function and in this case the biggest party event they have, are nothing more than a pep rally. I paid no more attention to his speech than I did any of the speeches at the republican pep rally. Now they can get on with the actual campaign and go head to head in the debates and maybe people can decide which way they want the country to go.

I think Clinton brought up a lot of good points. More or less he said everything Obama Can't say. Obama can't keep saying the that he would of have gotten a lot more done if it were not for Republicans blocking his every move. So Clinton did it. He also did a great job of explaining the difference between the 2 sides policies. The great thing it was pretty truthful, unlike those speeches in Tampa.

I could tell every time he lied -- his lips were moving. The claim how they are the party for women, and then they have the biggest womanizer in the party talk. What an oxymoron!