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Nothing interesting, buy thank you. azvpo124

i think we should save the world first. and the economy at the same time. try to think open minded.

Really good article gives me a better insight, thanks.

The economy is in turmoil and all Americans see is the wealthy getting the bailout. I see a way of fixing it and it is very easy, and will not just help a few people but everyone in the United States. We have set aside $700,000,000,000 for the bailout correct. Set aside approximately $330,000,000.00 of the $700,000,000,000.00 which would leave $699,670,000.000.00 left to feed the buzzards of Freddie, Fannie, AIG and so on. Take the $330,000,000.00 and send it to every man and woman legally in the United States and have not committed a felony, right at a million dollars a person even the children. Make the parents the executor of the children’s money and make it mandatory that all be invested for their futures once eighteen they are then able to touch the money but only if they attend a higher education program, if not they have to wait till age 24 when they may have some kind of career going at that time. Takes care of federal or personal educational loans, covered. The adults have to pay taxes first on the million at the 32% rate, which would automatically send approx. $ 69,300,000.00 back to the federal Gov. Then they can use the money to pay off mortgages, which will help these failing banks, then pay off high interest rate credit card loans, then buy some kind of alternative fuel type car or at least a fuel efficient car. This would help with the environment and help with homeland security. Not only would it do those things but it would make sure all Americans would have money for medical insurance and should be made mandatory for the use of the money, this would help our failing hospitals from non payment of services rendered. The big thing would be the solution for Social Security for all ages. The amount of taxes paid on capital gains could go straight back into Social Security for the future generations. May God bless you and God bless our great nation the good ole USA.

America has to borrow and tax more, just to pay off the interest on the money we already (over) borrowed. If you cut through the crap, and go back to simple basics, all economists agree that the first thing an individual should do to get their finances back into the black, is to pay off their credit cards, and get out from under paying the interest each month. The U.S. is no different. Instead of solving the problem by borrowing hundreds of Billions more, and assuming Billions more in interest, our first priority should be to pay off our loans, and stop paying all that interest on loans !!!

Bill Clinton campaigned for Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut U.S. Senate race against challenger Ned Lamont in 2006.
Lamont won the democratic run off election as the democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. The Republicans returned Liberman to the senate!

This distortion of words and taking things out of context are the very things that republicans bank on. Most of the "conservatives" do not listen to the full meaning of what people like President Clinton are saying. The republican media only reports a part of the phrase & this is what people hear. Then the whole thing gets blown out of proportion & you have the republicans saying that the Clintons want to slow down the U.S. economy. If you actually listen to the whole statement he is saying, you would understand that he is simply trying to make a point on how wrong it would be to slow our economy down to combat global warming. And if we embrace energy independence and create "green" jobs, it will actually expand our economy while combatting global warming - Hello, a win-win situation, right? But the "conservative" republicans will continue to believe the false propoganda that their lying, cheating, distorting party leaders are delivering and continue to drive our country and world toward disaster.

I AM SO TIRED OF THE POLITICS THAT GO ON IN THIS COUNTRY., OK LET ME BE CLEAR ON THIS- ( I AM AN INDEPENDANT) NOT A DEM OR A RE-PUB. SO IM KIND OF A MUTUAL OBSERVER. HOWEVER IT SEEMS THAT AS FAR AS THESE PRIMARYS GO THE PARTYS COULD REALLY CARE LITTLE ABOUT WHAT THE VOTE SAYS AND MORE ABOUT WHAT THEIR FELLOW POLITICIANS HAVE TO SAY.
FOR EXAMPLE- MIKE HUCKABEE IS RUNNING BEHIND IN THE DELEGATE COUNT AND PROBABLY CANT WIN THE NOMINATION OF THE PARTY. BUT THE RULES ARE UNTIL THE NUMBER IS REACHED THERE IS NOT A WINNER. SO WHY IS ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON AND ALL OF THE POLITICIANS RALLYING BEHIND MCCAIN LIKE THIS THING IS OVER? GIVE THE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO VOICE THEIR OPINION. LET THE PRIMARY GO ON SO ALL OF THE STATES CAN HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
THE MESSAGE THAT WASHINGTON SENDS IS THEY DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT THE OPINION OF THE HEART LAND- AFTER ALL WASHINGTON DC AND THE NEW ENGLAND STATES HAVE SPOKE. - THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS WAY OUT OF TOUCH, AND BECUASE OF THIS THEY WILL LOSE THE WHITE HOUSE, AND THEY DESERVE IT. YOU ARE ALIENATING YOUR BASE, THE VERY INDIVIDUALS THAT HOLD YOUR PARTIES VALUES.
FIRST IT WAS A VOTING SCANDAL IN WASHINGTON STATE., AFTER ALL HUCKABEE CANT BEAT YOUR FRONT RUNNER IN THREE STATES IN A ROW, CAUSE THAT WOULD JUST NOT BE WHAT THE PARTY WANTS.
THEN THERES ROMNEY, GOT ALL HIS VOTES FROM CONSERVATIVES WHO DO NOT WANT TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN.- THEN HE RUNS A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST MCCAIN AND AFTER HE DROPS OUT HE NOW TRYS TO GIVE ALL HIS DELEGATES TO MCCAIN AS HUCKABEE STARTS TO SURGE WITH THE REPUBLICAN BASE. SOOOO WHY IS IT THAT THE REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT THIS PRIMARY TO GO ON. THEY ARE TIRED OF THE MESSAGE THAT THE VOTERS ARE SENDING., ITS AGAINST THERE AGENDA, SO AS ALWAYS THE POLITICIANS HAVE DECIDED THEY ARE GOING TO PICK THERE CANIDATE- NOT THE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.
OH DONT WORRY DEMOCRATS, IM SURE YOU WILL SEE THE SAME COME THE SUPER DELEGATES. WE WILL SEE WHAT MATTERS MORE, THE PEOPLES CHOICE OR WHAT
WASHINGTON AND POLICTICIANS WANT. I HOPE THE DEMOCRATIC SUPER DELEGATES DO THE RIGHT THING.
ITS TIMES LIKE THIS IM GLAD IM AN INDEPENDANT.

Perhaps Bill Clinton's curious choice of words stems from the fact that most of the so called green solutions are far less promising than they might appear to be. If we can not come up with more innovative technical answers, the remaining solution to the global warming problem is, unfortunately, a slow down of the (world) economy. But there are powerful innovative answers.

A non-political approach is discussed in a comment by me under the Frances Beinecke, NRDC president, discussion at

Here we are sending almost all of our manufacturing jobs to China. We buy these products & help their economy. Soon we will not be able to afford even the chinese products because we will have lost so many jobs. How many products do the Chincese buy from the US, that are actually manufactured in the US? We need to start making things again in the USA & supporting the companies who employ American workers.

Did Bill Clinton mean the exact opposite of what he said?
Jake Tapper investigates.

Geeeez.... What a right-wing hack attack.
And now this misleading and incorrect story is being spread all over crackpot "conservative"-land just like you intended.
Shame on you ABC.
You distort. You decide.

Jake,
Did Bill misspeak or did you misunderstand or did you mislead? Pretty clear it was choice 2 or 3. You need to correct your mistake ASAP.

This global warming thing could turn out OK for Mr GW Bu$h. If there are no future generations, he will not have to worry about his legacy !

Oh come on! You can't really be THAT stupid, can you? Clinton never said "we just need to slow down the economy"

He said that he imagined that it might be possible for industrialized nations to say that, but they'd be wrong to do so, because it wouldn't be realistic and wouldn't solve the problem.

So, now, because of this idiotic and intentionally obtuse mischaracterization, the bloggosphere is full of people quoting it as fact. Much like the never-said "I invented the Internet" quote from 2000.

Does ABC have ANY standards, at all? This wouldn't pass muster for meeting the standards of a junior high school newspaper.

Is this blog a satirization of conservatives? Because when this fiction is all that can be mustered for an attack, you got nothin. It only makes the purveyor of it look like an idiot or atonishingly, obviously dishonest. Makes you say WTF. Pointless.

Mr. Tapper, I assume you physically typed this essay yourself, and therefore, I assume you actually took the time to press the key for the two single-quote marks that surround the sentence about slowing down our economy. As a trained journalist and writer, you presumably did so because you knew those words represented a nested quote inside another quote, indicating that the words were not Clinton's own, but someone else's.

Therefore, it is obvious from this punctational giveaway that you knew Clinton was using the words about slowing our economy down as a hypothetical quote or idea expressed by a hypothetical someone else.

The lie that there is some question about what Clinton meant is entirely exposed by this, your own usage of punctuation which clearly signals that at the time you wrote this article, you knew that he was not saying those words as an expression of his own beliefs, but to represent someone else's.

Here is the relevant portion. I draw your attention to the single quotes surrounding that sentence within Clinton's full quote:

"And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada -- the rich counties -- would say, 'OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.' We could do that.

"But if we did that..."

There can be no doubt from this you understood the rhetorical structure of his comments, and that those words were not being stated as an expression of his own beliefs.

There can also be no doubt that when Clinton began the next paragraph with the word "But" that he was entering into a refutation of or objection to that stated belief, clearly indicating he disagreed with it.

Changing your headline to the question "What did he mean?" does not undo the essential dishonesty of this entire article. There WAS no question of what he meant until you decided to create one.

And by your use of the single quotes surrounding those words, you reveal that you knew this all along.

I am still awaiting a retraction.

To all of the Global warming "believers"..... please tell us why Mars, and Jupiter and Saturn are all warming at the same rate? Could it be that the carbon from Earth is migrating there as well? Or could it be because the Sun has a higher level of output? By the way, we just came to the Sun Spot minimum and are no heading to a higher level of Sun Spots. It happens ever 11 years folks.

Also, please explain to us why the CO2 levels FOLLOW the rise in temperature......

What did Jake Tapper mean by taking a couple of lines from the middle of a speech President Clinton gave and using them to turn President Clintons message upside down ? Did he mean that he would use any trick he could find to keep A Clinton out of the White House ? Could this have anything to do with Monica Lewinski dropping him for President Clinton? We MUST know these things.And we will not rest until we know ALL the facts and publish them for ALL to know.Have a nice day, Jacob. Later.

It is shocking that abc news would allow their name to be put on this type of misleading and incorrect reporting ... the NEW fox news?