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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:03 PM
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Greenspan trashes Dems on trade, says Bill Clinton "best Republican president we've had in a while."
In his memoir, Greenspan praises former President Clinton for erasing the federal budget deficit and for pursuing trade liberalization. In an interview last week, Greenspan called Clinton "the best Republican president we've had in a while."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092300398.html
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:07 PM
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1. Wow. Greenspan is stealing lines from Michael Moore.
My world makes less sense every day.
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jmp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:10 PM
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2. lmmfao!
I kind of agree with him on that.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:16 PM
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3. Bill Clinton, being a Southern Democrat
was right of center. So, yes the statement is true.
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beaconess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 05:32 PM
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7. What was "Republican" about Bill Clinton?
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:26 PM
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8. I Thought Clinton Did Well, & I Voted For Him.... BUT I ALWAYS Knew
he was NEVER a Progressive OR a Liberal. Always to the RIGHT of me. And I think Hillary is even MORE TO THE RIGHT OF HIM!
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:27 PM
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9. Most of his regulatory policies
if you can even call them policies.
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beaconess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:29 PM
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10. What was Republican about them?
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:32 PM
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11. How about an easy one:
Appointing Micheal Powell to the FCC.
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beaconess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:59 PM
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15. How is appointing a Republican to a commission make him a Republican?
Edited on Sun Sep-23-07 07:03 PM by beaconess
FYI, Clinton had no choice but to appoint a Republican to the FCC - the president is required by law to appoint members of the opposite party to the commission (only three members of the commission can be from the president's party).

Does the fact that Bush appointed Norman Mineta to be Secretary of Transportation make Bush a Democrat? After all, unlike Clinton's appointment of Powell, he wasn't even required by law to do so. :-)
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 07:17 PM
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19. FDR and JFK appointed Republicans. Hasn't Obama said he would?
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:34 PM
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23. Look at what TYPE of person he appointed
as opposed to the party. That (using only one of dozensof examples) should tell you everything you need to know about Clinton's right wing "regulatory" policies.
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dugggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:39 PM
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24. NAFTA, Welfare Reform, Deregulations, Budget surplus,
Edited on Sun Sep-23-07 08:42 PM by dugggy
etc, etc, etc.

Alost all of Bill Clinton's signing into laws was voted
in by majority of republicans, helped in by a minority
of democratic senators and representatives.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 09:21 PM
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26. The Telecommunications Act of 1996...
Thanks to that, there are only a handful of people deciding what news you get to watch on TV.
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Paula Sims Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:21 PM
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4. At least he got one thing right
I'm sure the other Ayn Rand followers are just seething.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 04:49 PM
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5. What an annoying old man
Somebody put him out on the ice, before it all melts.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 05:18 PM
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6. As Republican Presidents go, true, Clinton was the least bad
but that's not saying much.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:38 PM
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12. Greenspan said he wasn't really serious and that of course Bill is a Democrat.
Today, on Meet The Press
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ToeBot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:48 PM
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13. I has an economics professor say the exact same thing. nt
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 06:53 PM
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14. It is widely thought Bill was a great Republican prez. Definitely not good for dems
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 07:10 PM
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18. only on the far left where anyone to the right of Kucinich is a "republican."
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:09 PM
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21. You know that's not true what you say...I was a Centrist Dem/DLC when I voted for Clinton
so to paint me as some kind of Fringe Left because I've grown and read since Clinton Presidency is making a mockery of all of us who change our opinions when we see we were wrong. We learn from our mistakes and want to move forward.

Dissing folks when you don't know where they come from...even when they try to tell you...and putting cotton balls in your ears not to hear... doesn't help discussion about how we MOVE FORWARD and not BACKWARD... Just saying...
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beaconess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:16 PM
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22. :-) True dat
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beaconess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 07:03 PM
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16. I guess that makes Clinton our first black Republican president. :-)
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Cameron27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 07:06 PM
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17. lol
:thumbsup:
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 07:47 PM
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20. Conservative Democrats are very close to Real Moderate
Rebulicans. Not many Mod. Republicans. What we used to call
Rockefellar Republicans. Bill Clinton is a Conservative Democrat.

Greenspan repeated his line on Cavuto's Business program and
on the MTP today.
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cmkramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 09:52 PM
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28. No, he isn't
He's a center-left Democrat.

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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 08:45 PM
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25. I read him saying Clinton accomplished things he equates with repubs. He is slamming the recent
Edited on Sun Sep-23-07 08:47 PM by kikiek
history of republican presidents I think.
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Semper_FiFi Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 09:40 PM
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27. That old fart just now wrote that the Iraq war was for OIL...
why didn't he speak up when it would have mattered? Because it would have cost him his job, so he kept quiet. The guy is a disgusting pig and I don't believe anything he has to say.

Fuck him!
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