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May 28, 2009
Funny
Bill Clinton on George W. Bush, New York Times, May 28, 2009:
Clinton's relationship with the younger Bush evolved over the years...Clinton and George W. Bush agreed to appear onstage together in Toronto on May 29 for a 90-minute discussion of current events."You know, I'm a Baptist," Clinton explained. "We don't give up on anybody. We believe in deathbed conversions."
Bill Clinton on Saddam Hussein, New York Times, January 14, 1993:
Mr. Clinton made clear that he certainly did not view Mr. Hussein as the ideal ruler of Iraq, but that he also did not see him as a irredeemable foe of the United States, who had to be destroyed no matter what..."I always tell everybody I am a Baptist. I believe in death-bed conversions."
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at May 28, 2009 03:25 AMI wonder if "end of a rope conversions" count as the same thing.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 28, 2009 09:53 AMClinton backed off of that statement on Hussein pretty quickly, condemning Iraqis to another decade of devastating economic sanctions, and almost assuring the eventual invasion: http://www.accuracy.org/iraq -- all part of the reason we much work doublely hard now to change course of Obama administration -- if not already too late...
Posted by: osama -- err -- sam at May 28, 2009 11:07 AMWell, he didn't say anything about not forcing people onto their death-beds so that they could convert.
Posted by: darrelplant at May 28, 2009 11:19 AMAnd Bush replied, "I'm a Baptist too. I believe in death."
Posted by: SteveB at May 28, 2009 02:20 PMgosh i hope dave broder is there to moderate that potential mortal struggle
Posted by: hapa at May 28, 2009 04:59 PM
I thought this, from the same article, was a little more honest:
"Clinton said he likes picking out gifts for his friends’ wives and girlfriends."
I'm reminded of that scene in The Survivors where Jerry Reed says
"I was raised a strict Southern Baptist and place a very high premium on human life. Ten thousand. Minimum."
and then we learn that he's a hitman.
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at May 28, 2009 08:12 PMNot that Saddam died in anything resembling a bed, of course.
Posted by: Crawford Tillinghast at May 29, 2009 01:27 AMCrawford Tillinghart: Saddam looked to me to be the ONLY one at his hanging that was not having a religious experience. EVERY one else in the room was jerking with the fits.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 29, 2009 01:58 AMI am also a Baptist. I believe that if you pour enough water on someone's head, they'll start seeing things your way.
Posted by: Dumbya at May 29, 2009 02:09 AMI guess if Bill Clinton says he's not giving up on you, you ought to be worried.
Posted by: M.C. Squared at May 29, 2009 04:47 PM"Clinton said he likes picking out gifts for his friends’ wives and girlfriends."
That is the funniest thing I've read on this blog for a while!
Posted by: saurabh at May 30, 2009 01:39 AMWhat is Clinton really saying?
"I'm moral and he's not, but there's always a chance he will change and be as good as me."
I rest my case.
Posted by: Don Bacon at May 30, 2009 11:30 AMAh, so that explains why Bill Clinton agreed to a joint public appearance with George W. Bush depicted in that large, sickening photograph featured on the front page of Saturday's New York Times (05/30/2009).
Missionary Bill (excuse the expression) was simply not giving up on George W. Bush and hoping for a deathbed conversion from war criminal to whatever Bill Clinton imagines himself to be now.
That and the $150,000 a piece Bill and George picked up for letting an adoring corporate audience gawk at two US ex-presidents backing each other up on wars of aggression and genocides.
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