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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (461073)	9/18/2003 2:55:50 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yeah, that I didn't fall for a silly internet hoax like you did and then try to pass it off as being factual! LOL! Not for nothing, but that made you look real stupid as well as very dishonest. Say I know of a bridge for sale... you interested?!

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (461073)	9/18/2003 3:13:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

<font color=blue>Slick Willie is back..........may God help the GOP! You know He won't! ;~))<font color=black> **************************************************************************************** Clinton blasts Bush on economy IN A SPEECH IN MONTEREY, EX-PRESIDENT SAYS TAX CUT UNFAIR TO KIDS, RETIREES By Ken McLaughlin Mercury News Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday lambasted the Bush administration for giving tax breaks to the rich at the expense of children, future Social Security recipients and public safety. In one of the most scathing attacks on his successor's economic plan to date, Clinton told a Monterey audience that he had become wealthy for the first time since leaving office in January 2001 -- yet he's getting tax gifts. Clinton spoke in front of an audience of 2,000 at the Monterey Conference Center on everything from taxes to the huge bill for the war in Iraq. The event represented the first public conversation between Clinton and Leon Panetta, his former chief of staff, since Clinton left office.Some of the former president's most choice comments did not involve the news of the day -- the California recall election that is now on hold -- but instead were reserved for tax policy. Clinton said he lived in a high-tax state -- New York -- in the high-tax county of Westchester. Yet, he said, he's feeling no pain.``I still have plenty,'' said Clinton, who has become a multimillionaire as the result of lecture fees and a book deal. He said he couldn't understand why the administration ``insists on sending me a check'' while it's trying to remove 300,000 children from after-school programs and cutting back on funding for police officers as the Social Security system is headed toward insolvency because the nation is getting older. <font color=red>"Its bad economics and horrible ethics,'' <font color=black>Clinton said during a forum sponsored by the Panetta Institute for Public Policy at California State University-Monterey Bay.With a mixture of humor and wonkism, Clinton attacked not only the domestic program of the Bush administration but also its tendency to ``go it alone'' and alienate friendly nations as well as enemies. Clinton, who spent Tuesday morning golfing with actor Clint Eastwood, is in California in large part to help Gov. Gray Davis in his recall battle. But he touched on that topic only briefly. Panetta, a former Monterey Bay Area congressman, jokingly noted that a three-judge panel in San Francisco had at least temporarily stopped the election a day after Clinton set foot in the state. "Anything I can do to help" Clinton quipped as the crowd roared in laughter. ``I'm sure Al Gore wishes he'd called you into Florida,'' Panetta joked. Tueday's remarks were Clinton's first public comments since the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that the recall election cannot be held on Oct. 7 because the state would be relying on outdated punch-card ballots in six heavily populated counties, including Santa Clara. Two of the judges are Clinton appointees. Quickly turning serious, Clinton again said that he didn't think the recall election was morally right. It tears at the ``fabric of democracy'' and is bound to hurt California economically because investors will sense a politically unstable environment, he said. <font color=red>Clinton also criticized a movement to oust Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, who supported tax increases to deal with significant increases in class sizes in schools.<font color=black> EDIT. please note that Guinn is a Republican.** In Los Angeles on Sunday, Clinton spoke at the pulpit of a mostly black congregation and pleaded, ``Don't do this, don't do this'' on the recall. The charismatic 42nd president began his attack on the Bush administration by saying he didn't want to be as unfair to Republicans as they had been to him -- the only allusion to his 1998 impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky debacle.Clinton said that politicians in Washington, D.C., Sacramento and across the United States need to strive hard to end the current state of bitter partisanship. He said Americans could help by not electing right-wing ideologues to Congress who unfairly ravage their political opponents. ``As long as that stuff works, they'll keep doing it,'' he said.Clinton said that revoking last year's tax cut for the top 1 percent of Americans could pay for the entire cost of the Iraq war. A pragmatic politician, he said, believes ``if you get yourself in a hole,'' you dig yourself out. An ideologue, he said, thinks that ``when you get yourself in a hole, you get yourself a bigger shovel. <font color=red> ''Clinton declined to endorse any Democratic presidential candidate but has nothing but praise for Wesley Clark, the retired general who hours earlier became a Democratic presidential candidate.``He is brilliant; he is brave,'' Clinton said. ``And he's got a sack full of guts.''