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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 12:48 PM
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Clintons speech after The Hunting of The President, link?
I've been looking for a transcript of Bill Clintons speech after the premiere of the movie (it's an add-on on the DVD) and am having no luck. I hope it's out there somewhere and someone has it bookmarked.

It was riveting and gave an excellent overview of what the right wings plans are and how they have hi-jacked democracy.
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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 12:52 PM
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1. I don't have a link
But I thought that was an excellent movie. I hope Kerry has seen it so he can see what they have in store for him when he wins.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:28 PM
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4. Kerry did see that movie.
It played all across America from 1992-2000.
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oldlady Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 12:53 PM
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2. it's on DVD
but, I haven't seen it online, or transcript...DVD available in even the big box stores (got mine at Borders)--GREAT speech
peace
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 12:58 PM
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3. it was Excellent...
we listened to it in total quiet awe - now THAT was a president. Gales of laughter broke out when we compared some of Bush's attempts at speechifing. My sis just about fell off the couch when I reminded her of * 'Freeance Peeance'.
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 01:38 PM
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5. kick. still no luck finding it. it's GOT to be about somewhere.
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 04:36 PM
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6. Found it, or part of it...
http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_040618hunting.html

The (current) rise of the right in America started in the '60s the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, and the gay rights movement. Then later, the Berlin Wall fell and they had identifiable enemies. I served as the next best thing," Clinton detailed.

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Clinton went on to give his account of why the right harbored such a venomous hate towards him, as depicted in the new film. The former president said that he believed the right thought it had found a winning formula for holding power and that the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976 was an anomaly due to the Watergate scandal. He said they labeled Democrats as, "weak... elitist... can't be trusted to protect the country... always giving money to the poor, most of whom were people of color..." and perpetuated a distrust of progressives. Continuing, Clinton said, "So in '92, they thought the natural order of things broke down," later adding, "Ken Starr saw himself as throwing the infidels from the temple."

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"This doesn't exonerate me on the personal stupid things I did," said Clinton, referring to his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The former President added that during the investigation, he naively believed the press would pursue the truth about Whitewater and other accusations. The film, however, argues that the independent counsel and the press corps formed a loose alliance feeding off the salacious accusations, while Ken Starr's office illegally leaked information in their effort to damage Clinton publicly. At one point in the film, famed Democratic strategist James Carville described the situation as he viewed it: "We've all done stupid mistakes. We just haven't all had hundreds of people spending five years and $80 million trying to find them."



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