Debunking ABCNEWS Swiftboating Bill Clinton. He never proposed to slow down our ecomy. What a lie !!

[agdlp]

Jake Tapper: ABC News' Senior National Correspondent is taken in distorting facts, lying and swift boating Bill Clinton.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/bill-we-just-ha.html

He writes:

In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: "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." At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? "Slow down our economy"? I don't really think there's much debate that, at least initially, a full commitment to reduce greenhouse gases would slow down the economy….So was this a moment of candor?

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Well, lets deal with the facts shall we ?


In the video from the speech:
http://mfile.akamai.com/12930/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2008/0131/15182140.200k.asx

we go to 13:17:

And Bill Clinton Says this:
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This might be the most important thing that I have to say to you about why I believe you should support Hillary.

Everybody knows, everybody knows that global warming is real. That’s why Al Gore got the Nobel Prize right, but we cannot solve it alone.

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And maybe America, Europe and Japan, Canada, the rich countries in the world, would say...
Okay...we just have to slow down our economy, and cut back our green gass emisions, because we got to save the planet for our grandchildren.

We can do that, but if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia, and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and Ukraine, and all the other countries that is coming behind us, they will never agree to stay poore, to save the planet for our grandchildren.

The only way we can do this, is if we, get back in the worlds fight against global warming, and prove it’s good economics, that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren.

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It’s the only way it will work. And guess what?

The only places in the world today, in rich countries were you have rising wages, and declining inequality, are the places that have generated more jobs, and in rich countries because they made a comitment that we didnt

They got serious about a clean, efficient, green, independent, energy future. A post carbon energy future.

If you want that in America, if you want the millions of jobs, that will come from it, if you would like to see a new energy trust found, to finance solar every, and wind energy, and geo thermo and bio mass, and responsible bio fuels, and electric hybrid pluggin vehicles, that will soon get a 100 miles a gallon.

If you want every facility in this country, to be made maximum energy efficient, that will create millions, and millions, millions, and millions of new jobs, vote for HER.

[Iwasthere]

1. agree but

....and all the other countries that is coming behind us, they will never agree to stay pore.

"...is coming..." and "..stay pore." Do these countries have a massive blemish

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. taken out of context and spun

yep, the MSM is on the job. Their plan, as I see it, is working beautifully--freeze out real progressives, and then distort and bring out negative news articles about the two main candidates left. I think their plan is to have the race be between McCain and Clinton and to have Clinton lose. This would be another piece of evidence that my theory may be correct.

[Zueda]

3. OMG! Bill actually said that!

thanks for posting.

[Rock_Garden]

4. Such a good post, agdip. Thanks!