Bill Clinton has joined the ranks of the many Democrats trashing the Americans attending health care town hall meetings, particularly the people who speak out.
I don't think anyone should be disruptive at these meetings, but it's legitimate for people to want to be heard. It's fair for them to be upset.
I guess Clinton doesn't agree. He dealt with a heckler by mocking the passion and concern and fear being expressed by the health care protesters.
This happened at the Netroots Nation Conference in Pittsburgh.
Video, Breitbart.
Transcript
(Bill Clinton interrupted by a heckler, a man in the audience standing and shouting)
BILL CLINTON: Hey, you ought to go to one of those Congressional health care meetings. You'd do really well there.
(Audience cheers and applauds)
I'd be glad to talk about that. If you will sit down and let me talk I'll be glad to discuss it. But if you stand up and scream, I won't be able to talk. But the other guys would love to have you.
Clinton could have quieted the heckler without taking a swipe at the attendees at the town hall meeting.
It was wrong for a former president to mock dissenters exercising their right to free speech. It was small of him to slam the "other side."
7 comments:
No, he could hahve been the bigger man and just let some angry guy take over the conference so that NO one heard anything.....but then again the good of one vs. the good of the many has been the vein of politics for the past 8 years now....so join the crowd Mr author.
As a former president of the United States and a man who passionately fought for the ideas he believed in and accomplished MANY goals, perhaps it is equally the responsibility of that angry little man that attacked him to show HIM some respect and appreciaton for his service. Afterall, he had been doing his best to fight for HIS rights....who else was going to do it?? I understand the ability to disagree....doesn't our former president have an EQUAL right to be just as passionate and aggressive in defense of his ideas and goals for our country?
I mean no disrespect but I do disagree with you. Certainly Mr Clinton has earned the right as an American citizen to be equally as aggressive in defense of his ideas as his detractors. Particularly when he was there in a serrvice capacity to begin with.
You miss my point.
I'm not saying that Clinton should have let the heckler take over.
I clearly say that it's inappropriate to be disruptive.
However, Clinton needlessly takes a swipe at the attendees of the Congressional town hall meetings.
Clinton didn't need to diss thousands and thousands of Americans to deal with the heckler.
People at some of the town hall meetings deserve to be dissed Mary. It must be very frustrating for people trying to fix something (that yes, needs fixing) to have to deal with misplaced outrage and unfounded fears.
Some do, but very few deserve to be dissed.
Clinton used a broad brush. It was unfair.
He needs to be more careful or he'll paint himself into a far Left corner like Carter did.
Clinton has to decide if he wants his post-presidency status to be fringe Leftist or elder statesman.
Like Congress is actually trying to "fix" anything. What a joke.
When it comes to the Dems and Obama, the "fix" is in, that's for sure.
mary, if you don't like america then leave
"Fringe Leftist"? Please Mary. He is hardly speaking to the fringe. I think you are just so conservative, so middle-America that you don't realize it. Come live on the east coast. Or the west coast. Step outside your America.
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