Bill Clinton praises 'growing diversity'

[SwordoftheVistula]

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Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.

He told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority, given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here.

Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."

[Cato]

Bubba's looking exceptionally puffy these days. I guess it's because he's still full of hot air. :rolleyes:

[Vulpix]

Diversity, apparently the new Holy Grail :rolleyes:.

[Beorn]

Gotta love the example he cites.


Clinton told the audience that it's important that they push government leaders for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He cited an experience in 1993 when he failed to persuade many Jewish-American and Arab-American business people to invest in the Palestinian areas because violence and bombings had deterred them.


"It just took one more bus bomb or one more rocket or one more incident and then people got scared of losing their money," he said.


Peace in the Middle East is only necessary because the potential to make money is being lost.

[Groenewolf]

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[I]Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.

And not his wife. Or at least not his wife being the candidate for president in the last elections. Since that also in part can be blamed on the changing democraphics of the Democrat party.

[Cato]

I note he has a semblance to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, save that he does more than groan and roar and explode in a large, sugary cloud of goop when shot at by proton accelerators.

[Crose]

Bubba's looking exceptionally puffy these days. I guess it's because he's still full of hot air. :rolleyes:

Or heavy drinking trying to drink Monica away! :eek: