Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/02/2012 02:54 AM Report

Bill Clinton tells us that 'if you believe in Islam you believe in God and a Prophet strong enough to withstand the criticism of petty minded people.'

Lots of Muslims, not enough Islam.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/02/2012 02:52 AM Report

"You cannot live in a shame based world."

I would say China lives in a shame based world as do many Asian cultures--just ask all those Tiger Mothers.

Bill Clinton does not live in a shame based world. If he did he would not be able to bounce back using his very, very high EQ.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/02/2012 02:47 AM Report

"Free people—Mandela--absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed."

Now we are learning that the events were more terrorist and less film related and there might have been a political smoke screen from the White House having everything under investigation for as long as possible (The Daily Show, October 1st).

So while Clinton's statement is true it might not completely apply to what is really going on with the events at hand.

NeilMacCallister  10/02/2012 02:41 AM Report

Bill Clinton played saxophone on David Letterman.

Barack can't play saxophone -- but David Brooks likes the crease in his pants.

Neither one of these two vaudeville acts ever wanted to balance a budget, ..but Bill had Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey twisting his arm around a pen and forcing him to sign that balanced National Budget that they wrote for him.

All Barack Obama has, is all of everyone's money -- and more.

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So Barack just hopes we all still want to sing along with him:

"I'm going up the country, babe don't you want to go?

"I'm going to some place where I've never been before"

"I'm going where the water tastes like wine,

"We can jump in the water and stay drunk all the time!"

"Now baby pack your leaving trunk,

"You know we've got to leave today,

"Exactly where we're going,

"You know I cannot say, but,

"We might even, leave the USA."

"Cause there's a brand new game that I want to play."

"No use in you running, or screaming and crying,

"Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine."

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I hate that song -- but Obama thinks that kind of poverty, dependency, and exploitation, is exactly the future that America deserves!

How sad!!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/02/2012 02:39 AM Report

Bill Clinton tells us that Mohamed Morsi thought women were objectified in America (when he lived here) and America has a society that is too overtly sexually.

Then Bill Clinton makes the aside that there is something to his argument.

And he blew my mind.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/02/2012 02:24 AM Report

At 10:06 Bill Clinton is visually moved by the story he tells of the Chinese girl who has to be hidden from the President of the United States because of her differences.

Yes, one would hope for a world based more on substance than form.

Gelles  10/01/2012 11:36 PM Report

biggestbrotherofthemall ~

Yes. Thanks for proving we a worthy of a great show.

Remant's joke on a 3rd term for the president now seeking his second is not a bad joke. Remant's advocacy of austerity over Bernanke-like liquidity IS a bad joke. It shows us an idea as useless as it can be. We have deficits in demand, supply, satisfaction of wants, brains, common sense, etc.

There is no meaningful deficit in government budgeted revenue -- what there is IS failure to correct the uses of debt as a means to finance production.

Production will create money to buy it, as SAY"s law discusses, when we understand purposeful logistics and sensible federal accounting.

Remnant is my pet peeve because his ideas are useless in this age of potential abundance.

biggestbrotherofthemall  10/01/2012 07:27 PM Report

Charlie,

this was spectacular. What a GREAT question. And what a spectacular answer. 10 minutes or so answer. With politicians it so much insincerity - except when it isnt. This was just Clinton talking about the best thing about America.

Wonderful

tabs  10/01/2012 06:09 PM Report

Like Nixon before him Ex President Clinton is becoming a fondly beloved elder statesman 10 plus years on. All the old animosities are fading away and to be honest men reflect and change perhaps no longer being the same man as before. But there is also the fact that Mr Clinton is no longer wielding the Visceral power of the Presidency which drove those old animosities in the first place.

Then we come to what Mr Clinton said, and that was no more than a reasoned based upon experience opinion of what he thought would happen in post election politics. He even jokingly admitted that he was out of the loop by not talking to his wife SoS Hillary. But what became impassioned was his description of being proactive rather than reactive when feeling the slap in the face insult.

Mr Clinton was off the mark when saying that Islam is a shame based society and that is why they become reactive. The truth of the matter is that when every hopw, aspiration and desire is taken away from you by repressive dictatorial regimes that are propped by a rhetoricaly freedom loving America one does tend to "cling" to ones religion as the last vestige of dignity. So when the perceived insult to that dignity comes the rage brims over and flows forth.

Dasein  10/01/2012 04:36 PM Report

There's no old fool like a liberated old fool.

REMant  10/01/2012 12:22 PM Report

Terror is in the eye of the beholder. Most ppl believe other societies and polities are monolithic, don't they? But I can't say anything about the content of the video, because I never watch anything on YouTube anyway. I suspect I'm in the majority. I don't suppose tho Mr Clinton has ever shamed any women. And I think he's being overly pessimistic about Obama's chances for a third term.