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[Previous entry: "When sushi and the Japanese obsession with cuteness attack!"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Malaysia to vote on its first astronaut"] 09/18/2005 Entry: "Excellent Bill Clinton interview." Excellent Bill Clinton interview. Part one here. Part two here. Did Clinton really talk about the mass distribution of world-wide wealth back when? I knew, of course, he was a free-trader but this quote makes it sound like he just didn't want to fight the inevitable. Lots of goodies in this interview and the stark contrast between Clinton and the current guy in office could not be more obvious. Oh well, as long as moderates and conservatives keep voting on hot button no-think issues, they'll get hot-button no-think presidents. I used to give speeches - in my second term I gave a lot of speeches, which almost no one in America paid any attention to, at least in the political press - in which I said, you know, we cannot forever be the only military, economic and political super power. This is an accident of the post-cold-war era. China is rising. India is rising. Europe, at that time, was still continuing to come together economically and politically, and all these places have more people than we do. And intelligence is evenly distributed throughout the world. And we shouldn't see that as a threat.
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