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November 08, 2005
Bill Clinton Is "Scary Smart"? That's Half Right...
What's up with all these people the lib/Left thinks are "really smart"? Think of Al Gore and John Kerry--both guys were touted as being "brilliant', yet it was clear to anyone who heard them speak that they were anything but. It's no surprise that they failed as presidential candidates.
Bill Clinton is another supposed "smart" guy. The difference with Bill is that he is an engaging speaker who possesses a skill in connecting with his audience that Gore and Kerry can only dream of. Indeed, if the primary job of a politician is to get elected (one can hardly be a politician otherwise) then Clinton can rightfully be considered one of the greatest politicians of the century.
But now we have "smart guy" Bill saying stuff like this (from NewsMax via Free Republic):
Ex-president Bill Clinton is arguing that tighter immigration laws are hurting America, saying the new restrictions aren't worth it even if they stop the "one out of a zillion [foreigners] who might have a bomb."
"I'm very worried that one of the consequences of our tightness on immigration and visas as a result of 9/11 and terror, has led to a drop in many places of the number of foreign students coming to the United States to study and be graduate students," Clinton told an audience at the University of Minnesota on Saturday.
It's nice to know there's a "really smart" person out there to keep our priorities straight for us.
He said the U.S. needed foreign students because "we are nowhere near graduating enough scientists and engineers to maintain, given the size of our economy, a leadership role in the global economy."
One might ask why our own public school system is failing to produce enough competent science and math students. After all, Clinton's Democratic party has had a stranglehold on education policy for what, the last one hundred years or so? And one of the most powerful union blocks in the country--the teachers' unions--is nothing more than a political wing of the Democratic party. And yet Bill somehow thinks our eroding base of scientists and engineers is result of our tiny steps toward securing our borders?
Clinton said the terror trade-off wasn't worth it.
"When we got real tough on visas - because one out of a zillion of them might have a bomb - we lost a lot of brains. We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains."
The trade-off "wasn't worth it"? I wonder if the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks would agree. This is not "scary smart", it's staggeringly stupid. And to think this guy would probably have beaten GWB if he had been allowed to run.
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And does Clinton believe that the foreign students who come here to study actually stay here once they've earned their degrees? Uh, no. Many of them go back to where they came from, and their native countries benefit from their American educations. Why is he more concerned with foreign students than our own?
Posted by: Pam at November 8, 2005 02:00 PM
