President Clinton: ‘Pack A Six-Gun Into Starbucks And Order A Cowboy Latte’
Former President Bill Clinton on Friday said that “legitimate” comparisons can be drawn between today’s grass-roots anger and the right-wing extremism that bubbled up prior to the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City 15 years ago.
He firmly declared that the energy that built the tea party movement does not have to lead to violence.
“What we learned from Oklahoma City is that our words really do matter. There is this vast echo chamber, and the words fall on the serious and delirious alike,” the former president warned. “You don’t have to be nice. But be careful with what you say and do not advocate violence.”
Clinton said the same kind of “disorientation” that riled Americans during his term is apparent today in “the idea that we ought to bring back Confederate month in Virginia without talking anything about slavery” and “the fact that you ought to be able to pack a six-gun into Starbucks and order a Cowboy Latte.”
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Politico
I can actually agree with Bill Clinton on some of this.
The Tea Party movement does not have to lead to violence, if the powers that be open their ears enough to hear what the people are saying.
“(O)ur words really do matter”. Coming from a convicted perjurer, this is almost funny while being true.
“Be careful what you say and do not advocate violence”. This needs some modifiers. I can understand not inciting violence where it would do no good, or maybe even do more harm, but a blanket statement of pacifism is a sign of a serious lack of education in history. Violence does solve things, despite what your teachers may have said. Just ask the Armenians, European Jews, Russian kulaks, or your neighborhood drug dealer. Violence is a tool, just like speech and the internet. They carry no inherent good or evil, that is determined by their application and use.
The last paragraph is a mess. People are “disoriented” because they choose to bring back a piece of their history without toeing the party line? The War Between the States is and has been the subject of many books, I suggest he read a few of them. The quote “he fact that you ought to be able to pack a six-gun into Starbucks and order a Cowboy Latte” is confusing. Did he mean “the idea that you……” or was he actually stating that he now understands the Second Amendment? Remember, he said “our words really do matter”.
ranamacar