Bill Clinton: GOP promotes fear over health care

[Heidi]

Source: AP

By DAN NEPHIN (AP) – 1 hour ago

PITTSBURGH — Republicans have turned to terrifying people in the debate over overhauling the health care system because the GOP has no political clout to fight it, former President Bill Clinton told a gathering of progressive bloggers on Thursday.

Clinton was president when the Democrats made their last major effort to change the health care system. The big difference now, Clinton said, is that Democrats have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate as well as control of the House.

The former president called "crazy" the charges that promoting living wills and other end-of-life planning is somehow promoting death.

Clinton spoke at the opening session of the Netroots Nation convention, a gathering of politically progressive bloggers and other online activists.

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"The president needs your help and the cause needs your help," Clinton said. "We have to preserve this progress majority now."

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Fun watching the ships big guns swivel over to the target....

Labor, Bill...

[Cha]

9. Good

image.

[tj2001]

2. Hear. hear!

[deep1]

3. I am happy that........

he is standing by and defending Obama.

[No Elephants]

6. He is not defending Obama. He is pushing for health care and other Democratic objectives and he

is labeling the actions of the Republicans. That story was not about Obama.

[janet118]

7. Clinton quote . . .

"The president needs your help and the cause needs your help," Clinton said. "We have to preserve this progress majority now."

He's defending both.

[OHdem10]

4. If he needs our help, he needs insist on a health care bill with a

public option.

Democrats want to support him, and not be taken for granted.

[liberalla]

5. I happened to catch about 30 minutes of this on CSPAN.

It was good. I'm going to look for a replay over the weekend.

edit to add:

Bill is on again right now!

[RedCloud]

8. GOP=Give Obama Poop. That's all they do.

And they are as big as elephants!