I have to give this statement 5 stars, 'cause it is stupid, however it appears to be the product of a student of Joe Goebbels and not something actually said by Bill Clinton.

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=14812

UPDATE:

The winger who made up this Clinton 'quote' - and the wingers who repeat it as gospel - are apparently primarily motivated by the fact that their boy W actually confessed his hunger for absolute power on several occasions.

I'm sure there are plenty of real stupid things said by neoliberal centrists like Bill Clinton and/or Barack Obama, but perhaps none quite so idiotic and plentiful as those uttered by members of the obstinately ignorant extreme right and/or left.

I'm not sure why I didn't rate this one when I first put it up, maybe I was in a hurry that day, but this quote crossed my mind recently during a conversation with an idiot. The more I think about it, the more frightening it is that this quote came from a U.S. president.

And it still amazes me.

Update: It's been so long since I started this list I don't remember the original source, but I know someone that says they have it on a VHS tape. Since some people are suddenly getting their panties in a bunch I'll see if I can get hold of them and try to get the video. He's said pretty much the same thing in not so many words, so it's not unbelievable that it's true.

OK , I make some of my living as a researcher, and not just by running Google searches. Since this came up a couple of days ago, I have found zero credible attribution of this quote. In point of fact, most of them come back to this link. I`m not going to say that means he never said it, because I suspect its close to his beliefs, but he was too smart to say them publicly. Were it at real quote, I`d expect attributes all over the place, and I can`t find them. Nor I might add, can my former associates who work for a prominent right wing think tank. I suspect this is all horseshit, and all of you are arguing over ghosts.

There are all kinds of stupid shit that Democrats say, but I don`t think this was one of them.

UPDATE: Thank you, fitman, for providing the link to Snopes.com. I had searched this and the other two "urban legends" sites that check out the truth or falsity of things that circulate on the internet, but failed to find it, and I'm glad you did. I feel vindicated by what two commentators there said about this quote:

"Just lately a number of political blogs have been circulating this statement. . . . So far, I can only find this quote on right wing blogs and no where else."

"I have hunted for it as well and can't find it on any reasonably unbiased site."

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=14812

If Snopes can't verify the quote either, it strengthens my belief that it's a fabrication.


ORIGINAL COMMENT: I'm inclined to think this quote is a fabrication and is one of those urban legends that has been passed along from blog to blog. I've Googled this quote and have not found it in any newspapers or magazines, only on conservative blogs. Any statement this ridiculous should have gotten some national press, so the fact that it didn't leads me to believe this is someone's idea of a joke. If anyone can find this quote in a respected source, I'll change my rating, but until then I think someone has spoofed us.

Update: Did Slick Willie actually say this publicly? I don't think he would. Context is a important factor as well. eh...what does this rabid partisan know anyway.

The statement happens to fall in line with the ideology he belongs to. No surprise here.

To think I thought the Republicans were the only people bent on stripping me of my constitutional rights...

UPDATE: Digs and other manner of asinine statements (like my original review) aside, the thinking behind this quote, whether Slick Willy made it or not, is faulty. Indeed, if the Constitution is restraining the Government, its doing...

*drum roll*

ITS JOB.

YIKES!  That's all I can really say.  Thank Goodness HE is done and over!

Freedom of speech and expression are dying, and political correctness is killing them. I have actually had e-mails bounced back to me because an e-mail program on the other end detected some kind of "discrimination" in the message that I sent.

It just happened last December, I remember, in a "Christmas Greeting" that I forwarded on.

I usually don't get excited by the "sky is falling" crowd, but the idea that computer programs will be able to censor our transmissions is sobering indeed!

I would love to print this on a t-shirt so all the crying babies / ACLU types can read it