CLINTON.. THE MAN WHO WOULD HEAL THE WORLD

Sometimes, there are things that just make you have to stop and go "hmmm.....this sounds really worrisome to me". Well this is one of those times and things for me. Clinton is up to his elbows in socialism of America again, and pointing towards our similarities rather than our differences. I wonder if he would admit that part of the differences that he would like to marginalize out of existence would be the Christians of this country, our religious beliefs.
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28 September 2006
CLINTON.. THE MAN WHO WOULD HEAL THE WORLD
By Rosa Prince Political Correspondent

IT was an inspirational rallying call that ended in a sermon - but the message was clear throughout.

In a speech as powerful as it was persuasive, preacher-man Bill Clinton declared not just Britain needed the Labour Party in government - but the world.

Along the way, President William Jefferson Clinton III established himself as the first truly global politician' a leader marshalling his troops of "progress" against those who seek to divide.


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And the Manchester conference crowd lapped it up as he urged them to get into the "future-business".


In words that would not have been out of place in the Arkansas churches where he first learned the power of oratory, he thundered: "The great promise of progressive politics in the end is that we really do believe our common humanity is more important than our differences."


At that moment he became warrior and missionary, his faith helping the poor, his battle-plan to end global injustice.


Since quitting the White House six years ago, Bill Clinton has dedicated himself to making the world a better place.


He founded the Clinton Foundation, a charity whose ambitions include battling to halt climate change, stamping out poverty and disease, and "racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation".


No longer forced to pander to narrow interests of US voters, Clinton has taken up cudgels on behalf of world citizenry.


He told the conference that a child in China, Kenya, Bolivia or Norway was as precious as one from Arkansas, Texas, New York or Ohio.


And he insisted "progressives" should never relax "...if a world away, trapped in poverty, in Africa or East Asia there is a child who is just as smart as our kid, just as deserving of a decent life.


"You can't get a divorce from the rest of the world. You can't walk away. And therefore we have to work towards all the challenges." The clues to all his inspiration were there in his speech.


Clinton revealed one of his best days as president came when he and Tony Blair launched a project to fund scientists mapping the human genome project - and how thrilled he had been by their results.


Almost chuckling with glee, he told how, when DNA was analysed, it showed 99.9 per cent of what makes us human turned out to be identical. How he gloried in this confirmation of his faith in the commonality of humanity.


He became an Arkansas preacher again as he urged the crowd to concentrate not on the 0.1 per cent which was different but on what was the same.


AND in a damning indictment of George Bush and his quickness to identify enemies, he urged understanding even for someone as vilified as the holocaust-denier, Iranian President Ahmadinejad.


Next big clue was his shameful admission that as US president he had given arms to Pakistan, a country so poor it could not offer free education, and then watched in horror as parents desperate for any kind of schooling sent their sons to madrassahs, where religious fanatics taught "twisted" logic - fuelling terror.


He said: "Since we can't kill, jail or occupy all of our enemies, we also have to spend some time and money making more and more partners and fewer enemies.


"It is so much cheaper to alleviate poverty, put kids in school, fight disease, build government and economic capacity in a poor country than fight a war. You have to believe in equal opportunity and empowerment, rather than the concentration of wealth and power."


And that was where Labour's foot-soldiers came into the equation. Clinton explained to the delegates that he needed a Labour Prime Minister in No 10 because only Labour shared his vision.


And the world could not afford another mistake such as that by US Democrats which allowed a dangerous Republican president into the White House.


So their mission, their battle in his global war on poverty and injustice, was to win the next election.


HE said: "We can't pursue our international obligations if we lose support at home. We need you. The rest of the world needs you.


"And I hope that before long my country will join you in building a world with more partners and more co-operation."


So spoke the first global politician â€" but will another one be joining him soon?


Clinton's speech had another purpose, laying out a brilliant template for Tony Blair's future career, a man who, like him, will be a young ex-leader, a passionate, driven politician still.


President Clinton said: "I want to thank Tony Blair for his leadership, for his preservation of our old transatlantic alliance through quite a lot of storm as well as occasional sunshine.


"I want to thank him for his personal friendship to me through storm and sunshine. I want to thank Cherie and their children for their many kindnesses to Hillary and me and Chelsea and for enduring the rigours of public life."


He went on to laud the achievements of Mr Blair's government in terms so warm they became not so much a peon of praise, as an anointment of the man he hopes will join him in his crusade to heal the world.

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