Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh Meet, Middlebury College Speech

'99.9% THE SAME'

Clinton Gives His Account Of Rush Restaurant Encounter







Two weeks after it happened, a chance encounter between two political superstars is still making news.

What did Bill Clinton think about meeting Rush Limbaugh for the first time? A joke delivered during a college graduation address yesterday provides new insight.

For liberal supporters of the ex- president, the news may or may not be good. Clinton's remarks, delivered at Vermont's Middlebury College, could be read in a number of different ways.

From Middlebury College's press release:

The former president said that while our differences may make life more interesting, our common humanity matters more. Said Clinton, “So much of the world’s difficulties today are rooted in the rejection of that simple premise.”


He said that following the terrorist bombings in London in 2005, what really shook the British was that the people responsible were British citizens. The bombers, Clinton said, believed that our differences were more important than whatever we could have in common.

He pointed to the human genome project, an attempt to determine the entire genetic makeup of human beings, which has shown us that our genes are 99.9 percent the same.

“I met (conservative talk-radio host) Rush Limbaugh the other night in New York. And I was tempted, after all the terrible things he’s said about me, to tell him that we’re 99.9 percent the same. I was afraid the poor man would run weeping from the restaurant. And so I let it go.”

If Clinton really thought Limbaugh would run away crying, he doesn't know much about the opposition, does he? Rush clearly isn't afraid of the ex- president. And wouldn't it be safe to assume he's seen the same news reporting regarding our genetic makeup?

Beyond that, what was Bubba truly trying to get across? If it's safe to read between the lines, perhaps the real message is that Clinton's true viewpoints aren't so different from Rush's after all.

Another possibility: it could be Bill's way of saying "hey buddy, I know you like to party just as much as I do, let's go pick up some chicks."

Either way, given what we know about Clinton, there had to be more to this thought process than just the issue of genetics. And far from crying, Limbaugh is probably having a good laugh right about now.


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