Did this used to happen when Clinton went to this Summit in Argentina?

[NNN0LHI]

Does anyone know?

Don

[maximovich]

1. Clinton Was Respected and Loved Around the Globe

Because he respected and honored the principals of peace.

[NYC Liberal]

2. Someone on MSNBC said he remembered traveling there with Clinton

and remembered the same kind of thing happening.

[tridim]

3. Protests yes, but not anti-Clinton protests

This one is apparently mostly anti-BUSH, not just anti-globalization. That's a gigantic difference.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Yep, though of course they "forgot" to make that little distinction.

[Rex]

13. Lady Pinhead

What is it with females in the BFEE? Spawned in Hell!

[Gato Moteado]

9. that photo is hilarious

it looks like chimps behind a cage at the zoo. babs looks like a grey haired ape that stuck her finger into an electrical outlet.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. No, in fact, 600 people paid $1000 to hear him speak....

"BUENOS AIRES –

On a brief visit devoted to fund-raising for the educational portal Educ.ar, US former President Bill Clinton said that information technology offers an unprecedented opportunity for developing countries for solving problems such as education, health and economy in a much shorter time than before.



Clinton spoke to an audience of about 600 people at the recently opened Buenos Aires Hilton Hotel. About half of them paid a minimum of US$1,000 or donated a computer for the country schools. Only about $250,000 were raised at the event, of which about $120,000 plus expenses were paid to the visitor, according to unofficial reports. The event was organized by the Varsavsky Foundation, on behalf of the Argentine portal Educ.ar, devoted to serving educational contents to the Argentine school system."

http://belcart.com/it_news/eng/2002_11_25_Argentina_Clinton_educar.htm

[northzax]

6. yes. The American President attracts protests

wherever he goes. This one may be bigger, or more directed at Bush personally, but somehow I don't think that the people carrying all the Che banners would have welcomed Clinton with open arms either.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Clinton visited Ireland about this time last year and

was warmly rec'd by the Irish, even though he hadn't been President for 4 years!

Smiling, friendly Irish people lined the roads of whatever town he visited. There were no problems.

[Armstead]

8. No but he would today -- Remember Seattle

Unfortunately, Clinton was one of the big proponents of neo-liberal phony "free trade" policies that are at the base of the protests at these summits.

There was opposition building in the 90's, and the riots in Seattle in 1999 were the first big protest.

People in otehr nations realize that the corporate elite are trying to screw average and poor people, and decimate domestic economies to make the whole world into one giant corporate colony.

Bush's personal unpopulatrity and the war have added to that. But this is really a bi-partisan issue that the US is only now starting to wake up to.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Seattle, Quebec City, every year in Davos, etc...

The problems that are being addressed are not exclusively or even primarily addressed at Bush. Bush, however, intensifies these problems because he makes ZERO attempt to address them and even seems intent on exacerbating them, all to the benefit of a small class of supporters in the United States, and various oligarchic minorities in other countries. Clinton put a smiling face on neo-liberal economic oppression. Bush puts its most snarling face on, and adds military adveenturism and wholesale slaughter to slow slaughter through economic policies. Clinton was a scum on these issues, but Bush is far, far worse.

[leveymg]

10. Nixon used to get this sort of reception also

[jbnow]

11. On CNN they said

there have been protests at each of these summits but those were economic based protests. There were protests when Clinton was there, but no violence.

They said this is an anti-bush protest, much angrier, nothing like the previous one. Wolf was there with Clinton himself.

They keep calling these "violent, angry anti-bush demonstrations"

[nini]

12. No, because his prececcesor George 1st was so loved

I believe that's how it's supposed to work. The treatment you receive is based on the previous president's image :evilgrin: