What did Clinton say at the prayer breakfast recently regarding y2k? I know he said something about "seminal" events, but what is the exact quote???

Thanks and Semper Fidelis, Richard,USMC

-- Richard,USMC (rkb65@hotmail.com), October 01, 1999

Answers

see:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/html/19990928.html

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), October 01, 1999.

We are in deep doodoo. We have an imbecile in the White House.

-- Sally Strackbein (sally@y2kkitchen.com), October 01, 1999.

Thanks Bill,

Here's a quote......

"All the rage in Washington today is we finally succeeded in getting, I think, the general public interested in the so-called Y2K problem."..(me/Duh?)
You know, we live in a world that is dominated by computers and now we're trying to make sure we're Y2K ready and everybody just has all these horrible scenarios of what might happen when the computers turn to 2000 and all the old computers revert back to 1900, and what might happen. We've been working on this steadily, the United States has worked very hard here and we've worked very hard to help other countries throughout the world, and especially to avoid any disasters in military operations, in airline operations, things that could really have a profound impact on us.

But I think at this prayer breakfast today I would like to say that there is more to getting ready for Y2K than fixing the computers. And when this kind of seminal event occurs it gives us the opportunity to ask ourselves what it would take to be really ready for the year 2000."

-- duh (fyi@seek.find), October 01, 1999.

The only 'seminal' thing that ass**le ever worried about was when his 'seminal fluid' burned... "time to get 'rodded off' that range again Mr. President"

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), October 01, 1999.

Bill Clinton made those comments not long after these unusually candid comments from John Koskinen:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001TkZ

"We can't surprise people," Koskinen said. "There are going to be Y2K failures on New Year's Day."

...and...

"People ought to prepare, but they ought to prepare early," said Koskinen.

The article with those quotes from Koskinen also had this in it:

[snip]

Even if the new millennium arrives with a minimum of computer-induced hassle, though, some experts say Americans still can't become complacent, because Y2K difficulty abroad could gradually snowball into a host of economic troubles that could spill over into the United States.

A report last week by the Senate's special Year 2000 committee warned that unpreparedness in such countries as China, Russia and Italy, along with a handful of oil-supplying nations, could plunge the United States, and even the world, into recession.

"Severe long- and short-term disruptions to supply chains are likely to occur," the report said.

[snip]

Of course, the general public doesn't know about either Clinton or Koskinen's comments. None of this was well publicized.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), October 01, 1999.