Bill Clinton: TED Prize wish: Let's build a health care system in Rwanda

http://www.ted.com Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world.

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[morgpope]

... It's a shame people are too obsessed with voicing their personal opinions on the individual (which contributes nothing to society in any way, shape, or form...) instead of listening to the message. The man makes good points, has an honorable wish, and is making steps to better the lives of thousands of people. Absorb, agree or disagree, and move along... and go do something constructive.

[hydrojin7]

CLINTON IS THE MANNN!!!

[RyckardPT]

@cypts1 One of the most beatiful things in human kind is that everybody is different. I really do believe is really enjoyed having this speech. Cheers.

[cypts1]

He doesn't seem to show some kind of enthusiasm while he talks. He talks like a politician!

OH HE IS :O

[vuxanov]

TED gave a prize to a man who in 1999 bombarded my country for a 2 and a half months killing thousands and much more after from cancer caused by radiation from bombs. And all that so some organ stealing Muslim terrorist can have their own country where is main economy drug dealing and crime.

[amuizzski]

i dun understand why do people say he is lying.... what is he lying abt here?

[valundor]

You people should listen to what he has to say, who cares who he is, what hes trying to do is right. u should all contribute to your fellow humans, not worry about the latest ipod touch. u all should be ashamed, these people have been thru hell and back and here we are sitting on our fat a**es playing black ops. wtf happened there huh?! how about we all DO something instead of thinking about it or hoping about it. lets be the christian nation we so vividly talk about.

[kiki501]

its kindda hard to belive what clinton says these days, he comes across quite sincere and honest, but i just dont know if hes a lying sack of shit or is he for real... hard to tell.

[carehappens]

@Chronoalarm2009 Clinton pushes Bush's new book! They are are all one big incestuous family. Bush, Clinton, Obama.

[OregonCoastGhost]

@ErikNikolai Very true. At first I thought he was reading his teleprompter (or version thereof), but then I realized he was "speaking out of the side of his mouth" like a good politician, to minimize the fricative/plosive pops of his cheap speaking mic.

Why wasn't a good headset provided like in most TED talks? Well maybe because he's an ex-prez and is more familiar with SM58 mics and other press-conference/standard address mics??

I blame the sound tech! =)

[OregonCoastGhost]

After reading the book "Made to Stick" I can look at this speech through a different lens.

He has good intentions, but not telling a "sticky" story.

Facts and abstractions bore us and are forgotten quickly.

Compare this to Mike Rowe's TED talk, which is story-based. Far more memorable, even though he is arguably talking about far less important things.

[antekification]

and this jackass got the noble peace prize!