Clinton's "I feel your pain"

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For research purposes, I was wondering if anyone knows: Clinton's "I feel your pain" has become an axiom / cliche. Googling the person / phrase, there are plenty of references to him saying this on TV, but does anyone actually know what it was in response to? Thanks in advance.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.actupny.org/campaign96/rafsky-clinton.html

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

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A clue from my unreliable lint-brush of a memory: I think he said it during a so-called "town hall" style, made-for-tv event. It may have been billed as a "presidential debate with questions from the audience". It would be during the 1992 campaign for sure.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

"presidential debate with questions from the audience".

how many of these did he do, anyway? I remember the MTV town hall thing, at least.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure if that ACT-UP event was the first recorded usage, but it's the first one I could find.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dudes, this is great.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

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