March 8, 2009
I was looking for a graph on Real Clear Politics and found an interesting article by STEVE CHAPMAN: “Why I Miss Bill Clinton”.
Seems barry himself has developed a new respect for Mr Bill the racist - mentioning some of the things he did in a positive light instead of diminishing them to beat his sipping tea with Ambassadors Secretary of State wife.
Here’s the first few paragraphs:
If Barack Obama achieves nothing else in his presidency, he may do something that once seemed impossible: give a lot of people who aren’t crazy about his party a new respect for Bill Clinton.
Clinton, for all his appetites and excesses, was a cautious, centrist sort of Democrat. He had innumerable ideas for things the government could do, but most were small and fairly innocuous. He was willing to go along with Republicans on some of their sound ideas — such as balancing the budget, reforming the welfare system and expanding foreign trade.
He focused on making government better, not making it bigger. He didn’t greatly enlarge Washington’s role in our lives. He proclaimed — or conceded — that the “era of big government is over.”
But Clinton never foresaw Obama. From the sound of his budget speech last week, the new president hopes the era of big government is just beginning….
More words from CHAPMAN in reference to barry’s politically expedient decisions on Iraq. I honestly cannot understand how anyone believed a word barry said about Iraq. His “superior judgment” in speaking out “during a hotly contested Senate race” [lie] was never once born out in action. Judgment cannot be assessed on words not followed by action. Feb 2007 he said he’d have the combat troops home by March 2008. Hello. And what are 30-50K troops if they’re not combat troops?
Here’s the first paragraph of CHAPMAN’s 3-1 article: “Obama Retreats on Iraq Withdrawal“.
A sound, if cynical, policy for elections is to never vote for a candidate whose policies match your own. Since politicians often renege on their promises, you are better off voting for a candidate who says he’ll do the opposite of what you want — and trusting that he’s a liar.
Truth:
Without his stance against the war, he would not have won the Democratic nomination and he would not have won the election.
