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Originally Posted by livius drusus
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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny
I dunno. Maybe we're finding it a little to easy to forget the conditions under which at least much of Clinton's presidency was conducted.
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I don't think I am. From my perspective at the time, Clinton was not even remotely left wing, and all of his policies reflected that. |
Ah, the importance of identifying interlocutors. Sorry. I was addressing myself to those who do indeed seem to think that Clinton is more of a political whore than most politicians. It's unclear to me that the evidence supports that judgement over, say, the judgement that he was more perceptive than most politicians in scrying the strongest form of some principled stand that could be executed in his political context. The DADT policy, for instance, might be explained as an unprincipled attempt to please those polled as supporting gay rights and those polled as opposing them; but an equally apt explanation, to my mind, has it being principle plus realism.