How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare: He Expanded Many Of Bush's Worst Policies

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49. To be fair he did support all three of those things and rallied blue dog votes to help

get them passed. He signed them happily as part of his triangulation strategy.

He had a special hard on for welfare deform and was a leader in getting it passed, do you not remember how the Republicans screamed that he "stole their issue!" when he worked to get welfare deform passed?

I tried to use the same arguments you are when I still had the blinders on as a cheerleader, but it was impossible to believe myself after he used the bully pulpit to praise all three and the bully pulpit and some arm twisting to get welfare destroyed.

It was hard to ignore the great communicator even while trying to twist logic to make him blameless.

He signaled the start of triangulation and a business friendly screw the people Democratic "lite" leadership that has led it ever rightward ever since, I agree that both parties are complicit, but I disagree that Clinton did not steer the ship actively and purposefully into that complicit relationship. He did so most happily.