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In reply to the discussion: Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet [View all]wyldwolf
(43,891 posts)Bill Clinton was a well-known Southern Democrat and former chair of the DLC at the time he ran. That organization had already had several ideological skirmishes with the left, Jesse Jackson being the most noteworthy. If you thought Bill Clinton was a 'progressive' saviour you were sleepwalking through the the '92 election.
Here's a Clinton ad from '92:
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1992/leaders-2
And here is the transcript:
MALE NARRATOR: They are a new generation of Democrats, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and they don't think the way the old Democratic Party did. They've called for an end to welfare as we know it, so welfare can be a second chance, not a way of life.
TEXT: Welfare can be a second chance, not a way of life.]
MALE NARRATOR: They've sent a strong signal to criminals by supporting the death penalty.
TEXT: Support the death penalty.
MALE NARRATOR: And they've rejected the old tax and spend politics.
TEXT: Clinton has balanced 12 budgets.
MALE NARRATOR: Clinton's balanced 12 budgets and they've proposed a new plan investing in people, detailing $140 billion in spending cuts they'd make right now.
TEXT: Cut $140 Billion in wasteful spending.
MALE NARRATOR: Clinton/Gore. For people, for a change