"eb 24 · 11:59:49 AM
Well Clinton being good on these issues was one of the delusions I had left.
It's not even in trying to find dirt on Clintons that I find things that startle and sadden me about what went on then that I was blissfully unaware of, it's just researching issues.
For instance fights over labeling rBGH in dairy products caught my interest and the Clinton administration's part in the rBGH/Monsanto scam came as a shock...but the pages I went to had other old news that made it all worse. I saved some. For instance from '94:
Last week, the Clinton administration released its proposal for
reforming two of the nation's laws that govern pesticide residues in
food. The proposal would allow a certain amount of pesticide
residues in food products if "a reasonable certainty of no harm"
exists. The proposal covers both raw and processed foods.
The Clinton plan would scrap the Delaney Clause of the 1958 Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act. Delaney said that no known carcinogens
would be allowed in processed foods. The proposal also amends the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Neither industry nor public interest groups like the Clinton plan.
"There were so many things like that catching me by surprise a decade later.
But OK so he pushed all these bad things and OK industry matters more than what we put in our bodies...but still thought he was good when it came to pollution and environmental protection. Now POOF goes that.
I was wondering how so many of us had all these fond, warm memories of those years, barring a few major exceptions. I think some of it is what the media covers and the fact that the internet was not what it has become today.
I know about many of bush's really bad moves on the environment or workers protection and so on because of the internet. I made a point of following him from the start to see if I could overcome my aversion to him and grew increasingly horrified by so many of his early actions that never made the news.
If we'd had all this in 1992 we might have had a different view of the Clinton years.
Still I wish my warm fuzzy memories were true. Sometimes reality bites."
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