Reply #53: Speaking for myself I have to vote BC's personality

[Tinoire]

because you KNOW how opposed I am to many of the things he did but I still voted for him.

Clinton will go down the annals of American history as a great President (I say this very seriously PepperBelly, no sarcasm at all) because he did a lot to further American imperialism. My opinion that American imperialism will be the death of us is besides the point.

Unlike Bush, he was able to wage the same kind of illegal war, fight the same kind of corporate battles and trade wars against Europe (remember the Boeing and Banana Wars?) without pissing off the entire world and while letting us maintain our illusion that our country is good & caring.

There are of course the good things such as Clinton's determination to pay off the national debt as opposed to Bush running it up at the most obscene rate ever. My point I guess is that Clinton was... adorable enough to make even an extremist like me overlook many things. I did not trust his corporate liaisons but in an odd way, I trusted him- him personally, not the DLC which I didn't even know existed at the time. And I'm very glad I knew nothing about them because I couldn't gave voted for Clinton if I had understood what was behind him.

Next time your cousin runs, please advise him to stay as far away from the DLC as possible. He's intelligent enough to do this on his own and in the next election (if there's one), grass-roots & sincerity will win the day. The DLC will be an albatross around the neck of anyone they back and people like me will be keeping them under the microscope.

Clinton could have sold me an ice-maker during the middle of an Alaskan winter. The DLC couldn't sell me a heater because wouldn't trust that heater to work ;) Yeah, I go with BC's personality.