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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 12:14 PM
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65. Thanks for posting this.
I'm working thru my feelings about Bill Clinton also. In relative terms, he looks like the biggest liberal in the world, but I know he wasn't. But he did do a lot of good things. He was naive in a lot of ways about how vicious were the politicians in Washington, Armey, Gingrich, Hyde, etc...

He mentioned losing the House and Senate under his terms. I think that had a lot to do with the DLC and "triangulation" but we may have lost it anyway. He may never have won anything if not for Ross Perot? Who knows? But, as a Democrat, I'm willing to forgive if his intentions were good, and I think they probably were...
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