Tag Archives: Bill Clinton
The Clintons’ War on the Poor
Lesser Evil Voting and Hillary Clinton’s War on the Poor BEN BURGIS *** Back in the mid-1980s, the Clintons and a lot of their friends founded something called the Democratic Leadership Council to move the Democratic Party back to “the center.” Throughout that decade, Ronald Reagan had led the Republicans in demonizing “welfare queens” allegedly […]
Bill Clinton’s dark legacy
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/as-we-were-saying.html As we were saying. . . . The Review has been one of the few progressive journals willing to report on how conservative Bill Clinton actually was, the furthest to the right since at least Woodrow Wilson. So we’re glad to see Alternet catch up with the facts. Alternet Prison-loving president. In May, on […]
Bill Clinton: The first post-Democratic president
(The second, of course, was Barack Obama. Did I mention, the Democratic party must die? Ed.) Sam Smith Clinton was not only politically realistic, he was culturally comfortable. He projected the image of an outsider, yet had adapted to the ways of capital insiders. Official Washington — including government, media and the lobbies — functions in […]
Quote of the Day: Warmongering Democrats
Hillary Mann Leverett, National Security Council staffer during the Bush administration: We saw the Bush administration, of course, make very bad decisions, but even more disheartening for us, even more disturbing to us as professional political analysts and policy-makers, was the opposition, the Democrats.We remember when Condi Rice came back from going to meet with […]
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