Bust A Move
Bill Clinton can't control himself. It doesn't really matter, when he rips a reporter a new one, that Bill might be right or have a better argument or whatever — as a former U.S. president he has a responsibility to the dignity of the office, something that he's never entirely understood. When in public former presidents simply don't muscle reporters or other idiots. Nobody likes it. The good news for all of us is that Bill's acting out makes Hillary pretty much un-electable (if she gets the nomination), despite what the spineless, money-grubbing Democratic leadership may think. I'm bracing myself, accordingly, for the grim possibility of another four years of Republican rule...
Posted by George Kenney on January 24, 2008 4:54 PM 
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It may sound perverse, but perhaps a Republican victory would be best. It is well known that Dems are at least as likely as Repubs to start a war. However, their 'liberal' label tends to hide the fact that they help perpetuate the empire. With a Repub, the truth may become so blatant that even the American public starts to understand. We may get Armageddon as the price, but hopefully we are too tied up for that right now. Anyhow, I am sick of the logic of voting for the lesser of evils.
Posted by: benjamin777
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January 25, 2008 11:19 AM
I understand where you're coming from, but I also feel like that's been a losing sentiment since Nader ran in 1996. Clinton was insufficiently progressive for progressively-minded liberals, so they voted for Nader claiming there wasn't any difference between Democrats and Republicans. In 2000, that backfired, and people said maybe Bush as president will be a wake-up call. Even though 2004 showed it wasn't, that same sentiment was floated out there — that Bush will be so bad that people will have to vote for a different party.
I just can't see that working. If it would, we'd have seen a less-evenly split Congress over the past 12 years, and certainly different leadership.
My brother recently moved to South Carolina, and works with a number of rock-ribbed Republicans who openly admit to believing Bush is retarded, but would sooner vote for him than vote for Hillary Clinton, no matter how qualified she is. Think about that for a second — that goes way beyond cutting off your nose to spite your face. When we're living in a country that's so ideologically entrenched, I think there's a healthy contingent of the voting public who would vote for a wind-up toy that just repeated "cut taxes" and let the rest of the country devolve into chaos before they'd start to understand anything.
It's a matter of faith, not reason.
Posted by: jwood.myopenid.com
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January 25, 2008 1:36 PM