Not a long essay but a random thought.
I didn't vote for Bush or Dole or that weird gnome from Texas either, so you figure it out.
It's twisting my soul but I am starting to regret not voting for Mr. Bill. At the time, I was much more ideologically inclined and couldn't bring myself to vote for such a political animal. The final straw was when he made it well known he would not commute the death penalty of a mentally retarded man. It was cold, calculated political move. Not a moral one and it turned my stomach.
Now, I look back at welfare reform, NAFTA and many other issues of his watch and realize more and more I agree with his moves during those eight years.
As I look back at events of the past 6 years, particularly Katrina, I keep asking myself, WWBD? What would Bill do?
Sure, a lot of what he would have done would have been through the prism of cold political calculus. But given today's climate, I think I could forgive even the most political beast.
Cross posted at Radical Georgia Moderate
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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I never voted for him either--too young in 1992 and too lazy in 1996. No, the minute I actually got off my ass and started voting we were hit by a plague of dumbassitude...so maybe I should sit 2008 out?
Dude, I hate this template.
But at least you increased the line-heignt in the posts, thank god.
I'm not happy with it either. I really need to get off my lazy ass and do some real coding.
(Paula here, too lazy to create a Blogger ID) I didn't vote for Bill Clinton that second term, precisely because he signed welfare reform. Grift, I've been reading your stuff about welfare reform. As a former anti-poverty activist myself, I don't disagree with most of what you say, but somehow still come to opposite conclusions about whether welfare reform was successful. Weird. Maybe sometime we can have a nice nerdy TANF policy talk over plate of onion rings.
That would be awesome, Paula.
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