I am far to the right, but I am glad to see someone defending Clinton. And I am tired of Sean Hannity’s inability to acknowlege anyting good about him. And forget the policy wonk writing. This writer hit it right on the head.
Despite the pile of bad things about Clinton (Janet Reno, Madeline Albright, the Rich Pardon, Jamie Gorelick) he was special as Bush has never been:
Clinton knew what Nixon knew but couldn’t articulate well, what Reagan clearly knew but what George Bush evidently never has known:
America isn’t great because of its cigar-chomping lobbyists, fat cats and interest groups:
its greatness lays with Dads, Moms, kids, coffee shop waitresses, construction workers, drop outs like Bill Gates, cranks like Henry Ford, dreaming weirdos like Howard Hughes, William Boeing and all the black soldiers who drove the Red Ball express in WWII for a country that wouldn’t let them meld in the regular army but it was their country and they wanted to help.
They are all proud of their country; they believe in the American dream. They want to be united in dream and vision even if not in every day life.
George Bush has forgotten this if he ever knew. He has done well on the war (all wars are riddled with errors and high cost)but elsewhere he has flopped:
he stopped speaking to the people the day he was inagurated; allowed Hastert and his ilk to plunder the Treasury. He evidenced no disgust as Nixon did with the spending of generations to come (yes I know Nixon turned course after 1970, but he tried); the well-being of Iraqi war vets was fobbed off to “officials” who didn’t seem to care much either.
Clinton, yes, the pardoner of Marc Rich, the appointer of Janet Reno (what a disaster), Albright, etc. knew that regular people mattered. We knew he knew.
I wouldn’t vote for him again (too many scandals, too many unqualified appointments, Hilary’s baggage, Markie post jumping on Lincoln’s bed, bizzare court nominees). But I enjoyed hearing him speak too.
