http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/magazine/23clintonism-t.html?fta=y

It took a long time to read it. I read it in traffic. D’oh! It was too interesting to wait.

Informative for me since I was young during Bill Clinton’s admin, and I didn’t remember or even know about the before-Bill-Clinton-democratic-party. I guess the only democratic party I’ve ever known was the democratic party under Bill Clinton (the one that wins, is all inclusive, and the one that won’t back down to GOP bullies). Yes, I do remember the multiple gov’t shutdowns. I was working my first job at a National Park Service job as a biology tech. student intern. That GOP congress thought they could push Bill Clinton around. Only because of those fed. gov’t shutdowns did I start to pay attention to the democratic party.

Reading this long article put a lot of stuff out there for me to learn . . and to remember. I’m wondering if anyone else read it?

It basically makes a case for saying that the progressive movement started right before and during Clinton’s admin….modernizing the Democratic Party. Here’s a quote from the article about what Bill Clinton thinks of his 2-term admin:

“In Clinton’s mind, the New Democrats of the late ’80s and early ’90s and their “third way” approach represented a call for fundamental reform, not just of the Democratic Party but also of the country’s industrial-age government. For that, he has been pilloried by Republican business interests, who were doing just fine under the old system, and “lukewarmly” defended by Democrats who resist any real break with the past.”

I bet my so-called “progressive” friends who would happily throw Hillary Clinton under the bus would say otherwise. Just goes to show you that those who want nothing to do with Hillary are not very objective or reasonable. There’s no talking them into anything and no talking them out of anything. That said, reasonable voters should read this article and remember where we left off and where the thug (Dubya) took us off track toward the edge of the cliff.

My fear is that if we don’t elect Hillary, we would basically own the Dubya mistakes for a long time afterwards. It will be a heavy weight, no doubt. It’s not likely that we can just forget about the last 7 years, brush it up under the rug, pretend we don’t have that mess and move on. We have to identify the mistakes, correct them, THEN move on. We won’t be able to grow a new economy and create new environments to encourage innovation until we do that.

The article is not biased or partial. It’s a fair article. And it’s quite interesting.