I realize that we're all stressed because we've been living through this repressive conservative era for seemingly forever now, but people who can't make an argument for their Democratic candidate without trashing the Clinton presidency may as well be working for the RNC.
If you think you might need to inoculate yourself against Clinton Derangement Syndrome, or if you're sick and tired of hearing alleged lefties make wildly irrational claims about the Clintons being 'as bad as Bush,' you should go on over to Left Coaster and read eriposte.
If you don't have time to read the entire post, be sure to scroll down and look at the lists of good and bad bills passed under the only Democratic President we've had since the 1970s.
Here's your teaser:
Typically, if you Google around, you will find terribly depressing stats about the Clinton-Gore administration - you know, stats that reveal their utter and sneering contempt for the working class, middle class and the poor, and their Dearth of IdeasTM in comparison to Sen. Obama's Party of IdeasTM - stats like the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, turning record deficits into record surpluses, significant reductions in the national debt, 22 million jobs created, longest period of real wage growth in decades, lowest unemployment in decades, lowest poverty rate since 1979, and so on.
Frankly, I do find it odd that all of these egregious and unpleasant numbers only serve to remind some alleged "progressives" of how the
A quick review of the domestic policy legacy of the Clinton-Gore administration reveals that the administration indeed made some impressive gains in the 1990s - both from a progressive policy perspective as well as gains for the majority of the American people - despite the tremendous opposition it faced from a Republican Congress for most of its tenure. . . To any rational progressive, there can be no doubt that the
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