Saturday, October 11, 2008

Paul Krugman on the Clinton Years


Quote of the Day

"One thing that has been sort of written out of the mainstream history of politics is the sheer insanity of the attacks on the Clintons — they were drug smugglers, they murdered Vince Foster (and lots of other people), they were in league with foreign powers. And this stuff didn’t just show up in fringe publications — it was discussed in Congress, given props by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and so on.

"What it came down to was that a significant fraction of the American population, backed by a lot of money and political influence, simply does not consider government by liberals (even very moderate liberals) legitimate. . The next few years are going to be very, very tough."

-- Paul Krugman @ his blog:
The Conscience of a Liberal

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