Are either of the Clintons Liberals?

[Ken Burch]

136. Maybe the welfare bill was going to pass anyway, but he didn't have to SIGN the damn thing.

It would have made a huge difference to the poor and to those who cared about poverty for him to have refused to acquiesce in the signing. Signing it meant saying it was ok.

It meant he had no standards at all.

And Clinton could ALWAYS have withdrawn NAFTA from congressional consideration, once it was clear(as it was early on)that the jobs programs he wanted in it were dead and Al Gore's "side agreements" were also dead. 70% of the country was against NAFTA-he'd have had nothing to lose.

BTW the hostility progressive have for the Clintons has nothing in common with right-wing Clinton hatred. The right hates the Clintons because they won elections the right thought IT was entitled to win. The left despises their actions because they were, in almost all cases, closer to what the wealthy wanted than they were to being in the interest of the Democratic base.

Generally, there is a difference between Dems and Republicans. In the presidential election of 1996, there wasn't. Is it asking too much to make sure we NEVER end up that far to the right ever again?