DemocratSinceBirth
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Thu Sep-11-03 06:29 AM
Response to Reply #86 |
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Edited on Thu Sep-11-03 06:37 AM by DemocratSinceBirth
Clinton was a center-left president presiding over a center-right nation. Edmund Burke* had it right when he said "that we must take man as he is not the way he want him to be." The president is part of the executive branch; he executes or carries out the law ;he doesn't make it.... Clinton had a Republican Congress to deal with for six years..... They stymied him when he tried to pass some progressive legislation and shoved some reactionary legislation down his throat...
Clinton governed from the center left.... That was good enough for me....
on edit-Burke was a small c conservative. And unlike most political philosophers he was a legislator.... A prudent and temperate man he would be shocked at the "crimes" committed in the name of conservatism...
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