Reply #77: Did you read anything I wrote? [View All]

[jobycom]

Clinton didn't sign the executive order allowing gays in the military because if he had Congress was going to pass a law forbidding it, which would have made the situation worse. As it was Clinton made it better, a little. What stopped him was the desire to do some good rather than no good.

As for NAFTA, good for him. I've always considered opposition to it to be the worst kind of conservatism-- the desire to keep American jobs no matter how unfairly won in America. Just another form of racism, to me. Yes, there are some serious problems with NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and yes they currently give corporations too much power even over governments, but that's no different than before NAFTA. They need work, but they are the right (or left) idea.

Welfare "reform" saved any form of social spending. It was a compromise to kill Gingrich's plan to roll back the government to pre-FDR levels. Or did you sleep through the whole government shutdown episode?

Could go on, but I've done that enough. Some liberals need to realize that we aren't going to win everything no matter who's in office. Clinton got a lot done, but had to make drastic concessions to achieve anything. He did not have a government that would work with him. He had one willing to shut down the government rather than work with him. What he accomplished is EXACTLY what liberals should strive to achieve. If we don't wake up to that, we can all learn to goosestep and say Hail to the Rush, because we won't have any impact whatsoever.

Yes, Clinton did some things I didn't like. But that's not what the question was about, so I didn't bring them up. Overall, he was a miracle for liberals. Some are just to immature to understand it.