Reply #123: Geesh [View All]

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Leadership is getting things done. Clinton got something done, against overwhelming odds. If you don't learn to recognize your allies, you're doomed.

As for NAFTA et al, none of the problems you associate with it were created by it. There were sweatshops before NAFTA. Corporations have always abused developing nations, destroyed the environment, etc. So your blaming NAFTA for something that existed long before, and would have existed without it. You said globalization is good. So this is the first step. Like anything else, it will allow those with the most money to have the most power. That's not NAFTA or Clinton, that's just reality.

As for Hightower-- don't get me started. That moron was Railroad Commssioner here in Texas, but got all pissy with the Demcoratic Party because it wouldn't give him everything it wanted, and so he ran a half-assed campaign and lost, then dropped out. He lost to Rick Perry by a handful of votes. A little effort, a little maturity, a little anything other than his slash-and-burn ego, and our current governor would be on the farm somewhere, and who knows, maybe we would have had Governor Hightower instead of Governor Bush. I've read him and listened to him, I just find him juvenile. Not in his ideals, but in his attempts to do anything. I hate moral victories that make "liberals" feel good but put people like Bush in office to rape and kill as he sees fit. I've got the same use for that type of "liberal" as I do for Bush.