Bill Clinton and an item of dishonesty
This Washington Times “Blame Game” blurby thing? I call Partisan Blinders. In stylistic terms and in some modest amounts of substance (in as much as it is a variation of Franklin Roosevelt’s perhaps apocrapyl “You have to make me”), Bill Clinton came across well in that exchange, and in his defense of his policies. His interjection, “You oughta go to one of those congressional health care meetings, you’d do really well there,” was a reasonable way to cool off the audience protest and move ahead with his agenda at hand (a speech), and I do not think gay-rights blogger Lane Hudson had anything to take personal offense.
Substance-wise, Bill Clinton came up short. To believe his would be to dissolve from the record book his electioneering of garnering votes with his “Defense of Marriage” act, and even more to the point some rather toxic snubbing of homosexuals at the White House in the aftermath of the 1994 mid-term losses for his party, and since I’m having a problem finding it around the Internet in quick order — I’m forced to pass it away.
I suppose there’s a reason he was elected twice, which takes a healthy amount of cynicism. Just don’t say he advanced the country on this social issue.