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The Second Clinton Ascendancy

By Laura S. Washington

On a post-election edition of PBS’s “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” presidential historian Richard Norton Smith told Lehrer: “The Democrats clearly have an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re the Bill Clinton party. You know, historically, I think the real winner this week is Bill Clinton.” Smith, a scholar in residence at George Mason University, argued that in recent years… return to article

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    Laura, you are out to lunch on all points. This is the stupidest postelection analysis I’ve read in a progressive publication.
    Only 9 of Rahm’s 23 candidates won. Many more Dean candidates
    won in many more states and many more are progressive.
    22 of the 23 Rahm candidates were pro-war. Three million
    bucks couldn’t elect Tammy Duckworth in Rahm’s hometown !
    Think of that.
    So far Obama has been The Great Black Issue Dodger. He has
    no position on the war or most other issues of concern to voters.
    The US public is way to the left of him on the war and socialized
    medicine and many other issues. Many of his black constituents
    haven’t seen him since he was elected two years ago.
    Since when are the old establishment farts on Lehrer our experts
    on interpreting elections ?  Washington just mindlessly recycles
    the lowest of the lowgrade establishment nonsense to attempt
    to minimize the progressive victory and more importantly the big
    conservative defeat. After that appalling column pushing race based
    identity politics nothing from Laura Washington’s pen surprises me.
    What’s next, ITT ? Tom Sowell or Clarence Thomas ?

    United States Posted by blondemike on Dec 5, 2006 at 6:49 PM
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