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Re: Interminable Clinton Bashing

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From: Norman Nithman
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 05:42
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In article <1994May10.184056.27328@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Christopher K. Koenigsberg <ckoenig@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>But the right-wingers are running scared because Clinton and the good
>people he brings into power will slowly but surely manage to make some
>positive changes in this country, unless they can somehow foul and gum
>up the works, a la Dole's filibusters, Limbaugh's demagoguery, etc.
>And Clinton isn't even a liberal, he's rather conservative himself,
>which is the funniest part of the whole thing!

You're right about that.  Clinton has liberal impulses but backs down as soon
as someone says 'Boo!'.  I think that the right goes after Clinton because 
they've had to, as several commentators have noted, create a 'faux' left in
order to create some issues.  In the words of Norman Rush, "The center goes
right, and the right goes bananas."
>
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From: nithman@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Norman Nithman)
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Subject: Re: Interminable Clinton Bashing
Date: 13 May 1994 05:42:05 GMT
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