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Jewish World Review
March 9, 2007
/ 19 Adar, 5767
For liberals, Clinton fatigue rooted in policy
By
Dick Polman
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
After writing recently that "a sizable number of Democrats" are afflicted with "Clinton fatigue," and fear that Hillary as the '08 nominee would be burdened by Clinton family baggage, some Clinton fans sent me angry e-mail. They essentially made two arguments: (1) There is no Clinton fatigue among Democrats, and (2) there is no "package deal," because President Hillary would not make any decisions that would benefit Bill politically, just as President Bill did not make any decisions that benefited Hillary politically.
I disagree, obviously. The candidacies of Sens. Barack Obama, John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden, and Gov. Bill Richardson, and the yearning on the left for an Al Gore candidacy, are proof of Clinton fatigue in the Democratic ranks. It might not be sufficient to deny Hillary the nomination, but it persists in many quarters as a low-grade virus.
Many of those who exhibit the symptoms are quick to contend in private conversations that they're not fatigued by Bill's private behavior. They insist that their main concerns are about policy and ideology. It's not sexy or exciting to talk about, but the (overlooked) fact remains that many liberals have long been miffed by the Clintons' centrist political instincts, and have no desire for eight more years of the same.
They complain that Bill basically governed like an Eisenhower-style moderate Republican (signing free-trade agreements that screwed domestic organized labor, balancing the budget as a sop to Wall Street, paying down the federal debt as a top priority, expanding the federal death penalty, building more prisons), failed to lead on health insurance after Hillary's '93 plan blew up (the number of uninsured Americans rose from 37 million to 42 million on his watch), and that he junked some important pledges (such as campaign-finance reform). Indeed, it's noteworthy that Hillary's two top rivals, Obama and Edwards, are positioned to her left.
At the moment, they are using Iraq to draw restive liberal primary voters away from Hillary (Obama was against the war before it began, and Edwards apologized for his '02 Senate vote, whereas Hillary has not), but the bill of particulars against the Clintons goes way back to the early '90s. That's the fight that many Democrats have long been seeking to wage. It will play out over the next 11 months, until the nominee is likely decided in the big state primaries on Feb. 5.
After all, that's what the next 11 months are for.
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