[1]The Clinton’s are vicious on the attack, provided they are attacking no more than a mere straw dog. Barack incited the Clinton when he said that Ron Reagan changed the trajectory of the country in ways that B.J. Clinton never did. It was argued at the time that Obama was baiting the Clintons. Well both B.J. and Mrs. Clinton took the bait.
Mrs. Clinton said, Greg Sargent, TPM [2]:
“I have to say, you know, my leading opponent the other day said that he thought the Republicans had better ideas than Democrats the last ten to fifteen years. That’s not the way I remember the last ten to fifteen years.”I don’t think it’s a better idea to privatize Social Security. I don’t think it’s a better idea to try to eliminate the minimum wage. I don’t think it’s a better idea to undercut health benefits and to give drug companies the right to make billions of dollars by providing prescription drugs to Medicare recipients. I don’t think it’s a better idea to shut down the government, to drive us into debt.”
B.J. Clinton in turn sputtered, TPM: [3]
“Her principal opponent said that since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas,” Clinton told a crowd in Pahrump this morning. “It goes along with their plan to ask Republicans to become Democrats for a day and caucus with you tomorrow, and then go back and become Republicans so they can participate in the Republican primary. I’m not making this up, folks
Oh course this what Obama actually said, Marc Ambinder, Atlantic [4]:
“I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.”
Reagan changed the trajectory of the country. He ended the gas lines. Then so too did, B.J. Cinton. He gave us the common noun lewinsky.
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