[Peace-discuss] Clinton stumping for Clinton on C-SPAN -- I must confess I was impressed...

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Sorry, no redundancy from my point of view (connotative meaning). Brains = intelligence, IQ, ability to acquire, retain, process, and utilize vast amts of knowledge. Smarts = canny, savvy, sharp, understand the game and are able to stay two-steps ahead of it... Why don't some/most politicians have our perspective when it comes down to all the things that really matter too us??? Well, they just don't, ya know? Gore doesn't have to be beholden to the corps anymore, and Carter never was in their pockets (so far as I'm aware, not that he didn't make mistakes), and well, the Clintons are still straddling both sides of the tracks on that, with no intention of actually moving too far to the "wrong" side once the campaign rhetoric is no longer necessary... tho' better than Bush (S-CHIP) plus I'd still take my chances w/ them over any of the Republicans. 
   --Jenifer
  
"John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
  At 02:23 AM 1/2/2008, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

  Did anybody catch Bill stumping for Hilary yesterday on C-SPAN? Helluva speech --organized, substantive, knowledgeable. Nobody in US politics today can deliver up that level of offhand yet sincere oratory like Bill Clinton. I had to keep reminding myself of all the awful things he did while in office, it was that good... I actually liked, admired, and was less terrified of Hilary when he was all done. Wow. (Sorry, but -- in my defense -- there is something reassuring about brains, smarts, and an actual program, ya know?)
 
 --Jenifer

The perennial question is, why do these candidates with brains, smarts (at the risk of redundancy), and an actual program never seem to IMPLEMENT the program once they're in office?  Or, to the extent they implement anything, why does it end up being something like the very OPPOSITE of the program they espoused when they were candidates?

These days Bill Clinton and Al Gore, like Jimmy Carter, seem to be the very personification of wisdom and statesmanship.  Where was that wisdom and statesmanship when they were in office?

John Wason



       
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