Dazey
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« on: May 24, 2015, 12:41:34 PM » |
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With the benefit of hindsight, we see Bill Clinton now as a moderate President, an Eisenhower of the '90s, who attempted to triangulate a "Third Way" for politics, combining populist rhetoric, with concessions to the left and concessions to the right. We see a guy who operated more as a micromanaging CEO rather than as a grand head of state, an efficient administrator who was transparent in his moral failings. We see in Bill Clinton both a fighter (IE the '95 and '96 shutdowns) and an appeaser (IE Welfare reform, DOMA) compared to the generally neutral, compromising ways of the current President. Personality wise, we see a warm figure on the world stage, a good old boy who knew you knew he was lying, and you knew it was a sham, but he was just too charismatic, too likable, too one of us, to hold it against him.
But the question is, if elected President, how will Hillary differ? Both in policy; in the way she handles the Presidency, and in her persona as President. Do we see a return to the Centrist '90s, that DLC Democrat style of governance? Do we see simply a continuation of Obama's way? Do we perhaps see a slight left turn? A slight right? And how does she come off as President - aloof in the way Obama is but not cold? Or both cold and aloof and rigid in the way a female Richard Nixon might be? Does she have grand visions for the country ala Reagan or LBJ, or will she act as an effective administrator of small ideas the way her husband did? Will she compromise with the Tea Party as Obama has, or seek to outdo the right at their own game, as her husband did, or take battle to them the way Nixon took battle to the new left in the early '70s?
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