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Originally Posted by sailordave
so the man who worked for President Clinton and now works for ABC News in their political coverage says there's no liberal bias. Right!  |
Bill Clinton was a democrat, which doesn't necessarily make him a liberal. He was more liberal than George H.W. Bush, but Clinton was notorious for taking conservative political ideas and then championing these as his own. Case in point was welfare reform. Bill Clinton came out as a big proponent of the Welfare to Work Act, which the GOP had been trying to get passed for years before Clinton. NAFTA was another conservative idea that Clinton ran with, yet I think NAFTA had a lot of broad bipartisan support.
I usually joke around that Bill Clinton was perhaps the best "republican" president we've had since Eisenhower. Clinton was far more conservative than any of the candidates he went head to head with in the '92 primary.
Of course, I'm not betting you can get the distinctions I've alluded to here.
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