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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 12:45 PM
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Compared to Bush, the Clinton years do seem like something close to utopia, however
Too many people get lost in such nostalgia and forget that Clinton was very much a corporate controlled president. Many of his actions, including the '96 Telecom Act, welfare "reform" and the Financial Services Modernization Act, among others, set the stage for many of the problems that we face today. Time and again we here complaints about the media, yet either fail, or choose not to recognize the part that Clinton played in that problem. Same deal goes with many other issues we face today. Too many people want to think that the Clinton era was a golden one, yet really all it amounted to was simply a kinder, gentler screwing.

Hillary is much in the same mold, another corporately compromised candidate who won't correct any problems, and will exacerbate many.
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