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e health insurance. And to Republican's question in Tampa, "are you better off than you were four years ago," this was easily answered by President Clinton and others in Charlotte with a resounding YES. Republicans/Conservatives seem to forget that the day President Obama took office, that the country
wn depression with an obstructionist opposition in Congress whose #1 priority was to make Obama a failed Presidency even if it hurt the country. As Bill Clinton sarcastically summarized the Republican case for denying President Obama re-election: "We left him a total mess. He hasn't cleaned it up fast enough
ere four years ago," this was easily answered by President Clinton and others in Charlotte with a resounding YES.
s Although I spent much of last weekend's reading castigating the disinformation, exaggerations and lies that was in liberal use by the speakers at the Republican Convention in Tampa to the point that the entire event should have received four Pinocchios — the sheer audacity caused me to start this weekend's Politics sec
are now promising to bring back the same failed policies that devastated the middle class and crashed the economy in the first place. As President Clinton said in Charlotte, "In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's reelection was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn't fini
s and crashed the economy in the first place. As President Clinton said in Charlotte, "In Tampa, the Republican argu
look like? Last October, upon the release of his foreign policy white paper, "An American Century," it looked much like Obama's, but by the end of the Republican Convention in Tampa eleven months later it is 180 degrees different with the only consistent thread is that the President is either wrong or weak. As James Joy
ooks products and media. His partner in this enterprise was David Bossie, the far-right pamphleteer and congressional committee investigator into the Clintons’ Whitewater affair, who would join him as deputy campaign manager on the Trump campaign. Bannon met Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart at a scre
he simply had no scruples. He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not. One manifestation of this outlaw personality, for bo
s, Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski, and Jared Kushner, went in and out of the room. Conversations with members of the campaign’s team continued through the Republican Convention in Cleveland, when it was still hardly possible to conceive of Trump’s election. They moved on to Trump Tower with a voluble Steve Bannon—before the
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