12.22.2015

Sure she is; she just can't decide whose

Hillary Clinton Embraces Bill Clinton’s Economic Legacy - The New York Times

"At the same time, Mrs. Clinton reminds voters that she is not running for anyone’s third term."

Bunky, there is so much wrong with this line of campaigning it takes my breath away. It was the Clinton administration that brought us NAFTA and the greatly weakened banking regulations that helped set up one of the biggest crashes in history. Clinton disappeared poor people and merrily helped blow up the safety net of “welfare.” And that so-called “robust economy” he likes to credit himself with was largely buoyed by two big one-time phenomena—the rapid building out of Internet infrastructure and Y2K: in some substantial part, a fluke. 

Bah.

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