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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: American Spirit who wrote (20787)2/3/2008 12:33:58 AM
From: Hope Praytochange   of 224748
 
Some Clinton associates suggested that Obama particularly angered the former president by comparing his role in history unfavorably with Reagan's. Lanny J. Davis, a Clinton White House special counsel, challenged Obama with an open letter titled, "What Exactly in the Clinton-Era Nineties Did You Not Like?"

Others have picked up the debate from the opposite end. "Obama's assessment is so obviously true: Reagan was consequential. Clinton was not," columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote last week.

The Clinton team recognizes that this debate is pocked with danger. While his strategists are happy to tout and defend his record, they understand that campaigns are about the future, not the past, and that Hillary Clinton needs to maintain her own identity. At the same time, they anticipate that Republicans will take on the former president with full force should she win the nomination.

That could be risky for the other side, too. Many leaders of the anti-Clinton camp from the 1990s have moved on, scarred by defeats at the hands of a formidable political gladiator.

Former congressman Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.), one of the House managers who prosecuted Clinton in the Senate trial, said he still believes the impeachment was a noble attempt to enforce the rule of law. But he said it should not be relitigated this year. "There were some who were so personally engaged in it that they had a hard time cutting loose of it," he said. "They may try to resurrect it this year. But that would be a mistake. History has passed them by. You'll be on the losing side of history if you let this dominate your life."
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