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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (77056)	6/12/2006 5:30:42 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>I am baffled as to why anyone would continue to promote Bill Clinton as anything worthy of admiration. Or, why after all is said and done his legacy would be reduced to a “huge reaction over the Lewinsky affair.”<< RCG - I don't mean to promote him, per se. I will also agree that his legacy will be dominated by the Lewinsky scandal. However, the attacks that even to this day are directed against him by the Right have their roots more in envy and ambition for power than they do in Clinton himself. I find them overdone and appalling. Your own view of him is a good example. After spending all those years and all that money, Kenneth Starr could find nothing he could pin on Clinton until he just happened to hear about Monica from Linda Tripp. If the man was as vile and deceitful as so many people seem to believe he was, I find it quite strking that Starr failed to dig anything up. The great advantage the Right has now is that they subscribe to that ridiculous maxim, uttered first by Donald Rumsfeld, I think; "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." While technically correct, in practical application it leads to a situation where you can assert anything you want to about your opponent, even if you don't have a shred of real evidence to back up your claim. Then, when anyone points out you don't have any evidence, you can just repeat that line. What a terrific way to convince yourself that you're always right. - Allen

To: one_less who wrote (77056)	6/12/2006 8:39:14 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

For the record when I travelled to many countries; have worked in the development field since 1968; I found the following over and over, a lot of goodwill for the American people, in particular in developing countries. I also found a lot of goodwill for JFK/RFK and MLK Jr. most particularly in Africa, and a suprising amount of goodwill for Carter and Clinton in Africa and also Asia. Most people I talked with did not particularly like Ronnie or Trickie . They thought Ford was ok and Bush 1 barely ok. Our current pres has burned up a lot of this goodwill. I hope we can elect a president who is not beholden to the monied interests and whom other countries trust. PS I have visited 85 countries and done significant work in 36 countries. This is my son's website.