Bill Clinton

[elhinjew]

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[davidstalker]

I don't have any problem with Bill taking stances...but the stances he's taken are largely cheap shots at Obama and veiled racial references. I don't recall any substantive policy disagreements that he's had with BHO.

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[elhinjew]

That may be true, but the argument in the link was that he shouldn't take sides.

[nnn9245]

It would be one thing if he had taken a stance on some substantively important issue in the last eight years, like a meaningless war that has killed 600,000 civilians based on deliberate lies, global warming, Abu Ghraib, Katrina, Gonzalez, or any of a nightmarish number of policies with disastrous consequences

[elhinjew]

Yes, I agree. These are all reasons his use of his bully pulpit is a bad use, not that he should refrain from using his bully pulpit. In fact, these are reasons he should use his bully pulpit well, instead of squandering it like he did when he was silent and as he is doing now that he is loud. So that's why that original blog post was kind of attacking the wrong point, though the underlying sentiment behind the ill-formed argument makes sense.

[nnn9245]

Yes we are in total agreement. Bully pulpit good.

[savidan]

This whole Bill Clinton/Obama controversy has turned me from someone who very likely would have supported Obama to a rather hard-line Hilary supporter. But then again I already wasted my vote on Richardson.