Tag / Bill Clinton
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Demanding A Democratic Response To Neoconservatism
The 2020 election cycle has arrived and the Democrats need a message. With a Republican incumbent (who may be in for a primary challenge), all eyes are on the Democratic field. All Democrats can agree on one thing: at least their nominee won’t be Trump. But such a declaration dismisses the meaningful policy discussions that…
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The Greatest Supreme Court Justice
Justice Byron White does not have an excellent reputation among legal scholars or among the general public. Conservatives do not usually remember White too fondly because of his liberal rulings, and he is usually not particularly beloved by liberals because of his conservative rulings. When noted Yale law professor Robert M. Cover wrote his famous…
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Age Never Matters
Commentators have a habit of describing a certain generation of people as sharing common characteristics by placing them in the same generational set. For example, people in their 20s and younger are known as millennials. The commentators called people born between 1946 and 1964 “baby boomers,” and people of a later generation “Generation X.” Critics…
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The Return of Bubba: What Barack Can Learn from Bill’s Latest Comeback
On the second night of the Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton delivered a highly anticipated speech formally nominating Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for president. With his passionate defense of Obama, withering criticism of intransient Republicans, and folksy proclamations on complex policy issues, the former president thoroughly energized the thousands of attendees…
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And that’s how you give a speech
BY RAJA KRISHNA The headlines just days before Clinton spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention read something like this: “Clinton’s DNC speech will be vetted just minutes before he goes on stage,” implying that Clinton was a potential ticking time bomb. Then he actually delivered his speech. Watch it in all its glory below.…
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Sarah Palin Supporters
I’ll be frank: Sarah Palin needs to shut the hell up. Alright, I admit that might not be quite fair. Although I happen to think she is an incompetent political figure that is trying too hard to fit in on the national stage, she represents a certain intangible something that resonates with a lot of…
