We Forget What It Was Really Like Under the Clintons

Date: 31 Dec 2008 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Twelve days before the Iowa caucuses, the New York Times Magazine cover, in large white letters on a deep black background, carried the single word title of its lead article: Clintonism. In the article Matt Bai, the Times reporter on all things Democratic, with a big D, made one undeniable assertion and two highly debatable ones.

Bai’s contention that Bill Clinton’s "wife’s fortunes are bound up with his, and vice versa" is incontestable. The primaries and even more so the general election, if Hillary is the nominee, will be a referendum less on Hillary than on Clintonism, the philosophy and strategy that guided the White House for eight years. Hillary clearly welcomes such a prospect, as demonstrated by her constantly reminding voters that she was "deeply involved in being part of the Clinton team."

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State of Union Address that Could’ve Been

Date: 26 Jan 1999 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

State of Union Address that Could’ve Been by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance January 26, 1999 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Something I’d liked to have heard in President Clinton’s State of the Union Address Distinguished Members of Congress, Three years ago I stood in this spot and declared “the era of big … Read More

My State of the Union Fantasy

Date: 4 Jan 1995 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

My State of the Union Fantasy by David Morris January 4, 1995 Bill Clinton has one last shot left before the Grinch steals Washington: the State of the Union Address. What he says on January 24 will either make him a wallflower at someone else’s party or the nation’s bandleader. Here’s the kind of speech I’d … Read More