Immorality

    It was my view that the failure to sign the international treaty to ban land mines was the single biggest moral failure of the Clinton administration.  With Bush, you have a lot to choose from, but this one might well end up getting my vote.  The rationale for Bush's position is non-existent, his position harms children, and it's not a cost-wise position.  Not to mention that it is hardly worthy of a person who says that Jesus is his favorite philosopher.  Obviously, those are not the philosophical grounds upon which Bush claims to be standing.

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[Doug Parker]

When will we recognize that the President is himself a narcissist, surrounded by same, and that nothing he does or refuses to do is motivated by anything less than power and money. It's often said that the power blocs in Washington are removed from reality...is there any more distorted reality than that of the President and his men?

[DHFabian]

The second biggest moral failure of the Clinton administration was his welfare "reform" legislation. Not only has it devastated so many of our most vulnerable citizrns, but it effectively removed the issue of US poverty from the public forum. Today, even many otherwise-progressive individuals and groups are oblivious to US poverty. As a direct result of Clinton's welfare "reform", America's poor now have some of the highest rates of infant mortality in the modern world, and the life expectancy of our poor has fallen below that of most Third World nations. So yes, Americans are indeed dying as a direct result of welfare "reform". Our indifference exists precisely because a Dem president made it socially acceptable--indeed, a matter of national policy--not to care about our poor, making it easy for us to ignore our own hypocrisy. And that is a tragic moral failure.

[DHFabian]

The second biggest moral failure of the Clinton administration was his welfare "reform" legislation. Not only has it devastated so many of our most vulnerable citizrns, but it effectively removed the issue of US poverty from the public forum. Today, even many otherwise-progressive individuals and groups are oblivious to US poverty. As a direct result of Clinton's welfare "reform", America's poor now have some of the highest rates of infant mortality in the modern world, and the life expectancy of our poor has fallen below that of most Third World nations. So yes, Americans are indeed dying as a direct result of welfare "reform". Our indifference exists precisely because a Dem president made it socially acceptable--indeed, a matter of national policy--not to care about our poor, making it easy for us to ignore our own hypocrisy. And that is a tragic moral failure.

[DHFabian]

Still, Clinton gets the honor of having enacted the most immoral domestic policy, our welfare "reform", effectively tranfering public dollars from basic humanitarian aid for America's poor over to cover the costs of the annual "tax breaks" for corporations/the richest 1%. The impact has been devastating for the poor, not only for economic reasons, but because it made it socially acceptable to condemn the poor for "choosing" (?) poverty.

[DHFabian]

There appears to have been a goof-up here. The Aug. 23 post was written by me, yet it is also listed as being posted by Doug Parker on August 01, 2007. Apparently something got jumbled up, and that somehow Mr. Parker's actual post was replaced by a (repeat) of mine which, of course, is unfair to Mr. Parker. I hope the administrator of this board will look into this. Thank you.