Great Quote By Dollar Bill Bradley today

[herbbrown]

In the "Questions" section of todays New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Q: You criticize Bill Clinton in your book as an illustration of the painful limitations of charisma.

A: Bill Clinton was the first two-term Democratic president since F.D.R. and was enormously popular — and yet at the end of eight years in office, there were fewer Democratic senators, fewer Democratic congressmen, fewer Democratic governors, fewer state legislators, and the party was in debt. You can be regarded as a charismatic president, and yet it doesn't translate into structure.

I loved him as a Knick, I loved him as a Senator, It's a damn shame he wasn't our nomination in 2000.

[saltpoint]

1. I hope we hear more from Bill Bradley -- in the coming Democratic

administration in 2008.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Love Bill , Hate the evil elf . Bradley also praises Clinton's managing of the Country

but Tim never steers it that way.

[herbbrown]

3. He doesn't seem to care for the Clintons at all

Here's the next 3 questions:


Q:By that measure, you should love Hillary, who is low on charisma and strong on experience at the federal level.

A:I think Joe Biden is more experienced. He has been a senator since 1972. Bill Richardson has seen government and policy in so many different places.

Q:Which Democratic candidate do you find the most impressive?

A:Right now, I suppose Obama is extremely impressive to me. He is in a cultural skyrocket, a vertical ascent.

Q:But doesn’t that contradict your argument? Couldn’t he be seen as coasting on charisma?

A:It’s not just charisma, because he has touched something very deep that had been waiting to be touched for a long time — returning idealism to a central focus of our politics. I tried to touch it in 2000 and didn’t make it.

[pretzel4gore]

4. the arkansaw project...pnac etc

bradley should look at the 800 pound gopig dancing around the room rather then misinterpret the actions of some mice from many years ago...after the media did its job (rupert murdoch just explained in a Vanity Fair article that 'It was Fox's intent that Bush win the '04 election') it amazing that there are ANY democratic Senators, Congressmen, Govenors or state legislators - or any Democratic Party at all which is not just a repub party front ...which it mainly acts like anyway :hide: i think...

[orpupilofnature57]

7. GOOD ONE!!!

[GoneOffShore]

5. I so wanted Bradley to be the Dem nominee

He would have made an excellent candidate and a better President. But that old Dem Party machine just wouldn't give him a shot and now, he would appear to want to stay out of politics, except in the way of voting, and occasionally commenting on the present race. It's a sad loss, because he is a reasonable and thinking man.

[herbbrown]

6. Me too

It's when this party started steering into the Republican Lite mind set popularized by the Clintons that this party started getting into trouble. Bradley saw it, so did Ralph Nader. Appeasing the Republicans is not the way to go anymore!