This from Cenk Uygur over at HuffPo:
"The party went from being dominated by practical moderates, like the first Bush, to ideological and fundamentalist zealots, like the second Bush. In the interim, President Clinton gave us balanced budgets, welfare reform and a war in Kosovo so brilliantly conducted we did not lose a single soldier and completely achieved our objective."In the face of the evidence that Bill Clinton had accomplished everything I had wanted out of government and that the second Bush was headed in a disastrous direction in foreign and fiscal policy, I could have stayed the course and kept arguing for my party. But I decided to do the rational thing, to do the patriotic thing instead - change course."
I wish all Americans were as pliable as Cenk. We should all be able to switch parties in the face of evidence that our traditional party is no longer up to the job. Of course, politics has become too much like a team sport, and it is hard to imagine a Red Sox fan switching to a Yankee cap.
Take a look at the whole article.
Posted by Paul Hina at July 15, 2005 09:06 AM