To me Carter looks a lot like Clinton, maybe Obama, and Nixon looks a lot like both Bushes.
The big disconnect is Bush II rhetoric (humble foreign policy, fiscal conservatism, small government) and actual performance. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carl Dassbach > Sent: 07/17/08 04:23 pm > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] proof that everything is relative in politics > > Political spectrums are not absolute but relative. What is conservative > at one time is moderate at another. For example, what would Cater or > Nixon be considered today. BTW, Jimmie Cater represents the first step > (and Clinton, the last step) in the betrayal of the "FDR" Democrats ala > Kennedy and Johnson. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> from SLATE's news summary (7/17/08): > > >> The [Washington POST reports] that the White > > >> House got angry with former Attorney General John > > >> Ashcroft . . . [who successfully lobbied against > > >> appointing John Yoo as DOJ Legal counsel]. * * * > > >> The Post says this information is another example > > >> of how Ashcroft "is coming to be viewed as a voice > > >> of moderation on some of the most sensitive national > > >> security issues the nation faced after Sept. 11." > > > > > > Ashcroft a moderate ?!? > > > > I haven't read the Slate or Wash. Post piece, but did read about this > > episode in Jane Mayer's recent book -- "The Dark Side: The Inside > > Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" > > -- in which Mayer's take is less that Ashcroft was exhibiting > > "moderation" (whatever that means) and much more that he didn't like > > Yoo and, more importantly, that is was a turf-war issue, i.e., that > > Ashcroft didn't trust Yoo and found annoying/troubling that Yoo > > communicated/dealt directly with the White House (e.g., Addington) > > thus by-passing Ashcroft as (putatively/nominally) Yoo's boss, and > > Ashcroft didn't want that to continue. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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