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It's not popular but yeah, I'll admit it. In retrospect, the Clinton presidency doesn't seem half bad. The economy was doing moderately well, we didn't have fake terrorist scares every five minutes and the post-coital glow from winning the cold war seemed to last forever. Sure, he was a lying two-faced weasel but even time has been kind to Bill Clinton. Looking back, he seems to have become this rapscallion Jimmy Walker type figure, a colorful rascal whose foibles will delight schoolchildren for generations to come.
On the other hand, who really wants to live through that again? Four (or eight) years of flip-flopping? At caving to the slightest hint of Republican pressure? And does anyone here think Bill has licked that zipper problem yet?
Nah, better the devil I don't know. Obama. Edwards. Richardson. Of course, what I'd really like to see is a Dennis Kucinich presidency but thanks to hacks like Walter Shapiro, we're never going to see that.
