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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 11:29 AM
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34. I don't know that he put them ahead of the people.
But he certainly gave them more deference than I was comfortable with.

Still, I think Clinton weighs the corporate and populist objectives when he makes these decisions, which makes for some pretty balanced decision making.

Perfect? No. God, the Telecom Act was awful, and destroyed American radio, heralding the rise of Clear Channel.

But he never would have signed off on the Bankruptcy legislation Bush did. He vetoed things that Bush never would have (Bush still hasn't vetoed anything, has he?).

But this isn't about Bush, but to say that Clinton is not the corporatist's corporatist. He tries to keep all stakeholders in mind, and that's something to be applauded.

If he ignored Corporations, he'd never have been President, and that's a fact.
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