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Question(s) for the Dems: Will You Renounce the (Bill) Clinton Pact with the Politics of Crime?

By Jonathan Simor

And then there were two...With the field essentially down to Hillary and Barack (with John Edwards or Richardson capable perhaps of revival should one of the leaders shipwreck) its time for this blog to consider an endorsement. Before that, I have some questions. Unlike the disastrous 1988 campaign (when again a Democrat seemed sure to be elected by public allegedly exhausted by Republican corruption and incompetence in Iran-Contra) crime has not loomed as a big issue. But the mentalities that have flourished in the war on crime constitute a major challenge to any new President that would move this country in a new direction.Both of you claim to be leaders who can draw from their experiences in the 1990s, to take this country out of its deepest morass of executive incompetence and power grabbing in our history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 10, 2008 (boomark / email).