Sid Blumenthal seems to be straying off the Clinton reservation with a thoroughgoing endorsement of Gore-Dean:
Gore’s endorsement of Dean is the most important since grainy film was shown at the 1992 Democratic convention depicting President Kennedy shaking hands with a teenage Bill Clinton. Gore’s endorsement is not the passing of the torch to a new generation, but another conferring of legitimacy. For Democrats, he personifies the infamy of the last election. He is not another politician, but the rightfully elected president, by a popular majority of 539,895 votes.
So a dead president endorsed Clinton? If you say so, Sid. Interesting, though, that Blumenthal is echoing the argument of Dean and others that the popular vote should now be regarded as the legitimate basis for a presidency. Are they proposing doing away with the electoral college? He also repeats the Hillary-line (or was Hillary repeating the Sid line?) that Bush is trying to undermine the New Deal. Huh? How is adding a $2 trillion Medicare benefit and doing nothing to reform social security undermining the welfare state? If president Clinton had proposed the Medicare drug benefit, do you really think Sid would have opposed it?
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