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...Obama's success in the race thus far has its roots in an unlikely decision the candidate made several months ago when he ignored the advice of just about everyone in his circle to strip the bipartisan wrapper off his new kind of campaign and go after Clinton with hammer and tongs...
...Obama also scissored Clinton for suggesting in a recent debate that he was raising the "false hopes" of the American people with his soaring rhetoric and talk of a new, productive, bipartisan era. "We don't need leaders who can tell us what we can't do," he responded. "We need leaders who can say, 'Yes, we can.' We don't need someone who plays the game better. We want an end to the game...
...Some on the right have surely tried to use this admirable behavior to attack his conservative credentials, but his refusal to compromise his principles for approval ratings continues to attract voters across the spectrum. Aside from his bipartisan efforts, he has consistently supported plenty of conservative legislation, such as the Gramm-Rudman Act of 1985 that cut spending to reduce the budget deficit, and the 1996 Defense of Marriage...
...second variant of the belief in American benevolence deserves closer scrutiny. Here the incorrectness of the invasion of Iraq is admitted, but a select cabal of criminals is held responsible. Yet not only does this willfully ignore the bipartisan makings of the occupation itself (from Democrats’ sanctioning the initial invasion to their pithy, insipid “opposition” today), it demonstrates a deep-seated refusal to engage the historical role of the Democratic Party in fashioning imperial policy. In the specific context of Iraq, one only has to point to the murderous regime of sanctions...
Such a funding crisis was just months away in 1983 when a bipartisan gang led by Senators Bob Dole and Daniel Patrick Moynihan cracked heads and persuaded Congress to move up some already planned payroll-tax hikes and shove back the full retirement age to 67 for future generations. Since then, Social Security has run a surplus. From an actuarial standpoint, this mostly solved the problem of funding the boomers' retirement. It also meant that the boomers will, as a group, put more into Social Security than they get out. (That's true of all age cohorts born since...