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Clinton the campaigner backed away from the word sacrifice. Announcing his candidacy, he said, "For 12 years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief." He rejected the idea of higher taxes for gasoline. At the Democratic Convention, he...
"Familiarity" is not the name Bill Clinton attaches to the guiding spirit of his presidency. When he is feeling rhetorical, he speaks instead of the New Covenant, which he defines as "a solemn agreement between the people and their government, based not simply on what each of us can take...
Clinton's covenant talk mines a long American tradition, running right back to the Puritans. "It is of the nature and essence of every society," said John Winthrop, "to be knit together by some covenant." But what kind of covenant? Winthrop's was based on obedience to a Calvinist God...
A second problem with our new religion is that some claims to be distressed will not be accepted by everyone. Clinton ran into this problem early in the transition when he repeated a campaign promise to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military by Executive Order. Gays see themselves...
COMBINING CONSERVATIVE VALUES SUCH AS RESPONsibility and self-help with liberal ones like tolerance and generosity -- which is precisely the covenant that Clinton proposes -- could conquer the corrosive tactic of making wedge issues out of racial fears and sexual prejudices. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Clinton decried...