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While the Democrats disagree vehemently on certain issues, they left Chicago in agreement that a centrist Clinton is better than a Dole-Gingrich combo...
...admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much of the moral language used by Dole...
...dirty little secret in the politics of virtue is that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this...
...host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...
...remembered as a President who alleviated human suffering and improved the life chances of the poor," says Wilson. But any further effort to create jobs will depend not only on whether Clinton wins a second term but also on whether the Democrats regain control of Congress from Gingrich and his henchmen. By then the President may have had time to read and digest all the lessons of Wilson's profound and disturbing new book...