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...inevitable year-end appraisals of Clinton's first year hit the newsstands and airwaves this month, the President is unlikely to get many glowing reviews. His first few months were probably the rockiest of any modern administration. Clinton's handling of gays in the military, Nannygate, and the Lani Guinier fiasco left much to be desired. But the same news media that made an issue of Christophe's visit to Air Force One has now conspired to produce an unbalanced perspective on his first year. Conservatives will complain that he's too liberal. Left wingers will say he hasn...
Proportional representation and other systems (another one is known as cumulative voting) that differ from the traditional two-party, one-person, one-vote system were the focus of intense scrutiny last spring in connection with President Clinton's nomination of University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Lani Guinier to a civil rights job in the Justice Department...
...Guinier, who grew up in Cambridge, had written controversial law review articles exploring the possibilities for election reform...
Americans want their president to stand for something and be willing to fight for it--qualities Clinton has not yet demonstrated adequately (witness Lani Guinier, Bosnia, Haiti and the unsatisfactorily-resolved issue of gays in the military). But it will suffice if Clinton stands for health security and affordability; he need not stand for anything as specific as health alliances, insurance pools or price ceilings...
This echoes Robert Bork's complaint in 1987 that his rejection by the Senate would cause potential Supreme Court nominees to avoid leaving a paper trail. But there is a key difference. President Reagan chose Bork precisely because of his paper trail of radical views. President Clinton chose Guinier as an experienced civil rights litigator. There was no danger the tentative academic / musings in Guinier's writings would become locked into policy, even if she had wanted them to. Guinier was doomed for her thinking, not for anything she might actually have done in the job -- a classic p.c. exercise...