The fact that "hatred" of the President, whether false or true, may be a news story at all shows how our politics (and certainly the political thinking at the Times) have declined since the right opened the gash of Lewinsky. The subtext is: it was (and remains) OK to hate liberals in general (and any Clinton in particular), but it's not OK to hate THIS God-almighty President.

The real issue here is hypocrisy of liberal democrats on the issue of campaign finance reform. For years Democrats pushed McCain-Feingold with promises that it would clean up the sewer of money politics. Harold Ickes is more or less admitting now that it was all a shell game. Small wonder that voters are becoming increasingly cautious and cynical anytime a political figure says they are promoting "campaign finance reform.

"The real issue here is hypocrisy of liberal democrats on the issue of campaign finance reform."

Think of campaign finance reform like you do the ABM treaties of yesteryear: you don't unilaterally disarm, you figure out a way to mutually decrease stockpiles. You can be for campaign finance reform but still hold $1K-dollar-a-plate fund raisers because you just can't get elected otherwise. Even McCain and Feingold know this.

I thought Clinton was the one who opened the gash of Lewinsky.

Cheap joke, I know.

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There was a segment on Day to Day today that I'm positive was fallout from this post.