What about Bill Clinton?

What about Bill Clinton?

When former President Bill Clinton gave his latest State of the Union speech, it was the most soberly delivered of his presidency, with new energy and resolve. One year after the election, the president continued to press forward with his agenda, and he announced an ambitious plan to address poverty by reducing child poverty by one-third.

“I am proposing a public works initiative to address a structural deficit in the American economy …

The fact is, we had a $5 trillionWhat about Bill Clinton? How does he fit in all this? How much did he mean to the Democrats? And is he still on the political radar?

I’m not interested in Bill Clinton’s legacy for the Democratic Party – I’m not. But my problem for the Democratic Party is that it now lacks a leader. That’s how I understand the role of Bill Clinton.

I thought I understood the party well after the last election. It was the perfect victory for the Democrats. They put up a veryWhat about Bill Clinton? He came up with the idea of the “Clinton Plan”, which of course was based on his own proposals. The Obama administration is considering it!

The Clinton Plan was supposed to involve a new tax on the highest incomes. How did you come up with that? In the Clinton Administration no one had really come up with a tax that was progressive, and in fact it had been proposed many years prior by Nixon to pay for a number of other programs. You want to raise taxes by 20%,