{"id":10355,"date":"2011-07-06T21:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2011-07-07T09:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T13:13:28","slug":"searching-for-standards-you-wont-find-them-with-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10355\/searching-for-standards-you-wont-find-them-with-bill-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Standards? You Won’t Find Them with Bill Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent Freedom Minute video<\/a>, we chronicled the decline in basic standards of decency and civility amongst America’s political class. And one of the examples we cited was Florida Congresswoman (and newly-installed DNC Chairwoman) Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Here’s one of Wasserman Schultz’s greatest hits, prompted when a television interviewer recently asked her about the Republican push to require photo identification at the polls in order to combat voter fraud:<\/p>\n

[I]f you go back to the year 2000, when we had an\u00a0obvious disaster and – and saw that our voting process needed\u00a0refinement, and we did\u00a0that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out\u00a0those kinks, now\u00a0you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way\u00a0back to Jim Crow\u00a0laws and literally – and very transparently – block access to the\u00a0polls to voters who are\u00a0more likely to vote Democratic candidates than Republican\u00a0candidates. And it’s\u00a0nothing short of that blatant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even the verbally incontinent chairwoman had to walk this one back, later explaining that “Jim Crow was the wrong analogy to use<\/a>.” But while such thoughtless mistakes can be expected from the congenitally inept Wasserman Schultz, former President Bill Clinton doesn’t have that excuse. Here’s what Clinton told a group of young liberal activists gathered in the nation’s capital today, according to Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we\u2019re supposed to be a country dedicated to liberty that one of the most pervasive political movements going on outside Washington today is the disciplined, passionate, determined effort of Republican governors and legislators to keep most of you from voting next time,\u201d Clinton said at Campus Progress\u2019s annual conference in Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,\u201d Clinton added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Clinton wants to bask in the adulation of being an elder statesman, he ought to begin acting like one. He knows that saying Republicans across the nation want to suppress the vote is a baseless attack on the character of decent men and women. Republicans want to suppress voter fraud<\/em>, a goal that Democrats profess to share (in practice, however, they’ve done little to effectuate it).<\/p>\n

Debating the means by which we attain that end is an utterly justifiable pursuit. But tarring the opposition to score cheap applause from the Daily Kos’s farm team? That’s just not presidential. Of course, why start now?<\/p>\n

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