If you want a reminder of the cowardly cautiousness of mainstream Democrats, check out this moment from the Great Debate.
Ifill said, It’s nice that you agree on something, and they went on to another subject.
Generally, they’d go off the record to tell us that they had nothing against reefer. In fact, they may have—chuckle, chuckle—smoked some over the weekend. But, you know, don’t want to get too far ahead of voters.
Clinton’s been running to the right ever since, pausing to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. or Bobby Kennedy in order to prove his heart is good.
Hearing this has set me on a crusade to find people who actually like their private health insurance.
While we’re at it, for a different view on the medical service provided by the Veterans Administration, I turned to someone who actually uses it, my old friend Milo Samardzija.