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Posted at 9:48am on Jan. 25, 2008 I Guess The Clinton Campaign Can Run The Negative Ads Now

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This candidate clearly praised Ronald Reagan. He gets what's coming to him:

It was a remarkable moment: A young, free-thinking presidential hopeful named Bill Clinton sat down with reporters and editors at The Post in October 1991 and started saying things most Democrats wouldn't allow to pass their lips.

Ronald Reagan, Clinton said, deserved credit for winning the Cold War. He praised Reagan's "rhetoric in defense of freedom" and his role in "advancing the idea that communism could be rolled back."

"The idea that we were going to stand firm and reaffirm our containment strategy, and the fact that we forced them to spend even more when they were already producing a Cadillac defense system and a dinosaur economy, I think it hastened their undoing," Clinton declared.

Clinton was careful to add that the Reagan military program included "a lot of wasted money and unnecessary expenditure," but the signal had been sent: Clinton was willing to move beyond "the brain-dead politics in both parties," as he so often put it.

His apostasy was widely noticed. The Memphis Commercial Appeal praised Clinton a few days later for daring to "set himself apart from the pack of contenders for the Democratic nomination by saying something nice about Ronald Reagan." Clinton's "readiness to defy his party's prevailing Reaganphobia . . .," the paper wrote, "is one reason he's a candidate to watch."

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Posted at 1:28am on Jan. 25, 2008 When We Are Finished Lamenting The Apocalyptic Hire Of Bill Kristol By The New York Times . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Can we please start wondering about the standards of journalism that caused Paul Krugman to be hired at The Paper Of Record?

Don't know what I am writing about? Then read this.

And then, after you are done, read this.

And oh, have we mentioned the peace dividend that came about thanks to the Reagan Administration working to help bring the Cold War to a victorious end? Yes, I know that Reagan did not win the Cold War singlehandedly. But he did help win it--the doubts of his many critics notwithstanding.

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