@Blickers,
Quote:Hey, Edgar just posted the same stupid article a few days ago in this very thread!
I wouldn't label that as a "stupid" article (and I don't think AlterNet is a stupid source of information/opinion). Perhaps you use the term a bit differently than is the normal use.
But I would say it is unbalanced by an underlying idealism. And there is nothing wrong with that. Idealism tends to be driven by either some moral principle(s) or goal or by some performance goal. Those things serve as a target to aim at and it's just fine to note/criticize when we fall short.
And it is definitely the case that such targets and principles provide us with a reminder of the direction we'd like to move towards. Where the unbalance happens, as I think it did here, is to imagine that unmet goals or unsatisfied principles equal something like "working for the other side".
Idealists (and I certainly do not mean that as a derogation) like the writer of the piece or Edgar (in this case) get things a bit wrong (in my view) is in failing to note or perceive what was done right by the offending politician or person(s). Not all things are possible. Not all goals attainable. Clinton, at that time, just like Obama now, was working in an environment that curtailed what he could do, both as a matter of institutional barriers and as a matter of electoral realities.