A lesson learned from FABULOUS FAILURE, a Bill Clinton-focused work by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
Political skill means nothing, without a clear moral compass. In my life, I have been right and wrong about much political analysis. I followed politics from an early age , and I voraciously read books connected to history and politics from when I was too young to truly understand anything. When you’re young, passionate, and idealistic, one can make a lot of mistake s in embracing various political passions. Some of my youthful analysis I’m still quite proud of today—I ominously saw from their beginning stages that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were headed for disaster, even while a supermajority of the country loudly assured me I was wrong, and that America would never stop kicking ass. However, I also made plenty of mistakes in my youthful politics, and I was perhaps never more wrong than when I kept telling myself back during the chaotic mess of the Bush II years, that things would have been so much better if only Bill Clinton was still in charged. Historical opini