Selling the Past as Part of the Future

Obama says that this election is about "the past versus the future". The Clinton campaign should take him on, and remind people of the past: a time of economic prosperity, a time of fiscal responsibility, a time when people felt great about this nation, a time when the world looked up to America.

Frankly, I'd like to restore the past, and only when we restore the past can we build a better future. Solve the problems of today by rectifying all the mistakes of the Bush Abomination. Obama cannot build his vision of the future without going back to President Clinton's sound foundations. What Bush did these past seven years is destroy the foundations of America. We need a president who can go back and make the necessary repairs first. You can't put a roof on a house and pretend that you're going to have shelter from the storm when there's no floor to even stand on.

Let's go back to the past, a time when civil liberties were protected. Let's go back to the past, a time when habeas corpus was law. Let's go back to the past, a time when all people were given due process. Let's go back to the past, a time of non-proliferation. Let's go back to the Geneva Conventions. Let's go back to the Kyoto Protocol. Let's go back to more funding for education. Let's go back to balanced budgets. Let's go back to accountable government. Let's go back to diplomacy. Let's go back to competent appointees. Let's go back to lower gas prices. Let's go back to allies. Let's go back to opening avenues of trade and opening borders. Let's go back to a time when we don't have color-coded fear. The 8 years of Clinton was a great America, and I'd go back to those days any day.

The Clintons have gotten blamed for partisanship and divisiveness, but what polarized this nation was Newt Gingrich's Congress. And the Clintons needed to play by their rules and beat them at their game. It was the Republicans who had this overweening lust for power, and because they finally had a taste of it when they won the majority in both Houses during Gingrich's Revolution, they stopped at nothing to destroy the Clintons. This culminated in the unfair, unwarranted and unconstitutional impeachment of President Clinton. And when we put things in perspective now, when we realize the hypocrisy of Gingrich and his fellow Republicans who each resigned for their own moral shortcomings; and when we put the only blight of Clinton's Presidency next to the failings and the illegal actions of the Bush Abomination, then we can see just how great we had it. We can see that the Clintons were good for America. We can see that the past is something we need to restore.

The Clintons should not be afraid to run on their respective records. The Clintons should use restoration as part of their strategy. Forget about talking about "change" and the "future". The past is a great future, and it's one that doesn't preclude progress. Restoring the past is the necessary antidote to Bush's mistakes and the right "change" for America.