Clinton vs. Obama

This may be unpopular to say with some of my conservative friends, but I’m starting to wish Bill Clinton was President again…

“President Clinton believed in the public sector, but he thought that his responsibility to the long-term fiscal condition of the country ruled out a significant expansion of the government in the economy as a whole,” said William A. Galston, a former Clinton policy adviser who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “What is unmistakably clear is that the trajectory of the Obama administration – whether it’s four years or eight years in office – will be the reverse.”

It’s becoming all the more understandable why Candidate Obama was so critical of the 1990s. It’s as if the theme of this presidency has become “the era of big government is not over, and we’re here to prove it!”