"Vote for Hillary or else!"

[JackRiddler]

83. Speeches and utterances don't count for much.

He was president, with veto power equivalent to 2/3+1 of both houses of Congress. While I can remember a lot of palaver about how we needed a "bridge to the 21st Century" that was all neoliberal technofetishist code, it doesn't matter. Because I can point you to something a lot more important than his speeches: the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill deregulating banking and ending the Glass-Steagal limits that had been in place since 1934, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 which basically banned regulation on derivatives, also NAFTA on "fast track" and a number of other key "free trade" agreements. All signed by Clinton, no gun to his head necessary. (Not to mention the Welfare "reform," highly repressive mandatory sentencing crime laws that helped cause prison inmate numbers to skyrocket more in the Clinton admin than under any other US govt, etc. etc.)