Reply #255: Finding a passage in Wikipedia isn't the same as "remembering."

[wyldwolf]

Here are Clinton's own words about the DLC and his '92 campaign:

In March 1990 I went to New Orleans to accept the chairmanship of the DLC. I was convinced the group's ideas on welfare reform, criminal justice, education, and economic growth were crucial to the future of the Democratic Party and the nation... I said the DLC stood for a modern, mainstream agenda: the expansion of opportunity, not bureaucracy; choice in public schools and child care; responsibility and empowerment for poor people; and reinventing government, away from the top-down bureaucracy of the industrial era, to a leaner, more flexible, more innovative model appropriate for the modern global economy... I was trying to develop a national message for the Democrats, and the effort fueled speculation that I might enter the presidential race in 1992... During the 1992 campaign, I told a full house at Macomb County Community College that I would give them a new Democratic Party, with economic and social policies based on opportunity for and responsibility from all citizens...

MY LIFE
by Bill Clinton

http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=127&subid=173&contentid=252794

Are you going to accuse Clinton of "promoting revisionist history?"

Here are other references to his '92 "New Democrat" campaign:

Clinton’s campaign focused on domestic issues, particularly the economy. He ran as a “New Democrat,” a term coined by the Democratic Leadership Council to describe a new type of moderate Democrat.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564341_2/Bill_Clinton.html

Transcript of 1992 Clinton/Gore TV Ad:

ANNOUNCER: They are a new generation of Democrats—Bill Clinton and Al Gore—and they don't think the way the old Democratic Party did. They've called for an end to welfare as we know it, so welfare can be a second chance, not a way of life. They've sent a strong signal to criminals by supporting the death penalty and they've rejected the old tax and spend politics. Clinton's balanced 12 budgets and they've proposed a new plan investing in people, detailing $140 billion in spending cuts they'd make right now. Clinton/Gore. For people, for a change.

Also check the one where he lays out his welfare reform plans.

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/election/index.php?ad_id=963