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Samantha

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8. He was a fine role model for candidate Hillary Clinton, wasn't he?
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 04:23 PM
Feb 2016

Bill Clinton struggled with finding a term to describe his type of politics during his presidency. Either he or someone on his team coined the phrase "Third Way." A Third Way politician was a Democrat who could find middle ground with the conservatives and by compromising, get things done.

Eventually, when the DLC withered up and died, that crowd just became a part of the Third Way.

Today's vocal members of Third Way describe themselves sometimes as socially liberal but economically conservative. I do not consider them real Democrats, but more like a herd of Trojan Horses.

Thanks for posting on my thread.

Sam

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