Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of his idea of a war on terror to overshadow his actual conduct in office on the redistribution of wealth upward through progressive tax cuts that actually penalize the vast majority of the public, and shift their resources to a narrow band at the very, very top.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure after failure. He's not only radical, but the consequences of his radicalism have been catastrophic.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.