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Jan 1 21:11 UTC 2006

The hard thing is that all presidents have to pick their battles at
home.  I seem to remember quite a few things that administrations have
tried to put throug that COngress wouldn't budge on.  I'm not saying
that this is what happened here, but the fact is that the President does
not have absolute power, as much as many of them would wish it.  And
there is something to be said about weighing the cost and consequences.
 I'm absolutely against land minds, but if a treaty has provisions in it
that are frivolous or don't take into account certain needs of countries
that wish to sign it, the head of a nation has to take that into
consideration.

I do not think that Clinton was a classic Liberal, but neither do I
think he was a Conservative.