But in the higher elevations after page 700, it's heavier going: Up in the clouds, way above the out-of-his-tree line, the president advances the theory that he was obliged to submit to random sexual advances in order to uphold the important constitutional principle that Republicans are uptight about oral sex. I think I've got that right, but by then I was finding it hard to breathe and beginning to see double.
Well, he once did claim to 'almost be a libertarian,' knowing that it meant licentiousness and moral-liberalism.
Well, he once did claim to 'almost be a libertarian,' knowing that it meant licentiousness and moral-liberalism. Like you, he was wrong, or lying.
Bill Clinton on Why We Don't Really Want Freedom
Yep that sounds libertarian on the Bizarro world.
It's not even conservative.
"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it" - Bill Clinton
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - Lord Acton
But that was in the last good century, when it was hard to tell libertarians and conservatives apart.
And today it's often difficult to tell the "progressives" and the "traditionalists" apart.