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They told me he was afraid to make compromises. Those who wanted to speed my political recovery after the crushing midterm defeat thought I was nuts, or, as we say in Arkansas, “three bricks shy of a full load. On paper, the military had moved a long way, to “live and let live,” while holding on to the idea that On the day after the election, I tried to make the best of a bad situation, promising to work with the Republicans and asking t

sking people to “sacrifice” but to “contribute” to America’s renewal, a more patriotic and positive formulation. d that if deficit reduction was going to require the middle class to pay more taxes, I had darn sure better do something else for them. Supporting the bill was good election-year politics in Florida, but it undermined whatever chance I might have if I won a second term to lift the embargo in return for positive changes within Cuba. She asked those who had lost loved ones not to turn their hurt into hate, but instead to do the things their loved ones had “left undone, thus ensuring they did not die in vain.