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It is unfortunate that Bill Clinton came to the support of Obama during the debt-ceiling crisis this month, because he should have been on the other side. In fact, the president, who said correctly that “The age of big government is over,” should have been leading the other side. This idea and all of the original thinking of states’ rights, sovereignty, opposition to global empire, freedom and individuation that we hear today from Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Judge Andrew Napolitano and the Tea Party pretty much started with the liberal and hard left here in Vermont and New Hampshire in opposition to the imperial Bush/Cheney/Rove adventures. A quick check of the Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence website and a look at their lively and thoughtful newspaper can confirm.

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