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Article: The Great American Urge Splurge
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 12, 1994
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People who seek public office tend to be what you might call
urgeful, were it a word. When they want something, they want it
badly. The winner of a party's presidential nomination is usually
whoever wanted it worst. That's one reason Bill Clinton is
president: Extremely urgeful man. When that guy wants a chili dog,
stand aside.
As a politician Clinton feels an urgent need for change, he
says. He has rushed reform legislation, and most of it has blown up
spectacularly. He seems to know that in these days no president can
count on a second term. His is a regency of urgency.
All humans have urges, but politicians can be particularly
impulsive, importunate, driven by the desire for power ...