Reply #33: Bill Clinton was a warmongering conservative. [View All]

[Yollam]

He continued the murderous sanctions that killed a half million Iraqi children while regularly bombing the crap out of both Iraq and Kosovo. He he cut taxes on the middle class, but also left taxes on the ultra-rich at historic low rates. He slashed welfare and other benefits, cut regulations on businesses and signed the anti-American NAFTA into law.

The fact that he was a hundred times more honest and a thousand times more competent than Bush doesn't change the fact that he was in effect, a moderate republican president, whose only progressive achievement was the passage of UNPAID "family leave" and changing the military's de facto "don't ask don't tell" policy to an explicit "don't ask don't tell" policy.

He was indeed the voice of a generation. The voice that told the greedy, self-absorbed baby boomers what they wanted to hear. Gave them progressive-sounding smoothtalk while enacting the agenda of the republicans as though Bush I had been re-elected.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Clinton basher or hater, but I do so tire of people trying to characterize his reign as some sort of progressive New Camelot, when it was nothing of the sort.

If he had kept his pants zipped and made a serious commitment to single payer health care rather than the corporate giveaway that Hillary concocted, I'd be singing his praises along with you, but I see the 8 years he spent in office as little more than a missed opportunity and a real waste of talent and amazing charisma.