Overall do you approve or disapprove of the Bill Clinton presidency

[WI_DEM]

Do you think it was a success or failure or are you neutral?

[Bicoastal]

1. Compared to this administration?

Bubba looks like Abraham freaking Lincoln.

[WI_DEM]

2. obviously

[Iwasthere]

3. 200 % APPROVE!!!

I was always proud when president Clinton traveled abroad. For six years now I have cringed whenever the current resident asshole traveled out of the country. So he is a little over zealous sexually. BIG DEAL! that is between him and his wife. Could actually be considered an attribute in a president imo (certainly no harm comes of it).

[rfranklin]

6. Women like to sleep with powerful, charismatic men....

then again male prostitutes like to sleep with the current WH resident.

[LoZoccolo]

11. .

:popcorn:

[valerief]

24. Now, now, now, don't beat up on the closeted prez because he's closeted.

Beat up on him for destroying the world.

[Squatch]

4. Gotta go with approve.

Though I found the entire Lewinsky thing a lewd distraction from the good he was doing.

[Seldona]

5. Overall I would have to approve.

Not happy about what he did with NAFTA, and some of his welfare reforms were draconian, but compared to this administration? No contest.

[Double T]

7. That is a tough one........neutral.

I like Bill Clinton BUT he killed America with NAFTA. Can't overlook this one, specially.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Did we go back in time?

Approve, of course!

[Madspirit]

9. Approve!!

I don't worship the man or anything but I thought he was a good president.
Lee

[ManWroteTheBible]

10. Hell Yeah!

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. It's true, I believe, that hanging on the coat-tails of Big Business

was all Bill knew.

But, despite the dreadful limitations that imposed on him re GATT and most people's levels of remuneration, he was able to accomplish a tremendous amount of good, both in the US and throughout the world, within the context of the satanically hostile machinations and chicanery of the neocons, driven as they are by the military-industrial complex.

[damntexdem]

13. It's close but approve:

1) I can't help but compare to the Bushista mess.
2) I have to hold my nose over NAFTA and ending AFDC.
3) In sum, he was the best Republican president we've had since Lincoln. (Hee, hee.)

[Madspirit]

14. Good Response

The AFDC still turns my stomach.
Lee

[Selatius]

25. What you said.

If given a choice between Bush Jr. and Clinton, Clinton by many miles.

[Wickerman]

28. your #3 has long been my response

It was perfect when folks I knew went on about how liberal he was and how much "trouble" he got in. I loved reminding my father that Richard Nixon had a more liberal record in many areas than Clinton. I voted for him twice, loved to hear him speak, found him very inspiring at times, but hated NAFTA and the changes to our health and human services during his era.

[terrya]

15. Mostly approve

He did some things that I didn't care for. But he presided over a booming economy (with budget surpluses). And people were actually hopeful of the direction of the country.

[mtnester]

20. I mostly approve as well except for the big humongous NAFTA mistake

that is my only REAL criticism.

[NormanYorkstein]

16. Bill Clinton: The Best

Republican president since Eisenhower.

[Parche]

17. 8years

Some of the best 8years of my life...........................

[LSK]

18. you mean the good ole days???

Although he really fucked up on that NAFTA thing that was forced on him.

[gatorboy]

19. I'm voting neutral.

If only because Clinton could've gotten alot more done if the Repug Congress hadn't constantly kept him from doing his job.

[bigwillq]

21. Approve, for the most part

Those were good days.

[tech3149]

22. Best Republican President we ever had

If it were'nt for the Telecommunications act and NAFTA and supporting the DLC, I might actually like the guy.

[IChing]

23. I like blowjobs

better than jobs that have been blown my cronyism, greed and incompetence.

Success or failure choice in your poll doesn't make it with me.

[Catherine Vincent]

26. Can't have a thread about the Big Dawg and not have a pic!

I truly miss him!

[blm]

27. Approve on most domestic issues, strongly disapprove of closing the books on BushInc

and all their crimes of office.

Because of the decision to cover up for Poppy Bush, all the good he did accomplish was quickly reversed with the Bush2/GOP reign that NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. So what came of all that compromise? Bush2, 9-11, Iraq war.


http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

Democrats, the Truth Still Matters!
By Robert Parry
(First Posted May 11, 2006)

Editor's Note: With the Democratic victories in the House and Senate, there is finally the opportunity to demand answers from the Bush administration about important questions, ranging from Dick Cheney's secret energy policies to George W. Bush's Iraq War deceptions. But the Democrats are sure to be tempted to put the goal of "bipartisanship" ahead of the imperative for truth.

Democrats, being Democrats, always want to put governance, such as enacting legislation and building coalitions, ahead of oversight, which often involves confrontation and hard feelings. Democrats have a difficult time understanding why facts about past events matter when there are problems in the present and challenges in the future.

Given that proclivity, we are re-posting a story from last May that examined why President Bill Clinton and the last Democratic congressional majority (in 1993-94) shied away from a fight over key historical scandals from the Reagan-Bush-I years -- and the high price the Democrats paid for that decision:

My book, Secrecy & Privilege, opens with a scene in spring 1994 when a guest at a White House social event asks Bill Clinton why his administration didn’t pursue unresolved scandals from the Reagan-Bush era, such as the Iraqgate secret support for Saddam Hussein’s government and clandestine arms shipments to Iran.

Clinton responds to the questions from the guest, documentary filmmaker Stuart Sender, by saying, in effect, that those historical questions had to take a back seat to Clinton’s domestic agenda and his desire for greater bipartisanship with the Republicans.

Clinton “didn’t feel that it was a good idea to pursue these investigations because he was going to have to work with these people,” Sender told me in an interview. “He was going to try to work with these guys, compromise, build working relationships.”

>>>>>

[InvisibleTouch]

29. Approve.

Damn, I wish I had the 90's to live over again. I'd do it right this time and enjoy it!

[Uncle Joe]

30. I thought overall he did a decent job, however

he gave an opening to Bush and hurt Al Gore's chances for election in 2000 especially in the moderate to conservative redish states.

I believe the Lewinsky scandal and the ongoing war against Gore by the mass corporate media cost Al, Tennessee, among other states.

I believe the Mass Corporate Media trashed and slandered Al Gore for the better part of two years beginning in March of 99 precisely because he championed the internet, they wanted to remain the sole gate keepers to the truth, and the internet threatened their monopoly on information. They basically called him a liar, trashing his integrity, at the same time camouflaging Bush as the man of honor and integrity, someone you could be comfortable with and the Lewinsky Scandal only made it easier for them to do so.

So whatever good Clinton did was thrown away, when he decided to risk throwing the future away for an affair with an intern.

[TahitiNut]

31. We SHOULD deserve far, far better than Clinton. Sadly, we don't.

Against the values I hold dear, I rate him neutral to negative. Against the 'standard' set by the last FOUR Presidents, he comes out on top ... but that speaks to the tragedy of our social and political culture, imho, and not to what human beings are capable of.