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Originally posted by skywalker:
Tell me John, what is your summation of Bill Clinton as President and otherwise?
Mark
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I gave My summation of President Clinton as a leader on another thread, I'm to lazy to find it
I believe I rated him as about 65% leader. As President, Bill Clinton did some good things Wefare reform, NAFTA, shutting down the Gov't over the budget, Slapping Sodamn Insane when he was implicated in the 1992-93 plot to kill George H. Bush in Kuwait. I believe he was right on the Ellan Gonzales(sp?) issue, the boy should have gone back to his father no matter where his father lived or what political form the country his father had. I wasn't hot on His methods in Kosovo, I think the European Countries should have taken a larger role. National Healthcare was and is a joke, it must be paid for some way, and that means more taxes, the more money you take out of the economy for taxes is less money the people earning the money have to spend. The tax increases of 1993 prolonged the recovery(check the figures) it was not until after the 1994 revolt of angry white men that elected a Rep. House of Representatives that started holding down spending that the deficit started to shrink and the economy really started to move. He screwed the pooch in Waco. He was correct in hitting Iraq in 1998 for WoMD's and the problems SH was giving the inspectors. He failed in following up the attacks in Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Yemmen. He failed to give what was needed in Mogadeshu(sp?) and with the Israeli/Palestian peace( not that anybody could do a damn thing there). He failed to deliver the promised middleclass tax cut, saying "I never worked harder on anything but couldn't come up with one." I don't give a rat's rear end about him feeling my pain, I wanted him to not put obsticals in my way of sloving my own problems. He cut a deal with Indoniasia(sp?) to harvest their coal, the seconded largest coal deposits in the world, yet closed off most of our coal deposits out west, the LARGEST coal deposits in the world, with an executive order making us more dependant on foriegn sources for energy.
On a personal note he was a lying SOB, based on a couple of 1992 New Hampshire primary interviews he gave, in which he was asked about what he had to say when people accused him of
AVOIDING going to Veitnam His reply was he did nothing to avoid Veitnam. The very next day the same reporter asked him how he could say that when they had the letter he wrote to his ROTC instructor trying to get out of ROTC and his loathing of the military. ROTC is
Voluntary a person is not made to join ROTC one must
Volunteer for it. When confronted by this Mr. Clinton said, "he said he did nothing to avoid the draft, not service in Veitnam", which was not what he had said the day before, and then went on the say anybody that said otherwise was lying. He said one thing, then said he didn't say it, and anybody that said he did was lying. That told me all I needed to know about the man right there. And he has piss poor taste in women, with the execption of Jennifer Flowers, the rest of them were last call ladies.
Now for your summation on President Bush.