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Was Bill Clinton truly a good/great President, or did he just get lucky?
Was Bill Clinton truly a good/great President, or did he just get lucky?
I like that analogy.Clinton was a good to very good president, but he brought great shame to the office. Bill is to the presidency what Pete Rose did to baseball.
No, the dot-com boom was not his doing. In that sense he did get lucky for being in the right place at the right time. But, I give him serious kudos for what he did do with the dot-com boom... he did nothing.He showed what a nation can do when a Republican Congress chooses to work with, not just against, a Democratic president. But the outstanding '90s economy wasn't all him.
I actually think he did some pretty bad stuff, and he only got lucky in the sense that he had left office by the time we started seeing the true impact.
I have long held that history will be much more negative about Clinton than it was during his presidency. And we're just starting to see the first signs of that.
Clinton was a good to very good president, but he brought great shame to the office. Bill is to the presidency what Pete Rose did to baseball.
His Bozo "ending welfare as we know it" and his even more Bozo "sure, let the bankers do what ever the **** they want" rank up there in the "bad stuff" department. Over the years it has become more clear how much he contributed to the F'ed up "justice system", I might soon include this with the other two mentioned.
All in all Clinton is a good argument for NOT having a wannabe policy wonk in the POTUS chair.
Carter even more so.
Clinton was a good to very good president, but he brought great shame to the office. Bill is to the presidency what Pete Rose did to baseball.
Pete Rose has been treated unfairly by Baseball, couldn't you have used the Black Sox Scandal instead?
If you don't want a bad president than why do you support the biggest idiot to ever likely get the nomination for the republican party? You know, the orange wacko?
You mean the other major gambling controversy? :roll:
Was Bill Clinton truly a good/great President, or did he just get lucky?
Pete Rose has been treated unfairly by Baseball, couldn't you have used the Black Sox Scandal instead?
I grew up watching Reds baseball, I thought Rose was the greatest. As I got older and learned more about Rose I was very disappointed in him. He was great on the field but brought shame in his actions.
Clinton was a good to very good president, but he brought great shame to the office. Bill is to the presidency what Pete Rose did to baseball.
Was Bill Clinton truly a good/great President, or did he just get lucky?
Clinton was a good to very good president, but he brought great shame to the office. Bill is to the presidency what Pete Rose did to baseball.
Let's avoid turning yet another thread into the subject of "The alleged flaws of one Hawkeye10", MKay?
Besides, I have answered this question at length and repeatedly.
Seriously.