Why do Republicans hate Bill Clinton WHEN...?

Question

why do Republicans detest Bill Clinton's presidency when he ended his presidential career with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating of any President since Eisenhower. The numbers don't lie. We miss you Bubba! Please Supreme Court remove the 22th amendment

Don't forget Clinton did a lot to fight terrorism.

IN 1998 Clinton attains a budget surplus for the first time since 1969. IN 1996 Clinton sign into lawan anti terrorism bill that provides for new punishments and strategies to fight terrorism.


On Oct. 2 1995, clinton asks a Republican controlled Congress to authorize 100 FBI agents to investigate potential terrorist plans and permit the armed forces to probe crimes related to chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The REPUBLICAN controlled Congress rejects the proposal.

Answer 1

To the first poster, or rather poster child for the republican echo chamber of distrotion.
The truth only hurts republican lying punks
like yourself.....cause you need a reality check

Its funny some jerk will bring up the cole....and be a complete hypocrit with regards to the Bush admin.

Hypocrit.

Myers: You named in the spring of 2001 that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks on the U.S.S. Cole. Why didn't you retaliate?

Rice: The U.S.S. Cole was a terrible, terrible incident. And it demonstrated yet again that Osama bin Laden was a threat to the United States. We really felt that after 1998 when they had bombed the embassies and the response had not been an overwhelming military response that, in fact, it had a tendency to embolden the — the terrorists.

And we were worried, particularly since in the campaign we had said we wouldn't have pinprick strikes using military force. We were concerned that we didn't have good military options. That really all we had were options like using cruise missiles to go after training camps that had long since been abandoned and that it might have just the opposite effect. It might, in fact, embolden the terrorist not — not frighten them or not think that they were being taken seriously. Our response to the U.S.S. Cole was to get a strategy in place that could finally eliminate the threat of al-Qaida to the United States.
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We caught and convited those responsible for the first WTC bombing.....your crack dose must be really high today. or your a liar. which is it. we did it without invading Iraq too F####head.


according to richard clarke...


HEMMER: You paint a picture of a White House obsessed with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Why do you believe that was the case?

CLARKE: Because I was there and I saw it. You know, the White House is papering over facts, such as, in the weeks immediately after 9/11, the president signed a national security directive instructing the Pentagon to prepare for the invasion of Iraq. Even though they knew at the time from me, from the FBI, from the CIA that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

HEMMER: The White House says that before they even arrived at the White House, the previous administration was obsessed with nothing. I want you to look at a picture that we saw last week from NBC News -- an Al Qaeda terrorist training camp outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. They allege, at the time, why wasn't anything done to take al Qaeda out. This was August of 2000. ( Full story)

CLARKE: Well, a great deal was done. The administration stopped the al Qaeda attacks in the United States and around the world at the millennium period, they stopped al Qaeda in Bosnia, they stopped al Qaeda from blowing up embassies around the world, they authorized covert lethal action by the CIA against al Qaeda, they retaliated with cruise missile strikes into Afghanistan, they got sanctions against Afghanistan from the United Nations. There was a great deal the administration did, even though at the time, prior to 9/11, al Qaeda had arguably not done a great deal to the United States.

If you look at the eight years of the Clinton administration, al Qaeda was responsible for the deaths of fewer than 50 Americans over those eight years. Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, where 300 Americans were killed in Lebanon and there was no retaliation. Contrast that with the first Bush administration where 260 Americans were killed on Pan-Am 103 and there was no retaliation.

I would argue that for what had actually happened prior to 9/11, the Clinton administration was doing a great deal. In fact, so much that when the Bush people came into office they thought I was a little crazy, a little obsessed with this "little terrorist" [Osama] bin Laden. Why wasn't I focused on Iraqi-sponsored terrorism.

HEMMER: It seems like this could go for pit for pat, almost a ping-pong match. [I'd like to] show you a couple of images of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, a few weeks before the election that saw George Bush take the White House. Prior to that, August 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. Embassy bombings there. If you want to go back to Beirut, Lebanon, the early 1980's, the White House is now saying go back to 1998, back to the fall of 2000.

CLARKE: Right, and what happened after 1998? There was a military retaliation against al Qaeda and the covert action program was launched, the U.N. sanctions were obtained. The administration did an all-out effort compared to what the Bush administration did. The Bush administration did virtually nothing during the first months of the administration, prior to 9/11.

President Bush himself said in a book when he gave an interview to Bob Woodward, he said "I didn't feel a sense of urgency about al Qaeda. It was not my focus, it was the focus of my team." He is saying that. President Bush said that to Bob Woodward. I'm not the first one to say this.
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Dec 92

US President George Bush launches Somalia intervention
Deteriorating security prevents the UN mission from delivering food and supplies to the starving Somalis. Relief flights are looted upon landing, food convoys are hijacked and aid workers assaulted. The UN appeals to its members to provide military forces to assist the humanitarian operation.

With only weeks left in his term as president, George Bush responds to the UN request, proposing that US combat troops lead an international UN force to secure the environment for relief operations. On December 5, the UN accepts his offer, and Bush orders 25,000 US troops into Somalia. On December 9th, the first US Marines land on the beach.

Bush assures the American people and troops involved that this is not an open ended commitment; the objective is to quickly provide a secure environment so that food can get through to the starving Somalis, and then the operation will be turned over to the UN peacekeeping forces. He assures the public that he plans for the troops to be home by Clinton's inauguration in January.

This US-led United Task Force (UNITAF) is dubbed "Operation Restore Hope."

Oct 93
Clinton's response: withdraw troops
President Clinton decides to cut his losses. He sends substantial combat troops as short term reinforcements, but declares that American troops are to be fully withdrawn from Somalia by March 31. The hunt for Aidid is abandoned, and US representatives are sent to resume negotiations with the warlord. Two weeks later, in a letter to President Clinton, General Garrison accepts full responsibility for what happened in the battle.


Bush 1 sent troops in for a temp mission, we pulled out without going full scale......Republicans are funny because they weren't about to go to war in Somolia.
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[In 2003] ABC anchorman Charlie Gibson completely agreed: "Any time that you show bodies, it is simply disrespectful, in my opinion." For ABC, wartime reporting apparently meant avoiding "troubling" and "disrespectful" dispatches. Meanwhile, CBS officials at the time also vowed not to air any images of the dead U.S. troops.
That represented a dramatic departure from the standard used just 10 years earlier during president Clinton's first term, when most major American television outlets aired a grotesque news clip of a bloated U.S. soldier's corpse being dragged through the dusty streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, after rebels there shot down American helicopters and killed a dozen soldiers. The incident became the basis for the book and movie, Black Hawk Down. In 1993 the MSM saw clear news value in the awful images, and what they suggested about the failure of U.S. foreign policy, and gave them prominent play. They simply reported the event as news, which it was.

CNN was counted among them. At the time, the channel's, executive vice president for news gathering, Ed Turner, was adamant about putting the disturbing images on the air. "We are in the job of reporting. You hate to distress people, but it sort of goes with the territory," said Turner. In 1993 CBS's nightly newscast also broadcast the gruesome clips from Mogadishu. In fact, CBS aired the most graphic of all the three networks; footage of three Somalis standing over the body of a U.S. soldier and jamming the muzzle of their rifles into the soldier's backside.


But in 2006, both CNN and CBS saw virtually no news value in a similar video clip from Iraq. Not only did CNN and CBS fail to air the images, but both news outlets essentially ignored their very existence.

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the guy also says clinton ignored his CIA and FBI, that just straight out lying, it makes that guy sound like a complete jerk as he knows he is lying.

The FBI dropped the ball, when it refused to listen to John Oniel
Al Queda is story of internal disputes between the CIA and the FBI.
Blaming Clinton again is just BS.
for more info refer to
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/view/

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As for white water there was no crime, it was millions of dollars spent by Richard Mellonscafe. The same guy who paid state troopers to lie.

then millions of dollars and Ken Star to find nothing. why do you think it came down to a blue dress....millions of dollars and thats it?
great reading on the subject...

http://www.amazon.com/Blinded-Right-Ex-Conservative-David-Brock/dp/1400047285/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a/102-7740686-8020121?ie=UTF8

do you really think Clintons enemies would let something like that go.
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That guy brings up the didn't inhale.............


Please we have a current president with a DUI, a F##ken DUI.
he has basically admitted being a former coke head.
again the hypocracy is laughable.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans....

see that dot dot dot .....it means there is more to that quote.

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles...that we are unable to think about reality."


But here is a full bush quote....

"So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you."
Regarding Osama

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator


you really don't want to throw stones in Bushes glass house.

peace out SUCKA!!

Answer 2

well i am not a republican nor a democrat nor an independant! i am non partasin! There for i am not affiated with any party! however i don't hate clinton and i dont hate bush! they both made mistakes some big ones! however no one is perfect! and as to the state of the country well we are in a huge mess with national debt and some one needs to find a way to get us the heck out of it! as to the terroirsim issues i think our goverment is doing what it can to protect us from anything bad happening!

Answer 3

Mainly because Clinton stole the Republican's thunder by actually DOING what the Republican's said they would (balance the budget, reform welfare, improve the economy).

Clinton was easily the best president in 20 years.

Somalia was not Clinton, it was Bush senior

Condi Rice has admitted in testimony before the Senate that the Bush admin was warned strongly about the bin Laden threat but at the time had "other priorities" (her words). So, whose fault was 9/11?

Answer 4

Clinton WHO?

Oh, yeah, the guy who was too busy chasing skirts & turning the White House into a whorehouse to do anything effective - the guy who ensured the CIA and the FBI could not exchange information on terrorists that would have certainly revealed and stopped the 9/11 plot.

THAT Clinton. I remember him! The one that was IMPEACHED! Thank GOD he was not convicted as Gore would then have been President and WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH OF A DISASTER THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN!

I hear a lot of crap about how the Dems are gonna sweep the next election. Same crap I heard in 2004, 2002 and 2000...

Yeah, go ahead and remove the 22nd amendment, PLEASE, since the incumbent always has a strong advantage and we could certainly use 4 MORE YEARS OF GEORGE BUSH. He may suck at some things but he's winning the war on terror, something "bubba" didn't have a clue about. They offered Osama to him on a silver platter AND HE REFUSED!

Yeah, he did good... MY ***!

Answer 5

I don't think Clinton was strong on terrorism. I don't think he was a bad president though. As with most Presidents, including our current one, they do many good things but are trashed for some of the bad things.

I personally thought the whole cigar/intern issue was BS blown all out of proportion. That should have been a Bill/Hillary problem.

I liked Bill Clinton.

Answer 6

If you look at those numbers it looks like all of the Democrats & all of the independents liked Clinton. Only the republicans disapproved. I quess that is because there is a lot more money in war than in BJ's.

Answer 7

Why would you remove the 22nd amendment? Then President Bush can run and win again. Not that I am complaining, I'm just saying from your view. And I don't think all Republicans hate Bill Clinton. I don't and I voted Republican in 2004. I think it is unfair to make general statements like that.

Answer 8

Republicans know that Clinton was right on the issues, was successful and good for America. The hidden agenda of the republicans is not to better or protect America, but to make their billionaire backers richer. Of course they know as well as Clinton what was right and good for America, but they cannot follow their hidden agenda (as stated above) and at the same time do good for America. Those are two goals that run entirely contrary to another. They have chosen to make their billionaire backers richer come what may.
The ordinary American is used to foot the bill and bear the burden of this fascist regime. Actually... the world is being burdened with the Republican agenda.

Answer 9

The approval ratings perhaps were there but, they do not reflect anything other than he was liked.. they do not reflect effectiveness. His most evident lack of effectiveness involved the many attacks of the US and its property.. There were many other areas where being effective would have made a much greater difference.

Answer 10

Republicans hate Clinton because he did what they cant get a Republican president to do- HIS JOB!!
It is easier to go after his human flaws, he was male and liked BJ's

Answer 11

Clinton was a complete and TOTAL failure dealing with terrorism. Where were YOU during that time?

Approval ratings mean NOTHING during a time of war. No one likes war, and Presidents are always blamed for them.

Yikes...

1. President Clinton's FAILURE in Somalia

2. President Clinton's FAILURE to address the bombing of the USS Cole.

3. President Clinton's FAILURE to address the first bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. He in fact intially refused to admit it was a terrorist incident!

4. President Clinton's FAILURE to listen to CIA and FBI chiefs about the threat of Osama bin Laden. "A bureaucratic feud and President Clinton's indifference kept America blind and deaf as bin Laden plotted."

5. President Clinton single-handedly reduced the office of President to a laughing stock due to his appetite for overweight interns.

6. President Clinton's little White Water fiasco.

7. President Clinton's failure to reform health care. (special shout out to Hilary for her part in this)

8. By 1994, Republicans had launched an aggressive attack on Clinton that delivered Republican majorities in both houses of Congress for the first time since 1955. Way to go, Willy!

9. President Clinton's impeachment by the House of Representatives on charges of having lied under oath.

10. President Clinton's lies about never using marijuana.

11. Want a small disaster? At the opening of the Holocaust Memorial, 1993. A luncheon was served afterwards for the distinguished Jewish guests and foreign dignitaries. The main entree' was Honey baked Ham.

12. "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans"

- President Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)