2006-10-27 18:49:37 · 11 answers · asked by Lisa M 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Let's break it down, shall we?
Clinton PRO:
*Balanced the budget & paid down the national debt for first time in since Harry Truman was in office
*Cut taxes on 15 million low-income families
*Ordered the U.S. Justice Department to conduct the first-ever crackdown on deadbeat parents
*Signed into law the "Brady bill"
*Had peace and posperity during his term
*Contained Saddam Hussain
*Signed an Executive Order cracking down on federal employees who owe child support
*Reformed federal welfare system
*Cut the federal bureaucracy by more than 100,000 positions
*Banned the manufacture of 19 specific types of deadly assault weapons, while simultaneously protecting hunters' rights by exempting over 650 hunting rifles
*Left office with buget surplus
*Signed the Family and Medical Leave Act
*Hosted the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles
*Created almost six million new jobs during his first two years in office
*Supported and funded head-start program
*Peacefully restored democracy to Haiti
*Signed Crime Bill that put 100,000 new police officers on the street
*Started Americorp program
Clinton CON:
*Had a private extramartial affair
Bush PRO:
Can't think of one
Bush CON:
* First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
*Ignored warning concerning terrorist attack.
*Lied the nation into war in Iraq.
*Didn't send enough troops into Iraq.
*Sent toops into war without all proper equipment needed.
*Ran up record national debt then...
*Gives tax cut to richest one percent of the nation
*Legalizes assalt wepons for private citizens
*Widely expanded the federal goverment
*Ignored North Korea nuculer threat
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
*Allows torture
* Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
*Allowed pharmacial industry to write confusing prescription medicine policy for medicad
*Allowed energy industry write federal energy policy
*Doesn't bring Osama Bin Laudin to justice
*Underminded certain constutional rights with so called patiot act
*Underfunded the national park program so much as to damage it
*Made "no child left behind" program maditory then didn't fund it.
*Wasted national unity and international goodwill after 9-11 terror attack
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
*Ignored hurricane devistation in LA & MS
* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
* Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
*Signed bill for 700 mile boarder fence but not fund it.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
*Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
So who was better for America? To quote Dick Cheney, that's "a no brainer".
2006-10-27 19:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by Do You See What Happens Larry? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rather than giving all the reasons that Clinton was better the one true litmus test is how the general public felt about being an American. While Clinton was in office U.S. Citizens traveling abroad didn't even think once about saying they were Americans. However, in recent years I've been told that if you travel outside the U.S. it is far better to identify yourself as Canadian. At least if you want food without spit in it.
2006-10-27 19:11:41 · answer #2 · answered by Cuthbert 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Clinton was miles better than the Chimp.
2006-10-27 18:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by brian2412 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Bill! But I like how you say "was" because, W is a thing of the past!
2006-10-27 18:51:31 · answer #4 · answered by soulsearcher 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
neither, what you guys need is a black woman to run the country, she will whip everything back into order. from an outsiders point of view, black women seem very empowered, grounded and sincere.
2006-10-27 19:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by noogney 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well if I measure it by my prosperity and happiness Bill but if I measure it by how to be a dick head Bush.
2006-10-27 19:12:37 · answer #6 · answered by Jose R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that like asking is it better to be a child molestor or a serial killer?
2006-10-27 19:34:12 · answer #7 · answered by Jared H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No contest. George Walker Bush in a landslide.
2006-10-27 18:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
They are two heads of the same beast
2006-10-27 18:51:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You can't be serious
2006-10-27 19:20:18 · answer #10 · answered by Ted Kennedy aka Swimmer 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋