2006-12-30 13:21:23 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
You decide:
Clinton -
The Good:
Improved FMLA
Minimum Wage Increase
Major Tax Reductions
Longest Period of Economic Growth in American History
Created over 2.5 million Jobs
Lowered Inflation Rate
Lowered Unemployment
North American Free Trade Agreement
Significantly reduced the deficit
Balanced the National Budget
The Bad:
Communications Decency Act
Defense of Marriage Act
Black Hawk Down
Showed his slick willy to intern
Lied about it.
George W Bush -
The Good:
*Between 2000 and 2003, productivity grew at the fastest three-year rate in more than 50 years.
*In 2003, President Bush announced the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15-billion initiative to turn the tide in combating the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Just one month after Congress appropriated funds for the president's plan, $350 million was awarded to service providers for critical prevention efforts and to bring life-saving treatment to suffering people in some of the hardest-hit countries in Africa and the Caribbean.
The Bad:
*No Child Left Behind
* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* 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 president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
*Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions 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.
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
* First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
* First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* 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).
* biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
* Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
* With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
* First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
* Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
* Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
* In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
* In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
To be fair, the "bad" list for GWB is a little heavy on the "what I didn't do" side... but often, inactivity is worse than acting wrongly.
2006-12-30 13:45:29 · answer #1 · answered by Tiff 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would say bush because he at least had the balls to go to war and try to find bin ladin. clinton had the chance to take bin ladin down but hesitated and lost that chance when an arab emerates plane flew by him. bush may have made some bad choices but clinton doesn't have the balls to do a mans job. thats the same reason why bush sr. didn't do anything so he pressured his son to do what he didn't have the balls to do. now you see bush sr. and clinton wandering around the country telling stories about hurricane katrina but really there just looking for the balls to put back in the sac. clinton was a democrat too so that explains a lot because instead of going to war, he'd rather not and save money for people on welfare and anybody who's doesn't believe in hard work which are democrats, we all should be thankfull for having a republican president who believes in hard work. we might as well have a communist government than have a democrat as a president. they are almost the same. go read a book.
2006-12-30 13:51:51 · answer #2 · answered by butterboy8626 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
With Obama, it's too early to tell. Though I'm not very impressed with the work he's done. I think it's only fair to judge a presidency after its over because he does still have some time. But I think it's safe to say that Bush was not a good president whatsoever. Clinton did a good job with the economy but I think the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was a middle ground that should have never happened.
2016-05-22 22:26:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What did Bill do?He embarrassed the office,he manipulated white water ,He took credit for the economy he didnt create,he told Berger to hide the pre-millinium documents(so he could take credit fo the spoiling of a terrorist plot foiled by an airport official)he let Osama get away even though he knew that Libia was willing to give him over to us,he left a downed pilot in Iraq(ahter the first war)there for 4 years,he knew about it for three,and as he wandered with shiite caravans whom had hid him amongst them in danger of Saddam who knew he was somewhere in the country there but left him to die because it wouldve hurt his second term chances after Monica,and he bombed the aspirin Factory intstead of taking Osama from the Lybians,and theres a lot more...but most admire this guy
Bush,lowered taxes,began a war with information that congress,and the Clintons were privy to the same info for,kept charachter even after the character assasinations,led us from 9/11 so I'd say Bush was and is the better President
2006-12-30 13:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by stygianwolfe 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No doubt Bill Clinton is & was better than Both Bushes.
2006-12-30 13:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by pinkdogdays 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
clinton sounds like a good president
2006-12-31 03:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by MARKOS KRUGER 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clinton. He may have screwed Monica, but Bush screwed the country.
2006-12-30 15:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by boredom_takes_the_wheel 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Clinton
2006-12-30 13:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by tiny_tim 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Clinton - his actions were unethical but did it affect his function as a president? Did his actions put the whole world into misery? nah!!!!and whatever,he did was none of our business.....
Bush - he didnt cheat on his wife but cheated the whole world and his own countryman
2006-12-30 15:40:27 · answer #9 · answered by nastik 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have to be Bill Clinton at least I agreed with some of the things he did while in office. I can't think of anything that I have agreed on Bush with. So definitely Clinton!
2006-12-30 13:24:13 · answer #10 · answered by Urchin 6 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Clinton. All politicians are manipulative to an extent. I'm not sure what the hell Bush has been doing.
2006-12-30 13:30:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋