Was Clinton a good president?

Answer 1

No.

Economically, he took credit for the boom that began before he took office and signed into law the tax increase that was such a major contributor to the recession. For some reason, I think it makes more sense to judge a president's economic performance based not on how he found it, but how he left it.

Domestically, he passed the phenomenally successful welfare reform bill only after vetoing it twice and public opinion turned against him on this issue. He also allowed the diastrous Hillary-care nonsense to see the light of day.

As an example of leadership he engaged in questionable behavior not least of which committing perjury (for which he was later disbarred) while in office.

And internationally, he oversaw the intervention in more places around the globe than just about any other president including the fiasco in Somalia (which, while a UN mission overall, was scuttled by his micromanaging and later he facilitated Aidid's slaugher of his opposition), the still-ongoing adventure in Bosnia, etc. while largely ignoring the threats that ultimately caused so many problems under the current administartion.

Once the cult of personality has worn off, Clinton will be properly viewed as a president on par with James K. Polk. If you said "who?", you get the point.

Answer 2

No. Everyone wants to say that clinton did such a good jub running this country because his time as president was so prosperous. People fail to realize that this country's economy doesnt turn over in a day. Clinton was riding on the success set up by his predecessors bush and reagan, who had things just about straightened out in this country. Clinton had eight years to flush all that hard work away, which is why Bush has had to work so hard to restore it during his time in office.

Let's not forget that clinton was offered Bin Laden twice, and let him go. In one instance, army rangers had crosshairs on the guys head, and clinton gave the order to stand down.

Lets not also forget that famous line which clinton repeated OVER AND OVER in his campaigning "WE NEED TO REINSTILL FAMILY VALUES IN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE". I dont agree that getting a BJ in the oval office would qualify as something to fit in with family values. Nor would lying about it under oath.

Answer 3

He was a good president, but missed his chance to be one of our greatest Presidents. He did a lot of good things, i.e. the economy, reducing the deficit, diplomacy, etc.. I think he tried his best. He was probably one of our smartest Presidents, a Rhodes scholar. I do wish he did not have affairs and had stayed faithful to his wife. I think a President should be a good role model and in that sense he was not. I would probably say that if I had a choice a President lying about an affair is less egregious than one who lies about invading another country however.

I would hope that our next President would be a more honest person who would believe in being truthful to the American public which I don't feel either of our last two Presidents have been, and yes, we can handle it!!!

Answer 4

Like every president before him he had his flaws but i do find it ironic that he is labelled incorrectly as liberal. He was more of a consensus builder then he is often given credit for, which in my mind would make him, which made him good in this era of partisanship. I would like my president to show more of a moral compass(I mean really, be smarter when your the leader of the free world, getting caught with an intern, how cliche). But overall, his economic numbers were good, he managed some good accomplishments while dealing with an opposite party congress, and he was the first president to at least attempt to put initiatives on terrorism out there(even if they mostly got shot down by a Republican congress).

Answer 5

Eh. He was so-so. I guess that's better than the disaster we have now, though.

To pre-empt the Republicans who are going to complain about him gutting the military: The purse-strings are held by Congress, which was dominated by the Republicans for 6 of his 8 years in office. Also, the Cold War had just ended so they figured we didn't need quite so many weapons.

To pre-empt the Republicans who are going to complain about him not chasing down terrorists: Many terrorists who committed acts against America were arrested under his watch. When he ordered military strikes, people screamed "WAG THE DOG! MURDERER!" It's also noteworthy that the USS Cole was bombed just weeks before Bush came into office; Clinton said Bush could handle it. They ignored it. Yeah, Bush really went after terrorists post-9/11, but any president would have done the same after an event of that magnitude.

Oh, and for crying out loud, STOP WHINING ABOUT MONICA! If you were married to Hillary, you'd probably look for a little somethin' somethin' on the side, too. And you'd probably lie about it because you wouldn't want Hillary to find out.

Answer 6

Yes is the honest answer to the question.

What he did with Lewinsky is a bad choice that caused the Democrats the chance to hold the White House and gave Bush the opportunity to screw up this country.

Good president, yes. Bad choice of having an affair in office, also yes.

Answer 7

He may have been effective in some ways, although at this moment those ways elude me, but when it comes right down to it all we are are our word and integrity. With Clinton his word ended up meaning nothing and he had very little integrity. We assume that presidents lie to the people or at the least cover things up, but to have one admit that he lied only when he got caught and had already told us the exact opposite was unbelievable.

Answer 8

Absolutely not - in fact history in hindsight, which is 20/20 once outside the glare of bias from the liberal media (which have now dropped all pretense of being fair and balanced), is already beginning to show. More will be revealed as time goes by but we already are seeing that not only was the Clintonian regime's inaction on combating terrorism (not to mention the offensive sexual decadence paraded through the media) partially responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but also in comparison to today's economy the Clintonian economics was not really good at all. What was originally reaped was a result of Reaganomics, after being subjected to eight years of Marxist/socialist wealth redistribution programs (which they tried - unsuccessfully - to top of with nationalized health care), it was in fact headed for a recession. Luckily for us this recession was averted by the timely arrival of Bush's tax rebates and cuts. Before you begin to moan that this fact flies in the face of the manipulative rhetoric of media repetitive brainwashing given to you as gospel, actually look at the numbers (DOW, NASDAQ, S&P, etc.) for yourself, and contrast them to the numbers today. As you do this also factor in that this boon is occuring during wartime which usually depresses a country's economy.

Answer 9

No he wasn't. He gives a great speech. I'll give him that.

And we should not vote Hillary in. She has socialist plans. Do you really want her deciding what health care you receive. Nothing is free. Everything comes with a price. How is she going to pay for Universal Health Care. We aren't hearing about that side of it. Everyone is just saying yea yea, count me in as long as it's free. Well, it;s gonna cost you something and that something is your choosing what care you recieve. Once government is paying the bill, soon after they will start to rationalize and think about what care is given and who recieves it. Why do you think euthanasia is getting more thumbs up? Because under universal health care, eventually that will become an option in an endeavor to save money. This is a slippery slope we are embarking on. I hope people think long and hard about what they are asking for. We cannot give control of our health to government.

Answer 10

No. He not only "didn't inhale" and "didn't have sexual relations with that woman," but he also got money to pardon several criminals right before he left office. He also did nothing about 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and he did nothing about 1999 bombing of the USS Cole.