Was Bill Clinton such a bad president?

Question

He had the lowest amount of people on welfare in 30 years and he was doing pretty good. So what if he was getting some action.

Answer 1

Gas prices were 1.30 a gallon
unemployment was at an all time low
largest period of sustained growth our economy has ever seen.

He wasn't a good president, he was a GREAT president.

If only the Republican congress hadn't tied his hands in response to his efforts to combat terrorism. (One of his attempts to kill Osama bin Laden were denounced as "wagging the dog")

Answer 2

I've promised myself never to argue in relation to religion, sports or political issues, but the only thing I know for sure (even though I may sound stupid or naive) there has never been and will never exist a perfect President, as "perfection" does not exist within the human race.
Maybe in the, not so far away, future someone will come up with the idea of having a robot as president, or a computer that can make decisions by itself as we have seen on sci-fi movies & books. That would probably come the nearest to perfection to our eyes, because our expectations of a "good president" may be too high.

Answer 3

over all I think Clinton was a good president. Life was better, more jobs, more peace in the world, welfare reform.

I do not condone his behavior with monica but I will tell you this. He didn't do anything the rest (including congress and senate) haven't done. He just got caught. Actually the issue should have been between he and his wife and not America. It did not affect the way he ran the country.

if he could run again, I'd vote for him again

Answer 4

I don't care for the getting some action part of his presidency...but that is a long story...yes the economy was good and that is why so many of us liked him...

Now that I understand more about the economy I dont' know if that was ALL HIM, but the only thing I couldn't stand about Bill was his inability to stand by the people he appointed and the various whores in his past and present...

Answer 5

Lowest unemployment rate in decades. Highest budget surplus in decades. (Actually only surplus in many decades). Lowest crime rate in several years. Lowest rate of high school drop outs in decades. Reduction in teen pregnancies. More good will with other countries than any president in recent history. Foiled a very bad neocon agenda by not allowing them to shove strict laws on abortion, flag burning, and gay marriage down our throats instead letting that be done other ways.

Answer 6

He was a so so president but a lot of what he accomplished were the results of legislation put in place when Reagan was in office. The "trickle down" effect finally trickled down and he got the credit for it.

I don't think he was a true Democrat but more of a Democrat with a lot of Republican ideals.

Presidents are just figureheads and are surrounded by people that accomplish most of the work. Some presidents have ideas or plans but most lack the intelligence or ability to put them in action without a lot of help from others.

I don't know of any one person on Earth that can be a financial expert, foreign policy expert, domestic policy expert, trade expert, etc. etc without help from people who specialize in those areas.

Answer 7

I think Clinton was a good president. He did make wrong decisions but all of them did but his over-all time in office was positive. He will go down in history with a better legacy than the current president. I think Bush will end up with being the worst president, even worse than Carter

Answer 8

Under President Clinton the country actually had a surplus in the trillions of dollars. Compare that with the current administration and you will see a world of difference. Except for that little stint with monica which I believed was a setup, he was a wonderful president.........

Answer 9

His refusal to deal with foreign policy issues that led directly to the events of 9/11 were one of his biggest drawbacks, As well as his entire 2 terms be spoiled by scandal after scandal, the list is too long to put here, but there were about 20 in his 2 terms. He is a consumate politician, just wasn't a good President.

Answer 10

Just what exactly did he accomplish?
For all that the liberal/left loves to think of themselves as such intellectual superiors, they certainly have a collective memory like a sieve for anything that doesn't support their political mythology.
1. He campaigned not once, but both times on saving Social Security. What did he do? Nothing.
2. He had eight years to form an energy policy.
What did he do? Nothing.
3. He had eight years to reform, or at least improve public education.
What did he do? You guessed it, Nothing.
4. He had eight years to work on Health care. What did he do?
Nada.
5. He eight years to work on presciption drugs. What did he do? Zip.
6. In his eight years as Chief Executive Stud, He cut the size of the army by two whole divisions, and, along with his thug (thugess?) Janet Reno, produced a series of rules and executive orders that all but tied the hands of the CIA, and FBI from working together or sharing information sensitive to U.S. security.
7. In eight years, he had Osama in his sights at least ten times and never had the nerve to pull the trigger, and now braggs about getting "closer" than anybody else. Like that means anything.
8. He was played like a cheap fiddle by Kim Jong IL with his devil's bargain of supplies for curtailing nuclear developement.
(Can the liberals at least try to remember that Saddam was buying his Scud and Scud II missiles from N. Korea?)
9. It wasn't until the republicans gained control of congress for the first time in forty years that the economy began to roll again. ( of course no-one is supposed to remember fix the economy stupid!)
10. Naturally the liberal/left and their toadies in the press love to bragg about the supposed budget surplus that we were supposed to have had. They do this by leaving out one little word. That word was "projected." Late in his second term, the GAO (that's Government Accounting Office for you elites)
found that if everything remained as it was for the next ten years, we would have a budget surplus. But the spin doctors got to work early to make sure that any shortfall would certainly fall on republican shoulders.
Damn fine LEADERSHIP is all I can say.

Answer 11

Yes and BS. His economy was spiraling down into the toilet, he closed way too many military bases and crippled this country when it came to security. I still followed his lead cause he was president but I never like the man or woman.