2007-08-01 16:22:16 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You Can Bet YOUR BOOTS, I Sure Miss Bill Clinton! And I Will Keep Missing Him, Until He and Hillary are Back In The White House! He Is The Best President We Have had Since Kennedy. He Had OUR Budget Balanced and Un-employment Lower than It Had been in 32 Yrs!! He Intimidates A Lot of People with his Wisdom and Charisma.........But He Is A Real Gentleman, and A REAL MAN! (Not a Whoosey) O.K?
2007-08-01 16:51:25 · answer #1 · answered by minnetta c 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a little scary how some people either are quick to forget recent history or are willing to rewrite it to suit their assumptions.
Bill Clinton had no core values that anyone could ever discern. Even his campaign manager, James Carville said so. All Clinton ever wanted, since he met JFK when Bill was part of the Arkansas 4-H club.
As a president, he was pretty much a rock star. He loved to take a huge entourage of friends and relatives and fly around the world. As a leader he was out to lunch.
He loved the trappings, power and prestige the presidency brought him but did very little of note. After loosing congress to the republicans in his first term, he spent the rest of his presidency pretty much signing most of the bills Congress passed into law.
All his administration was known for was focus groups. On any issue, he would have his people run it by focus groups to find out what sounded most popular. Whatever the results were, he would adopt as his position.
This is far from leadership. It did manage to make people like him which it seems was all he cared about. His administration was best summed up, although somewhat inadvertantly, by George Stephanopoulos (press secretary) when he was asked whether president intended to keep his campaing promises. The response was, " The president has kept all the promises he intended to keep". That says it all.
Although everyone rememebers president Clinton for his trist with a White House intern, his presidency was pretty much a mixture of inaction on important issues, allowing the republican congress to run the economy and jet setting around the world.
He was and remains the consumate politician, that not necessarily a compliment. There are no great defining moments, no great inspiring quotations nor any historical achievements.
A powerful argument can be made that, had Ross Perot not run as a third party spoiler, Clinton would not have been president. He never achieved more than a plurality of the three way split vote. Never did he get a majority. In a sense, more people voted against him than for him.
Was he the worst president? No. Was he a bad president? No. Was he a significant president? No. He pretty much avoided making any significant decisions for eight years.
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2007-08-01 17:06:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
High? Sorry what exactly did Bill Clinton do directly during his administration that was so great? Seriously, what did Bill Clinton support and push thru that was all his that was so great? People give this guy a lot of credit for basically a fairly noneventful presidency and the major events he did go thru, like the several terrorists attacks and military skirmishes he did oversee were not exactly great successes. So please someone explain why this person can claim Clintons bar was set high?
2007-08-01 16:36:54 · answer #3 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Actually Clinton set the bar so low that anyone could do better than him. I don't miss him, any more than I miss the terrorist attacks we had every 6 months while he was in office. Anymore than I miss the fact that he ignored the fact we had a developing threat in Al Quada that he could do nothing but make a "legal" problem.
2007-08-01 16:29:07 · answer #4 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I never actually hated him, his antics kept me amused for eight years.
It's gotta be hard for Democrats to attempt to make a point against Bush and have to re-visit Clinton history. I feel your pain!
2007-08-01 16:30:28 · answer #5 · answered by GIVRO 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. I don't miss him. I don't hate him though. I don't care for the way he acted as president. he lacked the maturity that a president should have. I can say he knew how to have a good time though.
2007-08-01 16:32:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I guess liberals consider impeachment and disbarment setting the bar high...
2007-08-01 16:32:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Your Frikkin funny man!
2007-08-01 16:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bill set the bar so high that midgets could step over it.
2007-08-01 16:26:57 · answer #9 · answered by Dude 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Bill was the man. He was the consummate politician and intelligent as all get out. He wrote better speeches than speech writers. Fiscally, he knew the big picture and how to manipulate the little things for a better outcome.
2007-08-01 16:24:54 · answer #10 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 6⤊ 6⤋