whats your evaluation of Clintons presidency?

Question

how do you think it will be viewed by historians

Answer 1

Outstanding..peace abroad and prosperity at home...and he broke new ground on the definition of sexual behavior

Answer 2

Depends on what is being evaluated.

Statesmanship----very high marks

Judgment -- very iffy

Popularity -- very high around the world

Leadership -- generally good. Built the army that destroyed Saddam, stopped genocide in Yugoslavia.

Vision -- iffy. Not sure NAFTA will prove to be a good idea. Don't think Clinton was a long-view kind of guy like say FDR.

Intelligence --- very high

Communicator--- very high

Grace under Pressure -- excellent. he survived constant lunatic attacks against him and defeated his enemies re: whitewater (a bust for the GOP) and impeachment. Tough.

I'd say he'll get about a B. Not a great president but he did well by the country. He presided over the largest economic expansion in US history, before or since.

He didn't do well by himself or by the dignity of the office of the Presidency however. Had he lived in JFKs time, he'd have gotten away with it. (not that he should have, but JFK did and now we love him don't we?)

Answer 3

One of the best Presidencies in our history.
My "top ten" BEST U.S. Presidents:
10. Theodore Roosevelt
9. John F. Kennedy
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. Harry Truman
6. Dwight D. Eisenhower
5. Jimmy Carter
4. William J. Clinton
3. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
1. Abraham Lincoln

My "top five" WORST U.S. Presidents (so far):
5. Herbert Hoover
4. Lyndon B. Johnson
3. George H.W. Bush
2. Ronald Reagan
1. George W. Bush

Answer 4

Well, obviously a very popular president. You'll probably get a lot of answerers who regard him as some sort of liberal ideologue but lets not forget he was a major backer of NAFTA, and the WTO, which haven't exactly helped the American laborer. Over all I would think he would be view a bit above average. C+ to a B.

Answer 5

Mediocre, perhaps above average. He had no great accomplishment so he may be forgotten n a few generations. I mean how many consider Calvin Coolidge a great President. Prosperity at home, peace abroad, balanced budgets sounds like Clinton's claim for greatness.

Answer 6

A total disaster ! This will be the only logical conclusion to what Clinton failed to do as president.

Truly, Clinton's accomplishment were very few. The economy was already on it's ear before this guy left office. The attacks on our country were shamefully ignored. His one potentially positive was NAFTA, and even that fell on it's butt, even before Clinton was gone.

Militarily, every where you look, the guy couldn't get it right. This is because he himself feared the military complex. The archives are obliged to get it right, without shading the truth. It will difficult to put a positive spin on Clinton's accomplishments. This man should walk away, and never look back !

Answer 7

A better question, what will the legacy of Bush's Presidency be, the numbers of American soldiers' deaths will be well over 4,000, and for what? And what of our state in the world where whole nations don't respect us anymore, I could go on but I'll leave it to others write that list, which continues to grow, these are indeed sad times.

I have yet to see a list of Bush's 'great accomplishments',
there's a lol moment.

Answer 8

.The second worst President Ever next to Jimmy Carter being the worst. Epitome of Liberal stupidity! UMMMMM *** you really think he did well for the Country ???? He gave N Kora the Nuclear threat we face today He left office excuse me I mean He was Impeached !!!! This is what proves Liberals are Morons .They bash Bush but stick up for this Idiot

Answer 9

ill wait for the historians to write it , i believe he was a good moderate republican, at lest he voted and proposed ideals that were

Answer 10

Im not voting for hillary but they did do alot of good things, I live in new york and alot of the areas in manhattan were terrible places to go and they really fixed them up so i will give them that, but hillary tried to "fix" the healthcare system and she fried it and now as president she wants to "fix" it again..

Answer 11

He screwed everything that moved in the White House and his wife looked the other way and called it a Right Wing Conspiracy.