William Jefferson Clinton

[JuniperLea]

I posted this link on another thread while discussing the idiots in Freeperville who were calling Clinton "The Drop-Out Kid". I recalled he was a Rhodes Scholar, so I looked for a bio. Quite frankly, I'm surprised the current mis-administration allows this to remain on the White House website!


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During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.

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He excelled as a student and as a saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician. As a delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President John Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. The encounter led him to enter a life of public service.

Clinton was graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas.



http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/bc42.html


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He may not have been the best, but in comparison to what we have now, he was PERFECT!


Those were the days, my friend...

[mdmc]

1. I think that JFK might have been able to get a second term

if Poppy had let him live.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Isn't that the truth ! While J.F.K. was saving lives ,Poppy was bailing

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Bill , arguably the best Manager ,this country has ever had.

Considering R.F.K. never got a chance ,he would of been up there.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. I bet Bobby would have been President

if Poppy had let him live.

[mdmc]

14. oh snap!

:kick:

[RufusEarl]

8. Every time i think of JFK Jr,

i can't help but think he would have been the future of america. Then i think of the Bu$h family, and how they have changed history, for the worst!

[madinmaryland]

2. That is a breath of fresh air!!

Thank you!!!

[JuniperLea]

16. You're welcome

We needed a break, didn't we?

[Catherine Vincent]

3. I'll recommend this.

Anything for big Bill. :)

[Jacobin]

7. I miss him

He wasn't perfect (who is?), but he was in the main a highly qualified, careful, extremely intelligent and responsible president. That's all you can ask for. Besides which fact, it was nice being able to travel to a foreign country and not have to hide the fact that you were from the U.S. Besides which fact he didn't run around starting bullshit wars.

The royalists in this country didn't like him, because he EARNED his way to the top through merit, coming from a poor broken home in Arkansas. The royalists can't stand those who gain through merit, because it threatens their 'little timmy's' standing to be admired simply based on birthright.

[Raksha]

22. Is that why they hate him so much?

Because he embodies the American dream?

Re >>The royalists in this country didn't like him, because he EARNED his way to the top through merit, coming from a poor broken home in Arkansas. The royalists can't stand those who gain through merit, because it threatens their 'little timmy's' standing to be admired simply based on birthright.<<

You know, the poor boy from nowhere who succeeds purely on his own merits, and ends up becoming President of the United States? Isn't that the story they're always peddling to the masses? You'd think they'd love him for that very reason, and of course many of us did and still do.

But why the obsessive hatred from the other side?

Maybe it's not supposed to actually happen. Maybe that myth of the poor boy who makes the big time is just there to taunt "the rest of us" with our supposed inadequacies, keeping us preoccupied forever with the carrot and the stick, never looking around long enough to see that the game is in fact rigged and has been for decades.

[JuniperLea]

25. The carrot is dangled in front of us

But "they" don't like it when the carrot is eaten.

Excellent. Yes, rigged... and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Imagevision]

9. Bill, the come back kid keeps coming back... Viva bill Clinton!

[bamacrat]

10. He was the best.

[madokie]

11. And I would bet he is a blast to party with

[Catherine Vincent]

13. I am certain he is the life of parties!

You can tell.

[NanceGreggs]

12. THIS is why Bill is so vilified and hated by the Repubs ...

For all his faults, he achieved astounding things for the country, domestically and internationally. He is intelligent, witty, articulate -- a true statesman. He was respected by people all over the world.

Then look at the Idiot ... NONE of the above. NEVER gonna happen. Accomplishments for the nation: nothing that isn't negative.

The irony is that the Idiot followed the Statesman to the White House, which makes the comparison between the two all that more glaringly obvious.

[JuniperLea]

15. Well said!

He's everything W isn't, and more.

That budget surplus thing freaks me out when I think of the current deficit. We are screwed.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Remember when

we had a real President?

[JuniperLea]

19. That picture makes me cry...

Thanks...


9/11... Katrina... oh, if we'd only had a real president...

[lildreamer316]

18. Nobody's Perfect.

Considering the job,and what it takes to get there-the compromises you have to make to get certain things done for the greater good-I think he was very well suited for the job. All one has to do is watch the West Wing to get an idea of what one is up against when you are aiming for and have that job. Could any of us have handled it any better? I really bet not.

[LuckyLib]

20. Don't Clinton's shenanigans in the WH seem like such trivia

now? Too bad he didn't own up to it all early on, say "yeah, so what? Now let's move on." Impeachable offense, my ass. Look what we've got now! Downright criminals.

[JuniperLea]

24. Too true

It wasn't the BJ that got him, it was the fib. And no one died because of that fib... yes, fib. What Bush did and continues to do is lie. The BJ fib is in no way even close to the lying sack of crap we get out of the WH daily.

[bunny planet]

21. Yes, those were the days.

We're all wearing the blue dress now.

[JuniperLea]

23. ARGH! That is painfully true!!!

And we have a skid mark, pecker track, waste of good DNA in the WH!