My own Personal opponion!\n\nOk everyone that likes Bush says that clinton was way worse! haha ok well i don't care who Clinton had with him or what he done in the "oral" office. Fact of the matter was, Americas economy was the best it had ever been! Clintons fault? not exactly most ppl give credit to Allan Greenspan. But it was clinton who let him do what he knew how to do. Ok maybe Clinton didn't do anything, but at least he let the people who knew what to do do it. Bush? well enough said. The guy has screwed up the entire country and all so he can get as rich as possible before his 8 years are up. Bottom line.\nWhats your opponions?
206456
Worse- Bush!\n\nEvery thing's falling apart thanks to him.  He's truly and embarrassment.  I just can't take a president who states that we'll have to wait for the next president to clean everything up.
192411
You're right, President Bush cannot be blamed for everything.  Democrats voted for us to go to war too...and I still don't think they were completely wrong (even though my own husband is leaving in a couple of weeks...).  Gas prices?  Not the President's fault.  They're higher in Europe.  The economy?  President Clinton was handed an excellent economy, which is proven to be trickle-down economics from both Reagan's time in office, as well as Bush Sr.  President Bush was given an economy that was destined to break down, just like Harding.  We're lucky it hasn't led us into the next Great Depression.  Everything that can be done, is being done.\nGood job asking a great question!
481215
Nope, and it's all Bill Clintons fault.  \nThank God we have Our Beloved President Bush to clean it all up.
2655
Weather Observer, your pure genious! Yeah Clinton did do something that is impeachable... He lied to everyone in the world. Clinton wasn't impeached because of what he did with Monica, but more of that he lied to us. He probably wouldn't have gotten impeached if he came out and told the truth and apologized, and cleaned up his act. President Bush has done nothing wrong, You just want him impeached because you don't share the same morals, and you are agaisnt "the war on terror" (how in the world could someone be agaisnt a war on terror?!?!). Those reasons are not probable causes for impeachment.
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Let's set the record straight, because politicians and propaganda followers may lie and be decieved, but facts don't lie. Bush inherited a deficiet. That 6 trillion check wasn't Bush's fault (no mater how much people try and use him as the scape goat for all things bad). After the internet bubble popped our economy fell pretty hard. Clinton can't take credit for the prosperity that Reagan created and Bush Sr sustained(but didn't grow). But he can take credit for \n\n1. A failed healthcare plan that confused even the experts (oh wait, he put Hillary in charge of that), but he still gets credit for it.\n\n2. Improved relations with China (the country that has extreme human rights violations) yes, instead of giving India our business let's give it to the communists\n\n3. Cutting the military budget and rearranging our intelligence agencies into ineptitude. \n\n4. Passing on Osama when he was in his grasp. Clinton could had the opportunity (all he had to do was say "ok" to take out Osama, but it's not like he was really a threat)\n\n5. Everyone outside of the military seems to forget the wars(aka peacekeeping operations) that we fought during clintons years. Never has a president continually tied the militaries fists behind their backs. See "Black Hawk Down" for a good example. As far as Commander and Chief of the military he was an utter failure.\n\n6. Social Security- name one thing that he did to improve it?...yeah, me neither.\n\n7. Economy- just as every president we have ever had he inherited the economy from the president before him. It takes many years for the economy to fully shift from the policies the president had inacted (come on people, this is common sense here). Unless they do something like Bush did during our recession and send out checks to everyone. Clinton raised taxes, increased welfare, and performed the same basic socialist actions the Democrats have become known for. Clinton can take credit for the internet bubble if he wants too, heck,Gore takes credit for the internet so why not. But like all bubbles, it eventually popped(it actually popped right as he was leaving). And if you believe that Bush did something during the first three months of his term (the time the recension started) then I have some time share property I want to sell you. \n\n8. Integrity. I don't even have to bring up the several incidents that happened during his term and even up to the his very last days in office. We all know them. And the fact that I can say so much without saying it should tell you something. Even blindly loyal Democrats know that Clinton and Integrity do not fit well in the same sentence and they know why. \n\nYou can make accusations against Bush, but every single one of them is unfounded or conspiracy theory. If they weren't you don't think the army of Democratic Senators would be able to impeach Bush. No. They haven't impeached, because they have nothing to impeach him on. They would love to find something, but like him or not, his integrity has withstood Democrats who are lusting at the chance to charge him with anything. Clinton made history and was almost impeached. A model Democrat? A model American?\n\n9. Environment- The Democrat stapple. You would think their would be a great difference between the two, but sadly their isn't. Both have been soundly common sense environmentalists (protecting the environment but using its resources). \n\nIt appears to me that most Democrats are not really Democrats at all, they are just anti-Republican. I have yet to hear any new ideas come out of that party, just theories of why the Republicans ideas are wrong. And I have yet to see any real heroes rising up in that party, just individuals who are able to sling mud in a more sophisticated way. Find a new way to bash Bush, win a prize. The Democratic party has ceased to be a party of hope and optimism. Instead they have spent their resources and time on
211215
It was great to hear a reasonable explanation for affairs to date. Isn't funny that president Clinton is informed and willing to talk about the affairs of the World. I watched Senator McCain this morning on Meet The Press, and he said George Bush was Stupid about the Relationship with President Putin from Russia. I about fell on the floor, he said he didn't agree or vote for Bush's policies all through Bush's terms. I know that that isn't true, but that's what was said.
611150
What Clinton did was disgrace  the office of  the president of the United States...  he tainted the oval office... and embarrassed the whole nation... this is a man  that was impeached ,  lied/ perjured  himself .. many times!  yet the Democratic party hails him as a hero !  He himself ,  still tries to avoid the subject... and yes they sure did clean out the white house on their way out the door... amazing  how soon this is forgotten... and as for Hilary... she is even more dangerous than him..  she is more intelligent, extremely left winged, yet she  manages to cater to what ever group  she is addressing at that moment... I am  disgusted that my fellow New Yorkers  voted her in... what kind of woman stands by a man like this ?? one with high ambitions... one who places her political aspirations higher than her self esteem,  and pride ...  and blames the "right wing conspiracy "instead of   her husband for his failure as a man and a husband...a woman president.. sure .....Hilary? hell no!
575652
Bush blew through Clinton's reservoir of excess funds faster than Clinton was able to make the surplus happen.\nThis war should be with the people who flew into our country and caused the 9/11 tragedy.\nIraq pissed off the oil money people that are friends and cronies of George and his daddy. They used to have parties together. Now they are annoyed and using our soldiers to settle their spat. Thankfully, there is the benefit of freedom for the Iraqi people. That makes this not a mistake, this makes their presence there worth while.\nI just want to understand why we are not concentrating on the terrorists that started this. I have many loved ones serving over there, including my youngest child's father. I believe in what they are doing. I thank them for their zeal. I love my country, I cannot fight for it, I thank our veterans for doing what I cannot.\nI do want to impeach Bush. He is a liar. He is a thief, and he is too confused and mentally lost to run our country. He "won" both elections with controversy. Why not a re-vote instead of a re-count? If he had won clean, I would say nothing, but two elections with controversy makes me wonder about the truth of the politics in Washington.\nI want Clinton back. Hillary too. I want to have a paycheck and get my overtime. I want to take better care of our people here in America before we send money to other countries. I want to have the values of the government to come back closer to the constitution that our country is based on. Please give us a hero for a president. Not a c average screw off who obviously does not understand that you have to have a BUDGET! Some one in charge who understands that America wants to eat too. I was making 24000 a year when Clinton left office, I make 8000 a year now since Bush has been in. I have lost my house, my car, and filed bankruptcy. I never left my job. The American Dream will die if Bush has control much longer. I am not alone, my co-workers are many, and we have all lost. I am in human services.\nMy stock account has gone from 200 when Clinton took office, 44000 when Clinton left office. My stock is now worth about 12000. I cashed out not long ago before any more disappeared, in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy. Please give me a president who understands that the poor will rise up against an unfair system when it becomes too much of a burden. I fear for our inner cities, I fear for our children who have been slashed form the programs that Bush has removed. Clinton was able to help these people, why can't Bush? Answer, he doesn't care, he is lost, he is taking bad advice...
601299
The worst ever... its kind of hard.  Clinton sunk the level of President to a new low, that'll be hard to beat.  Carter had his "malaise" (well, he was lame but not corrupt, just his cabinet was).  FDR and the new deal, sounded good until it was realized he used public money to support private industry and he created a permanent welfare state, which as everyone knows was the beginning of the end of personal responsibility.  JFK did a great job rallying around the flag and making people happy they were American again, but he was lost on the international stage and "Camelot" was only really good if you were rich, a democrat and from Massachusettes, but despite all that he wasn't that bad.  \n\nThere was Daley, sure.  But don't leave out all the others who sat in congress for years and didn't consider themselves corrupt because they weren't stealing money directly, just funneling it to people who would eventually employee them one they "retired".\n\nAnd just to appease the whiny libs out there, yes I acknowledge there have been corrupt republicans out there, but just look at White Water and all the people involved who "suicided" or just were killed under suspicious "accidental" circumstances and you'll realize that "Monica-gate" was one of the more elaborate ruses in the history of politics.  There may be some bad republicans, but the democrats have a time honored tradition of dishonesty and corruption.\n\nAnd why are the people answering this question bringing the authors appearance and spelling into the argument?  Are you third graders who can't form a coherent thought ?  Grow up!  We know you are upset because year after year you vote the party line and continue sending lame thieves into office.  Just look at New Orleans putting Nagin back into office and tell me I'm wrong.
571968
OBVIOUSLY, it's all clinton's fault. Bush couldn't POSSIBLY have fvcked anything up THIS bad, right? He's GAWD'S president, remember?
213533
No bias here just facts.  please read below:\n\nClinton:\n\nDuring Clinton's tenure, the U.S. enjoyed continuous economic expansion, reductions in unemployment, and growing wealth through a massive rise in the stock market. The economic boom ended in Q1, 2000, 10 months before his term ended in January, 2001, possibly indicative of a stock market bubble. Although the reasons for the expansion are continually debated, Clinton proudly pointed to a number of economic accomplishments, including:\n\nMore than 22 million new jobs \nHomeownership rate increase from 64.0% to 67.5% \nLowest unemployment rate in 30 years \nHigher incomes at all levels \nLargest budget deficit in American history converted to the largest surplus of over $200 billion \nLowest government spending as a percentage of GDP since 1974 [7] \nHigher stock ownership by families than ever before \n220% increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 300% increase in the Nasdaq from 1993 to 2001 \nThe reasons for this growth are hotly debated, but Clinton supporters cite his 1993 tax increase as the reason that eventually led to the reduction in the annual budget deficits every year of his tenure. These deficit reductions stimulated consumption and consumer spending and strengthened the dollar, which encouraged foreign investment in the United States economy. Alan Greenspan supported the 1993 tax increase, which was approved by Congress without a single Republican vote. [8] Critics of Clinton point to Alan Greenspan's strong chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, 1995 spending cuts and the Republican Party's Contract with America initiatives as alternative reasons for America's strong economic growth of the late 90's. Critics also argue that the economic recovery had already begun before Bill Clinton took office and did not pick up momentum until 1995 and 1996, after the GOP took over Congress (despite the fact that GDP growth was higher in 1994 than in either 1995 or 1996). Many economists attribute massive growth to the dot-com boom which just happened to come during Clinton's term, thus adding many new jobs which may not be directly attributed to policies of the Clinton administration.\n\nIn 1999, Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives. He was acquitted by the Senate. The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Monica Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas-state employee Paula Jones. The obstruction charge was based on his actions during the subsequent investigation of that testimony. On February 12, the Senate concluded a 21-day trial with the vote on both counts falling short of the Constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority to convict and remove an office holder. The final vote was generally along party lines, with all of the votes to convict being cast by Republicans. On the perjury charge 55 senators voted to acquit, including 10 Republicans, and 45 voted to convict; on the obstruction charge the Senate voted 50-50. [22] Clinton, like the only other president to be impeached, Andrew Johnson, served the remainder of his term.\n\nThe day before leaving office, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license as part of an agreement with the independent counsel to end the investigation. Based on this suspension, Clinton was also automatically suspended from the United States Supreme Court bar, from which he chose to resign. [17][18] Clinton's resignation was mostly symbolic, as he had never practiced before the Supreme Court and was not expected to in the future. Clinton also was assessed a $90,000 fine by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for contempt of court. The Paula Jones lawsuit was settled out of court for $850,000.\n\nIn addition to impeachment and the Whitewater scandal, the Clinton White House was the subject of many other controversies.\n\nThe White House travel office con
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I think Bush is a great guy, just lacking the wisdom necessary for being the president.\n\nHe spends money like a teenager with her parents' credit card trying to impress her friends.\n\nHe cherry-picked info to come up with the conclusion he wanted. (WMD's)\n\nHe made very poor decision for appointments (FEMA's Brown)\n\nHis poor communication skills are no match for combatting the liberal media. (And he's has given them a lot of ammunition)\n\nHey, Shepherd - No president has much control over economics.  What little they can do has little or no immediate effect.
331568
Well, the last Democrat in office came close to budget surplus (but you can see Republicans won't admit it) and he didn't have a 8 Trillion dollar debt.\n\n"President Clinton inherited the deficit spending problem and did more than just talk about it, he fixed it.  In his first two years and with a cooperative Congress he set the course for the best economy this country has ever experienced.  Then he worked with what could be characterized as the most hostel Congress in history for the last six years of his administration, yet he still managed to get the growth of the debt down to 0.32% (one third of one percent) his last year in office.  Had his policies been followed for one more year the debt would have been reduced for the first time since the first year of the Kennedy administration.\n\nReagan called for a balance budget amendment but never submitted a balanced budget.The current President Bush came into office and quickly turned all that progress around.  He immediately gave yet another massive tax cut based on a failed economic policy; perhaps an economic fantasy describes it better.  \n\nThe last year Clinton was in office the nation borrowed an additional 18 billion dollars, the first year Bush Jr. was in office he had to borrow 270 billion.  The tax cut that caused this borrowing was supposed to stimulate the economy, but two years later Bush had to push through yet another tax cut.  The second tax cut was needed because it was clear that the first one did not work.  Economic history tells us the second did not work either.  As a result of all this tax cutting and no cutting in what he is spending President Bush set a record in 2003 for the biggest single yearly increase in debt in the nation’s history, again in 2004,2005 and by his own estimations he will break this record again in 2006.  The debt is now increasing at the rate of 600 billion dollars a year[ \n\nOur economy could collapse, especially when the Euro replaces the dollar as the world standard.\n\nAdditionally, China doesn't have to go to war with the US. They only have to call in the debt we owe them. Japan can do the same.
191845
The president usually has relatively little to do with the state of the economy.  It's been kind of down recently because we kind of had an up economy for ~13 years or so in the 80s and the 90s.  This was much much longer than the usual period of a cycle, so having some down years is something to be expected.\n\nIt's just a typical business cycle.  There are going to be up years and down years.\n\nIf anyone, I'm guessing the Chairman of the Fed has much more short-term control over the economy than the President.  The President does have (sort of) control of fiscal policy, but it takes a while to see the effects of that while monetary policy has a much more immediate impact.\n\nIf Gore or anyone else had been elected President, I don't think the economy would have turned out that much differently.  Whoever got elected after such a gigantic bubble was going to take a hit no matter what.  Clinton had it nice with the .com boom and mass speculation and growth in the market.  The president is mostly just a bystander, in my opinion.  He may have some impact down the line, but the state of the economy right now wasn't so unforseeable after the stock market crash.\n\nI'm sure someone will point out legislation ABC and XYZ, but how much of a national effect did it *really* have?  I'm not sure about the consumer demand.  It is indirectly tied to interest rates, which have been going up non-stop for a really long time.\n\nNote: I didn't vote Bush, and I don't really support him, so don't make that an issue.  This is purely from an economics standpoint.
241130
Clinton 8 years = Wonderful life with my husband and family and business.  Bush = 6 years= Hell so bad with my husband I had to buy ear plugs and business is down due to everyone having to pay gas and heat bills and rack up credit cards to live on. I'd say that if Bush can destroy the American dream in 6 years I am surprised we don't have a revolution on our hands.Monday we can all listen to the prick give his written by someone else speech on the illegals that he was giving breaks to and try to cover his a$$ on this just to skid by .I only know that after I listened to President Clinton's ideas and lectures our environment and economy would be in great shape and he was there when disaster hit, not letting it happen . He almost had Bin Ladin and we all know that's more than Bush has done. I still scratch my head on Hussein .All I can say is a balance has to be in the house and I am beginning to think we should have 2 presidents to work together, 1 Dem and 1 Rep. Then at least we could enjoy some good old fist fights :) Lets just say after watching the second 9-11 film on the web I seriously think I was right about the whole 9-11 attacks! Look what the Govt. did after the WW with letting off nerve gas in cities to see how it effects a person. This was on T.V. and I thought if they can use the American people as guinea pigs how far will they go! If our phones or computers should ever be monitored as just the common person, to listen to our talks then the Govt. should pay half our internet bill and our phone bill!
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Those of you claiming that Prof Adam is saying these things are all Bush's fault by calling it the Summer of Bush, He never said it was Bush's direct fault, so maybe you're seeing something and believe it is eh?  And yes these things are directly Bush's fault, but as the President it is his job to repair them.  Lying to the American people, spying on them and starting a war in the wrong country (Note: War ALWAYS raises gas prices) is not the best way to repair things.\n\nIn any case, yes it's going to be another Summer or Bush.  Sure others have had corruption in the past, thing is, they either didn't get caught or didn't end of using the lies to the public to start a war.  Clinton I would say is guilty of the opposite lie, Not telling us enough of what is going on.  Bush makes up stuff to tell us instead.  I can't speak on Enviro Pollution cause I haven't heard anuything new on it but as far as the rest, yeah it'll happen.  Then expect some damage control right around November.
256422
Why did Bush attack Iraq, it was Clinton's fault. Why did Bush give the huge tax cuts to the very rich. It was Clinton's fault. Why did they fly planes into the trade center. It was Clinton's fault. Why did Rush Limbaugh get hooked on Oxys. It was Clinton's fault. Why is Bush such a dumb ass, Its his daddy's fault. But Clinton played a role in it. I think you get my drift, It is because the repuglicans have no real argument and keep relying on the same Ole rhetoric, if one said they shit the other would say the smelled it.