Who made a better President, Bush or Clinton?
400542
They both have their good points and bad points
117861
Well, Clinton did a lot more wrong then George Bush has done.  You have to rememeber he was under criminal investigation from the start.  He was morally corrupt as well.  He brought the deficit down sure, but at the expence of a horrid economy which we are in the midst of rebuilding right now.  Taxes were higher, which meant people were making less money, all the while feeling all warm and fuzzy thinking things were great, all the while spending more and more... So the more people went bankrupt as a result.  People don't like Bush because his first election was decided by an electoral vote, just as every election since the country was founded has been decided.  Bush spied on 1100 or so suspected terrorists, who have been on the watch list for years... the country is angry.... Clinton did the same thing to millions of people through the CIA... for economic issues.. and it's under the carpet like a pile of dirt with that information.  Clinto lied under oath in a Federal Court.. only to have Monica bring the dress out... Bush has yet to even be brought to trial for a traffic violation.
116504
Clinton was a far better president in a CEO sense, I have always said he was set up, or why would Monika blab to somebody that she knew didn't like him and why would she keep the dress. \n  To answer your question, yes republicans are loyal to Bush, regardless of his short comings they defend him like he was the flag. However if they were capable of looking at the facts and forming their own answer they would find Bush as incompetant as we do. He has cost to many American lives to be anything other then a criminal.
76894
Definitely Clinton.  During the Clinton years our economy was great (imagine operating with a budget surplus rather than deficit!) and he isn't a warmonger.
408973
Bush is definitly a much better president\n\nThere were more scandals during clinton's presidency then any others.  The head of FBI during clinton's presidency gave back his confidential access to the white house because he didn't want to be considered part of one of the scandals.  he spent more time investigating the white house the doing anything else during his eight years\n\nI won't even touch most of the things that went on but i do have to mention his affair
1020765
My favorite president is the one we have right now, Mr. George W. Bush. He's my favorite because he accomplished a feat that 6 years ago I would have thought impossible: making me wish Bill Clinton was still president.
924469
I voted for Bush, I don't feel he let us down.  I feel he has made mistakes and the people whom he appointed has made mistakes, but I don't think he let us down.  I also voted for Clinton, he let us down!
549584
In retrospect, Clinton was one of the better presidents the United States has had. Setting his personal life aside, he managed to bring our financial house in order after years of mismanagement by Reagan and Bush.\n\nClinton was responsible about the use of US military power globally. He got rid of Slobodan Milosevic, and actually did attempt to take down bin Laden.\n\nHis trade policies were based on flawed assumptions, and cost the US hundreds of thousands of jobs, but I can't see a Republican being better.\n\nBill Clinton had his flaws, but he is light years ahead of the guy in the White House now.
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Historians will ultimately see Clinton as a slightly better than average president.  While almost no one on Main Street remembers anything about his presidency other than his affair, some of us do recall more about his eight years in office.  Among his accomplishments -- taking a huge federal deficit and turning it into a huge federal surplus (which Bush has again made into a huge federal deficit); presiding over the best post-World War II economy; putting 100,000 police on the streets through federal funding, aiding in the sharp drop in crime rates during his presidency; and above all in sharp contrast to some other president we know, presiding over a period in which America and its president were admired and respected.  Whenever I tell my conservative friends all this, all they want to talk about is Monica.  I suspect they need to adjust their priorities.  On the other hand, Clinton's affair was a shocking dereliction of duty and betrayal of trust (he should have been censured, not impeached) and his handling of health care was pretty ham-handed.  Rest assured, however, that regardless of what historians think of him, the crowd that answers these questions -- which is much more representative of mainstream American thought than I am -- will continue to smear him and talk about Monica.
1176708
Condoleeza Rice would make a better president for many reasons; however, she would be more readily accepted by the majority of American voters on both sides of the aisle than Hillary. Hillary Clinton has a very polarizing effect on voters: you either love her or hate her. That type of polarization does not lend itself to concessus building with Congress, the American public, or other nations.
467402
Definitely\n\nIt would be better than Bush
353211
he was a much better president than bush. that's for certain
446965
Tough one...Bush is younger and in better shape, but I'll bet once Clinton realized he couldn't talk his way out of it, he'd reach back to his roots and fight dirty, hillybilly-style.  I'd say Bush wins a pyrrhic victory, coming out of the Octagon with a bloody nose, half-gouged eye, ruptured testicle, and missing a clump of hair, whereas Clinton lies dead on the ground from a shattered windpipe (or maybe a shotgun blast from Cheney).  Then later on, Roger Clinton would spark a decades-long feud with a revenge killing of Jeb Bush.  Finally, Laura and Hillary, as matriarchs of the two clans, would meet to discuss ending the feud in around 2060, and Hillary would stab her in the back while shaking her hand, with a cold steely look in her eye.  After being taken to jail, she'd admit in her confession statement that she did it to avenge her 2008 Presidential hopes, not her husband.
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When the so called "leader of the free world" has been caught in so many lies that it is not even funny and more than half of the country is in denial, why would we expect to be any different.\n\nP.S. If u want to compare to previous Presidents, Pick Nixon not Clinton. Bush's lies like Nixon's are for political gain ( to get ahead). Clinton's, while just as morally repugnant, were about a PERSONAL indiscretion.
1011311
GEORGE BUSH ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!
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While EVERYONE will say Clinton (there's a strong wave of anti-Bush-ism) both have their flaws.\n\nCLINTON -\nDid nothing over terrorist attacks on America.\n -The WTC was bombed before Sep. 11. \n -U.S. Embasies were bombed\n -The USS Cole was bombed   (all by Bin Laden)\n\nCommited Purgery (a very impeachable offense)\n\nBUSH -\n -Went overboard on 'war on terror' in attacking Iraq. (opinion)\n -Economy has been down for quite some time\n -Is much less liked internationally (and domestically too)\n\nThey've both done good things, I think too.\n\nCLINTON -\n   -Economy flurished\n   -US well respected in world\n\nBUSH -\n   -Willing to do what it takes to keep America safe. (By attacking Afghanistan, something Clinton wouldn't do with previous attacks.)\n   -Has GREATLY increased free trade in the western hemisphere (although there are some farmers in Mexico and other S.American places that say free trade hurts them.)\n\nOverall, I think that both presidents did the best they could and that their actions (especially Bush's) are more of a response to circumstances outside their control.  I don't think, for example, (and many do) that Bush intended to go to war when he was elected.  I don't think that Clinton thought he was lying. (I think he thought he used clever words to hide what he actually did.  He used the word 'sexual relations' which he interpreted to mean 'sexual intercorce' and he only had oral sex.)\n\nSo either way, I don't think that either president has really hurt or help America in any appreciable way. (that the other wouldn't have.)
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George W. Bush and umm... George W. Bush