Could we say Bill Clinton was a "HANDS ON" President?
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Clinton, to an intern: "Come into my office and let me show you my new clock"\nIntern: "President Clinton, you're just trying to get me alone to molest me!"\nClinton: "No, miss, I swear. It's just that it's such a unique clock, you really should look at it."\nIntern: "Okay, if you insist."\n\nIn his office, Clinton drops his trousers.\nIntern: "But that's not a clock, Mr. President"\nClinton: "Sure it is. Just put two hands and a face on it!"
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Dude, there is no president of the world. Your grammer SUCKS! And Bill Clinton was almost as big a thief as Dubya is.
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Depends on who comes after him ... and views of the US president varies .... Americans don't seem to by and large hold Clinton in high regard ... yet he is hailed as a hero in for example Ireland, where he unstintingly helped to broker a lasting peace ... how many Americans actually know that?
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Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. G W Bush barely got C's at school. Clinton is a liberal, Bush is a conservative.\n'nuff said.
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Honest Bill Clinton (I was sarcastic about the honest part)
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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.
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I'm not sure...why don't you go ask Clinton. He may know, he almost was.
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No I don't.  I think he had the misfortune of getting caught.  He did the right thing by stepping down.   He put the presidency first.  Clinton however put himself first.
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Bill Clinton lived and died for the polls.  I believe President Bush doesn't really care what the polls say.
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BILL CLINTON!  Even though he got a BJ in the oval office, he was still MUCH smarter then Bush!  I don't know anything about Henry Kissinger, so I can't help there.
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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.
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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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Man, you should have seen the state of the Oval Office when my boy Bill left: pizza boxes, empty forties, condom rappers all over the place!  Don't even get me started on the Lincoln Bedroom!  Anyway, Bush had all that stuff cleaned up by the summer of 2002, so no he's not currently cleaning up Clinton's mess.
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Well, there is more than one measurement for intelligence. I assume you mean raw brain power.  I have lived long enough to see 11 presidents in the White House. Without a doubt, Clinton gets my vote.  The guy really is extremely intelligent.  Not only does he have a lot of brain power, but unlike President Carter, he was pretty smart in the political gamemanship too.
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Bill Clinton?  I dunno.  He was president at the time and was born in Arkansas.
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Bill Clinton...It happened in 1997.
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Bill Clinton will probably be judged by most historians as an average president. His greatest domestic achievements--balancing the federal budget and reforming the federal welfare system to include work requirements--were both essentially defensive maneuvers. In foreign affairs, his record was decidedly mixed, with successful resolutions of the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo but major blunders in Somalia and Rwanda that cost literally hundreds of thousands of lives. Clinton also failed to act strongly against the growing threat of Islamist terrorism as embodied in Al Qaeda and of course his dalliances with Monica Lewinsky destroyed his entire second term's domestic agenda. Clinton's greatest accomplishment was no doubt doing everything he could to maximize the United States' economic growth during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1990's such as lowering the budget deficit and trying to make the economy serve the interests of the middle class in a time of rapid economic transition from an industrial to a service-based American economy that was having to come to grips with globalization. Clinton was a man gifted with extraordinary political skills and one of the finest minds since Thomas Jefferson held the office--but his own personal weaknesses ultimately meant that his was a presidency of which historians will always ask the question, "what could have been?"