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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentOther - Politics & Government · 1 decade ago

Who was the best U.S President......?......Bill Clinton!?

Bill Clinton is the man..anyone else here feel that way?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Clinton may not be the BEST but the country was doing fine.We haad many allies and countries which liked us b4 BUSH come

    G W BUSH is

    President of the United States, serving his second term until January of 2009, after finishing his first in Jan. of 2005.

    Widely regarded as the worst president ever - for obvious reasons: In his four years and 4 months in office, he's ruined ever Social System in place, some as old as FDR's adminstration.

    Economically, the Bush Administration is a total failure. A record deficit, pushing $750 Billion dollars (3/4ths of a Trillion) has been made from the Clinton Administration's surplus of $850 Billion (as recorded in January 2000). Import/Export rates have plummetted, unemployment is at one of the highest levels since the depression, and the dollar no longer holds its own with the only monetary competitor - the Euro. The current exchange rate as of writing this is $1.55 for ever 1 Euro.

    Domestically, the Bush Administration is also a failure - Not since the Revolutionary War has the United States been so hated in Europe, and our growing reputation of being "The World Police" doesn't help. International Companies are feeling the pressure of being tied to the USA through corporate alliances and whatnot, while international tourism has dropped significantly since September 11th, 2001.

    The wars in both Afganistan and Iraq, as well as the inevitable wars with Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and perhaps North Korea, have further fueled the Anti-War front to take action - on the second anniversary of the Iraq war, there were 5,000 protests worldwide, numbering in the hundereds of thousands of people gathering for one cause - the only other thing that has gathered that many people was the death of the Pope John Paul II.

    The Bush Administrations policy of deceit doesn't end there though - The justifacation for war was that Iraq had Nuclear weapons, none of which were ever found. After their pretext for war was unveiled, they quickly shifted their agenda to "Liberating" the Iraq people, but after two years of occupation there, 63% of the Iraq population loathes Americans, and that number is apparent in the increasing nationalist insurgent attacks across Iraq.

    Some other miscellaneous facts about the Bush Administration include privatizing Social Security, in essance, putting S.S. decisions in the hands of 'the working man', people who don't have economic or accounting experiance, in the hopes that they'll mess up and the government won't have to pay up. Other negating factors include the funding of a perspective Military Draft, drilling for oil in the last artic wildlife reserve funded by the US, and reports that both the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen. While the former election may have been, it's unclear, although the 2004 elections have much more proof - noteably the fact that the touch-screen voter machines used in both Ohio and Florida were manufactured by Vice President Dick Cheney's 'former' company, Halliburton.

    Unfortunatly, Bush will continue to lead our great country into ruin until 2008 rolls around and he cannot run again. Thankfully, republicans around the country are realizing what they did on November 2nd, 2004, and in the last month alone, Bush's approval ratings are 30% below what they were on Election day. Despite what neoconservative whiners say, the GOOD people of America will win this battle, even if it takes another 3 and a half years.

    "George Bush is the current President of the United States, and by far the most hated of them all for his devious tactics, treachery, and greed"

    Well if u compare him to this i think he is still a decent president

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    How likely is it that the best president ever served in the last decade? I think most of those who have studied the presidents would include Washington and Lincoln in the top group, many would argue for Franklin Roosevelt, and after that there would be a lot of argument. I personally liked Bill Clinton, but I think it's too soon for the judgement of history.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, Clinton is far from the best President. That title would have to lie with either Teddy Roosevelt or George Washington, and at the very least anyone else but FDR.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    THE ABSOLUTE WORST IN THE HISTORY OF THIS GREAT NATION...o.k. maybe not as bad as Jimmy Carter, but it's real close.

    Hey Max don't forget people like Madison won war of 1812 and father of the Constitution or Lincoln won the Civil War and held the union together. Cliton (I know it's misspelled) dosen't deserve to be mentioned is the same breath as these guys either

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Best in my lifetime maybe, but when you consider that Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and so many of these great americans are in the contest too, it is hard to say Bill was better than they were. I am a huge Clinton fan though, Bill, not Hilary, but I can't give him that title, he didn't go thru what they went thru.

  • 1 decade ago

    i dont feel that he was a terrible president who disdained the law, women and the American people whom he lied two again and again with spectacular ease; i know it. he sold us out to china, he sold out the lincoln bedroom for illegal camp contributions, took more foreign camp cont's than anyone in history, appointed frankestein to head up the DOJ and turned it into a private gestapo, bombed at random (also never caught osama bin laden, like some other bad president im thinking of who nevertheless takes all the blame that clinton ought to share); allowed his wife to make fbi files disappear, fire people at will, fired NINETY-THREE - 93 - (not 8, thats 93) US attornies; pardoned more people on his last day in office that george bush has in 6 years - including cocaine dealers, and white collar felons like mark rich; lied to a grand jury; doctored affidavids; ....oh, im just tired of recalling it all, and my blood pressure's going up.

    clinton is among our very worst presidents.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Reagan won the cold war

    FDR and Truman won WW2

    George Washington establlished the Presidency

    Jefferson created the ideology

    It is wrong to even mention his name in the same breath as these men.

  • 1 decade ago

    He sold this country down the river with NAFTA , GATT and increasing the number of HB-1 work visas. That is why we are have the problems with the middle class try to make ends meet.

  • 1 decade ago

    no he's not the man, he got caught getting some a.s.s. in the white house, lied, then when the stains were on her dress to prove it, admitted it. he's just a horny old man.

    abe lincoln, is the only man, around here in presidents land

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He's a bum!

    Hillary Clinton

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