Bill Clinton's worst policy decisions? [View All]

By no means do I intend this post as freeper-styled Clinton-bashing. And while it's always enjoyable to discuss the good things that President Clinton accomplished, I just thought it might be interesting to shift gears a bit. As such, here are what I consider to have been Clinton's biggest policy blunders:

1. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). The wholesale exporting of U.S. jobs to Mexico did not begin under NAFTA, but it sure as hell sped the process up. Since Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1994, hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of well-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved south of the border, where the workers make only a fraction of what their American counterparts were paid.

2. THE FIRING OF JOYCELIN (sp?) ELDERS. Dr. Elders was Clinton's surgeon general. In late 1994, she came under attack from the GOP's Taliban wing for daring to suggest that masturbation was a viable alternative to teen pregnancy. Rather than defending Dr. Elders and her common-sense idea, Clinton caved into the right and fired her.

3. THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996. Media deregulation was around for years before the Telecoms Act, but with this legislation--the most heavily lobbied in history--the rails were greased and the train's brakes were disabled. Thanks to Telecoms, a thimbleful of huge media conglomerates--all of them owned by right-wingers like Rupert Murdoch--now owns a good 90-95% of all the broadcast, cable, and print media in the United States. And the lack of diversity in ownership has resulted in a pathetic lack of diversity on TV and radio and in our so-called "news" papers.

4. THE BOMBING OF KOSOVO. In March 1999, Clinton ordered bombing raids on Kosovo in an attempt to unseat its horrendous dictator, Slobadan Milosevic (sp?). However, Milosevic remained in power even after Clinton left the White House and was only overthrown by Kosovo's first democratic election. Clinton's bombing of that nation resulted in nothing more than thousands of civilian deaths.

So, do y'all have anything to add?