How Would You describe your Opinion of Bill Clinton

I want to see the opinions of DU of each candidate and their spouses. I was going to just do BC, but gotta be fair.

Can I get some help keeping this and the others kicked for a little while?

My husband just asked me to choose who, in my opinion, was
the best president since Truman.

I HAD to choose Clinton.

(with Carter second).

So I guess I rate President Clinton pretty high.

BUT, I have BIG problems with the
DE-regulation that he perpetrated
on the country, in banking, the
stock market, the media, etc.
Also, his role in NAFTA, which
FUCKED my state and our industry
over FOREVER.

So, I have mixed feelings.

I think if Carter had been allowed a second
term, he would have gotten my "best president"
choice. His heart was certainly in the right
place.

As President, I'm rather mixed.

As for his behavior of late: He gets a Negative vote from me.

I can understand his wanting to help his wife, but he is NOT acting Presidential in the least and is likely hurting her campaign with the agressive lies and spin.

Sorry Bill. You need to step back and take a deep breath.

She isn't automatically entitled to the office; stop acting like she is.

I think a lot of us feel like this...

And while I can certainly vote for her in November, I simply don't understand my family really liking her. My mom and other relatives really go for her. I have big reservations about her political acumen, though I don't doubt her knowledge and policy expertise.

I keep thinking about how Bill Clinton said Obama didn't oppose the Iraq War. For him to say that infuriated me. As I recall, Bill Clinton did support it or was milquetoaste in opposing it and ultimately supported it around invasion time and so did Hillary. So for Bill to tag Obama this way while ignoring his and Hillary's own role, well, I didn't like it. I realize voting for the IWR was not the same as supporting the war, but when it came to opposing it, there were good examples of opposing the war that were fairly conventional politicians --Hillary and Bill did not take that route, they took, apparently, a much safer route, but not the more moral route. To criticize someone else on this topic is rank hypocrisy in my view. It would be one thing if their rhetoric and votes were like Barbara Boxer's, but theirs were more like Dianne Feinstein's.

in the 20th Century. I'll always be a fan and defender. His emotional connection to redeeming a legacy (as he sees it) with a "proxy" 3rd and 4th term is understandable and I think he is just fighting very hard and a little awkwardly for it.

done though.

I think he was a very good president, but I think he was good in the time he was in. I constantly see evidence that his thinking about politics and Democratic politics in particular has not evolved from a time when Republicans were ascendant and that's problematic now.

I feel like the times have changed, but their political model has not adapted to it. Worse, I think Hillary's model is the same as his was a decade ago.

She's finding out that it is not working.

It wasn't exactly a secret that they were far from enemies to those willing to do the research. But seeing pictures like this......




....just feel like a huge slap in the face to those of us who know what the Bush Crime Family has done over the last century.

Can't wait to see him back in the White House.