Obama is the Anti-Clinton President

Canada Free Press ^ | 11/15/14 | Jeff Crouere

[Sean_Anthony]

It will make for a confrontational final two years of his term, a very bumpy ride for America

Despite his horrible treatment of women, perjury and serious moral lapses, Bill Clinton was a very good politician. He was at heart a liberal Democrat who adjusted his principles to the shifting political winds.

In the red state of Arkansas, Clinton was elected five times as Governor. He flopped giving the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but returned four years later as the nominee and eventual President.

After losing badly in the 1994 mid-term elections, Clinton moved to the ideological center and worked with the Republican Congress to pass welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts and the Defense of Marriage Act. The result was that he won an overwhelming re-election in 1996 and left his successor with a significant budget surplus.

[SumProVita]

Actually, he is simply the ANTI-American resident in the White House.

Pray for his conversion to Christ.

[Maceman]

This is why I think the Republicans are misreading the whole impeachment issue.

They look at how Clinton survived impeachment, and how the whole effort only hurt the Republicans.

But what they refuse to see is that Obama is not Bill Clinton.

I think that the Republicans should be pushing for impeachment, and daring the Democrats to support him. Obama's unpopularity, and the damage he continues to do to our country is undeniable.

Between the immigration and the Gruber explosion, I think the Republicans could get rid of Obama and look like heroes for having the courage to do what obviously needs to be done.

[Defiant]

He was at heart a liberal Democrat who adjusted his principles to the shifting political winds.

I disagree. He was at heart a European style socialist using his ties to a conservative southern state to pretend to be a moderate Democrat. He started out, for two years, in full out marxist mode, with a Democrat congress, Janet Reno at DOJ, Hillary proposing the earlier version of Obamacare, tax increases, huge spending, normalizing gays with "don't ask, don't tell", EPA and Labor Department putting their boots on American businesses, etc. He got slapped down in the mid-terms and for the first time in 40 years, there was a Republican Congress. Then, and only then, did he pretend to be a normal, liberal Democrat, which Americans can live with. He survived to win another term only because he compromised with a Congress whose policies brought enormous prosperity, and because Republicans chose to run Bob Dole instead of a conservative. Even Jimmy Carter could have won a second term with such competition.

[Verginius Rufus]

In his overwhelming re-election victory in 1996, running against Bob Dole, Clinton managed to win 49% of the popular vote.

[Verginius Rufus]

Who is the conservative who would have made a plausible nominee for the Republicans in 1996, instead of Dole, and been able to beat Clinton?

[Henchster]

After losing badly in the 1994 mid-term elections, Clinton moved to the ideological center and worked with the Republican Congress to pass welfare reform, capital gains tax cuts and the Defense of Marriage Act. The result was that he won an overwhelming re-election in 1996 and left his successor with a significant budget surplus.

BUZZ! Slick Willy vetoed tax cuts and he vetoed welfare reform three times before going kicking and screaming because he was dropping in the polls. Who can forget him predicting that "the elderly, minorities and (all together now!) women and children will be hurt most." Now he claims it as HIS biggest success.

As for leaving a surplus, the only surplus he left was a surplus of "land mines" (his words) for the next administration. He can probably take credit for 9-11 thanks to "The Wall" he put up between law enforcement agencies to shield his own criminal activity.

[Henchster]

I was for Phil Gramm.

[CT]

Wrong! Obama is the Anti-Lincoln president. He is the Divider.9

[Defiant]

I think that was the year that Phil Gramm ran. He wasn't the best visually, but his policies were great. Buchanan ran; he wasn't yet a wacko, and would have been great in battling Clinton. Hell, if I remember correctly, Steve Forbes was running, and had a flat tax idea. But no, Dole was the presumptive nominee. The RNC, after it was remade by Bush in his image, sold everyone on the notion that it was Dole's turn, and he was able to lock it up pretty easily, as well as keep others from entering in the first place. It was never Dole's turn; he was the jackass who screwed over Reagan in the Senate many times, and who stabbed Gingrich in the back during the budget battles of 1995.

Sounds like you think Republicans had no choice but to nominate Dole, and had no way to beat Clinton. Bull. Even Milquetoast Dole kept Clinton from getting 50 percent, even though the economy was great. Clinton was eminently beatable, but it took a fighter who took it to him, and exposed him, and who stood for something different.