You may put all the blame on Clinton if you wish because he has always been the pawn of your right wing Republican Party.
Clinton did it to himself with his own corrupt, inept personality.
Where was the Repulbican Party during the 90's?
They were in control of Congress. Notice how the budget finally got balanced? Congress controls the purse strings.
All you were able to do was complain about Clinton while many CEO's of the right wing became filthy rich and took advantage of good economic times to rip off the working class and create havoc in the stock market by lying and commiting fraud.
Many people experienced a very nice rise in income during the 1990s. I know I sure did, going from $15,000/year to $50,000/year by 2000. I took advantage of opportunities available to me, including switching careers into the exploding IT industry. Not everyone made that choice. Welfare rolls dropped during that time, too, a result of CEOs creating jobs.
Clinton was not attacked for his economic policies but for his moral and deceitful ways. Even though he was impeached his legacy will not be harmed by the events of the 90's.
Clinton bears the scarlet letter of impeachment, only the second President EVER to be impeached. Clinton's economic policies (higher taxes) is what is has us where we are now.
We all were naive enough not to dream of 9-11 and for not taking the "evil of axis"seriously.
Clinton sure didn't take Islamikazes seriously. He figured he'd lob a few Tomahawk missiles at them, missing horribly. The then swept it under the carpet. Reagan would have bombed them further back than the Stone Age after the attacks on the embassies.
We as a nation are now paying for thinking we were untochable because of our might.
I prefer to think of it this way: We finally have a President who has the balls to get us payback
Why did 9-11 not happen until Clinton was out of office? I have heard that the Arab world upset about 41 wanted to take out there hatred on 43. Could this be why we are in such despair now?
9/11 would have happened if your man Gore would have been able to steal the 2000 Presidential election. 9/11 would have happened if Barney the dinosaur were President. The difference is that we have a President now who is fighting back instead of getting blow jobs from interns half his age.
Hildy, You can give credit to the Republican Congress but the truth is that it all happened while Clinton was president. If he could run today he would win by a landslide. Let's look at the record of Clinton's presidency.
360 billion came off the national debt.
22 million new jobs were created.
We had our longest economic expansion of eight years in our history.
The lowest unemployment rate in 30 years
The lowest crime rate and 100,00 new police officers added nation wide.
Welfare rolls became the smallest ever.
The largest deficit became the largest surplus.
Gun legislation was passed that never got through before.
More university graduates than ever before. The internet came to thousands of schools that could not afford it. Thanks for inventing it Al Gore!
These things happened under the Clinton administration and you can say whatever you like but the Republicans think they were responsible for all the above is a bunch of hogwash. Now that 43 is president we have a stock market that wiped out wealth, major terrorism that threatens our existence, real estate that is unaffordable, health care that most people cannot afford crime up and the deficit growing at an all time high. Meanwhile, we are cutting taxes so the rich do not pay dividends. Mr. Oil seeing gas hit all time highs and people not feeling safe. I think Bush is not doing a good job and I think if things stay the way they are he will follow Daddy as a one term mistake.
So Cyrano...what now?