The Importance Of Age And Experience: A Clinton Catalog Of Missed Opportunity

IBD Editorials ^ | September 11, 2008

[Kaslin]

Another of our youngest presidents, Bill Clinton, was 46 when sworn in and became the first Democrat since FDR to serve two terms.

Born in Arkansas, educated at Georgetown University and a graduate of Yale Law School, he was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He had weaknesses as well as strengths but was popular with the average man and woman, and especially with minorities.

He was a smart politician and a great salesman whose way with words earned him the nickname of Slick Willie when he was governor of Arkansas.

The economy was strong during Clinton's term, benefiting in no small part from the collapse of the Soviet Union. It occurred during the Reagan-Bush years but paid a "peace dividend" in the '90s in the form of huge defense cuts that helped achieve a balanced budget.

After Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994, Clinton wisely moved to the center and agreed over liberal objections to what turned out to be a successful restructuring of the welfare system. But an unrealistic attempt by Clinton and his wife Hillary to have the federal government take over and run the entire medical and health care system failed.

The late '90s saw the dawning of the Internet, a bounty of biotech start-ups and the rise to leadership of young, entrepreneurial companies such as Microsoft, Amgen, Dell, Adobe, Oracle, Cisco, Qualcomm, America Online and EMC, plus innovators like Home Depot and Charles Schwab. All had come public since 1982 during the low-tax Reagan-Bush incentive period. Stocks of these companies rocketed 25,000% to 90,000% from their offering prices.

[genghis]

clinton was great.
He absolutely destroyed the democratic party.
He startd with 257 democratic house memebers, 57 in the senate and 30 govs.
He ended with 205, 48,20.
The questions the dRATS can NEVER answer is, If clinton was so great why did he lose so many seats?
Really it is a question they have never thought of, which is why ann coulter wrote a very fine book
“If democrats had any brains, they would be republicans”.

[Twinkie]

As Moynihan once told us, Bill Clinton lies really well. Actually, he was an abject failure, and his disrespect and contempt for the American people asserted itself time and again. The final slap in the face to add on top of all his cynical bungles that led to 9/11; he was going to diddle his heart out IN OUR OVAL OFFICE with any trollop who would diddle with him - using the power of his office to lure them (THE SEXIST FOX) - with none of us the wiser, and retire on his last day in office - the elder statesman that he THINKS we all THINK he is. We do not. The light makes manifest, and I believe that was a case of God not intending for one moment to be mocked. Too much blood has been shed for this country to allow such CYNICISM. (His tongue constantly rolling in his mouth notwithstanding!)