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William Jefferson Clinton Was The Best President Of The 20th Century Because His Presidency Helped Americans At All Levels Because Investors And Small Entreprenours Earned Money While Mothers On Welfare Were Trained And Went From Welfare To Work.
The 1990's was perhaps the most profitable in terms of earned and unearned income. More ordinary people raised themselves up and became millionaires, Clinton's Welfare to Work program greatly increased the number of American who were thankful for a job instead of welfare. Clinton was the best President of the century, bar none.
 best4write  06 Feb 2008 04:24
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William Jefferson Clinton was unarguably the best President we ever had. Period. If in doubt, let's look at the country for those 8 glorious years: The economy was doing great; unemployment rates were at their lowest; very well planned foreign policy; great advances were made in certain parts of the world under his watch - Good Friday Treaty in Ireland, Apartheid ended in South Africa. What WASN'T good about his Presidency? Yes, he had an affair with an intern - but it was a mistake and a personal one, one that did not affect the state of the nation. One that I think Hillary should have beat him with a cactus for, but I won't go into that...

Needless to say, all that was for nothing given the hole Bush and buddies have put this country in.

Hillary '08!!

"It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it'll take another Clinton to clean up after this one!"
 
 SandraO  24 Mar 2008 03:34
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 I liked Clinton a lot -mostly- but he can't hold a candle to FDR.
by  OzzieMan
 30 May 2008 21:59
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Let's be real Clinton was the best president we ever had. I don`t care about his personal issues. But his wife? Who knows I go for Obama now.
 
 redrose  24 Feb 2008 04:48
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In my lifetime, I believe Clinton was the best president, certainly compared to that moron currently in the Oval Office.
He was well liked and his policies were beneficial to a lot of people, he improved American economy, kept America from War, and he was well liked.
I'd like to see Hillary as President, so perhaps some of the damage that Bush has caused will be repaired and American can put these dark few years behind them and start regaining respect on a global scale.
 
 Damian  24 Feb 2008 03:59
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Well, I am going to debate for this. I do believe that President Clinton was the best president that America has seen in a while. He may not have been the absolute best president, but I think he did more for the American people than all of the republican presidents put together. As they say, "It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush. Now, it will take another Clinton to clean up after this Bush." Bill Clinton did so much to help the poor people, the economy of the country, and more. Above all, he kept us out of war and protected our interests in overseas relations. Bill Clinton was great president who did way more than either Bush ever did. I hope that Hillary wins so that America can once again be the great country that it was meant to be.
 
 Professor  07 Feb 2008 13:54
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FDR was unquestionably the greatest President of the 20th century.
 
 OzzieMan  30 May 2008 21:58
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Clinton brought disgrace to the Presidency. He lied to the Grand Jury, He loathed the military, he cut back on the military. He ignored three terrorist attacks, U.S.S. Cole bombing, the bombing of our Embassy in Beruit, Lebbanon and the first attack on the World Trade Centers. If he had done something we might not be in Iraq today. Also does the name Whitewater strike a familiar note, and the name Vince Foster.
 
 pusspuss  01 May 2008 03:50
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 Don't forget giving away super computers which we are now being targeted with from Korea, selling cemettery plots in Arlington Cemetry (which is only for war heros) just for a buck, rent out the Lincoln bedroom for a buck. Don't for get filegate where Bill and Hillary had Stolen FBI files and many politicians were doing just what they wanted (I wonder why) Bill tried to give our deep water port in LA to a company that had been busted for shipping in illegal machine guns into the US, sneeking 3000 presidential orders thru congress and the senate during times when they were in recess I could go on and on and on get educated!
by  stever
 17 May 2008 22:07
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The only reason his term was profitable was because of the Internet boom, and that was not attributed to him.
 
 foodlady  06 Feb 2008 16:44
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 No actually Al Gore said he invented the Internet remember.
by  stever
 17 May 2008 22:00
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No, Clinton wasn't the best by any means, although compared to the last 8 years, he's lightyears ahead of anything Bush has ever dreamed of achieving.

As for Clinton and the deficit, he came up with a surplus after making payments to the principle and interest on the debt, he certainly didn't pay it off. Considering that we're paying about $400 billion a year in just interest right now, that's a considerable achievement, but he still didn't make a dent in the scheme of things.
 
 Cephus  06 Feb 2008 09:21
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I would probably rate both of the Roosevelt presidents more highly but you make some good points. Clinton was a great president. Before him, the American budget deficit seemed almost unmanageable. Amazingly, he managed to turn it around and achieve a surplus. Then along comes another dunderheaded republican and starts with the soaring deficits again.

Of course, some of his economic achievements may be partly due to the coincidence of his presidency with the emergence of the internet boom, but he deserves some credit nonetheless.
 
 Hidell  06 Feb 2008 08:47
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