Something about the "The Clintons".

[LytSlpr]

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During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination.

After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.

President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name.

He excelled as a student and as a saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician. As a delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President John Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. The encounter led him to enter a life of public service.

Clinton was graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas.

He was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas's Third District in 1974. The next year he married Hillary Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. In 1980, Chelsea, their only child, was born.

Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until he defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race.

Clinton and his running mate, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore Jr., then 44, represented a new generation in American political leadership. For the first time in 12 years both the White House and Congress were held by the same party. But that political edge was brief; the Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994.

In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president.

In the world, he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking. He drew huge crowds when he traveled through South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, and China, advocating U.S. style freedom.



GUESS WHO WAS BILL'S MOST DYNAMIC THINK TANK? It was his "bitter-half", Hillary.

I am just hoping that either Obama or McCain would even come close to this feat.

[vern]

Let us all go and wash Clinton's feet.

[d`monyita]

Let us all go and wash Clinton's feet.

hehehe. taray.

i got an email with a link to a supposed expose of what they really are in the white house and how they treat their staff.

about how clinton was into drugs and all.

sumakit ulo ko kay dugay man to nga video. all i remembered was that he was into drugs and women. oh well.... why should i focus there when dito nga sa atin sarap batukan ang mga politiko di ba?

that is why tawn maningkamot na lang ko to make life comfortable for me and my son. sige ampo that i make good and sound decisions as a parent for the ones deciding the fate of our country are pigs. sige lagi ta yawyaw about our politicians but where did that ever get us? *huge sigh*

[johnny22aa]

btaw, agreee jud ko ani. america was really better off when clinton was the president. remember, they could barely hire foreign health workers ky domestic job market was adequately supplied (u know americans hate health-related jobs). dba down to ang demand sa mga nurses dri sa una in the 90's. also about how he intervened ka2ng sa IRA sa ireland, sa bosnia, sa iraq then, sa israel ug palestine, sa haiti. he always considered diplomacy as the only option to solve peace & order problems, not war. he only used war as a superficial policy to solve superficial issues, but not all the way as what George Bush Sr and Jr. did. i read his autobiography & u can really sense a great awe on this man by being so humble, down to earth, yet very courageous and intelligent. he mentioned on the book that he was even acknowledged by his partymates after the impeachment when he was seated as the accused because he was so calm, and that they couldn't find even a tiny sense of guilt or fault for him. of course, everybody knows nga chickboy jud nuon ni cya coz naa naman gali cya the same issue when he was still arkansas governor. what's bothering me this shouldn't be taken as a political attack ky tao pud bya ghpon ni cya. grabe2x pud bya ang temptation ky labi nag if ul be in power. pero thinking of his great deeds as what mentioned sa first post, u think mo matter pa ni? i really don't think so. let's emulate this man on what good he has done and what good he will be doing in the future.

and what i know hillary is smarter daw than pres bill. so think about that!

[LytSlpr]

btaw, agreee jud ko ani. america was really better off when clinton was the president. remember, they could barely hire foreign health workers ky domestic job market was adequately supplied (u know americans hate health-related jobs). dba down to ang demand sa mga nurses dri sa una in the 90's. also about how he intervened ka2ng sa IRA sa ireland, sa bosnia, sa iraq then, sa israel ug palestine, sa haiti. he always considered diplomacy as the only option to solve peace & order problems, not war. he only used war as a superficial policy to solve superficial issues, but not all the way as what George Bush Sr and Jr. did. i read his autobiography & u can really sense a great awe on this man by being so humble, down to earth, yet very courageous and intelligent. he mentioned on the book that he was even acknowledged by his partymates after the impeachment when he was seated as the accused because he was so calm, and that they couldn't find even a tiny sense of guilt or fault for him. of course, everybody knows nga chickboy jud nuon ni cya coz naa naman gali cya the same issue when he was still arkansas governor. what's bothering me this shouldn't be taken as a political attack ky tao pud bya ghpon ni cya. grabe2x pud bya ang temptation ky labi nag if ul be in power. pero thinking of his great deeds as what mentioned sa first post, u think mo matter pa ni? i really don't think so. let's emulate this man on what good he has done and what good he will be doing in the future.

and what i know hillary is smarter daw than pres bill. so think about that!

mao bitaw ako ng gi-post bai kay sayang gyud ang opportunity ni hillary. as i've said, americans in a way are becoming like filipinos in the way the choose their leader. americans are not as objective as they used to be.

[LytSlpr]

hehehe. taray.

i got an email with a link to a supposed expose of what they really are in the white house and how they treat their staff.

about how clinton was into drugs and all.

sumakit ulo ko kay dugay man to nga video. all i remembered was that he was into drugs and women. oh well.... why should i focus there when dito nga sa atin sarap batukan ang mga politiko di ba?

that is why tawn maningkamot na lang ko to make life comfortable for me and my son. sige ampo that i make good and sound decisions as a parent for the ones deciding the fate of our country are pigs. sige lagi ta yawyaw about our politicians but where did that ever get us? *huge sigh*

i think that "drug thing" about clinton was never confirmed so technically is just a rumor, obama on the other hand, admitted that he "had used" drugs probably to put prevent future scandal.

personally, i don't care if the president is an alcoholic, drug addict or *** maniac as long as he delivers results for the people. that is why it is referred to as the office of the president or mr. president, not george w. bush

biases aside, i really don't see obama or mccain to be president material.

[vern]

mao bitaw ako ng gi-post bai kay sayang gyud ang opportunity ni hillary. as i've said, americans in a way are becoming like filipinos in the way the choose their leader. americans are not as objective as they used to be.

What are you saying? That Hillary was the savior of America? That Obama is useless? That the democrats shouldn't have voted for Obama? There is no guarantee that Hillary was going to lead like Bill. To assume one equaled the other is just pure nonsense. We live in a different time where 9/11 happened. Oh yeah, if Bill only had that cajones to pick Osama up when the Libyans offered him to the US, none of this crap we are in now would ever have happened. Great job Bill.

Great Clinton did a decent job for everyone's wallet ... he didn't do a great job all around as well. There is as much criticism about Bill as there is praise. If you want to talk about objectivity, you must first post with objectivity in mind.

[LytSlpr]

That might be true, but nevertheless, i would take my chances on the 50% of a clinton being president than take my chances of someone who has yet something to prove.

[johnny22aa]

mao bitaw ako ng gi-post bai kay sayang gyud ang opportunity ni hillary. as i've said, americans in a way are becoming like filipinos in the way the choose their leader. americans are not as objective as they used to be.

i agree with u bro that americans might not be so objective now compared before as you see it. kay ako bro, i judge a person by feeling their persona first, how they present themselves in public, how they react to criticisms. if they pass on what i expect them to be, that's the time i put my interest to them objectively. i might read books about them, their interesting facts & figures of their life or news articles and tv documentaries about them. and it's the same thing for people i meet everyday. of course, we're not machines bro, we're humans. for me bro, nasobraan lng ang imong expectations for americans as if they are really interested on objective details. kbaw bitaw ka ang klaseng nga tao mo-talk so objectively, boring ug magduka jud ka if u stick your attention to them.

im not hoping ur one of them. mao bitaw.

[vern]

That might be true, but nevertheless, i would take my chances on the 50% of a clinton being president than take my chances of someone who has yet something to prove.

And what has Hillary proved? Can she take credit for any of Bill's accomplishments? What has she accomplished? Oh yeah ... she talked about her commitment to health care. Here's the real scoop, she wanted to push for what she campaigned for when Bill was President. When the insurance companies pressured her with their lobbying might ... she caved in. I certainly do not want a quitter. Bill != Hillary ... not even spelled the same.

With that said, how many of the great American Presidents proved anything before getting into office? Reagan, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Lincoln and various others with nothing to speak of before they became President. How many had years and years of political experience before getting being president and proved as useless as a rock? ... too many to mention.

Time had a great cover talking about the real worth of experience a while back (even though Clinton's experience I would highly question) ... you should find it and read it. There is no resume to prepare anyone for the most powerful office in the world. History has proved time and time again that experience does not make a President and I'd argue that conviction, belief and character eventually will translate into action that makes a President great. All the Presidents I mentioned had those qualities. History has taught us this just as as Mathematics has taught us that 1(Bill) != 2(Hillary). Mathematics also teaches us that 50% is not statically a very strong base. Casinos make millions by fractions of a percentage, I wouldn't put my eggs in a half guarantee.