Was Bill Clinton the best President since Ike?

[Mr. Smith]

Hell no, Clinton signed Welfare Reform, got through NAFTA, bombed a medicine factory unnecessarily, sat his on hands when Rwanda was facing a genocide [one of the few cases where an intervention was necessary], put the nation through a bunch of absurd skirmishes that weren't our business and for all intents and purposes was just an effective Republican.


LBJ, JFK, Carter, even Jerry Ford were all better Presidents than he was.

I'd call JFK the best personally.

[Mr. Smith]

Kennedy, Obama and Reagan were/are all far better than Clinton's miserable Presidency. It's not clear to me what substantial difference there is between Carter's disastrous term in office and Clinton's other than Clinton managing to be re-elected. More scandals?

Carter got laid less

And Camp David, and finishing up what Nixon did with China, and creating he Department of Education, and serious environmental effort, and significant mental health legislation, and not dumping us into every l'il skirmish and generally looking at the world through a lens beyond the Cold War morality.

Sans Johnson, no President has done more in just one term than him (JFK comes close though).

To try to compare Carter to Clinton is an exercise in absurdity

[Mr. Smith]

Kennedy, Obama and Reagan were/are all far better than Clinton's miserable Presidency. It's not clear to me what substantial difference there is between Carter's disastrous term in office and Clinton's other than Clinton managing to be re-elected. More scandals?

how was Clinton presidency miserbale

Welfare Reform is how.