Opinion of Bill Clinton

[windjammer]

Good but overrated.

This thread went much like I would expect a JFK thread to go.

FF all things considered - there's good, there's bad, and in retrospect he was vastly preferable to the other options. Considering where the country was in 1989, 1999, and 2009, I'll take his years over the others as well. I believe that Presidents inherit everything that came before them back probably a couple decades, and he did the best with what he had that I reasonably think he could have.

His policies?  As I've said before, his entire presidency was a rear-guard action against the cresting of the right-wing wave.  They are easy to slam from a distance– and will probably continue to look worse as time goes by– but I'm skeptical that anyone else would have done much better.  And some good stuff did come out of his first two years.

Agree.