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Question: How would you rate Bill Clinton as a President?
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« on: July 18, 2015, 01:10:06 PM »

Bill Clinton, 1993-2001

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Abraham Lincoln: 4.45 Stars
George Washington: 4.42 Stars
Chester A. Arthur: 3.8 Stars
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 3.7 Stars
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 3.67 Stars
Thomas Jefferson: 3.65 Stars
Theodore Roosevelt: 3.59 Stars
James Monroe: 3.57 Stars
John Quincy Adams: 3.5 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
Grover Cleveland: 3.46 Stars
John F. Kennedy: 3.43 Stars
Harry S. Truman: 3.38 Stars
James Madison: 3.23 Stars
William Howard Taft: 3.15 Stars
Zachary Taylor: 3.15 Stars
James A. Garfield: 3.14 Stars
Calvin Coolidge: 3.12 Stars
Ulysses S. Grant: 3.06 Stars
Martin Van Buren: 3.04 Stars
George H. W. Bush: 2.95 Stars
Jimmy Carter: 2.86 Stars
James K. Polk: 2.85 Stars
Gerald Ford: 2.73 Stars
Ronald Reagan: 2.62 Stars
John Adams: 2.58 Stars
Lyndon B. Johnson: 2.53 Stars
Warren Harding: 2.48 Stars
William McKinley: 2.47 Stars
Andrew Jackson: 2.43 Stars
William Henry Harrison: 2.38 Stars
Woodrow Wilson: 2.36 Stars
Millard Fillmore: 2.33 Stars
Benjamin Harrison: 2.33 Stars
Richard Nixon: 2.29 Stars
Rutherford B. Hayes: 2.15 Stars
Herbert Hoover: 2.11 Stars
John Tyler: 2.11 Stars
Andrew Johnson: 1.72 Stars
Franklin Pierce: 1.6 Stars
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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2015, 01:11:18 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2015, 01:12:11 PM »

2.5 stars, went with 2 because I'm sure he will be overrated.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2015, 01:15:03 PM »

I can't believe I gave him the highest rating so far.

Three stars. Domestically, he was fairly good for a Dem President although he was more conservative on social issues than I would have liked. Still, that was more the times than anything.

He was incompetent and indecisive on foreign policy, allowing threats to fester and explode in his successor's lap.

And regardless of whether he should have been impeached or not, he humiliated this country and should have had the decency to resign for turning the white house into a laughingstock.
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2015, 01:46:16 PM »


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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2015, 02:18:25 PM »

Terrible in terms of personal behavior, terrible on a few issues, but alright on a few others. Plus he ended the reign of Reagan-Bush, so 3 stars.
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2015, 02:22:11 PM »

Jeez, so much hate. 3.4 to be exact, so I voted 3.
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2015, 02:37:17 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2015, 03:04:54 PM »

zero stars bc muh moderate hero

Nah but actually three stars. A lot of his signature policies (NAFTA, welfare reform, repealing Glass Steagall) were pretty bad, but I shudder to think of what might have happened had there been a Republican in the White House from 1994-2000. He also got lucky enough to preside over the longest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history - in retrospect, his presidency looks something like the peak of American global hegemony. Foreign policy was not as bad as many other postwar presidents.
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2015, 03:22:56 PM »

3 stars.
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2015, 03:32:36 PM »

The worst Democrat since Andrew Johnson. One or two stars.
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2015, 03:50:18 PM »

I can't believe I gave him the highest rating so far.

Three stars. Domestically, he was fairly good for a Dem President although he was more conservative on social issues than I would have liked. Still, that was more the times than anything.

He was incompetent and indecisive on foreign policy, allowing threats to fester and explode in his successor's lap.

And regardless of whether he should have been impeached or not, he humiliated this country and should have had the decency to resign for turning the white house into a laughingstock.

This, exactly this. I he was an ok President with some accomplishments domestically but virtually none internationally.

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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2015, 04:36:54 PM »

5 stars easily.

One of the best!
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« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2015, 05:00:14 PM »

2 stars.
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2015, 05:52:26 PM »

Probably deserves four stars, but I gave him five, just knowing how many people are going to give him one star for some law he signed that they see as causing the end of American greatness and the beginning of a thousand years of darkness.

He wasn't perfect, but he was as good as we've seen in recent decades.
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« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2015, 10:20:57 PM »

3 Stars. By no means perfect, but he certainly accomplished some good things. Much better than George W. Bush and Obama.
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« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2015, 10:30:14 PM »

As president, three stars. As a person, one star.
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« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2015, 12:48:35 AM »

One star. A philandering degenerate who lacked the moral fibre demanded by the office.
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« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2015, 01:21:44 AM »

I'd say Woodrow Wilson was worse as far as democratic presidents.

Clinton's presidency was terrible. "Reforming" welfare, establishing NAFTA, enacting Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act, expanding usage of the death penalty, repealing Glass-Steagall were all awful; he shifted politics to the right and influenced international left-wing parties with "third way" policies. He receives far too much credit for foreign policy than he deserves simply because he governed over a peaceful time period. He wasn't all bad: at least he enacted mandatory unpaid leave, attempted universal healthcare, and made some improvements in environmental protection, but I can't give him anymore than two stars.
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« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2015, 02:09:35 AM »

4 stars , Greatest economic boom in US history, turned record deficits into record surpluses, 23 million jobs, welfare reform, cut spending, peace full period, and shrunk the size of government
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« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2015, 02:10:17 AM »


Reagan and Clinton are the best post IKE presidents by far
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« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2015, 02:11:41 AM »

The best Republican President we ever had. 1 star.
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« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2015, 02:20:00 AM »

His White House didn't really seem to kick into gear until 1994-until that point he'd basically messed up health care, bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda. Advocating for NAFTA was pretty awful as well, considering it basically pushed millions of Mexican farmers into poverty.

Post 1994, he did pretty well. Turning around the economy has to be given high praise, much like with Obama it only tends to get noted 5-10 years later how well they performed on that front. Social issues were decent-he had to get DADT since that was better than nothing.

One of the smartest Presidents, and clearly a brilliant pol but like Nixon seemed to be battling his demons.

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« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2015, 06:29:28 AM »


Reagan and Clinton are the best post IKE presidents by far

Ugh, you are entitled to have your own opinion. No need to try to change mine, you moderate hero.
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« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2015, 06:44:42 AM »

NAFTA was a mixed positive as far as I'm concerned. Many people were lifted out of poverty, but yes the retention of U.S. agrisubsidies was a mistake obviously.

And yes, I was struggling to think who was worse _ Wilson or Clinton; but then again, Wilson has vaguely positive legislation associated with his name. Clinton has a mixture of moderate hero compromises, backflips and stuff he was forced into. The guy is possibly one of the luckiest presidents in American history (as far as the lack of serious issues are concerned, anyway - when one of the biggest agenda items are school uniforms, you're basically thumb twiddling), and still managed to eff up what was a pretty easy gig.
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