Why Bill doesn't thrill, Clinton was seen as a force for good, but what did he achieve?

Guardian - UK ^ | 8-29-04 | Henry McDonald

[zarf]

He got a hummer.

[cajungirl]

Well,Clinton's aids group did lower significantly the price of aids drugs in Africa by putting together deals with Indian generic companies. The price for a years drug is now likke 50 bucks when it used to be thousands.My numbers are not right but the lowering is significant. And his group did that. He then lost interest and hasn't done anything else but I have to grant him that.

That said, he hasn't done much else that I am aware of other than enrich himself and travel around probably boinking everything in sight.

[hflynn]

He dumbed down America even further than the DNC could have hoped.

[McGavin999]

Slowly but surely the scales are dropping from the eyes of the fawning. Soon everyone will know what we've known all along. Clinton never accomplished anything except conning people into believing that he did.

[trek]

"Eamon McCann quoted Norman Mailer last week, who famously quipped that with Clinton there was no bottom line. You may, like me, never dream of voting for Bush in a million of years but you've got to admit one thing - that, unlike Bill Clinton, at least Dubya has a bottom line."

If the Legacy Squad has lost Norman Mailer, you can put a fork in ex-President Dickhead. He's done.

[Cacique]

Ping

[Cacique]

Methinks that some lefties may not say so in public. But some of them actually admire Dubya.

[afz400]

Clinton is like the hillbilly in the holler that tells everyone about how he's gonna fix up his beat up old Camaro that's up on blocks and make a race car out of it, and year after year it's still up on blocks rusting away.

[syriacus]

putting together deals

Yes... That's our Bill.
Clinton engineered oil crisis last May [2000]

[Casloy]

Like Jimmy Carter's a foreign policy based on self importance, self rightousness, and an absurd notion that soverign countries can be "talked" into settling problems. And, like Carter, every major summit was heralded by a fawning media and then ignored when in short order everything fell apart because neither party had a stake in the settlement.

[Happygal]

I didn't realise Eamon McCann was still knocking about.

Not a bad piece from the Guardian, I suppose.

[zarf]

I have claimed since Clinton left that he will be to blame for the destruction of the current Democratic Party.

If Bush wins big and the Congress falls further into Republican hands, it will be on Clinton's shoulders.

[hflynn]

If Bush wins big and the Congress falls further into Republican hands, it will be on Clinton's shoulders.

LOL! But that's the plan. Destroy the 2 Johns and run Hillary in 2008.

[Snake65]

Clinton is like the hillbilly in the holler that tells everyone about how he's gonna fix up his beat up old Camaro that's up on blocks and make a race car out of it, and year after year it's still up on blocks rusting away.

Well put.

[Semper Paratus]

50 years from now the most popular relic of the Clinton era will be the blue dress.

[hometoroost]

"You may, like me, never dream of voting for Bush in a million of years but you've got to admit one thing - that, unlike Bill Clinton, at least Dubya has a bottom line."

And there's the rub. There are too many people out there who are so reflexively Democrat (or "progressive" in the author's case) that they don't even stop to analyize the values that are held and actions that are taken by the people running the party they support.

If the average American Democrat held their values up against the values of John Kerry and his colleagues, Bush would take 80% of the vote. But following what you have always done is easier than thinking.

[atomicpossum]

He lowered the bar so Kerry has a chance.

[SirLurkedalot]

Are you a frickin psychic or something? That's word-for-word, the first damn thing I thought when I read the headline. Co'workers are busting up big time!

[mewzilla]

Toon had UBL in his sights at least half a dozen times and let him get away unscathed.