Posted on 06/11/2005 11:00:40 AM PDT by Che Chihuahua
MILLIONS of Americans despise Bill Clinton. They have done so since he became a presence in national politics in the early 1990's, and they continue to do so today, more than four years after his retirement from public office.
The passion of the Clinton haters is a phenomenon without equal in recent American politics. It is not based on any specific policies that Clinton promoted or implemented during his years in office. It is almost entirely personal. In its persistence and intensity, it goes far beyond anything that comparable numbers of people have felt about Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan or either of the presidents Bush. It surpasses even the liberals' longstanding detestation of Richard Nixon. The only political obsession comparable to it in the past century is the hatred that a significant minority of Americans felt for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In this respect the phenomenon is all the more puzzling. Roosevelt made enormous and sometimes reckless changes in the American government and economy, and when his critics loathed him for it, he loathed them back. ''They are unanimous in their hate for me'' he said of them in his 1936 re-election campaign, ''and I welcome their hatred.'' Clinton, on the other hand, was a centrist who undertook no dramatic transformations of society or government and, what was more, showed himself to be an instinctive conciliator who believed in compromise almost to a fault.
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You sir are correct!
How can this author be so stupid as to not know why the people who hate BC actually hate him?...after writing a book even.
The answer is he's promoting BC's agenda and looking for explanations to cast aspersions on those he himself sees as "Clinton haters."
Notice how the libs want to cast their political opposition as irrational, hate filled zealots. This irresistable definition of those who oppose you doesn't wash when put beside the real facts.
Look, Bill Clinton is a narcissist, a likable enough guy crippled by a wicked personality disorder, whose character brought reproach upon the Office of President.
End of story.
Indeed he did - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Bill Clinton's excesses brought him impeachement......and now this....."But as often happens, a legitimate debate among analysts was misused by many during the 1990s to either try to inflate the Chinese threat or to downplay it or ignore it for political reasons. This latter group was lead -- not by some "close-knit fraternity" of analysts out to fool the government -- but by Bill Clinton himself. Clinton went so far as to declare certain collection activities against China as "off-limits" and also put certain topics off-limits as well. In practice that meant, while we knew what was going on, we were not allowed to say some things, or to officially report certain obvious conclusions"
Clinton is the absolute worst US president in history and that's saying a lot when you consider that Harding, Carter, FDR, and LBJ are in the running for that "honor."
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