Posted on 08/18/2006 10:59:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton: Leaning to the Left
rasmussenreports.com 42 minutes ago
William Jefferson Clinton's presidency was one marked by many firsts. He was the first Baby Boomer president elected in the U.S. He was the first Democrat re-elected to a second term since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was the first president since Andrew Johnson to be impeached.
Since his return to private life, Clinton has been the face of high profile humanitarian missions alongside his predecessor, President George H.W. Bush, including relief for the victims of the 2004 tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. He's also worked through the William J. Clinton Foundation to advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness programs in the Asia-Pacific region and promote children's health through an agreement with soft drink manufacturers to stop selling sugary beverages in primary and secondary schools in the United States.
Though he tried to position himself as a moderate, 52% of respondents of a recent Rasmussen Reports survey identify Clinton as politically liberal. Twenty-seven percent (27%) consider him moderate and 12% say he's conservative.
Interpretations of his ideology are clearly skewed along political party lines. An overwhelming majority of Republican voters (75%) consider Clinton liberal, 12% say he's moderate and 7% say conservative. The numbers are more evenly distributed among Democrats. An equal percentage (37%) say Clinton is liberal and moderate; 18% of Democrats consider him conservative.
Men and women over 40 are in near total agreement on their assessments of the former president's political leanings. However, those under 40 vastly disagree. For men under 40, 35% say he's liberal, 34% moderate and 23% conservative. A clear majority of women under 40 say Clinton is liberal (61%), 11% say he's moderate and 16% say conservative.
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Clinton=slime
Wasn't this fact part of Monica's testimony?
Yeah....and that's not ALL that was leaked, either....
Was always a lefty.
Thank God those days are over.
Bill says, "We've gotta move to the far left!"
First President to get caught red-handed committing perjury before a federal court...
First President to molest an intern...
First President to bomb a foreign country to distract the nation from his own personal scandals...
First President to make a terrorist his #1 visitor in the White House...
First President to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom...
etc etc etc
The Clinton Legacy
This list was compiled at the end of the Clinton administration.
RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance - Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates* - Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation - Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify - Most number of witnesses to die suddenly - First president sued for sexual harassment. - First president accused of rape. - First first lady to come under criminal investigation - Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case - First president to establish a legal defense fund. - First president to be held in contempt of court - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions - Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad - First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
* According to our best information, 40 government officials were indicted or convicted in the wake of Watergate. A reader computes that there was a total of 31 Reagan era convictions, including 14 because of Iran-Contra and 16 in the Department of Housing & Urban Development scandal. 47 individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes with 33 of these occurring during the Clinton administration itself. There were in addition 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges. 14 persons were imprisoned. A key difference between the Clinton story and earlier ones was the number of criminals with whom he was associated before entering the White House.
Using a far looser standard that included resignations, David R. Simon and D. Stanley Eitzen in Elite Deviance, say that 138 appointees of the Reagan administration either resigned under an ethical cloud or were criminally indicted. Curiously Haynes Johnson uses the same figure but with a different standard in "Sleep-Walking Through History: America in the Reagan Years: "By the end of his term, 138 administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever."
Is this an article by Paula Jones?
I still say bubba does NOT want hillarious to be elected POTUS. That would surely upstage him and his ego could not deal with it. Watch for him to subtly discredit her prez hopes the closer she gets to the brass ring.
"I still say bubba does NOT want hillarious to be elected POTUS. That would surely upstage him and his ego could not deal with it. Watch for him to subtly discredit her prez hopes the closer she gets to the brass ring."
Agreed! I don't believe for a moment that he wants to be the first "First Man".
"Shee..it Dude. Left? Right? Who cares? I'm 60 years old and its all good man. You want some of this?"
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