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To: Names Ash Housewares

People who were in college during the Clinton years love the guy. I’m a rarity, even among some of my “conservative” friends.


18 posted on 02/19/2011 1:27:25 PM PST by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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I was in college then, and most people I know dislike him greatly. That said, across all people, especially younger people of that time, I think most people associate his term with good times, and thus he gets positive ratings. Many associate the same with the 80s, which is likely why Reagan scores so high.

I put Reagan near the top with Washington and other major figures in history that helped establish and protect our limited government system, and I put Clinton pretty far down the list...not at the very bottom because he was a competent political mind and smart enough to maintain strong monetary policy and to with the GOP on a number of key issues from 1995 to the end of his term to help the economy and - more importantly to him - to help himself. His character flaws and terrible foreign policy push him into the lower half for sure. Clinton was a Democrat of the Reagan era - a southern democrat who ran as a moderate, shifted far left in office, and changed course dramatically after getting slapped down in 1994. He was a scoundrel, but he was not incompetent like Carter, Obama and others further back in history.


41 posted on 07/13/2011 3:13:31 PM PDT by ilgipper ( political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell))
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