[MurryMom]

Clinton also reduced spending on frivolous military and non-military items, maintained peace in Iraq, Bosnia, and Haiti, and reduced taxes on low income wage earners. These measures (along with the tax increases on high incomes) resulted in the greatest economic prosperity in human history and a huge budget surplus.

Little Dumbya would profit from imitating the Clinton-Gore economic miracle.

[Miss Marple]

Peace in Iraq under Clinton? I daresay those 300,000 people in mass graves would disagree, not to mention our pilots who were being shot at almost daily in the No Fly Zone.

You know, Clinton doesn't really matter to me anymore. He has his tacky library with his side of the story on display, and that's just fine. I noticed at the opening in Little Rock his speech was not quite as golden-tongued, and he looked rather small and pathetic soaked in all that rain, particularly since his intelligent supporters didn't have enough sense to put up a tent for the dignitaries.

He is fading into the background of history, and all of his fans are just going to have to accept it. President Bush has been reelected, and he will be making more history over the next few years. The wheel has turned.

[SupplySider]

Clinton also reduced spending on frivolous military and non-military items, maintained peace in Iraq, Bosnia, and Haiti, and reduced taxes on low income wage earners. These measures (along with the tax increases on high incomes) resulted in the greatest economic prosperity in human history and a huge budget surplus. Little Dumbya would profit from imitating the Clinton-Gore economic miracle.

Clinton proposed major net spending increases. I clearly remember Laura Tyson and Leon Panetta on Meet the Press in the first term arguing AGAINST a balanced budget. Spending control came with the Republican congressional landslide and the Contract with America. Clinton did not improve the economy by cutting spending, but I'm glad to see you on record that reducing federal spending is a component of creating a better economy.

Why is cutting taxes on lower income citizens a benefit for the economy and cutting taxes on upper income folks a detriment? I don't follow you. I can see why you might like the idea from the Marxist point of view of the morality of income redistribution, but what does this have to do with creating a good economy?

Regarding tax rate increases for the rich, can you tell me how that is supposed to help the economy? Reagan's tax rate cuts in the top brackest produced tax revenue increases from that group.

If you think upper tax rate increases were great under Clinton, will you admit that they were great under Bush Sr.? He and Clinton raised taxes by nearly identical amounts.

I don't see how proping up a thug in Haiti, letting Saddam violate the Gulf war cease fire and steal tens of billions from the UN, and killing more Bosnian civilians from politically safe high altitude bombing than were found to have been killed in the "genocide" helped our economy in any way. if you can explain it to me, please do.

There was a strong economy while Clinton was in office. I have yet to have it explained to me by anyone how Clinton created or even helped that, other than continuing the push for free trade that Bush Sr. began. I am very sincere in asking you to please explain HOW Clinton created his economic miracle. You can say "Little Dumbya" just as I could say "Slick willy" (which I never do), but that's not any kind of an argument.

[Darksheare]

"Clinton-Gore Economic Miracle"?
Oh, you mean the recession that Clinton-Gore created.
Yeah, Dubya benefited by that because he turned it around within his first few months.
If Clinton hadn't emboldened the terrorists by NOT responding to terror attacks during his stay in office, 9/11 wouldn't have happened.
THAT is Clnton's legacy, teror attacks, oral sex, recession, and self-serving policies.