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June 30, 2004
Ann Coulter liked Clinton's Policies: "Everything Newt Gingrich sent up to him, he signed..."
Sometimes it takes Ann Coulter remind us about Clinton:
ANN COULTER: Yes, it‘s interesting that he [Clinton] alone among—he and Hillary actually have been very supportive of the war. ... Contrary to what the Clinton apologists kept saying, conservatives didn‘t particularly object to Clinton on policy. He was probably about the same as Bob Dole would have been.Everything Newt Gingrich sent up to him, he signed after the ‘94 election. The problem wasn‘t policy. [Emphasis mine.]
Believe me, I understand that the Bush administration has been phenomenally horrible -- but do we have to forget everything about Clinton's policies to be able to acknowledge that? Here's a good timeline of the Iraq sanctions policy that may have killed half a million children or more mainly because of the way it was administered by the Clinton administration. (Clinton administration's policies towards AIDS drugs for poor nations, which became slightly less worse towards the end of Clinton's tenure thanks to a great campaign by U.S. activists, is another huge mark of shame for that administration.)
Posted by zeynep at June 30, 2004 03:27 AM
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Unfortunatly, no one with any chance of winning the presidency these days is as different from the right as they should be, but I would still much rather have Clinton in office than Bob Dole.
Ann's just trying to stir things up.
Posted by: Nik at June 30, 2004 07:50 AM
Impotence is a word that often has a negative connotation. Considering the number of times that impotence is used during the many television commercials day in and day out, it's vital that people understand what Impotence means.
Posted by: blowback at June 30, 2004 12:16 PM
Bill Clinton was certainly a war criminal and the sanctions that he imposed upon Iraq during his two administrations did kill hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. That the neo-cons are less slick and less accomplished politicians than Bill Clinton, and more blatantly criminal with their endless and so-called "war on terror" in no way exonerates Bill Clinton. That the Republicans were willing to ignore Clinton's war crimes and instead obsess on his sexual indiscretions just accents their own criminality, complicity, and total lack of true morality. Unfortunately there has been no American president in my lifetime that has not committed multiple felons and multiple war crimes. It seems to be a part of the territory of occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to break international law with impugnity and disregard. American foreign policy during my lifetime has been a criminal and moral disgrace virtually without exception. Eisenhower might be the one exception to this rule, but I'm not even sure about him.
Sincerely,
Old & In The Way
Posted by: Phil Cicchi at June 30, 2004 06:15 PM
about time someone re-discovered this already whitewashed record of the "boom years"
whether he did it on his own, or bowed to Gingrich-ian pressures, the substance of Clinton's policy is no different from Bush, Sr. or Jr.
If it wasn't Enron, it was Citigroup ... If it wasn't outright large-scale murder in Iraq, it was agonizingly drip-drip, "price is (alb)right" large-scale murder-by-sanctions in Iraq, or Kosovo ... If it wasn't cuts in social services, it was welfare-'reform' ... i get particularly exasperated by ignorant expressions of the 'Clinton understood black pain' variety ... no, Bill was just hustling his "base" (when he wasn't hustling in other base ways) ... really no different from Bush sucking up to Christian-lunatics (arguably, Bush throws more crumbs to his base)
but then, shallow stylistic differences are everything, it seems, to America(ns)
Posted by: aswad at July 2, 2004 01:49 PM
Clinton says that the single most thing he regrets about his presidency was Rwanda.
Now that makes me feel better. As long as he REGRETS letting 3,000,000 people be murdered...
Posted by: Nik at July 2, 2004 06:19 PM