Did you approve of Bill Clinton's job performance as president?

Bill Clinton has many critics from the left on this board. I'd like to see how many.

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DemEx

But why live in the past.....

When we've got a winner right here for the very near future!!!

Yes.

As a Democrat?

No.

People tend to compartmentalize their opinions of Clinton. They support him when he is attacked by the Right, but condemn him when he repeatedly demonstrates his true colors. The two aspects are rarely reconciled and combined with the cult figure celebrity of a politician, in contrast to the extreme negatives of Bush, he is given the benefit of the doubt despite the damage his policies have incurred.

I was going to post a response complaining that the question needed better definition, but you saved me.

I should have read your post before I responded below. You said it better.

I felt like there was an intelligent person at the head of my government. I didn't agree with all of his viewpoints, but, for the most part, I felt confident that capable professionals were making decisions.

However, I wish Clinton had been more personally disciplined.

Yes, they were apparently capable of anything, and that's the problem: they mostly chose the wrong things.

Building a bridge to the 21st century, is a success. A success waylayed by the VRWC.

Against all of the sheeple's bleatings, against all the CONS working feverishly to preserve their CONdom come, against the long, sad, sick, course of human history, Bill Clinton and his administration made forward progress.

Was he perfect. Ha! You don't get to be the POTUS by being perfect. But he made progress towards the US one day having a perfect POTUS. What more can we ask of one?

As compared to George Bush I or Ronnie? You bet.

As compared to issues I want/ed to see addressed? Approved of some, not others. A mixed bag.

Welfare "reform" - needed, but implemented horribly
Communications Act - Ugh!
NAFTA - A good idea, but not enough oomph to ensure US jobs stay in the US. I would have liked to have seen something related to a minimum wage for Mexican workers, too.

But on the whole, I think Pres. Clinton did a good job. I'm glad I voted for him twice.

I tend not to look at presidencies as the sum of the parts, but the whole.

There were things done that didn't work out well. There were ideas i wouldn't have promoted had i been in his chair.

But, in the broader view, his presidency was a success and a net positive for this country.
The Professor

FMLA was one of the best things EVER that happened in my family's favor. Even my far conservative grandpa agreed FMLA was a great thing. Also as far as the economy was and the millions of Americans who worked their way from poverty to the middle class made this answer a no-brainer.

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As a Democrat, no.

Bill Clinton championed too many dubious causes. I will never forgive the way that he worked to push through NAFTA, which has proved to be an absolute boondoggle for workers and farmers in all countries involved. I was also very disappointed in the way that he took his economic advise from Bob Rubin and concentrated on doing what was best for Wall Street, leading to a rather "empty expansion" of the US economy. I was also very dismayed by the way he championed the cause of welfare reform without taking the necessary steps to actually REFORM it rather that gutting it.

Finally, I was left disappointed by the absolute carelessness with which he managed his personal affairs. I know that things like that shouldn't be entered into the public record, but I find it to be indicative of a person who was, at heart, highly narcissistic and more consumed with himself than anything else around him.

But, compared to Reagan and Bush I, he was a vast improvement. That should not, however, be construed as an endorsment of Clinton as much as it is a condemnation of how bad the other two really were.

--attribued to * by The Onion

I'll say approve, but it's only relative to Bush. On a scale of 1-10 I'd give him a 5.