[NeroASERCH]

I like Bush a lot and would have voted for him over anyone if he would be running.

[PhillipHer]

i read a book called 'how liberals lost their way' - great book

Is that by the author of how Bush lost popularity and how the Republicans lost congress and probably the presidency because of him?

[Paul Bunyan]

Obama is attractive because he's not Hitlery. Many people simply still remember that Clinton's presidency ended up in an economic disaster of the tech bubble, and overall it wasn't half as good as what it was hyped to be. True, winning a debate doesn't qualify somebody, but some off line about this or that doesn't disqualify somebody either.

[Drugmachine]

IMO, Clinton was the worst recent president. He was charismatic, and he just happened to be a president when the economy was good. But at the end of it all, his foreign policies--forcing Israel to deal with Arafat and bombing Serbia, and overall making the US look like the world's policeman--were immoral, wasteful, and disastrous. Especially for Israel. As for his economic policies, he did nothing about either the tech bubble, or the rising gas prices. There was absolutely nothing good about his presidency.

[Lt_Apple]

Rubbish. The tax policies were formulated by the Republican Congress. Clinton only supported the welfare reform which is a very small fraction of the budgetary spending. Then, they decided to refinance the stock market by allowing individuals to invest. That resulted in the tech bubble which cost many people huge monetary losses, and which he did nothing to prevent. Not a thing. He was bombing Serbia and praising the economy while tens to hundreds of thousands of people were being laid off from their jobs. In case you don't remember, Bush specifically ran on a platform of minimal foreign interventionism. And he did follow up on that until 9/11 changed everything.

Clinton's main responsibility--the foreign policy--was a failure. Maybe with the exception of N. Ireland, but that was hardly his accomplishment. The Irish wanted to end their conflicts, and Clinton was just the right stooge at the right time to come in for the peace agreement signing ceremony. A saint? In the name of peace and stopping massacres? More like under pretense of peace and promoting massacres.