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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (5470)9/22/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Excellent summation of history. But paragraphs please!!!

Liberal historian and journalist Richard Reeves had an excellent piece on Clinton a while back, saying that Clinton was a little acorn off the giant oak of Reagan. (I understand what he meant, but still that could be an insult to Reagan).

George Will has called Clinton an inconsequential president, except for the lowering standards and never-ending scandals - BIG exceptions. Paul Gigot noted that Clinton's only accomplishments are conservative ones: free trade/NAFTA, welfare reform and a balanced budget, and the latter two forced upon him by a Republican Congress.

We are in the 18th year of what historians are already calling "the Great Boom". Reagan's free market policies have overtaken the world and US business is reigning supreme. We have a balanced budget thanks to the Reagan "peace dividend" and the first Republican Congress in 40 years. Clinton was not allowed to derail the prosperity he inherited and gets no credit from Wall Street or the public for anything more than that.

Counter-intuitively, Reagan built trust in government. Bill Clinton destroyed trust in government. Reagan put Bush into office in 1988 as a "third term". Bush ran on his own power and lost in 1992. And as things shape up, Clinton should sink AlGore in 2000.
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