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To: i-node who wrote (145655)	4/20/2002 5:32:34 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574413

Clinton's dalliances are hardly typical of other Democrats. The rest of them are all family men, and none of them were ex-alcoholics, slackers, coke-users. Nor were they handed their careers on a silver platter from daddy (okay Gore maybe but I'm not voting for him anyway). Nor are they indebted to special interests which pollute our country and gouge consumers out of tens of billions of dollars. None of them are in bed with anything close to Enron. I'm for John Kerry who kicks Bush's ass in every way as a candidate for president. Not only a real war hero, but smart as a whip, brilliant on all the issues, a former prosecutor, razor-sharp debater, tough, compassionate, progressive-moderate, rich and universally respected. Clinton was elected twice with full knowledge that he "probably" cheated on Hilary. Remember Gennifer Flowers? Most people knew it as a fact, but who cared? Only the far-right character assassins who funded the genesis of Whitewater cared, and hated/envied Clinton BECAUSE he was doing such a good job. They HATED our excellent economy, peace on earth and general optimism in America. Clinton was easily the most effective president of our lifetimes. He had a personal flaw but that was known and even after Monica he was up there in the 65% approval area. The press and the GOP have been extremely hard on Clinton. I say it's time to give the guy some credit. He taught us all how to run an economy, for one thing. And that's a big thing. Bush is now copying many Clinton political tactics. Clinton was brilliant but had an achilles heel. What's Bush's - Enron and all it represents. If you want to blame Clinton for Osama, it's wrong, because he tried harder than anyone to make peace in palestine. Also Osama happened on Bush's watch. The first nine months he gave us no warnings on terrorism. Nor did he make a single speech warnnig terrorists to cool it or else. His big foreign policy emphasis was Star Wars, which was completey discredited by 9/11 for it would have been useless to stop it. Bush was a Monday morning quarterback who embraced our anger and post-9/11 black-white view of the world. That was necessary and good. But now gradually the war on terror is over and the Bush honeymoon is also coming to a close. Bush now hopes to keep the war on terror going for years so his approval ratings will remain high. Ironically Osama is Bush's best friend, and his next best friend is Saddam. I think Osama is dead so next it's either Saddam or Bush will gradually fall from 75% approval ratings down to less than 50%.