Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (190181)	6/9/2004 8:37:15 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1586653

RE:"Same could be said for Clinton, who was as, if not more popular." True, Clinton had the smooth " I feel your pain" stuff down good. Not as good an uplifter as Reagan though. Unfortunately for Clint, his personal life caught up with him and he got caught in perhaps the greatest lie/joke of the century. Morality was never a question with Reagan anywhere near his political life. RE:"But Clinton was a little more fiscally responsible" I would say thats basically true except one big tax cut Clint signed. Also Reagan had to deal with a lot worse than Clinton did (economically) when he first got into office. Also had to deal with a democrat Congress. So he could cut taxes but couldn't cut spending...result big deficit. Now, with Reagan you always wondered if his mind was still there...but he always seemed to pull the verbal rabbit out of the hat to reassure everyone he was still sharp.

To: Road Walker who wrote (190181)	6/10/2004 9:26:03 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1586653

But Clinton was a little more fiscally responsible. More leftist propaganda. It is easy to be more "fiscally responsible" when you gut the military, the single biggest expenditure in the budget. Carter left the Pentagon in dilapidated and in disarray for Reagan. Reagan/Bush rebuilt it. Clinton gutted it again. Bush is now rebuilding it again. Makes it easy for the Left to make these disingenuous arguments. But the reality is the liberals cut spending for the most important function of government -- protecting our nation. When Clinton took office, we had just had a military buildup in the Gulf consisting of 500,000 men. Now, it has been alleged by the Left that we can't sustain military operations in Afghanistan and the Gulf at the same time, a total of well under 200,000 men.