The next time you're on vacation and your airplane lands successfully, thank Bill Clinton.

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21. Clinton was certainly talented, articulate, and charming. But...

in spite of the budget and economy, he was someone who struck me as having situational ethics. In other words, his ethics slid around to fit situations and he was glib enough to tell a good story about it. Many bought them too.

Besides gutting Glass-Steagall (setting up the banks selling junk derivatives, crashing the economy, and ruining a lot of families), he also signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act that fundamentally changed our media system by deregulating and allowing massive consolidation, lifting the national cap on radio station ownership from four (allowing a handful of corporations including Clear Channel to acquire 1500 plus talk radio stations, run conservative talk and effectively propagandize the nation).

You can draw a straight line from there to Trump and the rise of American fascism and white supremacy again.

I'd give him no higher than a B- myself in spite of the good economy and some other good things he accomplished. He left us positioned to be worse off.