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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 01:58 PM Mar 2016

All things considered, what grade would you give Bill Clinton as president, from 1993 to 2001? [View all]


49 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
A+, A or A-
6 (12%)
B+, B or B-
8 (16%)
C+, C or C-
18 (37%)
D+, D or D-
9 (18%)
F
8 (16%)
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Cutting the saftey net is an automatic F. Cobalt Violet Mar 2016 #1
Does President Obama get an automatic F for not attempting to restore it? (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #2
No he get an F for cutting food stamps during a time of soring childhood poverty. Cobalt Violet Mar 2016 #5
Let me guess.... FDR gets an F for interning Japanese Americans? (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #9
This place is fucking ridiculous sometimes Action_Patrol Mar 2016 #14
ALL things considered...A+ (just not being a Bush would qualify for a solid B) Glorfindel Mar 2016 #3
+1 hamsterjill Mar 2016 #11
I thought that we HATED balanced budgets. nt clarice Mar 2016 #28
I'd give him a C+ tkmorris Mar 2016 #4
B-, the same grade I'd give Barack Obama. Chan790 Mar 2016 #6
A- or B+ Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2016 #7
The GOP saved the Clintons during the '90s nichomachus Mar 2016 #8
It's very hard to imagine Bob Dole beating Clinton in 1996 (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #10
Had the Clintons been on the ropes, Dole wouldn't have been the candidate. nt nichomachus Mar 2016 #12
I have to grade him down for his recklessness with Lewinsky. He could have stopped CTyankee Mar 2016 #13
He could have stopped her? No, he could have stopped himself. n/t demmiblue Mar 2016 #16
Yes, certainly. But she got access to him and he could have said to his aides that he CTyankee Mar 2016 #19
Mike Dukakis had a standing rule with his staff nichomachus Mar 2016 #26
absolutely. He was in charge not his penis. He should have been much more in control. CTyankee Mar 2016 #27
What bothered me the most about the whole"penis gate affair".... clarice Mar 2016 #30
NAFTA and welfare deform cost him the A. KamaAina Mar 2016 #15
not as bad as bush or ronnie so not an f but not muich higher dembotoz Mar 2016 #17
Yup...can't you just see the regular cast of characters? nt clarice Mar 2016 #29
Eh. B - HughBeaumont Mar 2016 #18
The LGBTQI community benefited during the Clinton administration. yardwork Mar 2016 #24
"Deemed to have deserved honours", same as Barack Obama. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2016 #20
B- or C+ XemaSab Mar 2016 #21
Not an overall grade Angel Martin Mar 2016 #22
Torn somewhere between low A and high C MillennialDem Mar 2016 #23
Average. I voted "C" for purposes of this poll. bigwillq Mar 2016 #25
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