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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-04 01:17 PM
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Clinton Caricature
http://www.freesqueeze.com/clinton.htm

Bill Clinton remains an enigma to American politics.

His accomplishments during his two terms were impressive.

Moving from record deficits to record surplus.
Paying off the national debt.
21 million new jobs (this is 248,000 per month – the highest under any president)
Fastest and longest real wage growth in over 30 years
Lowest poverty rate in 20 years
Family and Medical leave act
Expanding Pell Grants
Lowest crime rate in 25 years (thanks to the strong economy)
Brady Bill
Lowest number of people on Welfare since 1969
Nearly doubled child support collections
Mental Health Parity Provisions
Child Immunization Rats at All Time High
Reduced threat of global Warming
…and many, many more.

The negative side of Bill Clinton is overshadowed with one item and it is an 800 lb gorilla. It is the sensitive issue of, as Molly Ivins put it, his ZIPPER PROBLEM. Bill is far from being the only powerful man to fall to this weakness. I have noticed throughout all my adult life that, for many women, power in a man is the ultimate aphrodisiac. How else can you explain how a homely pup like Henry Kissinger dated so many beautiful women in his time?

To this day I’m confident that Clinton would have been impeached by that Republican congress if the Republicans had had enough members that were actually true to their wives. It wasn’t a sense of fairness that led to that vote against impeachment but a fear of being exposed as a hypocritical womanizer.

On balance Bill Clinton remains the best President of my lifetime.

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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-04 01:30 PM
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1. As a friend of mine used to say
Edited on Mon Aug-02-04 01:31 PM by RobertSeattle
Clinton DESERVED the BJs...
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-04 01:42 PM
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2. Interesting Concept
I do feel that the good in Clinton totally overshadows any negatives we know of. If you look at his record on job creation alone I could easily justify that this is a guy who deserves a little fun now and then.

Strange to remember how so many GOPeople claimed that Clinton was the reason that the whole nation was discussing oral sex when it was they, the conservatives, that drove that conversation from the beginning.
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Carson Donating Member (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 02:36 PM
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11. And what did Hillary deserve?
Public humiliation for a philandering husband? :shrug:
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Tardisian Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-02-04 06:40 PM
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3. I'd rather...
have a President who's "gettin' some" (though I don't especially care for the cheating on the wife angle), than one who has a stick so far up his....rump that it'll take surgery to get it out.
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 01:59 PM
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4. Agreed. All Working People SHOULD Miss Bill Clinton
Not so sure that they do, but it is self evident that his policies were a huge success to the business environment in this country. I would willingly overlook a personal harem to get the kind of economic growth we got with Clinton.
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 02:09 PM
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5. "Paying off the national debt."
Sorry to inform you but the National has not been paid off. In fact it is climbing at unprecedented rate. I am not even sure if Clinton managed to pay down some of the debt. I know he was going to but that was for the next year and we all know what happened........ Bush*
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 04:59 PM
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6. Oops. But, what did you think of the drawing?
Edited on Tue Aug-03-04 05:01 PM by freesqueeze
You're right that one doesn't sound right at all. I must have mistyped that one. I'll try to find it again and offer up a correction/explanation soon.

I do notice that it says 'paying off the natl debt' and not 'paid off.' I am paying off my home loan, but it will be 20 years before it is paid off (if ever.)
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-04 05:02 PM
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7. "Lowest number of people on Welfare since 1969"
That's only because the so-called Welafare "Reform" Act of 1996 tossed many thousands of people off welfare--which, of course, means those people are no longer counted as being on welfare.

So, what became of those people that Clinton tossed off the welfare rolls? Well, you know all those homeless people you see wandering around...?
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 01:19 PM
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8. ALL Those Homeless People?
Do you really think that Clinton's policy is responsible for 100% of the homeless problem. Strange I remember the homeless, bums, hobos and drifters being a part of city life for my entire life.

I know where you're going though, and I think we're on the same page. Clinton was a moderate that stole freely from the GOP playbook. When I hear the Bush gang crying LIBERAL on Kerry it doesn't stick because they wore out that charge on the moderate Clinton. They are like the party that cried LIBERAL too often.

"Down the road they flew in a flurry of feathers."
-Henny Penny
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 01:28 PM
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9. Free Squeeze ? ...
You have run into a band of Clinton haters ....

Remain optimistic and positive by ignoring them, on the whole ...

They are mean and nasty ....

I appreciate what Clinton did, and I think very highly of him ... bu some people didnt get everything they wanted, and they get very snippy and shitty about it ....

EVERYTHING Clinton acheived was a net positive ....

Notice how I ignore the mean and nasties .....
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 01:36 PM
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10. On the Whole - The Best of My Lifetime
During the Clinton years, I fielded 3 or 4 calls for job recruiters each week.

Since Clinton has left. Only 5% of my resumes get any response at all and most of those are the canned, "we will file your resume and in case we have a need for your particular skill ...."

Did I lose skills??? Nah, I'm the same guy who got all those headhunter calls. We, as a nation, miss the economic stewardship of William Jefferson Clinton.
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 02:49 PM
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12. I don't want to hear about Clinton's thing
And he doesn't want to hear about mine
If I never hear about it again
Far as I'm concerned that'll be fine
If he smothers himself in cold Jell-O
And bangs all his secret'ries one at a time
It's a story as old as the Capitol Hills
But it's not a capital crime

I don't really care about Clinton's thing
Or his other acts of congress
I don't really care how he gets his kicks
Or what's on Monica's dress
I don't really care if it's bodily fluids
Or porridge or soup or lychee
And I couldn't say if it's DNA
TSP, MSG, or PP

I don't really care about Clinton's thing
Or the details of his private life
But I have the greatest respect for the woman
Who's stuck with being his wife
She keeps her dignity, stays on her toes
While the blows fall thick and fast
It must be difficult being First Lady
When you know you aren't the last

I don't really care about Clinton's thing
Or its physical attributes
If it's bent or it's straight or it's so bloody long
That he keeps one end stuck in his boot
When he went on TV it occurred to me
That he really shouldn't have tried
He just should have taken his pecker out
And said "There, I hope you're satisfied"

I don't want to hear about Clinton's thing
I'd much rather talk about mine
Frankly it's starting to make me sick
How we talk about his all the time
I'm not even envious, I'm okay
And if he's having fun, well that's fine
But I don't want to hear about his anymore
I'd much rather talk about
Hear about, sing about
I'd much rather talk about mine!


Gotta love Bowser & Blue.
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