Genuine,
Clinton got a free pass for all of his bull**** and lies because it was peacetime.
I didn't have a problem with him screwing an intern, I did have a problem with him lying about it. My friend pointed out last night when watching the tape of his meltdown with Chris Wallace, that he used the same finger wagging when he told America that "he did not have sex with that woman". Same exact finger wagging and facial expression.
Genuine in poker that would be called "his tell". Hes lying when does that.
The guy basically inherited a peacetime economy from the republicans who won the cold war, then slashed and cut military, intelligence and defense spending. He then represented to the American people what " a great job he did in resolving the deficit".
He destroyed the morale of the military and intelligence. And he allowed Bin laden to get away. All this because he was too busy fighting scandals and while he and Hillary were trying to play FRD and Eleanor with that health care reform he thought was so important to his legacy.
His first and most glaring screwup was treating the first attempt on the WTC not as an act of war, but as a federal crime. What exactly was he thinking? That they wouldn't do it again?
His legacy to me, and to many others, will be allowing Bin laden to escape and not preventing the great tragedies that befell us afterward because of it.
I can assure you that people do not attempt to steal documents that will vindicate them, they attempt to steal documents that will embarass them. I loved Clinton rushing to Berger's defense after he was accused by actually telling the media that Berger always had a very messy desk(this is an actual quote!!!) and that it was very believable that he took them by accident. I guess he thought the bull**** would keep on playing and playing, even after he was out of office.
Any attempts to pin this situation on Bush are ridiculous. He inherited this nightmare. We'll never know what kind of president he may have been had he not been forced to deal with this war on terror 24/7 through just about his whole time in office.
As far as Seattle's assertion that he was one of our greatest president's goes, I am kinda wondering what exactly he accomplished in office to make that incredible statement.
Im a republican but noone tells me how to think. Two of the greatest presidents in our history were Democrats, FDR and Truman. Real men who had real guts and made hard choices when the country needed a leader who could make them, and needed them badly.