The Clinton legacy

[Questor]

I remember in the last days of the Clinton administration that there was a lot of buzz about the legacy he would leave as president. I just watched a documentary on recent presidents and it looks like history will remember Clinton for his impeachment. Signing NAFTA and presiding over a period of prosperity and winning the political stalemate with Newt Gingrich over whether the government should shut down and sending soldiers into Bosnia are his only accomplishments of record.

[deltecs]

I remember in the last days of the Clinton administration that there was a lot of buzz about the legacy he would leave as president. I just watched a documentary on recent presidents and it looks like history will remember Clinton for his impeachment. Signing NAFTA and presiding over a period of prosperity and winning the political stalemate with Newt Gingrich over whether the government should shut down and sending soldiers into Bosnia are his only accomplishments of record.

They left out a lot of legacy.  Don't forget the Brady bill signed by him, foreign policy on embassy bombings, terrorists attacks on American citizens abroad, Cole incident, Presidential pardons, lack of accurate intelligence reports, drug user, Whitewater scandal, non conviction of perjury, only President to have law license revoked, Operation Desert Fox, Operation Allied Force, and moved to NY with his wife so she could win a Senatorial Election.  That's only the highlights of his legacy.

[Graybeard]

And here I thought the cigar was his most enduring legacy. 

[deltecs]

And here I thought the cigar was his most enduring legacy. 

If Hitlery wins the election and now that Fidel has resigned, do you think she'll open trade relations with Cuba and we can have good cigars again?  Or will that be her legacy?

[Questor]

Seriously, though, the documentarians made a good point in that presidents are remembered for events that evoke emotion in the people, and the only thing in his presidency that qualifies is the scandal and impeachment. I thought the documentary was a fair and unbiased assessment of all the presidents reported on in that documentary.

Less seriously, there was a time when I'd have thought Hillary was really really attractive (if you know what I mean), but I was young and anything short of a horribly mangled female cadaver would have been attractive. I think I was still reading the Sears catalog for the hot parts at the time.

[ncsurveyor]

And here I thought the cigar was his most enduring legacy. 

If Hitlery wins the election and now that Fidel has resigned, do you think she'll open trade relations with Cuba and we can have good cigars again?  Or will that be her legacy?

After McCain's experience with Cubans via his Vietnam internment, I wonder who hates Cuban cigars more, him or Hillary?

(I picked a fine time to quit smoking)