What did Clinton do as President that the Freepers hate the most?

[Toots]

I am not talking about extra marital sex either I am talking Public Policy. What did Clinton accomplish that drives the freepers craziest. The Chinese technology trade has been debunked easily so what legitimate policy has them slobbering over themselves? What did Clinton do to "destroy" our American way of life? Was it just the eight long years of Peace and Prosperity with America having an unparalleled economic success and Crime rates plummeting or what? :shrug:

[YOY]

1. He was elected. That's enough for them. n/t

[Siena]

He won 2 terms.

[Taxloss]

2. He was popular. People liked him.

They hated that.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Be there??

:shrug:

[Ioo]

4. He was successful

Something * will never be.

[Festivito]

25. Yup, it de-nutted their egos. nt.

[Tace]

5. He Shoved Their Crap Right Back Up Their Butts

They hated that.

[markbark]

Clinton had the unmitigated GALL

to be freely elected twice, something that, Diebold willing, will never happen again.

</sarcasm>

--MAB

[Gunit_Sangh]

6. he was smarter than them

He had more political savey in his little finger than most repugs have in their penis uh body.

[driver8]

18. Bingo!!

I have been trying to figure out the hatred for Clinton and you just nailed it.

I mean, Bush gives us new reasons every day to hate him...I don't remember Clinton doing the same.

[mattclearing]

7. In his own words, "Because I won." n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Have Sex

nt

[mirandaod]

9. He succeeded.

8 years of peace and prosperity. The nerve of him.

[jobycom]

22. That's it. He proved all of their ideals wrong.

[thinkingwoman]

10. he won the election

and then he got BJs.

Seriously, that's it. The Bushes didn't think Clinton was worthy of winning because he came from common stock. And then he dared to have fun and futhermore that fun included sex.

[Jacobin]

11. Succeeded.

That's what they hate him for.

[liberal N proud]

12. He was born poor, not of the elite crowd all his life

Clinton was not born with the silver spoon in his ass as the bu$h's and other repuke elite.
The machine was so good at smear beginning in the early 90's that they simply sold the repuke base that the Clinton's were evil. Meanwhile they were in the middle of hijacking the religious groups and when Bill's extra marital affairs presented themselves, it made it easy for them.

KKKarl Rove already had his hooks in to the party deep at this point and we all know what he is about.

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Not much, really. He appointed relative "liberals" to the Federal

judiciary.

That's about it. But that's enough for the hard right. Getting control of the federal judiciary has been their pet obsession since the Goldwater days.

Otherwise, Clinton was a conservative president. This also angered the "movemnent" people, since they saw Clinton as cleverly co-opting their issues but stalling their paramount goal: controlling the courts.

[ramapo]

14. Beat the Republicans at their game

Clinton beat Daddy Bush. He didn't fall into any of their traps. His war room was always reacting. Not like Gore, not like Kerry.

The Republicans hated that this guy won...simple as that.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

15. He empowered the powerless

He made the rich, richer and the poor, richer too. Though the rich were made disproportianately richer don't get me wrong.

[Inland]

16. He interrupted the predestined conservative revolution

and proved that it didn't have to be and that really, we didn't want it.

The election of Ronald Reagan was the begining of the godly ordained march from hippiedom to conservative nirvana. They expected a straight line rightward.

Clinton not only interrupted the march of history, but by being a startlingly popular success of a president who kicked republican asses, proved that this country would be perfectly satisfied with a moderate to left president.

To the freepers, clinton is as alien and revolting as a two headed lamb, an offense against nature, a revolt against the very being of the country. What's worse, the majorities were left wanting him or someone like him all over again.

So the reaction is two fold: exhibit the deep revulsion against Clinton and don't let what the People actually want get in the way of the conservative agenda. No more clintons, even if that means rigging elections, ginning up wars, operating the government in secrecy, and using terrorism and fear to tamp down opposition.

[Imagevision]

17. I think it's more along the line of what Clinton didn't do...

regardless of the reasons.

[Ready4Change]

19. Fix the Economy.

The success of his economy firmly demonstrated what an immense failure Reagonomics had been (and still is.)

The fact that Clinton came in and in the space of a term or two set the nation on a course that was going to easily wipe out our national debt, that was easily going to provide plentiful funding for just about anything we could care to do, that could have made every single citizen of our nation secure in home and future, that a DEMOCRAT could do these things when St. Ronnie never could?

Unforgivable.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. 2 things.

1. He fought back, and fought better.

2. To quote Randi Rhodes, "The rich got richer, the middle class got richer, and the poor got richer" under Clinton's watch. Economic mobility was happening.

Simply can't have that.

[Ganja Ninja]

21. 1. He fought them. & 2. He won. n/t

[JHB]

23. Clinton didn't "do" anything. He was a focus for abstractions

Clinton was the least liberal of the 1992 Dem contenders, enough so that the Bush campaign knew they couldn't run the usual "just another tired old clueless liberal" campaign as they had with Dukakis and Mondale. So instead of fighting the real Clinton, they invented a catch-all straw man, the dope-smokin' draft-dogin' philanderin' Moscow-goin' Hippy Bill and his "co-president" Hillzilla. Together they served as the punching bags for whatever irked anyone about the 60s, liberals, feminists, government, race, etc, etc, etc. And 24/7 talk radio cements the set-up.

They hate him because among them it's socially acceptable for them to hate him, no limits, no "aren't you going a little overboard?", no penalty at all.

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. He won in 1992. He wasn't suppose to win.

When he did, Richard Mellon Scaife was given the green light to continue a twenty year old vendetta against him, which the Republican led Congress picked up and carried to impeachment. Funny though, that they impeached a president who became more popular AFTER the impeachment, than he was BEFORE it.

Honey, the right-wing has been acting treasonously for the last ten years, and no one seems to want to call them on it.

[RevCheesehead]

26. He proved Reaganomics wrong.

$3 trillion deficit turned into a surplus in 8 years.

For freepers, it's all about the $$$.

[dogday]

27. He beat them and screwed up their plans for world domination

All their money, tricks, lies, deceit, could not stop Bill Clinton from becoming President and staying President, no thanks to the right that tried hard to impeach the Clenis....

[AuntieM1957]

28. Won it fair and square - TWICE

was Southern, white and not a racist.

freepers, IMHO, are descendants of the KKK. Racist, stupid, and proud of it.

They hate those of us born and raised in the South who don't agree with them.

Hate us with a passion, probably more than they hate the non-whites

oh, he married a Yankee, too.

[Mr Rabble]

29. They claim he screwed with the military. Thats it.

[rasputin1952]

32. That is the same military that is fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq....

Clinton, and his DoD helped to build what is being used, not the cretin that has used our resources for personal gain!

bush has decimated the military, except for the massive expenditures of war, which serves only to fill his donors pockets......:grr:

[librechik]

30. he succeeded despite their hatred n/t

[On the Road]

31. 1) Raised Income Tax Rates 2) Attempted National Health Care

Those are inflammatory issues for the right.

[meg]

33. He was a census builder

not a father-knows-best guy. Here's what I wrote in 3/2001 for our very own DU.

Daddy Has No Clothes

My other DU articles:

The Case for War in 2004 predicting Iraqi war DU 3/2001 and
The Bush Loyal Flush DU 4/2001

[Toots]

34. I love your writing and you hit many nails right squarely on the head

"The messages from George W. Bush's campaign are clear." You, too, can be included in the great Republican tent, if you are pre-approved. You, too, can have your vote counted, if you are pre-approved."

Please don't stop writing stuff. You need more exposure because your stuff is terrific and very hard hitting without the vugarity. :thumbsup: Very far sighted.

[meg]

37. Thank you very much

I haven't written in awhile. I appreciate the good words.

[bananas]

35. He stole welfare reform from them

They were really seriously about it.

[jzodda]

36. Universal Health Care

It drove them NUTS when he tried-in fact for any public policy issue there has not been any advertising campaign in size and scope like the one against that issue since then