At the end of the Clinton years we were on top of the world

[400Years]

now look at this country, another soon to be bankrupt, two-bit, police state.

oh, how low we have sunk.

[sharp_stick]

1. I think about that a lot

Every time shrub or crashcart are on the tube fucking us all again I let out another big sigh and pine for the old days.

[tecelote]

2. Don't you know?

It's Clinton's fault ... Bush is forced to break laws and lie to the American people!

[wisteria]

3. There were things brewing waiting to come to the surface at the end

of the Clinton years. No doubt things were more comfortable during his time as President, but he allowed a lot of things to get by his notice when he became preoccupied with scandals (lies or not) and fund raising issues.

[seriousstan]

4. Enron, WorldCom come to mind. I also believe the internet bubble

burst was because of fraudulent security practices.

[glarius]

7. As a Canadian, all I know is Clinton WAS and IS always welcomed with

enthusiastic, admiring crowds when he comes to our country for whatever reason....Contrast that with the welcome Georgie boy gets here or where ever else he goes in the world....President Clinton did not treat other countries as if they were beholden to follow the lead of the U.S.A in all things. He managed to represent his country honourably in the world, despite the so-called scandals, which pretty well all proved to be fake charges....How I wish he was still president. I believe the world would be in much better shape, if he was.

[Swede]

10. They award Clinton tickets as prizes in contests here in Saskatchewan

His appearences in Saskatoon and Regina sold out quickly.

[leftofthedial]

5. ruin is the inevitable result of capitalism

is that the capitalists take power and convert any resource that is not protected into money--labor, natural resources . . .

wealth concentrates steadily in the hands of fewer and fewer

the capitalists begin to exert more and more control over government, eventually controlling it completely

soon you have state capitalism, which is the actual system we knew as "Communism"

[The2ndWheel]

6. The Clinton years brought us

NAFTA, further cohesion with the WTO/IMF/World Bank, deregulation of the telecommunications industry, etc; more corporate globalization in general.

I know, Clinton didn't get "our" soldiers killed.

What is it with being #1, or on top of the world? How does that help? Everyone wants to live like Americans now, but they can't. A few people around the planet can, and the rest won't. Americans that can't will get angrier and angrier. The people around the planet that can't will get angrier and angrier.

Don't give me champions of human rights either. America has never been, from day one, about human rights. Yes, we no longer have slavery in this country; we just outsourced it. Yes, we no longer kill anyone that stands in the way of our expansion; we just stick them in cubicles.

The 90's were a sham. It was the transition between a bi-polar, and uni-polar world. So it may have looked good with more freedoms and the like, but what is happening today was where the 90's were going. I know Bush is the devil, and everything he does wasn't already happening in every previous decade.

I wish were had been angels before Bush took over. We haven't sunk. The people in power today just don't care enough to hide it.

[jus_the_facts]

8. And corporate monopolies were allowed to keep merging with each other....

...so now almost everything is owned by a select few. Most people must not remember Civics class where we were taught that monopolies were a really BAD thing. x(

[CJCRANE]

9. Yeah, but less things blew up

when Clinton was President, and (I can't prove it, but I believe that) there was less hatred in the world.

on edit: in fact statistically there is actually more terrorism, more Anti-Americanism, more Islamophobia, more anti-semitism etc. now than under Clinton.