Bill Clinton Options

[kimmytree]

What are your views on the former President?

What about his effect on the economy?

And what about the attacks on our country? Is he to blame?

Discuss.

(Wikipedia has some good info on him).

[*kryogenix*]

Who's talking about Bush? I thought the topic of discussion was Clinton. SEE, YOU LIBRULS ALWAYS ALWAYS SEEM TO MENTION BUSH EVERY CHANCE YOU GET [/pundit]

The finger was pointed at Clinton years ago, it's just being put into the news again because of the Chris Wallace interview.

Oh yeah, Clinton gave away Nuclear blueprints to Iran in Operation Merlin.

You don't have to give me the economic stats. I know that the economy was doing well under Clinton. But correlation does not imply causation. Also, as I mentioned, Clinton was probably the cause for the recession we had.

[*mipadi*]

Oh yeah, Clinton gave away Nuclear blueprints to Iran in Operation Merlin.

So what's your point? Reagan illegally sold weapons to Iran, and George H.W. Bush helped give weapons to Osama bin Laden in the first place. Furthermore, it was Bush's lack of initiative in destroying Iraq the first time around that led to problems now.

The reason I'm bringing this up is to point out that, sure, you can blame Clinton; but if you're going to point fingers at Clinton, it's only fair to take a good, hard look at his predecessors, which is where a lot of these problems began, or at least didn't get resolved.

And ultimately, my point is that the attempt to discredit Clinton is a good example of "playing politics". Bush's advisors know that the current administration messed up a lot of the handling of post-9/11 affairs, and with an election coming, they're doing everything they can to raise the Republicans' poll numbers before they lose a fair number of seats--and possibly the presidential election in another two years.

You don't have to give me the economic stats. I know that the economy was doing well under Clinton. But correlation does not imply causation. Also, as I mentioned, Clinton was probably the cause for the recession we had.

It seems like you're trying to have your cake and eat it, too. I can buy the argument that the president has little to do with the shape of the economy, so I can believe the claim that Clinton didn't have much to do with the booming economy of the 90s. But that's a two-way street: If Clinton didn't have much to do with the booming economy, it's contradictory to blame him for the recession.

At any rate, you haven't posted any evidence to blame the recession on Clinton.