Why do so many American’s blame Bill Clinton for failures that have happened under Bush’s Administration?
It appears to me to be a characteristic of humans to blame things they don’t like on people they don’t like, even if the two are not related. The Clinton Bush thing is big international politics, but there was a Canadian situation back in the 1980’s which never made much press. The Province of Ontario raised the sales tax and added it onto restaurant meals over $4. Many people blamed the increase on the Prime Minister of Canada who had absolutely nothing to do with the situation. He just happened to occasionally display streaks of arrogance which turned some people off.
To change a nations course takes time. Policies are changed, people are changed and the new officers need time to discover the breadth and range of their predecessor’s work. Like any person, Clinton has good and bad points. I’m pleased that our image is intact especially in Britain. Unfortunately, Clinton did not reduce the US deficit. No one can eradicate a trillion-dollar deficit (that took 40+ years to build) in just 8 years. If Clinton had a comprehensive strategy for fighting al-qaeda, he wasn’t very forceful in implementing it. Clinton was told of Bin Laden before the first WTC attack but did nothing. As for the blame, our media is liberal in their politics and often report news with a liberal spin. A president is just a decision-maker. Regardless who the sitting president is, his decisions are only as good as the information he is given with which to make a decision. It is also a popularity contest. Our President often becomes consumed with keeping his job.
It’s just a simple blame game that politicians do all the time! Since Bush and his Republican administration have screwed up so badly in Iraq that they figure they could blame stuff and Clinton as a scapegoat since right now Democrats are the minority but thank God that will change next year and then Bush could take some blame and his fuckin self and his administration!!!
Conservatives usually have tremendous problems with sex and sexuality. You’ll notice how much time they spend worrying about what others do in private. Clinton had a little consensual affair with an adult who worked at the White House. When they heard that it was something other than plain vanilla sex, conservatives had no idea how to deal with it, and were so embarrassed they couldn.t look a member of the opposite sex in the eye. So to deal with their own shame, they rewrote history, denying all the tremendous acheivements Clinton acheived, and blaming every disaster made by Bush on him.
It’s become a game of the far right that still supports Bush to use misdirection and point the finger at Clinton. It is usually employed when they cannot defend the actions of a President they blindly follow, no matter how clear it has become that he has made a horrifying mess in the Middle East and refuses to admit to it or take even his own Joint Chiefs of Staff’s advice. Even Bush admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but you will still find people who cling to the notion that they did like it’s a life raft. He abandoned the war on Al-Queda to invade a country he was obsessed with before 9/11 ever happened, and now can rightfully claim there are terrorists in Iraq. Of course there are now, he opened the door for them to walk right in and set up camp. I personally know Republicans who would give anything to go back to the Clinton days, not just Democrats. Generally, the Republicans in YA that post nonsense about Clinton are hardliners to say the least and they, like Preside
