diamond said:
Unless you are 5X as disgusted with Clinton's conduct, and I don't think you are- than that would make you a hypocrite.
dbs
Well, if you look at the crimes Clinton has pardoned people for, it does make a difference. I didn't look at the whole list and I DO think Clinton was/is corrupt, but one of them was the distribution of marajuana, and that's no biggie -- even though I hate marajuana and never wanna smell that crap.
Clinton's a bastard. He paved the way for what Bush is doing by emphasizing the threat of Saddam Hussein in the minds of the American people to look tough, only so the Bush administration could exploit that after 9/11.
According to Scott Ritter, he also allowed the CIA to infiltrate the UN weapons inspections regime -- in violation of agreements between the UN and Saddam's regime -- which prompted Saddam kicking out the inspectors on the late 90s.
Clinton also signed into law the extradition legislation allowing people in the US to be deported to their "countries of origin" to be tortured.
A Frontline program in 1998/1999 showed how Clinton allowed Jack Abramoff to swindle a native American tribe of the money they paid to get access to the administration in the form of diners, but also -- most importantly -- their land by claiming rights to the oil they wished to dig up.
Clinton is loved by the black community, but his support was mostly in the form of lip service. Legislatively, he hurt the black community by signing Welfare reform in 1996 to win the election and by signing conservative laws like "3 strikes and you're out".
Bush is so much worse than Clinton and his cronies have gotten away with so much destruction and murder and all kinds of violations far more serious than Whitewater, so Bush is far, far more corrupt, but Clinton really let the American people and the world down because he's a disgusting hypocrite who understands so much more about the nuances of the world and human nature, and he still let people down. It cannot be forgotten how the American people let him do that, as they look forward to future presidents.