Reply #45: Bill did play golf with Ken Lay in 1996... [View All]

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after Bill, in late 1995, helped Enron secure the rights to build a power plant in Dabhol, India.

There were a lot of good things Clinton did as president and I certainly would love to have him instead of *, but let's be honest with ourselves and face the fact that he was one of the principal members of the DLC, which is the pro-corporate, Republican-lite wing of the party. Clinton often did some liberal things at the dismay of the DLC, but he also gave them plenty of cookies too.

Also, a lot of economic numbers look great for him because the stock market bubbled and was overvalued in the late 90's. This generated lots of capital gains taxes, thus in combination with reduced spending, a budget surplus arose. That bubble would burst a few years later. A new bubble has been reinflated by Greenspan and the stock market is now in a similar position as the late 90's, but it's even worse now because the "recovery" of the last few years has been largely debt based and due to *'s economic and tax policies of favoring the rich, the middle class is far more strained and is eroding fast.

As much as I think Bill was a good president, we are living with the adverse consequences of NAFTA, WTO, and the Telecommunications Act today.

My opinion of Bill has gone down in the last few years because of how he has sucked up to the Republicans and *. I would not expect Bill to criticize * because ex-presidents typically don't do that kind of thing, but he has gone to the point where he shills for * and his family.