Please help with list of Clinton's accomplishments ---- and other things......

[AmandaRuth]

So my freeper brother and SIL sent yet another tasteless joke about Pres Clinton, which I will not bother to repost here. I have had enough and would like to respond.

A few years ago, someone posted a wonderful list of Clinton's accomplishments while president and I am pleading and wondering if someone would be so kind as to repost it. Also the link to the list of republican sexual pervs would be very helpful as well. Also, what was the name of pappy's mistress? Jennifer something?

I am leaving in a few minutes to take minimanda to her piano lesson, so can't respond immediately, but will be back in fighting mode to write my response. Thanks so very much all you wonderful people.

[NewJeffCT]

1. 23 million jobs in 8 years

Bush is at maybe 6 million in 6 years
The Republican god, Ronald Reagan, created about 16 million jobs in his 8 years, or 7 million less than Clinton.

Jimmy Carter had a better per month average than Reagan.

[John Gauger]

2. Let's see...

He got Congress to pass the Bradley Bill, raise the minimum wage, he balanced the budget. He rid Iraq of its WMD; note however that he did so by dropping bombs, which makes it an act of terrorism. I don't know if we want to include that one. I have never heard of Pappy Bush (if that's the Pappy you mean) having an affair. Clinton was... acquainted... with a woman named Gennifer Flowers, however. Might you be thinking of her?

[nini]

3. here's a good link

http://www.perkel.com/politics/clinton/accomp.htm

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Did as much for general well being as F.D.R? Restored the Idea that America is the..

..land of opportunity for all. More people moved from middle class to millionaires than any other time in history ,all Shrub has done has turn more millionaires into billionaires than any other time in history ,much easier. Back to the 'Rhodes Scholar' besides paying down the deficit or excuse me,paying Off the deficit, He tried more than any other human being to kill Bin Laden before 9/11. All while under the most grueling opposition in U.S. history from republicans ,MSM and a Jihad of Corporate villains he beat.Family leave for sick family ,stricter since relaxed gun laws,protected civil rights and COMBATING pollution including raising the tobacco tax the most in history. He also met president KENNEDY AS A TEENAGER.

[IndyBob]

5. Clinton era accomplishments

COBRA, expensive, but better than no insurance at all.

Maternity leave.

Slobodon off to the Hague.

End of "The Problems" in Ireland.

Large national park/area set asides.

Controlled spending, deficit elimination.

Respect of other nations, at least more than now.

The ability to read, think, and articulate.

He played the sax.

[Emit]

6. Here's a start

President Clinton led the fight against terrorism over strong opposition from Republicans in Congress and the pro-Republican Media. Here's a partial - yet incredibly long - list of accomplishments against terrorism for which the Clinton Administration gets almost no credit or even recognition. President Clinton:

-- sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
-- sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
-- sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.

When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, President Clinton:
-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
-- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively--and successfully--to stop future terrorist attacks.
-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
-- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.
-- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
-- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama"
-- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden. "
-- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."


Here, in stark contrast, is part of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:
-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.
-- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.
-- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.
-- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.
-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.
-- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.
-- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.
-- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.
-- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.
-- By failing to order any coordination of intelligence data, missed opportunity to stop the 9/11 plot as Clinton-Gore had stopped the millennium plots.
-- Blamed President Clinton for 9/11.


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