Yes, Bill Clinton lied about staining an intern's dress. I won't say that he acted admirably or honorably in that case. But Clinton's staff didn't commit an act of treason by outing a CIA Operative while trying to make political hay and lead the nation into a wild goose chase for WMD.
Bill Clinton created 23 MILLION jobs in the USA during his eight years in office. The pro-business Republicans of Reagan, Bush and G.W. Bush didn't create that many jobs in their combined 20 years in office! http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/
No, I'm not defending Clinton's failings as a leader. But Clinton kept most of his gaffs at a personal level. And I will take Clinton's personal indiscretions and embarrassments over G.W. Bush's record any day of the week. G.W. Bush gave us Abu Ghraib and systematic torture of prisoners of war. G.W. Bush turned our Nation, founded on Freedom and Liberty, into a bunch of thugs who torture. It sickens me.
Bush pillaged what was a Budgetary Surplus under Clinton into crazed deficit spending with unpaid for tax cuts, unpaid for wars and the single largest unpaid for bit of social welfare spending in Medicare Part D. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have gone to war in Afghanistan. But Bush is the FIRST President who ever thought he could PAY for a war with tax cuts and additional domestic spending. Senior Citizens deserve expanded medical coverage, but it needs to be PAID for somehow! Bush and the Republicans NEVER acted as the party of fiscal responsibility. So when Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives, they are either liars or fools.
You might not like Obama's healthcare reform. But at least he had accountants try to make it balance on the books. G.W. Bush didn't even TRY to balance the books. Bush and the Republicans steered this country into near economic collapse. The Bush Administration led the Country in to a Giant Moral and Fiscal Ditch! And now they blame Obama because the recovery hasn't been INSTANTANEOUS! That's outrageous.
And yes, Michele Bachmann was G.W. Bush's toady. She has lowered the level of public debate and discourse by claiming our President is Anti-American or a Tyrant. Bachmann is either a liar or a fool. She had been a vocal leader in the Party of "No," because Republicans would rather see NOTHING get done than see Obama succeed at anything. And I won't sit by idly and let a fool continue to represent me and my interests.
