Perhaps you're right, Dickey; I was less involved in political issues back then. But in light of the positiver accomplishments that occurred under Clinton's administration, I also had less motivation to do so. Clinton won his election fairly; he turned around the national insolvency, made major advances toward peace in the Middle East and in Ireland, improved the fate of the middle and lower classes in the United States; and almost all of the outrage about him was based on completely scurrilous falsehoods promoted by a desperate black PR campaign. At the peak of his troubles, with right-wingers demanding impeachment hearings and publishing details of his private life, his public polls were still far ahead of where Bush's have been lately.

But the point is not what Clinton did. The point is the deterioration of international repute, national integrity, and general rot at the top since Bush first bought the 2000 election.

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