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Started by derspiess, June 06, 2012, 09:25:06 PM

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Comparing Bill Clinton's 8 years against Obama's 3+, who is the better president?

Bill Clinton
26 (78.8%)
Barack Obama
7 (21.2%)

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derspiess

June 06, 2012, 09:25:06 PM
Straight-up vote.  Who's better?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Eddie Teach

#1
June 06, 2012, 09:30:39 PM
Apples and mangoes.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Jaron

#2
June 06, 2012, 09:36:23 PM
Bill.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

jimmy olsen

#3
June 06, 2012, 10:38:52 PM
Domestically - Clinton, Foreign Policy - Obama
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Jaron

#4
June 06, 2012, 10:43:02 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 06, 2012, 10:38:52 PM
Domestically - Clinton, Foreign Policy - Obama

:wacko:
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Habbaku

#5
June 06, 2012, 10:49:58 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 06, 2012, 10:38:52 PM
Domestically - Clinton, Foreign Policy - Obama

I give them a draw on FP, but definitely agree that Clinton's DP (lulz) is better.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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CountDeMoney

#6
June 07, 2012, 05:51:19 AM
Wouldn't Bubba's 1st administration be a better barometer?  If so, it's a push.  Both have been messy legislatively.

And as much as the GOP hates the HNIC, at least they haven't managed to impeach him.  Yet.

Viking

#7
June 07, 2012, 05:52:25 AM
Newt was more entertaining as a super villan than Boehner.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

CountDeMoney

#8
June 07, 2012, 05:56:52 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 07, 2012, 05:52:25 AM
Newt was more entertaining as a super villan than Boehner.

That's because Boehner's not really a villian.  He's more like Eric Roberts to the Teabaggers' Jokers.

Viking

#9
June 07, 2012, 06:01:38 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 07, 2012, 05:56:52 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 07, 2012, 05:52:25 AM
Newt was more entertaining as a super villan than Boehner.

That's because Boehner's not really a villian.  He's more like Eric Roberts to the Teabaggers' Jokers.

Bubba vs. The Mastermind Divorceé

would make for a much better movie than

The Magic Negro vs. Crybaby
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Sheilbh

#10
June 07, 2012, 08:08:06 AM
8 years v 3 years, I'd say Bill.  Judging their first term alone, I'd say Obama.
Let's bomb Russia!

Maximus

#11
June 07, 2012, 08:17:21 AM
Never got the Clinton love.

DGuller

#12
June 07, 2012, 08:58:04 AM
Clinton had it much easier, so it's hard to compare.

derspiess

#13
June 07, 2012, 09:06:30 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 07, 2012, 05:51:19 AM
Wouldn't Bubba's 1st administration be a better barometer?  If so, it's a push.  Both have been messy legislatively.

A push?  Clinton wisely adjusted his strategy after getting beaten up in the 1994 mid-terms while Obama seems to have ignored that example.

I'd say Obama is a better campaigner than Clinton, but Clinton is way better a politician once he's in office.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

CountDeMoney

#14
June 07, 2012, 09:13:14 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 07, 2012, 09:06:30 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 07, 2012, 05:51:19 AM
Wouldn't Bubba's 1st administration be a better barometer?  If so, it's a push.  Both have been messy legislatively.
A push?  Clinton wisely adjusted his strategy after getting beaten up in the 1994 mid-terms while Obama seems to have ignored that example.

Obama could adjust his strategy in a dozen different ways, the fact of the matter is he's never going to accomplish anything with a House whose public stated goal is to make him a one-term President.  They will never let him accomplish anything, regardless how he comes at them.  Even Clinton didn't have that sort of  obtuse resistance.

QuoteI'd say Obama is a better campaigner than Clinton, but Clinton is way better a politician once he's in office.

Obama's good and can energize a crowd, but I think your memory's a little hazy on exactly how much of a rock star status Bubba truly had at his rallies.
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