Comments on Bill Clinton's Economics

May 31, 2009 4:38 PM The New York Times
This was in response to an article titled, “Bill Clinton, on His Economic Legacy”
By David Leonhardt (May 27,2009)
“Given the range of issues Peter Baker covers in his article about Bill Clinton for the coming New York Times Magazine, there was not room for anything close to Mr. Clinton’s entire comments on his economic record. And they’re fascinating (as is the article). So we’re going to post, below, the transcript of that portion of the discussion between Mr. Clinton and Mr. Baker.
In several places, I have annotated it, in italics. I’d be interested in hearing the thoughts of readers and other bloggers, too. (Update: Noam Scheiber, Mark Thoma and Matthew Yglesias weigh in.)……………..”
You can read the entire article by looking up the author in The NY Times archives. It’s about Bill defending his economic policies.
My comments:
I am a 79 year old ex-republican. Now an Obamaite. Mr Clinton left no economic legacy to be proud of.
Bill Clinton is possibly the luckiest President to ever hold office. Here is a man who was up for impeachment for lying. who took credit for a massive stock market rise, who did nothing to improve the lot of the working man and who helped perpetuate the turning of the American government into a giant corporation that was to be for the benefit of the wealthiest U.S. citizens. And now The Times is lauding him. The GOP propaganda machine( Spelled: Carl Rove ), which perpetuates the myth that, sleepy Mr Reagan, was the father of Capitalism for the People and saved our country from the Russian Bear, also kept Mr. Clinton at bay by using Mr. Reagan’s name and the Gallup poll ( which Mr. Clinton used to run the country ). Not many original ideas come from that quarter. I wish that President Obama had been in his place. He is a man with ideas to help the working man, and take the government back from the corporations and their lackeys, the lobbyists..
— Bob Bregman