givemeabreak-people like you are the reason why the world is so negative. I truly feel that you think it is okay for you to make rash decisions, but if a leader does it, you get to jump on their case and what is even worse is that you have to hide behind a screename to do it. Sorry to tell you, but they are human, just like you and me.
As for the deficit, that's going to keep growing no matter what, so don't even use that as an excuse to attack Clinton. As long as we rely on foreign oil and do globalization it's going to happen, so I'd look into things before judging them. The Clintons are known for saving the economy.
As for the national security, at least Bill Clinton tried to find Osama and kill him. He made it his goal to assassinate him, but Congress didn't approve of it and thought it was a obsession of his. You should really start reading books on terrorism like I have.
As for the scandals, I looked into them, they are real small things that the media blew up into proportion, because (1), they have nothing better to talk about and (2), the four main medias are owned by conservative republicans, who will do all they can to hurt the Clintons. Obviously the Republican's trash has rubbed off on you, I'm glad to say I'm not brainwashed by the media. I also want to let you know you've just been told off by an 18 year old. See, just because your young, doesn't mean you don't know about politics. I also agree with V.Casella :D

Mariann Pepitone: You need to do some more research dear. At least take a look at the records between Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. During Hillary's first six years in the U.S. Senate, (her only officially elected public office), she was able to get 20 bills passed into law. You can find these by going to www.senate.gov, but I will list them for you. 1.Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site, 2.Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month, 3.Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 4.Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall, 5.Name courthouse after James L. Watson, 6.Name post office after John A. O'Shea, 7.Designate Aug.7,03, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day, 8.Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day, 9.Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death, 10.Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship, 11.Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship, 12.Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program, 13.Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda, 14.Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death, 15.Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty, 16.Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11, 17.Assist land mine victims in other countries, 18.Assist family care givers in affordable respite care, 19.Pay for city projects in response to 9/11 20.Designate part of the national forest system in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System. Now I grant you, other than these bills authored by Hillary, she was able to accomplish more for the constituent's in her adopted state of New York, by adding earmarks to bills of other legislators that would benefit industry in her state. That is why she has earned the name of "earmark queen". The majority of those industries fall in the defense and pharmaceutical categories. Go to the website of the federal election commission, www.fec.gov, or www.opensecrets.org, and you will find these industries are large contributors to Hillary's campaign. Next before you blast away with your venomous fingers on the keybord, I'll list a few of Mr. Obama's accomplishments. I can't list individually as I did for Hillary, because the bills are too numerous. In Mr. Obama's eight years in the Illinois Senate he was capable of authoring 820 bills. He introduced 233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 regarding poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 62 education bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,21 ethics bills, 20 environmental, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs, and many others; a large portion of which were made law, including the most sweeping ethics legislation of any state. Many of these accomplishments were bi-partisan supported efforts. In his first year in the U.S. Senate , he authored 142 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These include the Coburn(R)-Obama government Transparency Act, signed into law. The Lugar(R)-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, a campaign finance reform bill, which is still languishing in committee, and once again the most comprehensive Ethics Reform bill passed in the U.S. Senate in decades, and he has another one behind the one that passed due to the fact the first one was watered down more than he would have liked in the Senate, but he compromised in order to get an ethics bill passed in order to curb some of the abuses going on in Congress. I'll take this man's work any time over that of Hillary, regardless whether he smoked marijuana when he was a teenager, my son did too and he is now owner of a successful business and has a fine family as do many others in this nation who experimented as a youth. Besides Hillary's lackluster performance as a Senator, there are too many un-answered questions in her past that I don't think America needs to drag up again.

V Casella -- "You must have really been asleep during Clintons two terms as president" --- why would you say that, are you contending that the deficit "disappeared" under Clinton as the earlier poster did?? If so, you need to check again... I have my facts straight.. and can back it up with references if I need to ...

I find it so funny that Obama fans are actually willing to side with conservatives to gang up on another democrat. Just goes to show who the real democrats truly are. You don't see me ridiculing Sen. Edwards and Sen. Obama.

Cam - "As for the national security, at least Bill Clinton tried to find Osama and kill him. He made it his goal to assassinate him, but Congress didn't approve of it and thought it was a obsession of his. You should really start reading books on terrorism like I have." --- First, you are wrong on that... Clinton had 4 opportunities to get Bin Laden and he failed to do so.. Other countries were trying to assist and he still blew it.. if you believe that the dependance on foriegn oil is the problem, then why do the democrats oppose drilling in Anwar, or nuclear enery as an alternative?? Its not the republicans who have put up the most road block to energy independance.. your comment that the 4 main medias are republican shows you to be less informed than you think.. Only FOX is openly conservative.. ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, and CNN are all openly liberal leaning. The most prominent media mogul in the US is George Soros who Own CNN, MSNC, the Washington Post and the New York Times.. he is a far left liberal who has given a huge amount of money ot Hillary Clinton. Please... perhaps you should do a little more reading... You are obviously not gettig much from those "terrorism books" you have been reading.

Sorry to tell you, but your wrong.Gone are the days of the "free standing" mainstream media.
CBS, NBC and ABC were stricly networks and competed with each other by providing accurate, thorough coverage of events. Now the media also comprises a variety of cable outlets and ownership is held by a group of large corporations. CBS is owned by Viacom, NBC is owned by General Electric, Disney owns ABC, Newscorp has FOX, MSNBC is parented by Microsoft and GE, CSPAN is held by a consortium of cable companied and CNN is owned by AOL-Time Warner. With corporation ownership, allegiance is no longer to the people. Each of the corporate entities has a big agenda and subsequently a fat stake in politics. GE always wants some new defense contracts, Microsoft wants to operate without anti-trust constraints, AOL-Time Warner wants access to cable lines, etc. They all have some common interests. The corporate media entities want deregulation. Many of these large corporations are Conservative. You should do more digging on the Republican side, since I believe you are a Republican? I advise to you to switch over.

Cam - I am a republican and would'nt dream of switching over... Dems have become far to socialist for me. I want les government not more. As far as your belief that there are more conservative leaning media group sthan liberal, you are entitled to that opinion, but let me ask you this, if that is true, then why do over 75% of those who sitbehind the mic lean left... If, as you say, the big media outlets are conservative leaning... why would they overwhelmingly place liberals in the chair.. Why do we have only one FOX news .. if the media owners are conservative? Sorry, But I disagree with your assessment and I would be suprised if very many actaully agreed with you.

Givemeabreak-your also wrong about Bill Clinton/s agenda on terrorism. I suggest you read "Against all Enemies" by Richard A. Clarke. The Republicans are obviously not be able handle national security issues.

"I find it so funny that Obama fans are actually willing to side with conservatives to gang up on another democrat. Just goes to show who the real democrats truly are. You don't see me ridiculing Sen. Edwards and Sen. Obama."

Hillary is gaining up on other Democrats herself. So what's the difference b/w Hillary and the non-Hillary supporter?

As far as some of the other comments:
Chelsea is hardly self-made.....That's like saying Donald Trump made it on his own....

And GC I agree. They keep her locked up like some freak in a cage, then roll her out when they need her for votes. And where is she being dispatched? Now if that's not playing the gender card I don't know what is. Of course, this isn't the first time she's played that card.

Doesn't matter to me though. I'm a Moderate Repub. and quite frankly, I could care less about the Democratic party. However, we do welcome all of your votes! See you at the polls.

Greg

To CAM the republican - I've switched out of the Republican party. The party I believed in that was fiscally responsible and morally in the center simply doesn't exist anymore.

..."Dems have become far to socialist for me. I want les government not more."... Republicans always say that but always spend more now - I don't believe you. I bet you don't think of Pentagon spending and Ag subsidies and Building huge jails as socialist - but they are. They are very very socialist entities. Wake up CAM, follow the white rabbit.

Also Fox News isn't really a news channel, it's a cheerleading session. PS I'm not a democrat now, just an independent thinker!

MRJ-Sorry to tell you, but I'm a die hard democrat, you must be reading the blog the wrong way. I also believe that the Republicans have left this country to the dogs. Though (givemeabreak)is a Republican who needs some convincing to switch :D Cam

Jimmy -- No you are wrong and I suggest you look it up... We had three balanced ANNUAL Budgets under Clinton (and only when there was a republican congress) that means that during those years we made more in taxes than we spent (for that year only) It does not mean that the deficit - which is the running total of all the debts incurred by the annual budgets combined - was gone.. the National debt was at 3.9 trillion at the beginning of the Clinton years and at 5.7 trillion and the end of his administration. It is now 8.9 trillion. Say that he had no deficit is like saying that you made three house payments so you no longer owe anything on your mortgage. And actaully, clinton used the surplus to pay socialsecurity back into solvency so, of the three annual surpluses - only one actually was used to pay back anything on the national debt. And that payment was actaully less than the interest incurred for that year(it didn't shrink the debt - only slowed its growth)... As of Sept 7, 2000, the national debt clock was officially "unplugged" that was 4 months before Clinton left office..At the time it was unplugged, the national debt was 5.67 trillion dollars ( you can check that through an article written by CNN.com. You can also check my other figures simply by googling the national debt and look for any number of sites that give a running graph showing the level of the debt during the Clinton years. I will make a deal with you.. If you can find any reputable site that give the national debt at or near zero at anytime during the Clinton administration - please share -- I am anxious to see your source since it differs from everything i have read on dozens of sites and reports.

Californiadreamer -- you are a dreamer -- 9/11 happened 9 months into the Bush administration - the 9/11 commission places the training and infiltration time for the attack at over 2 years... Do you honestly think this plot wasn't hatched under Clinton's watch??? Especially since they had successfully completed 6 other attacks during his administration without being significantly challenged... Why do you think that since the war in Afganistan began, we have not had an attack on American soil?? You you think that is blind luck??

givemeabreak-Actually President Bush had several chances to catch Osama, the British had him located. But Bush said no, because he wanted America to catch him so it made him look better. At several press meetings when asked about what he was doing about Osama, Bush basically said he could care less. That is a prime example of a Republican president. Those who follow him are blind or at least do it because the tax cuts benefit them.

Cam - Yes I am a republican. if you think this country is for the dogs now wait till another tax and spend democrat gets in there. We were lucky that the ship could be righted a bit at the end of the Clinton Administration. I don't know about you but I am old enough to remember Carter and what happens when a tax and spend policy maker gets free reign... We had 13% inflation and 12% unemployment (2.5 times worse than now). Our foreign policy was a mess, iran held Americans hostage for over a year and our military was so descimated by spending cuts that we could not even put together a successful mission to rescue them. I fail to understand what is so appealing about a socialist government. no where in the world has socialism been anywhere near as successful as the government we have now. Our unemployment is 5.5% We have less than 5% of the worlds population but we have 40% of the worlds wealth. why would it be a good idea to throw that away for a political system that by comparison is a failure. Would you rather live in Korea where 60% of the population is starving? How about Cuba - where 1/3 of the population lives in abject poverty? What about England - they are one of the most successful Socialist societies in the world.. and their citizens pay over 75% of their total income in taxes. Figure out how well you could live of 25% of your current pay...depending on the government to get you by.. Is that your idea of a better America???

I think that we need damage control now. Bush adminitstration has spent nearly one trillion dollars on the war alone. Reasons like these are why we pay some much in taxes. Tell me what do you think of Bush and his buddies making billions of dollars off of the war by making the armies food, doing transportation etc. All things the army can do itself. It's not a huge scandal on the news, thanks to the conservatives that own the media.
The reason I choose to live in a socialist government is because I believe all people should have the same chances as everybody else. No American should be left behind because of their skin, race, or income. The governments job is to look out for it's people. The Republican's have yet to learn that. Only the wealthy have a real say in the government. It's too bad you haven't seen it.

Cam - "Actually President Bush had several chances to catch Osama, the British had him located. But Bush said no, because he wanted America to catch him so it made him look better." --- Humm how can I put this -- YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG I was in the persian gulf and the british NEVER had him located. In fact the closest we ever came was in Tora Bora, but we found later that we had missed him by over a day.. It is one thing to mis speak or even to assume something based on someone else's writings.. but you are making statements that are absolutely wrong and are NOT based on any existing facts... Provide me with one legitimate piece of evidence to support your claim that the British had Bin Laden. he was in captivity during the Clinton amdinistration and was offered to Clinton - but never to Bush...

Cam - "Tell me what do you think of Bush and his buddies making billions of dollars off of the war by making the armies food, doing transportation etc. All things the army can do itself." --- Do you really think our military can "do it themselves"? Please.. this conversation is becoming so asinine that I fail to see the point of continuing.. as far as your other statement is concerned - "The reason I choose to live in a socialist government is because I believe all people should have the same chances as everybody else. No American should be left behind because of their skin, race, or income. The governments job is to look out for it's people." --- Sorry, but that is not exactly what the constitution was written to do in this country. the constitution was written to establich the role and limitation of government 1.) provide for the common defense - which means to establish maintain and support a ston military to protect us both at home and abroad. 2.) promote general welfare - which means to insure that those who can not take care of themselves are not forgotten - but it does not mean that it is the governments job to take care of everyone. the individual citizen is responsible for their own prosperity.
3.)Insure the blessings of liberty - which means that each individual is free to pursue happiness based on their own ability - the abilty to succeed with out government intervention - and also the ability to fail which is a price we pay for freedom. The government does not owe you a living, healthcare, or a paycheck.. it owes you a sense of security from your enemies and it owes you the opportunity to succeed or fail based on your own ability. Nothing else... and that is the way the founding fathers wanted it..

Reading this thread it is apparent that the Republicans are getting so desperate they have started to make up historical facts.

The fact is oil was $50 a barrel and the United States did not have a deficit, and if you had a steady job you could get a mortgage, and the value of your house was increasing. All under Clinton.

So can someone tell me what G W Bush's economic legacy be if you are not a shareholder of haliburton?

We must acknowledge changes in the Clinton family after the office:

* therapy sessions produced a public acknowledgment and an apology that the affair w/the intern was wrong;

* former President, Bill Clinton, had enough courage to travel and raise money with George Bush, Sr. for the tsunami survivors;

* former President, Bill Clinton, has undergone major heart surgery and he is not longer the same man who was in the office 10 years ago!
Lets stop living in the past and treasure NOW....all our days are so precious! Our nation needs a woman president....Release the need for enemies in your life, make friends today.