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I always had a soft spot for Clinton. His worst crime was getting a consentual blow job from a woman in her 20s. I never got why that mattered given the shit the others were up to...

Trumps "trade war" was a storm in a tea cup at best. It was great cover for business as usual imho. I hope whoever takes it on actually fights it. He's sort of wrecked future efforts by alienating almost every other nation Ns doing nothing imho, so I understand by Biden doesn't want to "continue" it.

We'll see I guess.

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Ha, it was far from being "just a blowjob," nor even a single intern. That's just the only time he got caught, since all the other witnesses/victims had been gaslighted or coerced into silence.

It's all in the Starr report.

> His worst crime was getting a consentual blow job from a woman in her 20s. I never got why that mattered given the shit the others were up to...

That was character evidence in a sexual harassment lawsuit from a different woman (Paula Jones) who claims that he tried to pressure her into non-consensual sex.

Clinton was sanctioned for perjury due to lying about that relationship in court, appealed the ruling, then later dropped the appeal and surrendered his law license voluntarily.

So there were elements of perjury and non-consensual sex here and your summary is incomplete.

DMCA, HIPAA, Whitewater, Travelgate, Waco

People remember Clinton as being better than he was because they think he was railroaded over the BJ.

People remember Clinton as being particularly good because he exited on an economic high note and was followed by 9/11, the dot-com crash and two decades long wars. Then combine that with all the people who aren't old enough to remember the news from back then who think it was just a blowjob and the blowjob wasn't more of an Al Capone tax evasion type of moment and it's pretty easy to see why he has such a positive reputation.

Whether or not HIPAA is a bad thing is very much a matter of opinion. That's the one thing that's keeping medical info from being whored out like all our other metadata these days.

The last uncontroversially good president we've had was born in the 19th century.

People remember HIPAA poorly? Ive worked very closly in the industry, and I think it was a net positive. It could have been better, but it sure beat what was there.

I can summarize the thing about Clinton, if you weren't already butthurt over him being elected then you were just annoyed about the BJ.

Far more damaging was NAFTA and letting China into the World Trade Association.

>and letting China into the World Trade Association

That probably meant the WTO.

Still, "letting"? As if it's the role of the 4% of the world to dictate whether the 18% of the world would enter a supposedly neutral global trade organization?

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