I'm so fucking tired of this fetishization of Clinton by nostalgic liberals. The more I hear discussions of Clinton the more I realize they have no fucking clue what Clinton was doing or what was going on politically in the 90s. Ask them to name one thing he did that they thought was a great achievement and all they say is "Umm.. well he got a blowjob and all the republicans made a big deal about it!" He wasn't even a liberal. He was very much a wolf in sheep's clothing.

I'll give a few examples.

• Firstly Clinton referred to his own administration as moderate republican for fuck's sake.

• His whole platform was to take the republicans issues, in order to take the big money donors, then polish them for general consumption. This was a plan he created with Dick Morris called Triangulation.

• His campaign was a campaign for and by fundraisers and other corrupt (sometimes foreign) shot callers. See 1996 campaign finance controversy.

• He was the chair and one of the founders of a corporation formed in 1985 on the basis that the democratic party was too left.

• In the 1992 election he was even more right than George HW Bush on many issues.

• For example he supported an even more extreme embargo on Cuba than Bush the elder which banned trade not only with Cuba but, even more stupidly, countries which also traded with Cuba.

• Related to the last one, in the 92 campaign he supported the current Shamir government, which was much to the right, while George HW Bush supported the Israel labor party.

• He greatly expanded the drug war and the prison industrial complex related to it. He was against medical marijuana, he viewed MMJ as illegitimate and the DOJ was ordered to go after growers and distributors in MMJ states.

• He commissioned the RAND corporation to research drug policy and when their study concluded that $3B should be switched from law enforcement to treatment to be more effective the study was thrown away.

• John O'Sullivan, conservative commentator wrote a piece in 1996 stating that the conservatives were in trouble because Clinton kept stealing their issues.

• After seeing a tight election, supported a welfare plan even more strict than the republicans and shoved it through legislation to take away another issue from republicans.

• Fired his Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after, when asked about masturbation in regards to sex education at a UN AIDS conference, said "I think that is a part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught."

• Set up a Healthcare reform "Task Force" led by his wife. Not only did this fail miserably but they wouldn't even consider a single payer system. They voluntarily took it off the table immediately which resulted in the reform plan combining the worst of insurance company policy with the worst of bureaucracy.

• Whitewater

• Pardoned fucking Marc Rich... along with 140 other people on the last day of presidency.

• Ignored, or perhaps even helped cover up, Contra-gate activity in Arkansas when he was governor (of Arkansas)

• Despite him being Commander in Chief, he treated the military joint chiefs as if they were a lobby. It's very important that the president command them, not the other way around. Which is why he broke his promise to the gay community to end ban on homosexuals in the military. But it's all okay because it was a compromise... (one that he didn't need to make, only made out of political fear like his firing of Joycelyn Elders.)

• Travelgate

• He used religion to make him look better while he was going through scandals. Filegate

• NAFTA

• Lied about the Lewinsky scandal. When he was finally found out, he began a campaign to slander and defame Lewinsky (including feeding stories to the press) as a crazy stalker. His aid Sidney Bloomenthall confirmed this campaign.

• By the way Lewinsky wasn't the only one. While I don't believe all of the ones who came out provided a good case (Gracen, for example) some of them couldn't be denied. Like Katherine Willey, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and Gennifer Flowers. Some of which he denied until they provided proof (Gennifer provided tapes, he later admitted a sexual with her). There's also the question of his Nixonian "secret police" which his former friend/adviser Dick Morris confirmed.

• Saw the execution of a mentally disabled man for political points during the '92 campaign. The man executed was Ricky Ray Rector who couldn't even comprehend what was happening. After his last meal he left his pie which he said he was saving for later.

• Sent cruise missiles to Afghanistan and Sudan the day Lewinsky was set to appear before the Grand Jury. The strike in Sudan hit the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, Sudan's primary source of pharmaceuticals. Germany's embassy to Sudan estimated the attack led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Sudanese.