" The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, which required large employers to allow their employees to take unpaid leave because of pregnancy or serious medical condition.
" Creation of AmeriCorps, a network of more than 3,000 non-profit organizations, public agencies and faith-based organizations that focus on service in the community.
" The Brady Bill, which imposed a mandatory 5-day waiting period on handgun purchases.
" The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which is best know for its ban on assault weapons. Bush let this expire in 2004.
" The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, a welfare reform bill.
" Clinton authorized a $100 million counter-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists.
" The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a series of laws intended to "deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes." And yet the right wants to blame him for 9/11...
" The Minimum wage Increase Act
He also vetoed the partial birth abortion ban, proposed a comprehensive health care reform plan that would provide universal health care for all Americans, and proposed the One America Initiative, a national challenge to end the racial divide in the US. Overall, his policies were progressive and helped improve the lives of many Americans.
With regard to foreign policy, Clinton was reluctant to become militarily involved in international conflicts. However, he came to believe that "the United States had a stake in the protection of human rights and the promotion of the political and economic stability of remote countries." While he did order armed forces to regions in conflict, the lives of very few American troops were lost. He also focused intensely on ending conflict in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Despite the Senate's rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, an international agreement that prohibited all signatory nations from testing nuclear weapons, Clinton promised that the United States would continue to maintain a policy of not testing nuclear weapons. He at least tried to create a little more peace in the world, and to avoid the use of unnecessary military force.
However, starting a war based on lies, killing 2600+ American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, secretly wiretapping people without a warrant, and the rest of the offenses on Bush's rap sheet of crimes against humanity make anything Clinton is guilty of look small-time in comparison. Even Henry VIII seems like a slightly nicer guy when you compare him to Bush.
The point is, I'll never understand how people like Mr. Texas can admire "leaders" like Bush and Henry who do horrible things, and hate Clinton because of his personal life, despite the good he did. Can anyone explain this to me? It scares me that this type of twisted logic seems so prevalent in today's political climate, because Lewinsky scandal or not, I'd take eight more years of Clinton over any amount of time with "the devil" Dubya.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bill_clinton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/henry_viii
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