[QUOTE="Paragon_"]Bush senior. He sacrificed a second term for the good of the country, the only president who has ever done that to my knowledge. He set up the economy so it wouldn't fail during Clinton's pathetic excuse for a presidency. Unfortunately, all the ignorant people out there think Clinton actually helped our economy...wrong.YourOldFriend
From what I understand of economics, Clinton didn't hurt the economy really, he just got the credit for a projected upswing that was predicted before he was even running.
Well, he didn't hurt it badly, thanks to Bush senior. But if you remember the slight recession we had at the beginning of the current Bush's presidency, that was a result of Clinton's backward economic policies...luckily, our current president cut taxes almost immediately and got us out of that pretty quickly. But mainly, yes Clinton just received credit for something he had no part in.
And to the guy above...the reason Bush sacrificed his presidency was that he told the American people to "read his lips...no new taxes." But he ended up having to pass a new tax and alter the tax structure to keep the economy rolling smoothly, which he knew would cost him his presidency (because voters don't have much foresight). We would have had a pretty significant financial fallout if he had not done what he did. Yes, he ran for president again, but he knew from the beginning he had little to no chance of winning...his advisors and political strategists will attest to that.
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