President Bush Is Clinton's Legacy

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I THOUGHT I’ve heard about all the blame that was possible for the right to heap onto the presidency of Bill Clinton. Just consider that he has been blamed for the first WTC bombing and the second, emboldening terrorists, teenage promiscuity, deficits, taxes and practically all the failures of the Bush administration. It only figures then that at least one letter writer feels that the Clinton legacy is the Bush presidency.

Tribune Letter Excerpt:
The Clintons' legacy will not be the economy (which they had nothing to do with) or impeachment (which will likely become an amusing presidential footnote), but the damage they did to our nation via their administration and the five-year license they granted an extremist-led GOP to run roughshod over our national reputation, collective will and common sense.

This letter is very odd. Here the writer concedes that Bush is a lousy president but basically claims that everything about the Clintons, their lifestyle, personality, gamesmanship and politics drove Americans to elect George W. Bush in the first place. So, the writer blames Clinton for the election of W. Bush, but why then would Americans elect the incompetent Bush again in 2004? To reaffirm the Clinton legacy? Of course the whole gist of this letter seems to say that as bad as Bush is, the Clintons (both Hillary and Bill) are worse and Americans must not make the same mistake by electing Hillary in 2008, and doing it all over again. WHAT a ridiculous letter.

AND IF you're going to lay blame or credit for this president on the previous presidency, why stop at Clinton? Why not go back to the Kennedy era. We could blame LBJ for Nixon, then blame Nixon for Carter, then Carter for Reagan. And what is the legacy of the Reagan administration? Why…...none other than Bill Clinton. Maybe that’s why they want to put Reagan on Rushmore.