Maddow on Clinton: Was He 'Best Republican' President Ever?
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2010/09/15 23:00:00
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Is former President Bill Clinton prepping for a third career as a professional wrestler? Or perhaps a TV talking head? With his settled feud with California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown still smoldering, Clinton is in another public beef, this time with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
Clinton took a broad strike at Maddow for comments she made back in March in which she called him “the best Republican president we ever had.”
Confused?
Here’s the full Maddow quote, which came during a discussion about how President Obama’s views earlier this year on health care were creeping to the other side of the aisle and sounding like Republican health care proposals in the 1990s, not to mention the health care plan proposed by Clinton during his first term: "What we ended up with is, what we ended with, in my opinion, is the two terms of the Clinton administration, which is that Bill Clinton was probably the best Republican president the country ever had, if you look at the policies that he passed."
The ever-irascible Clinton clearly kept his powder dry for a while, but according to Politico, he hit back Monday without mentioning Maddow’s name.
Speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, alongside book-hawking former British Prime Minister and pal Tony Blair, Clinton said, "One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I'm a closet communist," he said. "What she meant by that was I didn't necessarily follow their 'conventional wisdom,'" he said. "I said, 'What do you mean?!'"
Clinton pointed out that he did more for poor and middle-class Americans than New Deal-era liberalism ever did and noted that his welfare-to-work programs cut welfare rolls by 60 percent.
Do You Agree With Maddow’s Description of Clinton?
Clinton took a broad strike at Maddow for comments she made back in March in which she called him “the best Republican president we ever had.”
Confused?
Here’s the full Maddow quote, which came during a discussion about how President Obama’s views earlier this year on health care were creeping to the other side of the aisle and sounding like Republican health care proposals in the 1990s, not to mention the health care plan proposed by Clinton during his first term: "What we ended up with is, what we ended with, in my opinion, is the two terms of the Clinton administration, which is that Bill Clinton was probably the best Republican president the country ever had, if you look at the policies that he passed."
The ever-irascible Clinton clearly kept his powder dry for a while, but according to Politico, he hit back Monday without mentioning Maddow’s name.
Speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, alongside book-hawking former British Prime Minister and pal Tony Blair, Clinton said, "One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I'm a closet communist," he said. "What she meant by that was I didn't necessarily follow their 'conventional wisdom,'" he said. "I said, 'What do you mean?!'"
Clinton pointed out that he did more for poor and middle-class Americans than New Deal-era liberalism ever did and noted that his welfare-to-work programs cut welfare rolls by 60 percent.
Do You Agree With Maddow’s Description of Clinton?
Top Opinion
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jnl72 2010/09/16 02:20:19No, she’s way off base
+6He was nowhere near Republican values, but that's funny. I can't stand Rachel Maddow, but I love a good political fight. I never liked Clinton when he was in office, and he has no moral character, but strangely, he's grown on me over the years. I'd take him 100x over Obozo.
She is way out of the closet.
I wish recent Presidents from the Republican party had been half the Republican Clinton was.
Richard Nixon's policies were overall about as progressive as Clinton's, or more so. In particular, the Nixon health plan was more progressive than the Clinton plan.
I might not have agreed with some of the extremes he took things to, like the tax raise... and military cuts...
But all in all his time in office was, for the most part, a good one...
His affair, had nothing to do with how he ran the nation.
There is a whole network and an internet network and a gay phone directory. But here in the south, most florists are straight so it took a while. There is apush in the black community for all blacks to support ONLY black owned businesses and they do the same thing, drive hours to shop for food, clothes, dry cleaning, mortgages etc.
I just have to wonder, if the rest of us went all white-who would be left to support the arabs and mexicans? JK, sort of.