Originally Posted by
tableplay
Originally Posted by
dannyj
He also essentially wiped out any strategic advantage the U.S. had by selling advanced U.S. missile technology to China. And, another key technological break China received, without having to spy to get it, was the deliverance of supercomputers once banned from export for security reasons.
Good points Danny. Maybe the most destructive US president in history.
But at the time in the late nineties he was quite popular. People didn’t care about the Monica lewinsky thing too much they just thought he was a stud muffin. The only ones that paid a price for the impeachment were the republicans in Congress who got swept out. I guess people were on a sugar high from the market going up every day. Unlike today’s market, back then the valuations were sky high and many companies didn’t even need to be profitable to be bid up. Then the dot com bubble burst in early 2000.
I think he lived up to the Teflon man moniker pretty well. Nothing stuck. Not so much now, the shine has come off and people are finally seeing who the Clinton’s are. Oh, and he took many a trip with Epstein to Lolita island.