You’re out of your mind. Nothing nearly as consequential as Obamacare or gay marriage happened while Clinton was in office.
The ACA, fine. But I’m not sure you can say the Administration was responsible for gay marriage… I mean, unless Justice Kennedy is on the payroll.
I do think Clinton’s rebranding of the Democratic Party into a “third way” type of party was strongly influential.
Well, both, really, but I think the list of who think it should be comes first. Then they can make the pictures for next year’s parade float from that, and if the spectators say “Who dat?”, that’s fine. I’m pretty sure few would have recognized Sally Ride unless the name was on the photo.
Eight straight years of economic expansion for the first time in the nation’s history.
And balancing the budget.
The 90’s were the best economic decade since the 50’s.
JFK was a pretty awful president. His biggest accomplishment was being killed and thereby providing LBJ with lots of political capital.
Like I said, nothing nearly as consequential as gay marriage or Obamacare. Those are both specific long-lasting (probably permanent!) things that people will remember fifty years from now, much more than “we had a pretty good economy for awhile when I was a kid.”
Replace Sally Ride with Molly Ivins.
We could use a few dozen like her.
Ooh, Wendy Davis is a good idea!
Contrast her to the Clintons. Character matters more than simply being powerful.
Um, ending welfare? Establishing the precedent that USA-hired mercenaries cannot be prosecuted for any crime by anyone? Dismantling govenment research, auditing, and accountability offices in the name of “reinventing government”? Yeah, I’d say the Clinton/Gore/Gingrich troika was very successful and very consequential. [ETA: Granted, those are technically “reversible mistakes,” so you may be right.]
Now, stick the word “good” in your second sentence (say, second word) and I’d tend to agree.
Of course, even DADT was a step in a progressive direction away from what the hard right wanted to do to gay servicemen, so yeah, Clinton was pretty social justice in his way. Kind of a corrupt, oblivious, and reckless bougie, though.