Bill Clinton was a failed president
I keep hearing this in places on this site... extreme criticisms of his presidency.
I was a recent college grad working a full-time high-tech job when Bill was President. The economy was good. We weren't at war. People were optimistic. People had hope and felt the government was doing a good job (certainly compared to today).
Sure, things weren't perfect and people can nit-pick about his Presidency, but I remember Hillary fighting HARD for insurance reform. Meanwhile, one of Bill's greatest assets was he was a good negotiator and compromiser. I am not sure where this idea that compromise is bad comes from, but anyone that thinks ANY politician can be a bull in a china shop and ramrod their agenda through is deluding themselves. Bill took where it was important and gave where he needed to - and the important part was (much) more good happened than bad.
That is why Hillary is popular. Because people who are old enough to remember the Clinton years (and frankly, most BS supporters are not in that group) remember them being good times and remember Bill being an effective leader. If you talk to people who didn't like Bill Clinton - up until a year ago, the only complaints were the Lewinsky stuff, the assault weapons ban, etc. His crime bill being bashed is total revisionist history. Hillary is right - people don't remember what was going on back then and that bill was needed and helpful.
So if Bill was a horrible President, we sure could use another equally 'horrible' President. That is why Hillary is so strongly supported among people 40+. It's not because they don't "get" the struggles of the younger folks. It's that they are more mature, more seasoned, more experienced, more knowledgeable, they have been around the block more times, have listened to more promises and seen which ones came true and which didn't. And most of all, they remember the 1990's as good times.
And they want more good times. And they are right.
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that meme against Al Gore.
We owe them our thanks for eight years of shrub and the ills from those years that are still with us today! 
Had Gore won, NAFTA could - and would - have been tweaked to avoid some of its worst ills; prison reform could have been tweaked; financial institutions would have been better regulated; environmental policies would have been better, etc. Most of all, we would very likely never have had 9-11 (Gore would have paid attention to his Daily Intelligence Briefings and especially to Richard Clarke) and definitely NOT wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which stoked and exacerbated the ME situation of today.
We MUST do a better job of teaching both history and politics in our schools. These privileged ignorant ones obviously paid no attention whatsoever.
