The last Democratic Administration created 22 million jobs

[Winterblues]

The last Republican Administration created 3 million jobs over the same time span. Three million did not even keep up with the increase in population so it was actually a minus jobs created. Now they have the Nerve to try and tell Democrats about Job Creation..Give me a fucking break.....

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. 1990's technology created most of those jobs

The majority of which have since been outsourced to other countries. Thanks to the destructive economic policies of the last 30 years, of which DLC "Democrats" are as guilty of supporting as Republicans are.

[truedelphi]

4. Yes, it's taken both parties to destroy the middle incomed in this country.

In fact, the rise of the dot com bubble allowed for the dangerous meme that "Look! All these young people are becoming millionaires. No way does it matter that we are outsourcing our automobile manufacturing to Mexico, due to NAFTA and GATT. Who cares that programmers in Pakistan write the code for the machines these days? After all, our kids are creating CanariesInAHurry.com, worth 12.7 million as of today Wednesday, October 19 1999."

[spanone]

2. bu$h* On Jobs: The Worst Track Record On Record

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

the media didn't quite harp on junior and the conservatives like they are now with the dems.......did they?

[truedelphi]

3. Clinton was lucky in that he saw the rise of the dot com

bubble on his watch. The Silicon Valleys, Alleys, and corridors all across the USA had millionaires go from their garages and basements out into the world of corporate board rooms, via venture capitalism.

This was the great "New Economy," and one of its key memes was that it was unlike any previous economy and could only continue to inflate, never to crash or burn.

Luckily for Clinton, the repercussions of that FAIL didn't occur until right before he left office.

On the plus side, Clinton refused the RW neo cons their nasty and expensive war in Iraq. "No!" he told them, when they explained how necessary it was for America.

And five to six weeks later, Monica Lewinsky was all over the airways, explaining about the stain on her dress.

[PJPhreak]

5. I have no proof of this,But...

I firmly believe that Monica Lewinsky was a rebubby plant...Why else would she keep that dress,Sentimental reasons? A souvenir? Riiiiiiiiiiggghht!

Tho this does not excuse Mr Clinton for not keeping it Zipped!

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Monica was living in Portland in the mid 1990's.

When she left for DC, she bragged to her friends about her "presidential kneepads". Clearly her actions were premeditated. It's just a question of who helped her premeditate them. I've read a number of theories on that. I would encourage people to research it themselves, but I doubt she acted alone. Er, except for the "act" itself, of course.

[csziggy]

7. Monica's roommates' mother was a Republican operative

I don't have links to that for proof but I remember reading about it at the time. Of course, the M$M never picked up that little tidbit. I doubt it was Monika or her roommate's idea to keep that dress.

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Wasn't that Linda Tripp's doing (saving the dress part)

And you know it wasn't because she wanted to borrow the dress herself (cleaned or not) :evilgrin:

[PJPhreak]

9. Thats Linda Tripp?? Chesuss! That looks like John Goodman in Drag!! Nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Actually it is.

From an old SNL episode. The REAL Linda Tripp was actually uglier :scared:

[PJPhreak]

11. Oh...

Ya'll had me going there,Good one!

[csziggy]

13. Yeah - and Linda Tripp was the connection to a GOP operative

At least that is what I remember reading at the time. I couldn't think of Tripp's name earlier - thanks for coming up with it.

Apparently it was not Tripp's mother, but her literary agent, Lucianne Goldberg, who was the operative:

Her career started at the Washington Post in 1957 followed by a year working at the Democratic National Committee in 1960. She became a consultant to the White House staff under President John F. Kennedy in 1961, staying on for two years. She set up Cummings and Associates in 1963.

Decades later, Jeffrey Toobin's book A Vast Conspiracy alleged that Goldberg claimed to friends that she had an affair with Lyndon Johnson while working in the White House.<1> After Goldberg threatened Random House with a libel suit, a Washington Post writer claimed he and others overheard her bragging about an affair with Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well. Goldberg denied both affairs and denied telling any such stories.<2>

In 1966, she married Sidney Goldberg, an editor at the news syndicate North American Newspaper Alliance and Lucianne Goldberg did occasional freelance work for the syndicate. During the 1972 presidential campaign she joined the press corps covering candidate George McGovern, claiming to be a reporter for the Women's News Service, an affiliate of NANA. In fact, she was paid $1000 a week by Richard Nixon operative Murray Chotiner for regular reports about happenings on the campaign trail. She said "They were looking for really dirty stuff...Who was sleeping with who, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, who was smoking pot on the plane — that sort of thing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucianne_Goldberg

According to some of the stories, Goldberg is the one who suggested that Tripp tape Monica's conversations about Clinton and that they save the evidence, including the blue dress.

[dsc]

12. if she hadn't kept the dress about half the country would have been convinced she was a lying slut

Linda Tripp did her wrong on many levels but suggesting saving the dress was excellent advice.

[ck4829]

14. K&R