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In reply to the discussion: Favorite President [View all]PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)I highly doubt that Gore's pore performance in the 2000 election was because of President Clinton, considering Clinton left office with a 66% approval rating.
With regards to the Glass Steagall Act, the bill he signed in 1999, The "Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act" repealed only SOME of the provisions of the original 1933 law. And the fact is the "Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act" passed overwhelming in the House (362-57) and overwhelmingly in the Senate (90-8), so even if President Clinton had decided to veto it, the House and Senate could have still voted to override the veto and the bill would have still become the law of the land.
It is your opinion if you criticize some of Bill Clinton's actions and categorize them as ''moving the party to the right." You are more than entitled to that opinion. I was simply pointing out that I have a very high admiration for President Clinton not just in the way he governed the country (knowing full well that even though he was a Democrat, he needed to be President of everybody), but also in the way he built up large scale support for the Democratic Party and mainstream liberal ideas, such as tax increases for the wealthy, Medicare, Medicaid, infrastructure spending, etc, especially in rural areas.