Reply #38: There's no doubt they left us weaker the last time they ran things

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==Bill Clinton was the first two-term Democratic president since F.D.R. and was enormously popular — and yet at the end of eight years in office, there were fewer Democratic senators, fewer Democratic congressmen, fewer Democratic governors, fewer state legislators, and the party was in debt. You can be regarded as a charismatic president, and yet it doesn’t translate into structure.==

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/magazine/25WWLNQ4.t.html