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Like it or not, Bill Clinton was the last Democratic president who was successful in terms of the economy, welfare reform, foreign policy and working with Congress. [/quote]

The economy grew under both Clinton and Obama.  Wages did not do as well, for a bunch of reasons.   There was no particular Clinton position on economics that would have helped wage growth.  Bill Clinton was far from silent between 2009 and 2016.  Can you find an example of him proposing a policy position to address wage stagnation that BHO was not doing?

Welfare reform occurred because there was a national consensus, mostly, that the status quo was bad, because the GOP had not yet discovered that opposing all POTUS policies was a winning political strategy, and because Clinton caved on the details (producing a welfare reform that was far less good than it should have been).

Foreign policy was a lot easier when Russia was weaker, and when the US polity was not gun shy because of years of mismanaged wars.

Working with congress - see above re strategy.

Obama was Clinton facing much harder circumstances.[/quote]

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