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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clinton was by far the best President of my lifetime.  Biden has been surprisingly good though.  What would push him over the top?  If he would do more to influence “law and order” in urban areas, quite frankly.  Sort of related, he needs to use the bully pulpit more to make irrelevant the progressive wing of the party.
He does this and he’s definitely the best president over my 50 years.[/quote]

Clinton was fine but really disappointing he didn't achieve more with what he was given. He squandered a huge peace dividend after the fall of the Soviet Union. He implemented NAFTA (with no plan to address how it would decimate manufacturing jobs) and deregulated Wall Street (by repealing Glass Steagall) and allowed the dot.com bubble build - the first two of which contributed directly to the GFC as well as the populist surge we've seen in the last 15 years.  He represented the worst aspects of meritocracy and the revolving door between industry and government -- smart people that thought they were too smart for main street and leveraged their influence and government positions to make money after office. He also was a centrist and contributed to the Republicans tacking right. That's not his fault but it's an indirect consequence of it.

Obama was not ready and relied way too much on the Clinton folks when he presided. He spent his political capital on the ACA rather than holding the banks accountable for the GFC and after two years, was in a holding pattern for the next six years. He got us out of the GFC and implemented the ACA but not much else. That's not his fault but it failed to recognize that you can't just implement policies and expect citizens to reward you for them. You have to sell those policies and make sure to claim credit with good messaging. Biden recognized this.

Biden has done more to implement direct policies to aid the working and middle class than any President in my lifetime. He implemented the Inflation Reduction Act and Chips Act designed to bring back manufacturing to this country, not to mention the largest Infrastructure Act in history. Is he perfect? No. But, GD, give the man credit for getting us out of the COVID slump and actually trying to make a difference. He's actively trying to help unions. He's about to reschedule marijuana. He also got us out of the quagmire that was Afghanistan and has not directly embroiled us in in Ukraine (the cost of turning a geopolitical adversary into an afterthought has been remarkably cheap and free of American lives lost). He also reaffirmed our ties to NATO. He's probably the best President on foreign policy since Reagan. And he's doing this all in the face of opposition that has gone completely off the rail to even aiding and abetting traitors. [/quote]
pp.  I agree a lot with your third paragraph.  But I still wish he would do more to make cities safe again.  There’s too much rot that progressives sweep under the rug because of their unproven theories.  Biden needs to use his position as head of the government and the party to address this.  Maybe I’m just old and wish for the moderate party I grew up with that embraces law and order-I genuinely see a societal breakdown occurring right now.[/quote]

PP. I agree but how much do you want the Federal government interfering with the governance of cities? Alot of this is on too many idealistic progressives failing to deal with the realities of crime in places like San Francisco and Chicago. We're still grappling with the George Floyd aftershocks. That's not on Biden. Biden, as a moderate, doesn't want to alienate those to left of him. It's a fine line to walk. [/quote]

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