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It's a question of the person. Libs like to bash bush cause they personally dislike him. He's not smart enough, he stole the election, etc.
Clinton wasn't a center right president. He was basically liberal on social issues. He used targetted middle class tax cuts and upper bracket tax increases. He favored an internationalized foreign policy with a minimum use of troops on the ground. He at least attempted to expand government supported health care coverage in the same direction that a lot of the candidates are now pushing.
There's no real ground to say the man was center right. He worked with the Republican congress he had, and he did what he could.
The argument I'm implicitly making is this: if it was Clinton on TV saying that we ought to go to war, a lot of the people who opposed it then would have supported it. I'm not talking about now, in hindsight. Of course there were no weapons, but if you go back to 2002, when we were pretty sure that he had some chemical weapons lying around (which really aren't worth going to war over), and that he likely had biological weapons programs, and that war was politically possible, why not do it then?
(edit- it is JMM btw.)
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