Betrayals: Is Bill Clinton too Toxic & Politically Dead for Democrats? The Hillary Clinton & Terry McAuliffe Failures:

Betrayals: Is Bill Clinton too Toxic & Politically Dead for Democrats? The Hillary Clinton & Terry McAuliffe Failures:
By Marc Chamot

Some historians say it usually takes a few years, and up to a decade after a former sitting president leaves office, to feel his policy effects while he was in office. They urged people not to be so critical on former President George Bush, even though most people want to declare him as Americas’ worst president in history.

For me, I will not wait for the years to make my firm opinion on former President G.W., I already know what he was about, with all of the chaos that he had created for this country, which has been unraveling around us lately.

But there’s another former president that these historian’s advice may hold true. It’s former President Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton was an extremely popular president, even up to the point when he left office. There wasn’t much to criticize the man on, except for the usual scandals and the fatigue of conservative talk radio covering it, possibly affected Al Gore’s Democratic presidential aspirations.
No one can dispute Bill Clinton’s popularity, even his own book, “My Life” sparked a bestseller hit.

My Life was a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. He had received what was at the time the world's highest book advance fee, believed to have been worth US$12 million.

Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, his legacy may be on life support these days, because of a bad decision that he made back around 1995.

He failed to pull through for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, during her 2008 presidential campaign, and just recently, he didn’t muster any help for his old pal Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. Bill Clinton did excel in raising money for his candidates, but sadly, he couldn’t muster the voters to vote for any of them.

Even with Bill Clinton’s help, McAuliffe took a devastating defeat for the Virginia senate seat. What ruined it for this once proud and a very popular president? He Sold Out.

At the time of his administration these sell outs by Bill Clinton, and of his betrayals on key issues, weren’t quite being felt by the nation as a whole yet.

And no, it wasn’t the gay rights for the military as some pundits suggest. He did cut welfare, but that wasn’t the biggest sin that Bill Clinton committed while in the White House. Bill Clinton had colluded and pushed big favors for corporations, Wall Street, and friends of his administration.

Bill Clinton was no enemy of the corporate world, and that’s for sure; he was a “big” tool of it.
Those disastrous Bill Clinton policies were finally being felt around five to six years after he left the American presidency, under the exploitation of an anti-worker Republican president and Republican controlled congress.

When his wife, Hillary Clinton was campaigning for the presidency, Bill Clinton went out to get the voters for her. He thought with his charm and his past popularity as president, it would be a sure thing for Hillary. And why not, he was successful in helping out his San Francisco pal Gavin Newsom’s 2003 mayoral run in late 2003. He was also instrumental in helping out his other pal, Bill Richardson’s 2002 run for the New Mexico governor’s office. So Democrats loved this guy, he had a good thing going for himself.

That was then, and it was all well and dandy, until his fallout from a decision that he made during his time as president. As some historians say, it takes years after a former sitting president leaves office to feel some of his policies. And now Bill Clinton’s are being felt Big Time.

One of his policies that did hit a good many of his former core of supporters, the NOW unemployed, the former middle class, and the massive core of losses in manufacturing industries all around, did him in.

It was all evidenced by Bill Clinton’s campaigning efforts for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, when he hit some of the most economically depressed states in this country, and Hillary Clinton only took Pennsylvania during the primaries of all the NAFTA hurting states. And that was only because of Barack Obama’s and his pastor Jeremiah Wright’s racist controversies that came about right before the elections.

NAFTA was a bill concocted by George HW Bush and the Republicans in 1992, to give their big corporate donors, and their corporate buddies the options, to opt out from American labor costs, and go into cheaper foreign labor, with virtually no tax or import tariffs’ for their products being mass produced abroad and shipped back into the country.

Then came about that Newt Gingrich and his Republican Revolution of 1994 when they took back control of the House and Senate under former President Bill Clinton. They sold NAFTA to the public under the premise of bigger consumer savings and for a real good cause, when in reality it was to destroy American unions and our industrial and factory jobs all over. This little evil bill President Bill Clinton eagerly signed into law around early 1995 to appease Republicans.

Unfortunately around 2000, we came back to round two, of the Bush’s presidential dynasty, in another continuation of the Republican NAFTA and WTO’s, which they exploited without abandon. They went on a total warpath to totally destroy American unions and while doing it they destroyed our middle class, by allowing a communist nation, a nation known to violate human rights and freedom of speeches, like China to get the bulk of our lost industries and jobs.

These millions of out of work Americans because of NAFTA and WTO will never forgive former President Bill Clinton for destroying their livelihoods, and ruining their family lives, because of all of this. And President Barack Obama seems to be following down the same path.