I have to attempt to correct some misinformation stated above.

At point 1, you give credit to Clinton and Republicans working together to pass a tax cut which supposedly spurred an economic revival. That is called supply side economics and that is not how it was done. What happened is Clinton/Gore implemented DEMAND SIDE ECONOMICS. They opted to spur the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates on bonds by balancing the budget. Allow me to explain...

When the national budget is in the red, the federal government must borrow money to make up the difference, to pay their bills for that year. The money borrowed then goes into a pile of debt called the national debt. National deficit, and national debt. Two different things.

In order to raise the money needed, when the budget is in the red, the government uses the Federal Reserve's Open Market Operations to raise US bond interest rates so that the bonds become an attractive investment. US Bond sales raise the money needed. US Bonds that pay higher interest rates are more attractive to investors and "crowd out" the private sector corporate bond market...the nation taking precedence over the individual corporation.

When interest rates go up on bonds, they go up on almost everything else that is debt issued by banks: credit cards, car loans, mortages, student loans, personal loans, intrabank loans, all the interest rates rise. When interest rates go up, it's harder to borrow money...the economy slows down. Tight money policy.

If you balance the budget, you can lower the interest rates on bonds...and on everything else, because you no longer need to raise money through bond sales to pay the government's bills. Money across the board becomes cheaper to rent, and because money begins to exist the moment it is borrowed...the money supply increases. Individuals and businesses all begin to borrow more money, economic expansion takes place. Businesses and Corporations use borrowed money to expand. Employment goes up. Unemployment goes down, IE Demand Side Economics.

Clinton/Gore decided to implement all of this by balancing the budget through Congress. Every single Republican voted against balancing the budget in the Senate. The vote was 50/50, Dem versus Rep. Albert Gore as the President of the Senate became the tie breaking vote. The rest is history. The economy was set free, and the stock market became what was known at the time as a "Super Bull". It just kept going up. Many people became millionaires under Clinton/Gore. I live in New York City. I remember very vividly, the National Debt Clock in Times Square literally had a sheet thrown over it. They stopped the clock. We had surpluses. It was surreal.

That's what actually happened, and it's not open to debate or controversy.

On point number 3, that Hillary also got us into Iraq. Hillary was a member of Congress at the time, and she like many in Congress voted to give W conditional authorization to attack Iraq with the precondition that the weapons inspectors be allowed to finish their inspection. You see, this is why the founders put the power to declare war under the authority of Congress....because more heads are often smarter than one. What does W do? He pulls Hans Blix and the rest of the inspectors out and attacks. That is what one single dummy is capable of. Total disaster.

There are a lot of half truths in your other points Faithful, that I won't bother to tussle with. I just wanted to touch on the points that were 180 degrees from the truth.