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>A lot of good came from Clinton too....
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>Longest economic expansion in American history
>More than 22 million new jobs
>Highest home ownership in American history
>Lowest unemployment in 30 years
>Raised education standards, increased school choice, and doubled education and training investment
>Largest expansion of college opportunity since the GI Bill
>Connected 95 percent of schools to the Internet
>Lowest crime rate in 26 years
>Enacted most sweeping gun safety legislation in a generation
>Family and Medical Leave Act for 20 million Americans
>Smallest welfare rolls in 32 years
>Higher incomes at all levels
>Lowest poverty rate in 20 years
>Lowest teen birth rate in 60 years
>Lowest infant mortality rate in American history
>Deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union
>Protected millions of acres of American land
>Paid off $360 billion of the national debt
>Converted the largest budget deficit in American history to the largest surplus
>Lowest government spending in three decades
>Lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years
>More families own stock than ever before
>Most diverse cabinet in American history
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>...etc etc etc.

That's a good defense of his record and it's a good idea to repeat that so that we don't forget what he handed over to Bush, who promptly unraveled everything.

That said, keep in mind that had he not dallied, Gore was a shoo-in.