Bill Clinton receives a lot of criticism on this site as someone who sold out and co-opted Republican ideas, and whose capitulations and moral failings caused the Democrats to lose their long-held control of the House of Representatives. My response to these Clinton critics is: when were things better than during the Clinton years? Was it better to have majorities in congress, but to have Reagan or Bush 1 as president? Were those the good old days? Are we comparing Clinton to Carter, Johnson or JFK? Is this really the same country as it was 20, 30 or 40 years ago?