"PLEASE don't tell me you want to debate about scandals when comparing the Clinton administration to ANY OTHER Presidency in the history of our great nation. I would begin to list things that happened during Hillary's reign of terror but I'm worried about being "silenced" like other certain officials that got on the wrong side of the Clintons."
Just a point in fact, Ronnie Ray-gun still holds the record for most corrupt administration in history, more indictments than any another. Besides the fact that just in layman's terms nothing that Slick Willy did compares to using drug money to buy arms from an enemy nation to illegally prolong a brutal civil conflict serveral years all under the noses of the American public.
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First of all to clear up a couple of things, I'm not Tico and I'm just a little more than a clerk, lol.
That said, you're focusing way too much on Costa Rica. First of all the commentator I mentioned was on CNN in Spanish not Tico news. When I try to give perspective on the view of things from here I don't mean Costa Rica nearly as much as an outside view. Here we get CNN is Spanish, as I already mentioned, we get CNN international and also remember that Costa Rica is a very international location. Of course there are tons of immigrants in the States as well, but I think it's more concentrated in specific areas there, for example growing up in PA the only foreigner I ever met was a Mexican exchange student in my high school. In CR you meet English, Chinese, Japanese, Lebanese, German, Dutch, Fins, Australian, Polish, Canadian, Latinos of just about every nationality, just to name a few pretty regularily because of tourism, the English/Spanish teahing racket, and sportsbooks. So again when I talk about the perspective from here I mean a broader, more international view point than what you get in rural U.S. of A., not Costa Rica specifically.
Now as far as the anti-American sentiment in Costa Rica, well there's been some of that as long as I've been here and that's a while now. My point is that you heard it much less when Clinton was in office than now. Also in all honesty what you hear at present is directed much more at bush than Americans in general, keep in mind he did started a war that the world disagrees with. As far as everything being pura vida, yeah basically it's still mellow, there is more crime but of course there are economic problems, inflation, more poverty, a growing seperation of classes, etc, the types of things that always cause more crime. Over all it's no worse or better to be an American here now than it was 10-12 years ago.
As far as the Clinton sex scandal, I think it's probably a pointless arguement. You guys look it as cut and dry, married man cheated, that's bad, very bad (reminds me of Dana Carvy doing bush1 on SNL). Yes he cheated on his wife, as most rich powerful men do. Yes he lied about cheating on his wife a natural reaction most men would have. I don't approve of what he did yet I'm not as shocked or appauled by it as you guys because I look at it as the kind of thing that goes on all the time. Kennedy liked to skinny dip with his secretaries in the pool but back then the press didn't have the gall to mess with a presidents personal affairs. When I hit on this point I'm not casting or denying blame, I just think that as American's we shouldn't kid ourselves that Clinton embarrassed us with the Lewinsky scandal, we embarrassed ourselves by over reacting. And by the way American it wasn't just the Ticos laughing.
