Who is the worst President of our lifetime?

Who is the worst President in our lifetime?

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#76
#76
therealUT said:
Does everyone realize that the problems we face in the Middle East grew up during the Ford and Carter years?
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I suspect that you and I might disagree about much (if not most) of the things going on in Iraq right now, but you are dead on about this. Much of what we're dealing with in the Middle East right now is just the law of unintended consequences, writ ridiculously large. The Carter Administration, mostly at the behest of Brzezinski, made the strategic decision to arm and train the Afghans in an attempt to get the Soviets embroiled in their own Vietnam. And it worked. Eventually it brought down the freaking Soviet Empire. But then there was this quote from Brzezinski, which I had to google-dive to get right:

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

That was in 1998. Wonder what he'd say now?
 
#77
#77
Keep in mind we've had to arm and support thug regimes and groups to counter worse thug regimes. You can look all over the Third World and see those we supported coming back to haunt us. It's our history....support the lesser of the two evils for the sake of the immediate situation never thinking of long term consequences.
 
#80
#80
If he didn't have that last name, he'd be just another governor. Without the name, he'd have little name ID outside of FL.
 
#81
#81
CSpindizzy said:
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Shocking and despicable!
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#83
#83
CSpindizzy said:
If he didn't have that last name, he'd be just another governor. Without the name, he'd have little name ID outside of FL.
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That's true as well . . . I guess what I should have said is if his brother wasn't President . . .
 
#84
#84
The Dude said:
Sounds great to me.
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The thing that bothers me about this response is that many will see nothing wrong with it.

We have become a country of individuals that take commitments lightly and will run the first time things get a little tough. You see it in the workplace, school, marriages, and coming soon, national policy.
 
#85
#85
First time things get tough or just feeling this could have very easily been avoided to begin with?
 
#88
#88
KentheOrange said:
We have become a country of individuals that take commitments lightly and will run the first time things get a little tough. You see it in the workplace, school, marriages, and coming soon, national policy.
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We shouldn't be involved in "things" in the first place, not in Iraq.

Let me claritisize this: first comes the offensive comics. Then the mushrooms cloud.-GW Bush, 2006
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No typos in that Bush quote.
 
#89
#89
George W. Bush will go down in history as one of, if not THE worst U.S. president of all time.


Disclosure: I'm a Republican.
 
#91
#91
Vol423 said:
George W. Bush will go down in history as one of, if not THE worst U.S. president of all time.


Disclosure: I'm a Republican.
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depends on who's writing the history, doesn't it? Is it going to be the New York Times or someone like Louis Cannon or Michael Deaver?
 
#92
#92
It always depends on who writes the history. I think even writers on the Right are not too pleased with Bush's legacy. Even William F. Buckley wrote a tongue-lashing of Bush just this week.
 
#95
#95
Yea, poll numbers. Good job Carter, letting American citizens rot in the hands of Iranian terrorists. But at least your poll numbers never got that low!!
 
#96
#96
Carter's "Malaise" speech alone should be enough to earn votes in this poll.
 
#98
#98
LOL. Yea, the US screwed up back in, 1147 wasn't it or was it 1163? My US history gets a little fuzzy once I go back more than 4 centuries.
 
#100
#100
g8terh8ter_eric said:
I voted for Carter because he is was a moron, but in MY lifetime it is Clinton. He did NOTHING for the country and the Technology Boom carried his presidency.
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Crawl back under your rock. Clinton forgot more about everything than W. Worked better with the republican congress than W. Foreign relations were million times better. Economy was better for EVERYONE, not just the upper crust. Less people in debt. Balanced the budget. Created surplus............list goes on and on
 
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