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Oh goodie, the neo-con history revisionists have joined the thread with their "FDR was a horrible president" talk. Oh, and anyone who considers Lincoln a bad president isn't a real American.
Nixon was the worst by a landslide. He would have been perfect for 1930s Germany, IMHO.
Nixon was essentially a big government statist who would have fit in nicely with today's Democrat Party. So yes, I agree with you he was bad.
But he didn't do nearly as much permanent damage as other Presidents. FDR is unmatched because he set up the present fiscal situation by ushering in unsustainable entitlement programs that will ultimately cause the country to collapse.
By ballooning the deficit to $20T by the time he leaves office, your hero Obama is vying to be just as terrible as FDR.
Nixon was essentially a big government statist who would have fit in nicely with today's Democrat Party. So yes, I agree with you he was bad.
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Nonsense, the unforgivable act of Nixon was his attempt to fire a prosecutor investigating him. He would have been well suited for Nazi Germany, but not a democracy.
If I disagree with the policies of a POTUS, that is no match for distrusting his sense of ethics.
I'd put Obama and G.W. Bush in the same category as far as how they rated as President: neither of them were the worst in my opinion, but I'd rank both of them toward the bottom. Both have increased the presence of the federal government more than any other President before them, as well as increased the national debt ... and most of the gov't intervention has been non essential, or a complete failure. Bush forced the Patriot Act on us, as well as the Afghanistan & Iraq conflicts (all of which were more or less a response to the 9/11 tragedies). Obama has forced the Affordable Health Care Act on us, as well as the stimulus package & other "entitlement" programs that went nowhere.
Carter and Johnson (LBJ) were the worst in my opinion. Both of them just came across as bumbling idiots who ended up dividing their own parties and creating more discourse in general among Americans. I should add that Obama is becoming that way with his support of invading Syria ... many liberals in his party are rightfully against it, as are many Libertarian leaning Republicans!
Oh goodie, the neo-con history revisionists have joined the thread with their "FDR was a horrible president" talk.
Oh goodie, the big government deflect and deny history revisionists have joined the thread with their "FDR wasn't a horrible president" talk.
So lets get this straight, we have a malnutrition rate that reached close to 20 percent during the height of the depression, FDR orders crops plowed under and YOU think that doesn't define horrible? Sickening absolutely sickening.
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Oh, and anyone who considers Lincoln a bad president isn't a real American.
Oh, and anyone who considers they themselves are the sole judge on who is or isn't a good American is lost on the concept completely.
Oh goodie, the neo-con history revisionists have joined the thread with their "FDR was a horrible president" talk. Oh, and anyone who considers Lincoln a bad president isn't a real American.
anyone who lives in a flyover state that had nothing to do with the formation of the original united states is not a real amerian. so lincoln's 600,000 murders were good for this country?
I think the majority of Americans regard Lincoln as a great president.
Unreconstructed Confederates will not hold that opinion, and I understand their point of view. If I was a Confederate, I don't think I would hate him, but I wouldn't admire him either. In any case, the Confederacy was defeated, the Union prevailed, and Lincoln gets the credit for preserving the Union.
Maybe that's why his face is on Mount Rushmore, and there is a huge marble temple to him in Washington, and his profile is on the penny, and his face is on the five dollar bill, and the master bedroom in the White House is named after him, the capital of Nebraska is named after him, and streets, avenues, boulevards, parks and squares are named after him. They even make movies about him. Will Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, or George H. W. Bush get honors like that? I doubt it.
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