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Old 06-11-2020, 09:07 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Hillary Clinton. To my dying day I will consider it a national tragedy that she was beaten by an unqualified TV reality star with no political experience and no interest in public service. Part of her problem was optics. She was an older woman, not especially attractive and overweight. That is the kiss of death in politics. She was saddled with a husband whose sleazy behavior turned voters off. No one wanted to see Bill Clinton back in the White House again. She also didn't have the gift of connecting with ordinary people. But I don't think either of these drawbacks would have mattered that much in the long run.
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Henry Ford
Ross Perot

Henry Ford put millions of his money into aggressive anti-Semitic activities. And he was also a Nazi-sympathizer.
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Obama was a so-so president...he divided this country more than he united this country
Obama started a wave of cultural change in America. He united people of all colors and started a movement based on hope. What you saw with the election of Trump and the counter movement against Obama was the last hurrah of the white supremacist power system that America has been controlled by for so long. This movement is losing its grip.
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:15 PM
 
Location: Nowhere
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Henry Ford put millions of his money into aggressive anti-Semitic activities. And he was also a Nazi-sympathizer.
Ford was an American hero. Gave his working people a living wage when he didn't have to.
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Bill Bradley

Bradley would have raised the bar for presidential qualifications. He's still around, at age 76 and I wonder why he hasn't made another run for the office, after 2000. Maybe the Democrats would be smart enough to slip him in as their candidate this year, if the current front-runner encounters a road-block?
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:50 PM
 
Location: pensacola,florida
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Senator Henry Jackson is about the only democrat in the last 50 years I like.

Barry Goldwater would have been good....
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Old 06-11-2020, 10:20 PM
 
Location: alexandria, VA
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Senator Henry Jackson is about the only democrat in the last 50 years I like.

Barry Goldwater would have been good....
Scoop Jackson. Barry Goldwater. Both good men.
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Old 06-11-2020, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Obama was awful.

It was great having the first black president but man, what a disappointment
He didn't disappoint me. There's a bigger goal I have in mind...
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Old 06-12-2020, 05:11 AM
 
Location: Somewhere between chaos and confusion
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She was an older woman, not especially attractive and overweight. That is the kiss of death in politics..

Yep....unless you are MALE, judging by our current older president, who is very overweight and not especially attractive. Double standards.
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Old 06-12-2020, 05:20 AM
 
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Excerpt: There are/were some great Americans who would have made great or at least good Presidents,
Response: President Donald Trump if only the Democratic Party Let him do his job...

Seriously Donald Duck would made a better president.
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