Posted on 01/03/2015 12:30:35 PM PST by South40
It is difficult to compare presidents outside of a narrow context of time. It is like trying to compare baseball players, like Ruth and Aaron, or football players, like Johnny Unitas and Peyton Manning. For athletes, the games they play were different then; and for presidents, not only the country, but the world is different.
There is no way of knowing how a president today would have fared when faced with the prospect of the First or Second World War, or how they would have handled the advent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. These are answers we can never have answered, and speculation is pointless. Despite any internal similarities, the external contexts cannot be ignored: Korea is not Vietnam and Vietnam is not Iraq.
What we can do is judge them by their accomplishments, by how they faced the challenges of their time. Coming off arguably one of the most disastrous presidencies in our history, that of George W. Bush, who cut taxes yet involved us in two un-paid for wars, and crashed our economy and that of the rest of the world as a result, we found ourselves with our nation’ first black president.
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Hrafnkell Haraldssonmore is something of a crank. His bio says that he is not a follower of an Abramic faith, nor an atheist, but rather a polytheist, according to old Norse traditions of his ancestors.
He also seems admire Obama because Obama fixed the economy. I read that and thought, “Can this be real?” The whole website is like that: probably supported by some leftist multi-millionaire.
If you believe that Thor causes lightning, I guess that it is easier to believe that Obama cures the economy. It is similar to the idea that being bled by leeches is good for one’s health.
There is a reason why John Effin' Kerry has an honored place in the North Viet Nam's museum of the war...
Ya think? lol!
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
~ Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
Bush deserves 100% of the blame for inheriting a balanced budget and then doubling the federal deficit on his watch. He had a veto pen and didn’t use it. He can’t even say he tried.
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You seem to have forgotten that it was just over 7 months after GWB took the oath that 9/11 occurred and we began to fight the terriorists in their lands. That all required $$$ (and yes, Iraq DID have WMDs!). Spending had to increase.
Clinton’s terms only resulted in reducing the dificit because his last six years were with a GOP Congress. Bush’s last two years were with a DEM Congress.
Try to imagine Barack Obama “handling” the Second World War. Then look on the Internet for German lessons.
Actually Roosevelt and Truman did their best to mess WWII up real good.. BUT FAILED....
You know... because THEY CAUSED IT!..
Tried to lose it but didn’t.. but DID give the Russians the A-Bomb..
Ensuring the cold war.. and the advance of Socialism..
Obama is in good company with Roosevelt and Truman..
for; Democracy was, is and always will be Mob Rule by mobsters...
Democrats are for democracy.. a very nasty concept..
because it is a LIE.. a Scam.. a Boondoggle...
No Democracy has EVER BEEN or will be democratic..
He a lazy, lying piece of shit
An insult to lazy liars everywhere....
“But for these people, there would be a South Viet Nam today...”
But for these people, there would not have been the killing fields.
IMHO
Never discount the effects of powerful drugs.
More like Philippe Pétain.
.... The job of the Conservatives will be to attempt to "Undocrinate" those same masses then educating them in what used to be at one time common knowledge of true American Values and Foundational Principles .... Good Luck.
Meet the greatest daring castrator of American history. We do not feel guilty enough about slavery yet...
Well, I’d agree Obama is fourth “best”... with Jimmy Carter alone in third, Reagan in first and everyone else tied for second.
Reading the comments provided a real life visit to an alternate universe.
.... Lol..... “little pink wings”, I love it.
“Bush’s behavior was no different than any free-spending Democrat.”
...to the tune of one-trillion-dollar-plus non-budgets for six years?
Just asking.
“Barack H. Obama is the Greatest President of Modern Times”
A brilliant, absolutely brilliant, factual, and absolutely intellectual description of this brilliant, intellectual, intensely intelligent, once-in-a-millenium, great man who is now in the oval office. (The Ho Chi Min of our time.)
IMHO
That guy’s column is even weirder than his name.
Mental illness does not quite convey the message, maybe crazier than an outhouse rat with both rabies and alzheimer’s.
I asked said liberal to list her qualifications and he ignored my request. But given that he gets his information from people like Hrafnkell Haraldssonmore, I can't say I am surprised.
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