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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This keeps happening, everywhere I look.
More evidence that Common Core has been in the public schools for many, many decades.
Clearly, Hrafnkell’s experience as a young schoolboy involved teachers telling him “Just remember Hrafnkie, if you can imagine something to be true, it’s automatically true in reality. If you want it to be.”
LOL
And by modern times, he means post 2009.
and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance
Yet another enemy of the First Amendment.
(Second set of numbers: inflation adjusted)
2000 $236.4 Billion Surplus $325.17 Billion Surplus
2001 $127.3 Billion Surplus $170.19 Billion Surplus
2002 $157.8 Billion Deficit $207.63 Billion Deficit
2003 $377.6 Billion Deficit $485.97 Billion Deficit
2004 $413 Billion Deficit $517.54 Billion Deficit
2005 $318 Billion Deficit $385.45 Billion Deficit
2006 $248 Billion Deficit $291.42 Billion Deficit
2007 $161 Billion Deficit $183.79 Billion Deficit
2008 $459 Billion Deficit $504.95 Billion Deficit
2009 $1413 Billion Deficit $1559.6 Billion Deficit
2010 $1294 Billion Deficit $1404.99 Billion Deficit
2011 $1299 Billion Deficit $1367.37 Billion Deficit
2012 $1100 Billion Deficit $1134.02 Billion Deficit
2013 $680 Billion Deficit $691.06 Billion Deficit
2014 $492 Billion Deficit $492 Billion Deficit
(data from DaveManuel.com, for what it’s worth)
Yeah, there’s plenty of blame to lay on Bush’s shoulders, but if you think the record from 2002 - 2007 (essentially budgets Bush and the GOP congress were responsible for) are as bad as those from 2008 - present (Reid/Pelosi/Obama), go right ahead.
The delirious comments in defense of the author’s absurd position are priceless. This is how they think, people. They really are that delusionsal.
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
The propaganda of a lost cause.
In many respects, today's Left is the creation of Leftist academics.
And, by virtue of the stupidity they have fostered, they have also doomed it to eventual irrelevance.
Messr. Hrafnkell Haraldssonmore is the latest example of this trend...
Many Americans truly believe Obama is the best and always will.
Hrankell Haraldssssonmore, this must be the guy that supported Obama getting the Nobel peace Prize. But with a name like he has, no wonder he supports Obama, otherwise everyone else simply calls him Hraf. hey we have had hraf of of you already!
Barack Obama would have addressed Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, announcing that he was sending the Secretary of State to Tokyo to apologize for the racist way the Empire of Japan had been treated by the previous administration. He would have reminded Americans that Shintoism is a venerable religion and a religion of peace.
Barack Obama would have addressed Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, announcing that he was sending the Secretary of State to Tokyo to apologize for the racist way the Empire of Japan had been treated by the previous administration. He would have reminded Americans that Shintoism is a venerable religion and a religion of peace.
If you read the comments about Obama on this website, you can see just how delusional the left are today.
Red diaper doper babies trying to remain relevant while lounging in their own feces.
But for these people, there would be a South Viet Nam today.
Yes, I remember how Walter Cronkite kept telling us what a huge defeat the Tet Offensive was. He failed to tell us it was a huge defeat-for the North. Even North Vietnamese generals admitted they were astonished that we gave up right after they had suffered such a big defeat.
He is making a moral equivalency of the libtard standard of values with "any measure of success."
This is why shrooms should never be ingested.
This will be the telling of American history. Get used to it.
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