Barack Obama is the finest President this country has elected since, at least, Franklin Roosevelt. Like Roosevelt, he saved the country from a Republican Depression and, in so doing, rescued the free enterprise system. I really don't think I would put your interpretation of the Constitution up against a former professor of constitutional law.
How about we start with virtue?
Carter was a saint compared to obuttface.
Too many words for a simple question. Any Democrat will be a fiasco as president. Half of all Republicans will be disaterous. Solution: elect governors with a proven track record.
The author doesn't know history. What about Pres. Gerald Ford? Never elected to an office in the Executive Branch of government, yet became our 38th president.
Once again LBJ gets a pass.
Father God, help America in this time, forgive us our arrogant ways and transgressions, we repent of the evil we have done against thee Lord, help us to be pleasing in thy sight. Give us wisdom and understanding to do thy will, in Jesus name I pray, amen.
Both Carter and Obama came to office because of failed Republican administrations. For Carter it was Nixon/Ford and for Obama it was Bush’s second term, which with the GOP Congress was a disgusting mess. In both elections the GOP fielded Elitist approved candidates. The Go-along get-along, stay- the - course, Reach across the aisle types when Americans want a change from that. When a people are spiritually hungry even the cheap hash Carter and Obama were dishing out sounded better then the bland cold peas porridge the GOP was offering up.
What factors predict lousy presidents to come? They’re liberals?
One of the biggest dilemmas our governing class faces is that you never get credit for doing nothing. Sometimes, doing nothing is the best course of action (especially where the economy is concerned). Thus, Coolidge is routinely trashed by liberal historians. By the way, happy bithday, Silent Cal!
Thomas Jefferson, Third President: “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them...If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them [around the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
James Madison, Fourth President, 1792: “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Franklin Pierce, 14th President 1854:
“[I must question] the constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those � who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”
Grover Cleveland, 22nd President 1887: “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.”
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural, 1981: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Factors? Hubris.
Progressivism on both sides of the aisle.
Jimmy Carter was the result of Nixon screwups.
Barack Obama was the result of George Bush not being willing to stop government spending.
With apologies this President was omitted. Even Obama has not yet done the limbo like him.
A poll out Wednesday finds that 67 percent of those surveyed disapprove of President Bush.
Five years after he green-lighted the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush faced strikingly low approval ratings as he reaffirmed his commitment to “accept no outcome but victory” in the war.
Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the anniversary of the start of the conflict in 2003.
Sixty-seven percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey disapprove of the president’s performance.
The 31 percent approval number is a new low for Bush in CNN polling and is 40 points lower than the president’s number at the start of the Iraq war.
Obama could not have been more obvious about being a lousy President during the election unless “lousy POTUS” were tatooed on his forehead.
Get one that was born in February. That almost always works.
Avoid ones born in August. That never works.
What factors predict lousy presidents to come? Well duh!! If they are democrats or RHINOS seems to be a pretty good indication.
Sometimes I think some of these articles are complete satire, just to get people riled up. You need some factors for who would be a lousy president: spends entire life surrounded by communists/radicals/progressives; raised by a pedophile; no one knows where you’re born; no one knows where you went to school or what your grades were at these alleged schools; you make any and every attempt to hide your past; you vote present, or don’t vote at all throughout your entire political career; you never once, sponsored or wrote one piece of legislation, state or federal; you lie every chance you get; you are incapable of speaking to anyone without a teleprompter; you cannot pronounce common words in the English language; you give shout-outs at a disastrous time, after some muslim POS kills a bunch of folks; you campaign that it is your goal to bankrupt an industry, that is vital to the US; you give a job to a man that advocates relationships between men and boys and gives seminars on ‘fisting’ your partner; you bow to tyrants and dictators; you have no f**king clue and have proven it over and over; the only reason you went overseas during the campaign was because you were called out on not doing it....what else did I forget? This moron makes Carter look like a stud..
Personality traits:
There are four temperaments: artisans, guardians, rationals, and idealists. No idealists have been president. There have been good and bad presidents from the other temperaments.
Basic principles:
1) antifreedom: altruism, collectivism, statism, socialism
2) profreedom: rational egoism, individualism, limited government, capitalism