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beancurdturtle · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject:

I know what you mean Bob S. But I'd grant Bush the edge if your talking about being tops in poor results.

Carter is a much better diplomat than he was an administrator. But I'll pick poor execution of leadership over masterful execution of a self serving policy any day.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a bleeding heart liberal. I'm a fiscal and monetary policy conservative, and a social and foreign policy progressive. That may be the opposite of Bush - but Bush is not a conservative (or a Republican) by any stretch of the traditional sense of these terms.

Peace,
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flying_pig319 · Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 369

Well I AM a "bleeding-heart liberal" Wink

And of course, Bob, my personal experience with presidents only goes back to George Bush senior, but that's what history class is for. I still say Bush is THE worst president we've ever had.
Worse than Nixon.
Worse than Carter.
But you're right-- we do have different views, so of course we'll disagree on things like that Smile

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beancurdturtle · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

asterix · Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 1654

Since Abraham Lincoln got America into the most disastrous war in its history, with the biggest casualty figures, you could argue that he was the worst president.

RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

Bill Clinton is the best president of US

beancurdturtle · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:42 am Post subject:

flying_pig319 · Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 369

k.m.m · Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 121 Location: Riyadh

I I think president Reagan and president Bill Clinton are the best presidents of US.

take care

KMM

CP · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 2875 Location: California

Reagan was a mean old man who cut off school lunches for poor children and put the money into an absurd space-based protection system that was never going to work.

He was good at reading the scripts written for him, but his reputation as being "the great communicator," a tag given him by his own spin doctors, was laugh-out-loud stupid.

Of course, that's just my opinion. Other people may have different opinions.
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RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

ad-miral · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 1488

I don't like Bush, but I guess whatever president comes instead of him, I won't like him either. BUT I really hope the new president would not make so many wars like Bush. (Has he seen too many war-movies?)

CP · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 2875 Location: California

Yes, Red Rose, I meant that just hearing it makes one laugh out loud.

I might have said "spit-take stupid," for that matter. When an actor takes a sip of something just as another actor says something funny or surprising or idiotic, then the first one spits it out all over the place, that's a spit take.

The first time I heard Reagan called "the great communicator," I probably actually did a spit take.
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