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    Temimus: if newt’s team did such a good job, why were they voted out of office, and the ‘contract with america’ effectively never implemented?

    #963874
    temimus
    Member

    rational: You’re incorrect. Parts of the Contract were implemented. Other parts Clinton vetoed even though it was passed. After Newt’s guys won the House in 1994, the Republicans kept control of it for 12 years until 2007. (They lost it in the ’06 elections and regained it in the ’10 elections and the Republicans are holding it ever since.)

    #963875
    benignuman
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    charliehall,

    FDR was the Commander in Chief, he certainly could have ordered Eisenhower to bomb the railways to Auschwitz and other camps.

    FDR also refused to meet with the Rabbis that marched on Washington to request the US create a task force to rescue the remaining Jews in Europe.

    #963876
    writersoul
    Participant

    Okay, OOM, I’m curious…

    Unless you’re especially a fan of the “Billion Dollar Congress,” the McKinley Tariff and Sherman Antitrust Act, and his civil rights and education efforts, I can’t really see what’s so remarkable about him.

    Though if you mean William Henry Harrison, then I can see your point because he didn’t have a lot of time to make enemies or suffer scandals :).

    #963877
    benignuman
    Participant

    writersoul,

    I probably shouldn’t speak for oomis, but McKinley was widely viewed as a mensch. He was devoted to his wife even though she was sickly and needy. He was a moderate man who steered the country successfully through a booming economy and war. He probably would have been viewed as a much greater President if not for the incredible Teddy Roosevelt succeeding him.

    #963878
    writersoul
    Participant

    benignuman:

    A) I was talking to OneOfMany (OOM), not oomis. (Though I can see where the mistake would be made.)

    B) The McKinley Tariff was from the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, as I mentioned in my post.

    I’m not saying anything negative about the presidency of McKinley. All I said was that B Harrison had a kind of unremarkable presidency and I was wondering why OOM mentioned she liked him.

    #963879

    My husband is a big fan of Clinton. He says all politicians are immoral, and the fact that Clinton’s immorality was made more public than others’ has no bearing on his achievements.

    #963880
    Biology (joseph)
    Participant

    jf02: Isn’t there a bit of incongruity of your earlier challanging the idea that all actors are immoral but accepting your husbands assertion that all politicians are immoral?

    #963881

    First of all, I don’t agree with my husband. I think that some politicians are decent human beings. I do think it’s very difficult to become president (as opposed to a lower-ranking politician) and remain a decent human being, but I think it’s possible. I was simply quoting my husband b’sheim amro. (My mother, incidentally, agrees with him– she’s fond of saying “They’re all crooks!”)

    Second of all. I think that the inherent immoral temptations of a career in politics are significantly more dangerous than the inherent immoral temptations of a career in acting.

    #963882
    Biology (joseph)
    Participant

    I would think actors enacting all sorts of immoral scenes has a greater influence on them than anything politicians engage in.

    #963883
    Utah
    Member

    Teddy Roosevelt.

    I really like how he handled the US Economy and how he dealt with trusts. He was in my opinion one of the best presidents ever.

    #963884
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    psh, Syag was much closer

    #963885

    Any “immoral scenes” performed by actors are 1) fictional and 2) out there for the world to see. Politicians, on the other hand, are tempted all the time by corruption and bribery which are very real and, as we have seen, can be concealed.

    #963886
    writersoul
    Participant

    OOM: ‘Kay then…

    #963888
    benignuman
    Participant

    Benjamin Harrison is the last President to sport a beard.

    writersoul,

    Whoops. I should have read more carefully.

    #963889

    Fun fact: the youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.

    #963890
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Actually, the youngest president ever was Barak HUSSEIN Obama, who, according to his real birth certificate was born in Kenya on October 23rd 1979 which means he was also too young to be president, even for his second term.

    This is also another proof that his college records–which we have never seen in full–were FAKED and that he never DESERVED to go to Harvard law.

    #963891

    He was born on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii. The above claim has been debunked over and over again.

    #963892
    just my hapence
    Participant

    Mr Slant, though Boggis is a close second.

    #963893
    benignuman
    Participant

    PBA is trolling. Obama did not go to Harvard Law School at 9 years old.

    #963894
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    PBA is trolling. Obama did not go to Harvard Law School at 9 years old.

    Yet another proof that the OFFICIAL story is wrong.

    #963895
    benignuman
    Participant

    Haha

    #963896

    If by the “official story” you mean proven fact…

    #963897
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    If by the “official story” you mean proven fact…

    I don’t believe any proven facts. I only believe proven FACT.

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