The only two good Presidents we have had in the past 40 years were

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  1. silverhippy

    silverhippy Comfortably Numb

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    Nixon and Reagan. Nixon was great at foreign policy. I don't know what the Reagan did well. Everyone just seemed to like him.

    Peace
     
  2. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Nixon was a crook--check on the pumpkin incident.Reagan was an unwitting master of irony.He cut the funding for mental health in Cal,so that hundreds and hundreds of mentally ill people had to wander the streets and fend for themselves.Then he lost his mind.Fortunately for him,he had people to change his diapers for him.He was a conservative prick.
     
  3. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    Its easier for us.
    We only had 2 presidents...

    :leaving:
     
  4. praxiskepsis

    praxiskepsis ha!

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    I don't know about Nixon.

    But Reagan was the only president post-JFK with any backbone, that's for sure.
     
  5. sheeprooter

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    Nixon was decent but no one really liked him and he got caught red-handed in a relatively minor offense. Reagan, he was a true conservative in every sense of the term. So if you consider yourself a conservative you damn well better be a fan of his. George Bush is no conservative, or a liberal for that matter. If you aren't too smart, you are a fan of his.
     
  6. Mellow Yellow

    Mellow Yellow Electrical Banana

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    Don't forget to add Bush to the list, lol! The list of worst presidents, that is.

    Reagan laid the groundwork for deregulation that led to predatory practices resulting in Enron, the mortgage meltdown, etc. Remember junk bonds? Reagan also passed legislation to classify ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches.

    And Nixon, please, you can't be serious, what about Watergate and the Vietnam war?
     
  7. cosmic jackie

    cosmic jackie Member

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    Nixon was one of the worst presidents we've ever had!!
     
  8. mamaKCita

    mamaKCita fucking stupid.

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    JFK got us into that war. watergate/whitewater.
     
  9. mamaKCita

    mamaKCita fucking stupid.

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    how so, jackie?
     
  10. RELAYER

    RELAYER mādhyamaka

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    You people and your presidents...
     
  11. silverhippy

    silverhippy Comfortably Numb

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    Nixon ended the war. He brought me home.

    Peace
     
  12. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    We had people in Viet Nam way before JFK came around.We were helping the French try to hang on to their "colony" with money,ect ,since the 40's.Nixon was a racist prick ,among his short comings.Mellow yellow was right on about the de-regulation issue.Anyone that doesn't know how conservatives operate relative to politics,(republican dirty tricks)business,(de-regulation ect),is willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.
     
  13. sheeprooter

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    Was he? As far as I know, he was just not very well-liked.

    Consider that Nixon ended the Vietnam War





    But personally, it all comes back to TR with me. Roosevelt might be the only person deserving the presidency in the past 100 years. If you want me to rant about how awesome he is, just say so.
     
  14. stonerbike

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    Nixon spearheaded reefer madness and created the drug war we have today.
    You should do some reading on this guy, he was one of the worst until bush.
     
  15. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Nixon left office in disgrace, and Reagan was a half-wit (former B-actor) whose strings were being pulled by his wife Nancy and her psychic advisors :mad:


    Hotwater
     
  16. mamaKCita

    mamaKCita fucking stupid.

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    i was asking the 15 year old who's likely just spewing what he heard.

    the drug war is just a business.
     
  17. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Wasn't Nixon one of Joe McCarthy's henchmen?
     
  18. mamaKCita

    mamaKCita fucking stupid.

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    probably. but all things considered, i think he did alright.
     
  19. BraveSirRubin

    BraveSirRubin Members

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    Pfff...

    The two best presidents have obviously been Bush & Bush.

    You people are crazy.
     
  20. MotherLoveBone

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    did someone call watergate a "minor offense." A Blowjob is a minor offense..burglary, campaign fraud, illegal wiretapping, etc... NOT SO MINOR!

    Also, as for Nixon ending vietnam. That was his promise, but he took a long time and a lot of pressure from congress to actually do anything about it. Ultimately, he just prolonged the war and pushed deeper into the jungle. Nixon was a horrible, corrupt president.

    Clinton certainly was the best president in my lifetime.
     

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