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(82,849 posts)You know the one I mean: Christmas Eve 1992, after he'd lost his bid for re-election and his pals were about to go to trial for negotiating with terrorists, selling arms to Iran, and funneling the revenue to the contras. The only core value I see in that was saving his own miserable hide.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)"Things I disagreed with" immensely....
jalan48
(13,883 posts)Fuck this shit.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)though one could superficially dismiss it as a different political philosophy. Trump has been more extreme because he controls all of Congress too. These 4 were pragmatists by necessity.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)Many thought W was as bad as it would get, and before that it was Reagan, before that it was Nixon, and so on.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)...it's going to take someone going to great lengths to out-shitstorm this shitstorm.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)Azathoth
(4,611 posts)A lot of the nonsense about "wars for oil" and so forth that was hurled at him was unfair. Dubya didn't know much and he didn't pretend to know much. He wasn't some Machiavellian corporate profiteer (dude was given an oil company and he couldn't find oil in Texas), nor was he a sophisticated neocon ideologue. All he knew was that Jesus and 'merica were good and the ter'ists were evil, and good had to be tough to defeat evil, just like they preached back home in Texas. Cheney and the neocons did the rest, and all they had to do was frame their agenda in those terms to get him onboard.
I honestly never thought we'd be at a point where he looked good in comparison.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,601 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)No link, sorry....