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Fixated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:21 PM
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Poll question: Which of the last 9 presidents has done the most harm to the country?
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:22 PM
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1. gee..i wonder who's gonna win this poll?
You could have put the last 43 presidents and Bush would still come out on top.
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Mattforclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:24 PM
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3. Not only that
But you could add all the other Presidents votes together and Bush would still come out on top. I guess dubya is just a popular guy.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:23 PM
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2. Do you expect this to be close?
:eyes:
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Fixated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:28 PM
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5. No
I didn't. But it's always interesting to see how much he wins by.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:27 PM
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4. Not even one vote for Nixon.
Interesting.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:30 PM
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6. Nixon looks like a saint compared to Smirky
Open door to China.
Clean Water Act.


Aside from the Vietnam calamity, today he would be considered a moderate democrat.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:34 PM
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9. No, but we had the satisfaction of seeing him
depart in well-deserved shame. Hopefully, we will see the smirk being marched off to a destination that features a view through bars.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:40 PM
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11. Nixon stopped the Vietnam fiasco. He got the vets who
were arrested for demonstrating out of jail. He had a couple of good points. Can't think of one for our current idiot.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:45 PM
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15. He also signed the Environmental Policy Act
which * is currently trying to undermine.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 10:10 PM
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21. He didn't stop the Vietnam war. He escalated the fuck out of it
but lied to get re-elected saying he had a "secret plan" to end it.

The secret plan turned out to be invading Laos and Cambodia, sending more troops to get killed.

My draft lottery number was 15. I remember it well.

Re-read whatever history book you read that in, or god help us, I hope the history books don't have that lie in it.
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JailBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:30 PM
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7. Philosophically, one might argue that Clinton did the most damage,
by selling America out to the World Trade Organization, giving corporations a blank check to exploit public schools, and leaving the barn doors open for George W. Bush.

Of course, if Bush had been pResident for those same eight years, he would have rained Clinton's shit down even faster, then left the barn doors open for Jeb Bush.
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PSR40004 Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:33 PM
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8. I have to agree
Clinton in actions was no friend, from NAFTA to BJ's in the oval office, he didn't help the Dems maintain the WH in the long run giving us what we have today (bushlite). He spioke what we wanted to hear but many times in actions he was a failed man.

Overall no one did more harm then Nixon IMO, lets not let the hate of bushlite cloud good judgement...
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pasadenaboy Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:39 PM
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10. Nixon
would have, but the legislature stood up to him and kicked him out. Bush II will probably actually do the most harm because he is unopposed.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:40 PM
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12. Monkey Breath!
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:42 PM
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13. I chose Reagan because he started it all
He was the Great Enabler whose skill as a puppet permitted the neocons to take over the US.

Dumbya is just the fruit of the seeds Reagan and his little cute wars started.
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:44 PM
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14. it doesn't quite fit, but "all of the above"
Edited on Thu Dec-04-03 09:00 PM by Aidoneus
Not a decent fellow in that bunch of rogues, all things considered.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:57 PM
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16. Bush Sr.
and Barbara Bush was complicit. That's where it all started, in spawning the *moron...

:puke:

dp
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:57 PM
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17. dweller love your way of looking
I gotta agree totally, use a condom freaks :evilgrin:
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 08:57 PM
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18. I voted Reagan, although Bush is the obvious choice
Reagan began this attitude of any idiot can be in charge and openly ignore the norms of law with utter contempt for federal law, international law and any sense of moderation. Bush is just the same principle taken to it's extreme by a malignant narcissist.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 09:08 PM
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19. Ronald Reagan taught a generation of Americans to hate
those that they disagree with. That hateful generation is now teaching another generation to hate.
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Fixated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 09:58 PM
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20. Great point
They are training the Bushites.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 10:21 PM
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22. How the hell...
do more people vote for Clinton than Bush Sr and Nixon?

There are some real idiots on this board!
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:03 AM
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23. Clinton might be responsible for *
We don't care if Lewinsky sucked him off. But he knew if he was caught the puritans would have their way. I'm guessing a million votes went to * for that blow job. Fuck Clinton.
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:41 AM
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27. Sorry...
Clinton's BJ didn't cost Gore the White House. Gore did it to himself.

Gore could have won handily if he had just let Clinton campaign for him. Even if Clinton had turned Arkansas only, Florida would have never been an issue. But no... Gore gave in to the right wing puritans who thought sex was bad and hid one of his best campaign assets in the closet.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:11 AM
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26. All that means is. . .
. . .that some of those stealth freepers have figured out how to vote in polls.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:06 AM
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24. GW wins hands down!
Junior is also the most dangerous man ever in the White House because he sees himself as a sort of Messianic figure on a Holy Crusade against Gawd's enemies.
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evil_orange_cat Donating Member (910 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 12:09 AM
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25. Bush Jr... or Reagan... Hmmm...
I can't say for sure how bad Bush's effect is. It will take years to answer that. We are still dealing with a lot of the problems Reagan created. I only hope we aren't cleaning up Bush's messes for the next two decades.
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-03 01:07 AM
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28. Reagan.
Easily. Ronald Reagan set America on the wrong path. Bush is just continuing that trend where it left off.
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