All Presidents Do Good Things and Bad Things

We admire Abe Lincoln for his stance on labor and holding the nation together. We don't care so much for what he did with the free press and habeas corpus.

We admire FDR for getting us through the Depression. That thing with the Supreme Court packing, though ...

We admire JFK for his strength during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his optimism. That thing with Vietnam, though.

We trash Johnson for that thing with Vietnam. But, the Great Society was a good idea.

We admire Jimmy Carter for his great vision to see where America was headed and attempt to try to divert us from over-reliance on petro-chemicals and credit cards. El Salvador, I'm not so sure about.

I'm sure Gerald Ford did what he thought was best he could do when he was in the Oval office. He really wasn't there long enough to do much damage, and that may be what he's most admired for, if you ask me.

at least not if you consider Bush** to be a pResident. He hasn't done any good things, except maybe eating that pretzel.

And I might find something good that Bush did (besides inspiring the greatest explosion of political art since Nixon).

"Oftentimes a pardon can be issued to maintain public order and confidence," Alexander Hamilton counseled from the pages of The Federalist.

Every (R) in power back then thought that grubby hippies with ak-47's were very close to organizing and storming the gates.

So I will refrain from calling him a head that wasn't worth all the discussion in life, nor now in death.

Two years .. not much there to get worked up about.

think about getting worked up over two more years with the present situation deteriorating into an erruption of the entire Middle East.

Those Watergate and Vietnam things though...

China is debatable, for me, though.

It's been great for the top 5% (free trade) ...

Also, their history of remaining isolated ("foreign devils") wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Right now, they practically own us.

The black/white crowd are not interested in your wild talk of 'gray'.

people's house has done. can you?

he is managing to unite the country... against him...

Just like Nixon you will be hard pressed to find a Bush voter when this is over

;-)

"I like his dedication to physical fitness"