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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:43 PM
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A Salute to Pres Lincoln, Happy 200th to one of the (very few) decent Republican Presidents.
In fact I can think of only two others: Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, can anyone think of any others?
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:45 PM
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1. Nixon.
No sarcasm tag.
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:54 PM
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4. Ahhh, Tricky Dick.
What a complex legacy he leaves behind, particularly in the wake of Dubya. Sure, he was paranoid, corrupt and vicious as all hell, but he was also competent, hard-working, and bizarre as this may seem, I honestly think he thought he loved his country and thought he was doing right by it.

None of this excuses Watergate, Kent State, or any number of his other crimes, but much like Warren Harding before him Nixon seems to improve with time. Whether this is a function of our own forgetfulness, or the result of the abysmal performance of some of his ideological successors (I would argue for a combination of the two) is open to question.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:46 PM
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2. I would have to suggest
that Gerald Ford was a decent human being.
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:50 PM
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3. I'll agree with Ford's inherent decency.
He carried the water for Nixon, which made him a stooge, but still not a bad person.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:54 PM
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5. Any former president
who gets trashed by the right wing hate machine on a regular basis has got to be a decent human being. And, something I hold dear to My Heart, Ford was an officer in Halsey's fleet in the pacific which damn near got wiped out by a Tyhoon in 1944. He served on a small aircraft carrier and almost got washed overboard.
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:00 PM
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6. Well, he has just risen considerably in my estimation then.
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