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NDN
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Re: most disappointing prersidential candidate of the last 50 years?

« on: December 14, 2007, 06:49:46 PM »

Arguably Bush. Let's see he had the Republicans controlling all branches of government, the nation (and world) rallying around him after a crisis, and to top it off basically got the Presidency handed to him. What did he do? He pissed it away on a hackish Rovian-domestic policy, spent more than any other President of the last 40 years, rolled back civil liberties (in the name of 'patriotism' and 'freedom' ironically) and started a pointless war of choice based on a bogus rationale.

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NDN
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Re: most disappointing prersidential candidate of the last 50 years?

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2007, 02:11:15 AM »

I'm surprised no one is bringing up Ed Muskie or Teddy Kennedy.

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NDN
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Re: most disappointing prersidential candidate of the last 50 years?

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 02:12:26 AM »

Quote from: J. J. on December 14, 2007, 11:43:11 PM

I would have to say Gary Hart, 1988. He was the front runner, brilliant, experienced, ready to lead the Democratic Party in a new direction.

You have a point there, but it wasn't really him so much as the media's obsessive focus on a trivial (albeit hypocritical) personal failing of his.

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