Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 08, 2015, 10:02:15 PM » |
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On one hand, I do have to give him credit for guiding the country through two major crisis, although Truman was the one who made the hardest calls in WW2.
However, I think there's a dramatic parallel to Andrew Jackson here, in that he was an effective President while a horrible person, and easily one of the worst Presidents for civil rights and separation of powers.
He attempted to stage a coup of the Supreme Court in the most dramatic overreach of executive power since John Adams.
He heartlessly sent back mass numbers of refugees to die in the Holocaust simply to please his anti-semitic supporters.
He imprisoned a whole ethnic group to pander to racists, while not taking significant action against the active german saboteurs.
On race issues, he was shockingly poor for a self-styled progressive.
Much like Jackson, two stars because his achievements can't be completely erased by his horrific actions.
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