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« on: March 14, 2010, 05:33:08 AM »
HP.
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 06:04:19 AM »
My opinion remains unchanged. A war criminal and a scumbag.
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 02:27:01 PM »
Underrated.
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2010, 02:29:42 PM »
Overrated if anything. "He kept us safe after 9/11" people especially (hello....what about 9/11 itself?).

Seriously though....a genuine person who I tend to believe did believe in what he was doing.

I have to vote HP regardless of intentions because his presidency was a disaster....but it's more because he's not a "freedom fighter" than anything else. I don't think he's a particularly terrible person.
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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2010, 02:29:53 PM »
Ranks #44 out of 44.
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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2010, 02:41:39 PM »
Massive HP. He is one of the few Presidents who screwed up on both domestic policy and foreign policy, together with Carter. Shame on Al Gore for giving us this buffoon for 8 years.
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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2010, 02:42:32 PM »
A personal hero of mine.

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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2010, 02:50:40 PM »
Quote from: SoFA Franzl on March 14, 2010, 02:29:42 PM
Overrated if anything. "He kept us safe after 9/11" people especially (hello....what about 9/11 itself?).

Seriously though....a genuine person who I tend to believe did believe in what he was doing.

I have to vote HP regardless of intentions because his presidency was a disaster....but it's more because he's not a "freedom fighter" than anything else. I don't think he's a particularly terrible person.

That's basically my reasoning.

Quote from: William Howard Taft on March 14, 2010, 02:41:39 PM
Massive HP. He is one of the few Presidents who screwed up on both domestic policy and foreign policy, together with Carter. Shame on Al Gore for giving us this buffoon for 8 years.

Is Al Gore like your favorite politician or something? You mention him a lot.
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« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2010, 02:53:52 PM »
Quote from: Assemblyman Willkie on March 14, 2010, 02:50:40 PM
Quote from: SoFA Franzl on March 14, 2010, 02:29:42 PM
Overrated if anything. "He kept us safe after 9/11" people especially (hello....what about 9/11 itself?).

Seriously though....a genuine person who I tend to believe did believe in what he was doing.

I have to vote HP regardless of intentions because his presidency was a disaster....but it's more because he's not a "freedom fighter" than anything else. I don't think he's a particularly terrible person.

That's basically my reasoning.

Quote from: William Howard Taft on March 14, 2010, 02:41:39 PM
Massive HP. He is one of the few Presidents who screwed up on both domestic policy and foreign policy, together with Carter. Shame on Al Gore for giving us this buffoon for 8 years.

Is Al Gore like your favorite politician or something? You mention him a lot.

It's not that I like Gore that much--he's a pretty decent guy and politician, but he's by no means my favorite. It's just that my deep dislike of Bush Jr. and his policies causes me to mention Al Gore a lot (especially when talking about Bush Jr. or Republicans) because I feel taht it is Gore's fault that Bush Jr. was elected in the first place and that he was allowed to do so much damage to our country.
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« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2010, 03:11:49 PM »
Who voted FF?
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« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2010, 03:23:47 PM »
In my estimation, somewhere in the upper 30s as far as rankings go. I won't comment on whether or not I think he is a horrible person, but certainly not a freedom fighter in any sense.
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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2010, 03:25:31 PM »

How? You can't just throw this out there.
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« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2010, 03:27:21 PM »

By people like BRTD.
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« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2010, 03:30:26 PM »
He seems like a nice guy personally, and his foreign policy in his second term was pretty good (notice that Obama has changed little). He also had very good intentions and was principled, but as the saying goes, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

HP for his policies' impacts.
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« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2010, 03:31:49 PM »
Massive distaster, close to Buchanan in longterm effects.
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« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2010, 03:33:12 PM »
Quote from: OFKA Governor Vepres on March 14, 2010, 03:30:26 PM
his foreign policy in his second term was pretty good

What.
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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2010, 03:35:21 PM »

Yes, WTF?
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 03:39:29 PM »

I know JC will have.
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« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2010, 03:40:08 PM »
He was originally an FF, when he campaigned in support of a non-interventionist foreign policy.  I'm not sure though, whether or not his change towards becoming an interventionist warmonger was because of him, or his administration.  Cheney seemed to have a lot of influence, and Bush wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
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« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2010, 03:42:34 PM »
^^^

His foreign policy in both terms was among the worst in US history.
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« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2010, 03:45:08 PM »
Quote from: Governor Morgan Brykein on March 14, 2010, 03:40:08 PM
He was originally an FF, when he campaigned in support of a non-interventionist foreign policy.  I'm not sure though, whether or not his change towards becoming an interventionist warmonger was because of him, or his administration.  Cheney seemed to have a lot of influence, and Bush wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

Oh, yeah, I remember reading that.

"There will be no nation-building in a Bush Administration!"
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« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2010, 03:45:51 PM »
Considering the general mood of his milieu at the time he was first nominated, he could have been a lot worse. Not that he was anything other than dreadful or anything, but its always a good idea to keep that fact in mind.
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« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2010, 03:49:56 PM »
Quote from: Governor Morgan Brykein on March 14, 2010, 03:40:08 PM
He was originally an FF, when he campaigned in support of a non-interventionist foreign policy.  I'm not sure though, whether or not his change towards becoming an interventionist warmonger was because of him, or his administration.  Cheney seemed to have a lot of influence, and Bush wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

It should have been clear that his foreign policy wasn't going to be like that, with close associates such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Jeb Bush belonging to PNAC (The Project for the New American Century), which called for a new Pearl Harbor so that we could invade Iraq.
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« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2010, 03:50:28 PM »

I'm one of them.....mostly I agree with Franzl.
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« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2010, 03:51:51 PM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on March 14, 2010, 03:49:56 PM
Quote from: Governor Morgan Brykein on March 14, 2010, 03:40:08 PM
He was originally an FF, when he campaigned in support of a non-interventionist foreign policy.  I'm not sure though, whether or not his change towards becoming an interventionist warmonger was because of him, or his administration.  Cheney seemed to have a lot of influence, and Bush wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.

It should have been clear that his foreign policy wasn't going to be like that, with close associates such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Jeb Bush belonging to PNAC (The Project for the New American Century), which called for a new Pearl Harbor so that we could invade Iraq.


Well yeah, as I said, Bush wasn't very bright.
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