@ZomVee – HAHAHAHAHAHA! A few actual historical notes:
James Buchanan allowed the South to secede, and to pillage Union Army property, meaning they were instantly equipped for war. (And check on Andrew Jackson and the Nullification Crisis of the 1830s, to see what he COULD have done instead.)
Dubya: Killed the Clinton budget surplus by giving it away to the rich, launched the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for oil while claiming it was to make up for 9/11 – proof being that Iraq had nothing to do with it, and Obama tracked down Osama bin Laden after Bush decided to give up – two wars we’re STILL paying for.
Lyndon Johnson: pushed through the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, and other laws that JFK probably could never have succeeded in doing, leveraging his experience in the Senate and the shock of JFK’s death to get things done.
Barack Obama: too soon to say, but reset the economy on a positive path after the Bush Recession so well that #45 is trying to take credit for it now; saved the auto industry; established a precedent for a national health insurance approach despite dedicated opposition; re-established a positive view of America globally in the wake of Bush’s disasters.
Woodrow Wilson: were it not for him, WWI might have ended years earlier in a negotiated peace like previous wars, we would have saved the lives of over 110,000 US soldiers, and the groundwork for WWII would not have been laid. He also undid many of the civil rights of the old Republicans and promoted the KKK.
FDR: Were it not for FDR, Britain would have fallen to the Nazis, and with it, all of Europe. Period. Were it not for FDR, we would not have developed the atomic bomb (and Heisenberg might have, with more time). He should not have put the Japanese into concentration camps, a permanent stain on his record, but he can claim greatness.
Sadly, there’s nothing so good that a modern Republican president, aided and abetted by a complicit and corrupt GOP Congress, cannot wreck.
@ZomVee – HAHAHAHAHAHA! A few actual historical notes:
James Buchanan allowed the South to secede, and to pillage Union Army property, meaning they were instantly equipped for war. (And check on Andrew Jackson and the Nullification Crisis of the 1830s, to see what he COULD have done instead.)
Dubya: Killed the Clinton budget surplus by giving it away to the rich, launched the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for oil while claiming it was to make up for 9/11 – proof being that Iraq had nothing to do with it, and Obama tracked down Osama bin Laden after Bush decided to give up – two wars we’re STILL paying for.
Lyndon Johnson: pushed through the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, and other laws that JFK probably could never have succeeded in doing, leveraging his experience in the Senate and the shock of JFK’s death to get things done.
Barack Obama: too soon to say, but reset the economy on a positive path after the Bush Recession so well that #45 is trying to take credit for it now; saved the auto industry; established a precedent for a national health insurance approach despite dedicated opposition; re-established a positive view of America globally in the wake of Bush’s disasters.
Woodrow Wilson: were it not for him, WWI might have ended years earlier in a negotiated peace like previous wars, we would have saved the lives of over 110,000 US soldiers, and the groundwork for WWII would not have been laid. He also undid many of the civil rights of the old Republicans and promoted the KKK.
FDR: Were it not for FDR, Britain would have fallen to the Nazis, and with it, all of Europe. Period. Were it not for FDR, we would not have developed the atomic bomb (and Heisenberg might have, with more time). He should not have put the Japanese into concentration camps, a permanent stain on his record, but he can claim greatness.
Sadly, there’s nothing so good that a modern Republican president, aided and abetted by a complicit and corrupt GOP Congress, cannot wreck.