Oh, it’s true. Before the election and just after it, all the rhetoric about hope and change was overblown to an almost comical degree. Now, even most Democrats only sorta approve of him. He’s gone from being the next JFK to being the next Jimmy Carter.
Richard Nixon. Went from being a two term President to a criminal in two years.
His approval rating is exactly where Clinton’s and Reagan’s ratings were at similar points in their presidencies. So, he’s clearly doomed to irrelevancy.
Actually, Reagan is a good answer to this question: He didn’t have a big cause that drove him post-presidency, and then he was hit with Alzheimer’s.
Gary Glitter. Everyone wanted to be in his gang untill they found out that it involved fucking children.
Maybe it’s irrelevant now, but there are plenty of people in Eastern Europe who still respect the communist leaders. Maybe not in Romania, where they suffered a lot under Ceausescu, but I’ve heard a lot of nostalgic moaning for the communist days. Everything was cheaper and more secure and the children respected their parents, etc., etc. A woman in my village in Bulgaria once went on an extended rant to me about how things were better when “our Todor” was in charge (referring to Bulgarian communist-era dictator Todor Zhivkov.) I’ve heard pretty much every bad thing ever blamed on democracy. I’ve even met some communist Albanians, which shocked me.
No, that was just an exaggeration by the Republicans.
I think Ross Perot may hold the land speed record for this. He went from common-sense savior of the American middle to demagogic joke almost overnight.
Not just erased - Khrushchev himself (not exactly the nicest guy) commissioned a report on Stalin’s excesses, which was notable for being pretty darned complete and honest. Part of it, of course, was that de-Stalinization was how Khruschev consolidated power for himself - but I think there really was an honest desire to make sure that nothing like Stalin ever happened again. And, to the USSR’s credit, it never did.
I guess the OP can’t respond, but how in the world would Paul McCartney be in this discussion?
The quotes provided aren’t from Republicans. Not to mention that he got the Nobel Prize for - something or other.
I’d nominate Mike Tyson - from the greatest boxer since Ali to convicted rapist and tattoo-faced joke in a few years.
Regards,
Shodan
And back to respected prophet for what he said about NAFTA.
Member of the Beatles -> member of Wings
I’d rather kill myself in a bunker.
Look, rhetoric aside (and what presidency has lived up to the wildest partisan rhetoric said about it in the first heady days?), being president is hardly “cratering.” It’s not like he’s face-down drunk in an alleyway or something.
If you took random people and said to them, “I’m sorry to say, my crystal ball says you’ll wind up as president of the United States,” many of them might be unhappy with the fate, but few would describe it as hitting rock bottom.
English footballer Paul Gascoigneis an example.
He was a mercurially talented player in the early 1990s, but a combination of injury, alcoholism and mental illness have turned him into a shambolic clown figure in the english media who’s regularly in court on drink-related charges.
It takes a special effort to go from being the hero of the 1990 World Cup semi-final to turning up pissed at the scene of a tense armed siege, offering to negotiate with a crazed gunman by offering “a can of lager and some chicken”.