…and then, thirty years later, gift-wrapping the country and handing it to Russia.
I agree that Eisenhower is vastly underrated, though (not for the Hitler thing, but as President).
It seems there is unlikely to be universal agreement on “good things.” For example, in my view the vast increase in state-level “shall issue” concealed carry permit laws and the increase of open-carry states is a good – nay, a great – thing.
But I doubt that this will receive universal approbation here.
Welfare reform, balancing the budget, some tort reform, placing Scalia and Thomas on the Supreme Court.
Regards,
Shodan
Gorbachev was a Republican? Who knew? The GOP catechism is bullshit. There is no evidence that the Soviets were increasing their military spending to keep up with the US, it’s just that the government no longer had the stomach to keep the iron boot on the masses. If Putin had been in power then, the USSR would still be here.
I’m definitely not a fan of his, but George W Bush contributed on the environmental front.
A few examples:
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[li]Designated nearly 140,000 square miles of coral reef ecosystems and surrounding waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which contains more than 7,000 species, many of which are found nowhere else on earth, as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument – giving the area our Nation’s highest form of marine environmental protection.[/li][li]Designated three areas of the Pacific Ocean, covering more than 195,500 square miles, as marine national monuments: the Mariana, Pacific Remote Islands, and Rose Atoll Marine National Monuments.[/li][li]Announced the expansion of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary by 775 square miles to include the Davidson Sea Mount.[/li][/ul]
It’s the dysfunctional, failing countries with big militaries that you SHOULD be scared of.
Holy shit, if conservatives loved humanity the way they love their fucking guns, what a better world it would be. More permits=more guns carried=more blood in the streets.
Remember that meme “the world’s shortest books”?
For every cite there is an equal and opposite cite:
"How about this leaflet, “Famous Jewish Sports Legends?”.
This is looking like a short thread.
If you want to talk about environmentalist Presidents, you have to start with Theodore Roosevelt.
point taken.
Jews make up less than 2% of the US population.
Listof significant Jewish sports figures (some are a lot more significant than others)
You really think it’s concealed carry permit holders who are causing all that “blood in the streets”?? :smack:
I always remember the bit where Teddy told a friend how much he wanted to defenestrate a robber baron that came to the White House to talk/pressure him to not rein on the trusts, monopolies and corporations of the day.
With the environment taken into account If Teddy was the president today I do think that the fossil fuel international corporatists would had been.
GWB gave us an extra 2 weeks of daylight savings time*. That makes him a hero in my book. Actually, that was really stretching it. What I meant to say is, that’s one of the few positive things I can say about the guy.
*Yes, I know it’s debatable whether that’s good or bad but I’m going with “good”.
I know it’s going to be impossible to completely avoid such, but let’s try to dispense with the cheap shots in this thread.
There was a time a few years ago when a large factory on Lake Michigan in northern Indiana wanted permission to put even more pollution into the lake. The first criticism of that by a politician that I heard was a press conference given in Chicago, at the lakefront, by Mark Kirk. I don’t have the specifics, but I recall the increased pollution never happening.