Those were all goals of Wilson’s second term. In his first term, he promised to take on what he called “the triple wall of privilege” (banks, tariffs, and trusts). He signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 to spread out the nation’s money supply so that more people had access to borrowing. He signed the Underwood Tariff Act in 1913 that lowered tariffs. He also supported the Sixteenth Amendment, which created the income tax to replace the tariff as the nation’s primary source of revenue. Finally, he signed both the Clayton Act and the FTC Act in 1914 to further reduce the power of the great trusts. Seems like he went 3 for 3 in his first term.
Wow, a thread makes threadspotting AFTER its OP is banned. Cool.
IIRC, didn’t Johnson also decline a second term because he felt his being in office was a polarizing factor in the Vietnam war, thus exasperating the situation and making it more difficult for the US to find an end to the conflict?
No, he withdrew because he knew he was toast.
So the election shouldn’t of gone ahead because soldiers were possibly going to be killed defending them?
Yes, I do count millions of people voting for their government, a catastrophic success.
Yes.
Ilike the way this sentence is constructed, the words ‘murdered’ and ‘George Bush’ within distance of each other, anyway all I have to say to this is Halabja and rape camps in Kuwait City, next!
Desperation by insurgents is always proceeded with rising violence, but still, this person says democracy comes at too high a price? So they should revert back to the tyranny which they seemingly enjoyed?
Jesus H Christ, where did it say the elections would stop any violence, even US commanders have been saying this.
In the same breath …
Social security is bankrupt, I need another 80 billion for Iraq.
Plus the fact that McKinley had the decency to be murdered by 1905 (the OP did mention the last 100 years) and had mostly stopped doing damage to the country by then.
No, the list we’re dealing with is limited to
Roosevelt I
Taft
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Roosevelt II
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush I
Clinton
Bush II
With a couple of notable exceptions, the phrase “bottom of the barrel” comes to mind. Bush might make the top five by default.
I remember having this same conversation when Reagan was president. Back then, the liberals hated him just as much as they hate Bush today. He was ‘Ronnie Raygun’, a senile old bastard who was going to start WWIII, crush the aspirations of the people’s movement in Nicaragua, rape the environment, throw the poor out into the streets, and in general was a monster who was out to destroy all. They were sure he was the worst president in history, and when I said that he was going to be remembered as one of the best presidents of the 20th century I was met with guffaws.
Bush may or may not be remembered as a good president. That is going to depend entirely on how the Middle East turns out. If Iraq remains stable and relatively free, the Syrians get out of Lebanon and a democratic government comes to power, and the Iran/North Korea situations are resolved, Bush will be remembered well. If everything there goes to hell and we wind up with Iran II in Iraq, Bush will be remembered poorly.
I know, I know! What were we thinking? Just because he said in 1981 “Yes, there could be a limited nuclear war in Europe” and jacked up the building of nukes.
Yeah, I don’t know where we got that, just because he sent money to the former members of the National Guard of the dictator they had just overthrown, and was so determined to do so that he was willing to defy direct congressional decisions against it and further deplete his political capital raising the money by arms dealing with the very enemies he had won an election by speaking out against.
Boy, is our face red on THAT one. Thank goodness he set us straight by pointing out that trees CAUSE pollution, rather than suffer from it.
Yeah, people act as though the homeless population rose exponentially, rather than merely doubling.
Only by those with a memory as short as his.
And lemme get this straight…
and if
and if
And he stands a chance…how, exactly?
I swear, the only, repeat the ONLY fun thing about when the GOP takes power is that conservatives suddenly feel comfortable being very open with their most lunatic notions. The sheer entertainment value is almost worth it…
But you know, Cap’n Crunch would make a really good president…
…until you realize that, even with their looney-tunes ideas, they’re actually allowed to vote instead of going to therapy to treat their myriad delusions. :eek:
Directly addressing the OP: Bush supporter that I am, up until recently I still wouldn’t have thought so. Since the Iraqi elections, though, I would say that the possibility is coming into view. But it’s much too soon to tell, he still has most of his second term ahead of him…
Whereas nowadays we know it was Alzheimer’s disease and not senility.