re: What Is Your Opinion On Sarah Palin?

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Eisenhower, JFK and Reagan are the only good Presidents we've had since the 50s.

The rest sucked.

LBJ was a racist bigot, and a corrupt POS.
Carter was awful. Good intentions, but in way over his head.
Nixon was a corrupt liar.
Ford just sucked.
H.W. was ok, but nothing special.
Clinton was a habitual liar, womanizer, and crook. The good economy was largely due to the internet boom more than his policies.
Bush was terrible. Nice guy with good intentions, but terrible policies.
Obama is in over his head, not qualified for the job, and a habitual liar with a corrupt administration.

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I would say this is fairly accurate, although I don't hold JFK in that high of a regard. Clinton did virtually nothing but benefited from the internet boom.

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I don't think Obama was any more qualified than Palin, honestly. Being president isn't about being the smartest person or best-qualified.

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And that's why it was retarded to run with her. That was the dumbest single move is for an old geiser who is running against someone with little to no experience to run with someone who debatably had even less experience. She served an even shorter term as governor than Obama did as a Senator and only ran a town of 6000 people. Any dumbass can run a town of that size.

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although I don't hold JFK in that high of a regard.

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JFK would have been a great President imo has he not been assassinated. He cared a lot about this country and the people.

He was the last President to really attempt to go after the corruption in Washington. It's what ultimately got him killed, imo.

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And let's forget his dynamite economic policy

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Bringing the country back to life after Carter... hell yes, it was dynamite.

What I remember about Carter beyond the "malaise" and all the other crap everybody knows about: I was in an active duty Army unit during Carter's last year and Reagan's first before I moved on. In Carter's time the officers in my unit took up collections to buy toilet paper for the barracks, because the unit had no money for it. As a lieutenant I couldn't qualify for a credit card. My married with kids platoon sergeant with 18 yrs service qualified for food stamps. Over half of our vehicles sat idle because we couldn't afford parts. Worst, we could NOT kick anybody out of the Army unless they committed a serious felony because we, along with all other units, were way understrength.

And then Reagan was elected. The first change I noticed was re-enlistments for good people went way up and we actually had a choice about allowing men to re-enlist. We were soon at full strength because of re-enlistment and increased newbies. We amazingly bought enough spare parts to get our equipment running. And I graduated to company XO, where my primary job was processing paperwork to kick no-account lazy pothead shitheels out of the Army. I hated paperwork, but loved that job and went after it with gusto.

So yeah, Reagan was better than Carter! And as I mentioned before, anybody who doesn't think so is too young to remember Carter.

Pretty much agree with your assessment. I voted for McCain/Palin as a lesser of what I knew was a great evil in Obama. Let me put it this way: If the Pub ticket had won and McCain had died (which the Dems suggested) Palin definitely could not have been any worse than Obama. In fact, because should would have likely vetoed Obamacare, there's little doubt that the nation would have been better off as a whole. And she definitely would not have been suckin' Putin's dick only to have him crap on her like he has Obama.

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Combined with Internet boom, and the surplus didn't happen until the Republicans had both houses and forced spending cuts.

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Yeah, after Clinton raised the tax rates in 1993. The truth is the balanced budget came from bipartisan efforts, something this country has lacked since Clinton left office.

I want to say Clinton was a great president but I can't overlook Glass-Steagall being repealed under his watch.

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Ending wars>starting wars



He's ended a war?

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Yo Trey DickTaster, you wanna come answer this? Thanks

She read a talking point prepared by the campaign - that's it. Ironically, wikileaks has the cables from when Georgia was invaded - our diplomats were talking about Ukraine being another country Putin might invade during the campaign (when the Georgia invasion occurred). In case you don't know, candidates are given the same kind of security briefings the president gets (a few things are held back but not much) and the reason for that is in case something happens like WWIII breaking out whoever wins would need to up to speed on events. It's also because some events they're going to have to deal with while they're in office whether it's what's going on in Yemen or something like an invasion.

So now you know where the talking point came from. Sarah was then and now an idiot.

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their costs go up and their labor costs go up.

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We don't have any

And even in this mythical scenario, you will be affected.