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« on: September 06, 2014, 05:07:04 PM »

..........and name one thing, of more if you like, that you would have had them do differently, and or name one thing, or more if you like, that they did not do that you would like to have seen them do.
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« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2014, 05:10:13 PM »

Would've had FDR pretty much install legitimate socialism tbh.
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« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2014, 08:52:49 PM »

Grant: Push waaaay harder on Reconstruction.
FDR: No Japanese internment.
LBJ: No Vietnam.
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« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2014, 09:24:21 PM »

Wilson: Stay really neutral in WW I rather than the sham neutrality that led to us entering the war after he was safely reelected.
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« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2014, 09:32:27 PM »

Wilson: Stay really neutral in WW I rather than the sham neutrality that led to us entering the war after he was safely reelected.

You like Wilson? What.

Clinton: Stayed away from interns, campaigned for Gore.
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« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2014, 09:45:50 PM »

Ronald Reagan
Should not have funded Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets.
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Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook
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« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2014, 10:14:00 PM »

Ronald Reagan
Should not have funded Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets.

Except OBL was rich enough on his own and wouldn't need Anerican money.
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« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2014, 10:38:38 PM »

Coolidge: Would not have wanted him to sign the Immigration Act of 1924. Would want him to abolish things like the Federal Reserve and IRS. He was a VERY good president though, so I can't criticize him for much.
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« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2014, 10:43:14 PM »

Clinton: Don't fick your interns

Obama:  Work with republicans on Health Care, and don't spend all of your political capital on it.

Bush Sr.  Go to Baghdad for Saddam.

Bush Jr. Don't go to Baghdad for Saddam.

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« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2014, 10:59:47 PM »

Nixon - Not get effing paranoid during a safe election.
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« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2014, 11:05:23 PM »

Washington: Free the slaves
Adams: Free the slaves
Jefferson: Free the slaves
Madison: Free the slaves
Monroe: Free the slaves
Adams: Free the slaves
Jackson: Free the slaves
Van Buren: Free the slaves
Harrison: Wear a coat, then free the slaves
Tyler: Free the slaves
Polk: Free the slaves
Taylor: Free the slaves
Fillmore: Free the slaves
Pierce: Free the slaves
Buchanan: Free the slaves
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« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2014, 11:07:48 PM »

Ronald Reagan
Should not have funded Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets.

Except OBL was rich enough on his own and wouldn't need Anerican money.

Exactly, should not have funded OBL against the Soviets.
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« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2014, 11:20:06 PM »

Clinton: Don't fick your interns

Obama:  Work with republicans on Health Care, and don't spend all of your political capital on it.

Bush Sr.  Go to Baghdad for Saddam.

Bush Jr. Don't go to Baghdad for Saddam.



That would have required the Republicans to want to work on health care with him.
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« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2014, 11:26:37 PM »

Wilson: Stay really neutral in WW I rather than the sham neutrality that led to us entering the war after he was safely reelected.

You like Wilson? What.

No, I don't like Wilson, but I like picking him as a President whose Presidency I'd want to change what happened in it.  "You like" in the idiom "pick any <thing> you like"  refers to liking the pick, not the thing.  By the way, v0031, why have you hacked Beet's account?
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« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2014, 11:46:47 PM »

Ronald Reagan
Should not have funded Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets.

Except OBL was rich enough on his own and wouldn't need Anerican money.

Exactly, should not have funded OBL against the Soviets.

He didn't.
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« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2014, 11:48:08 PM »

Reagan's greatest flaw was obviously raising the drinking age. Damn that man.
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« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2014, 11:51:12 PM »

Ronald Reagan
Should not have funded Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets.

Except OBL was rich enough on his own and wouldn't need Anerican money.

Exactly, should not have funded OBL against the Soviets.

The US didn't fund Bin Laden.  The US funded Afghani groups, while Saudi Arabia and perhaps ISI funded Arab foreign fighters.  Most of the support for the Afghan insurgency came from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia anyway.  Let's not rewrite history here.
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« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2014, 11:54:49 PM »

Reagan's greatest flaw was obviously raising the drinking age. Damn that man.

Blame the guys who porked it into a highway funding bill.
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« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2014, 11:55:16 PM »

Wilson: Stay really neutral in WW I rather than the sham neutrality that led to us entering the war after he was safely reelected.

You like Wilson? What.

No, I don't like Wilson, but I like picking him as a President whose Presidency I'd want to change what happened in it.  "You like" in the idiom "pick any <thing> you like"  refers to liking the pick, not the thing.  By the way, v0031, why have you hacked Beet's account?

Nice try. Embrace the dark side, Ernest. Wilson, for all his faults, advanced U.S. interests and liberal ideals in important ways.
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« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2014, 12:15:40 AM »

Eisenhower - Stay the Inks away from Iran.
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« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2014, 12:21:48 AM »

Lincoln - Do you need to go the theatre tonight?
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« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2014, 01:20:04 AM »

Washington: Abolish slave trade, restrict slavery in the territories
Lincoln: Appointed better generals earlier on
TR: Made black civil rights part of the Progressive agenda
FDR: Demanded some form of universal health insurance from the start
Truman: Stood up to the Red Scare
LBJ: No "Nam
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« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2014, 01:42:42 AM »

Clinton: Don't fick your interns

Obama:  Work with republicans on Health Care, and don't spend all of your political capital on it.

Bush Sr.  Go to Baghdad for Saddam.

Bush Jr. Don't go to Baghdad for Saddam.



That would have required the Republicans to want to work on health care with him.

Yeah, those are kind of contradictory. The Democrats seemed to spend a lot of effort trying to get Snowe to vote for it. Well, she didn't, and then decided her party was too extreme anyways, and retired after her term was up.
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« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2014, 01:46:24 AM »

Lincoln - Do you need to go the theatre tonight?

this is my favorite one.
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« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2014, 01:59:43 AM »

Wilson: Stay really neutral in WW I rather than the sham neutrality that led to us entering the war after he was safely reelected.

You like Wilson? What.

No, I don't like Wilson, but I like picking him as a President whose Presidency I'd want to change what happened in it.  "You like" in the idiom "pick any <thing> you like"  refers to liking the pick, not the thing.  By the way, v0031, why have you hacked Beet's account?

Nice try. Embrace the dark side, Ernest. Wilson, for all his faults, advanced U.S. interests and liberal ideals in important ways.

Actually, Wilson was probably the most reactionary president we had in the 20th century.  Removing Negros from all but the most menial of Federal jobs, opposing women's suffrage until it became political impossible to do so, getting the US in a number of petty wars and the World War.  Yet the things that people like to laud Wilson for when it come to his liberal credentials were positions supported by all three Presidential candidates in 1912.  Direct election of the Senate, the Federal Reserve, and the income tax would have come to pass no matter who won.
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