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« on: September 08, 2014, 06:34:20 PM »
Disgusting filth
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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2014, 07:09:46 PM »
Highly underrated.
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2014, 09:38:03 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2014, 09:42:26 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2014, 09:44:29 PM »
Tool of the slave power. What's the deal with apologizing for a guy that waged a war to make the North American continent safe for slavocracy?
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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2014, 11:38:38 PM »
Don't have strong feelings, but HP in general.
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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2014, 02:51:06 PM »
« Edited: September 10, 2014, 03:57:38 PM by CrabCake »
For some reason I started writing a post about Taft, and was going to post when I realised it was Polk. Odd.

Anyway, Polk is clearly the second-worst of the "influential/great Presidents" (first is Jackson). A slavery apologist, a blatant warmonger in the Mexican-Spanish war and the resulting Texas Annexation - I agree with General Grant - America had never looked more like a European imperial power than under Polk.

He was competent, which puts above the league of Presidents who were both complete failures and moral abysses (e.g. Buchanan, Andrew Johnson); but I just can't give an FF.
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« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2014, 03:00:51 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2014, 03:55:22 PM »
Precipitated a brutal and immoral landgrab of the northern third of our neighbor republic's land over an issue (the exact southern border of Texas) that didn't need said result.  I don't see how a positive view is possible.
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« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2014, 03:58:43 PM » 
Quote from: The Mikado on September 10, 2014, 03:55:22 PM
Precipitated a brutal and immoral landgrab of the northern third of our neighbor republic's land over an issue (the exact southern border of Texas) that didn't need said result.  I don't see how a positive view is possible.

That landgrab combined with the territory he secured in the Northwest made the basis for Americas great power status and access to the Pacific. 











 
								
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Quote from: politicus on September 10, 2014, 03:58:43 PM
Quote from: The Mikado on September 10, 2014, 03:55:22 PM
Precipitated a brutal and immoral landgrab of the northern third of our neighbor republic's land over an issue (the exact southern border of Texas) that didn't need said result.  I don't see how a positive view is possible.

That landgrab combined with the territory he secured in the Northwest made the basis for Americas great power status and access to the Pacific. 

No doubt.  The argument then becomes whether or not that was a worthwhile or desirable result.











 
								
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