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« on: January 26, 2015, 06:36:28 PM »

It's only fair to do the most recent Republican president as well.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2015, 06:50:15 PM »

Serious answer: PEPFAR, although it has some issues.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2015, 06:51:50 PM »

Getting every nation pissed off at America, pulling climate change studies back a few decades, managing to fool the entire world into sanctioning a war based off a huge lie [HW was guilty of this as well, but at least there was some truth and it didn't become a quagmire],...and managing to form the worst disaster response, and managing to screw with Florida to get into he WH in the first place


...Quite the accomplishments Tongue
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2015, 06:53:19 PM »

Appointing some guy from the International Arabian Horse Association to run FEMA was pretty impressive.
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2015, 06:55:46 PM »

Him leaving office.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2015, 07:01:41 PM »

Getting his party kicked out of office in 2008.
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2015, 07:04:37 PM »

This.

Okay, I admit I supported him in '04 when I was young, stupid, and politically uninformed. But now he's among my least favorite republicans.
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2015, 07:06:42 PM »

This.

Okay, I admit I supported him in '04 when I was young, stupid, and politically uninformed. But now he's among my least favorite republicans.
You were a Republican when you were eight too?
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2015, 07:12:33 PM »

Destroying the Republican Party was pretty cool.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2015, 07:20:54 PM »

This.

Okay, I admit I supported him in '04 when I was young, stupid, and politically uninformed. But now he's among my least favorite republicans.
You were a Republican when you were eight too?

To be honest, I didn't know what the word republican meant at the time. I more or less supported him because my parents liked him at the time.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2015, 07:31:41 PM »

Serious answer: PEPFAR, although it has some issues.

Arguably PEPEAR saved more human lives than any single Presidential action since JFK defused the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2015, 07:37:08 PM »

A fantastic response to the attacks of 9/11.  I think we can all agree on that.  Even if not a perfect war, I'm glad he removed a murderous dictator from Iraq.

Now for everyone to attack me: a good series of tax cuts that should have been met with spending cuts.
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2015, 07:39:53 PM »

A fantastic response to the attacks of 9/11.  I think we can all agree on that.  Even if not a perfect war, I'm glad he removed a murderous dictator from Iraq.

Now for everyone to attack me: a good series of tax cuts that should have been met with spending cuts.

I agree, but his failures were far too catastrophic on both the deficit and Iraq that it really diminishes his Presidency.

Plus, he bears a large burden for the financial crisis due to continuing Clinton-era deregulation as well as opposing any efforts at reform apart from Fannie/Freddie (which Democrats were very wrong about)
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2015, 07:41:45 PM »

A fantastic response to the attacks of 9/11.  I think we can all agree on that.  Even if not a perfect war, I'm glad he removed a murderous dictator from Iraq.
Are you serious? You genuinely believe that everyone thinks that the Iraq War was a good idea?
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2015, 07:41:54 PM »

Left office after his 8 years of destroying America were up.
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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2015, 07:43:36 PM »

A fantastic response to the attacks of 9/11.  I think we can all agree on that.  Even if not a perfect war, I'm glad he removed a murderous dictator from Iraq.
Are you serious? You genuinely believe that everyone thinks that the Iraq War was a good idea?

Well I GUESS the Iraq War was technically part of his response, but I was more thinking his really good speech, uniting of the American people and swift retaliation against the Taliban and al Queda in Afghanistan.
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2015, 07:46:22 PM »

A fantastic response to the attacks of 9/11.  I think we can all agree on that.  Even if not a perfect war, I'm glad he removed a murderous dictator from Iraq.

Now for everyone to attack me: a good series of tax cuts that should have been met with spending cuts.

Oh, the old: "If we cut taxes for the rich, everything will prosper!" argument. The rich can and should pay the Bill Clinton tax rates, perhaps even slightly higher rates than that. I'm all for reasonable middle class/poor tax cuts in times of recessions or budget surpluses, but the rich don't need tax cuts and never will.

On Iraq, I agree that it was necessary for us to take out Saddam Hussein, but we should have left within a few months of that, a year at most. Not this whole "stick around until 2011" crap.

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« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2015, 07:49:50 PM »

Serious answer: Medicare Part D
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« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2015, 08:27:58 PM »


Fair enough, and yeah his humanitarian aid to Africa was pretty good.
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« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2015, 08:30:02 PM »

Ruining neoconservatism for an entire generation helped.
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« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2015, 08:51:27 PM »

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« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2015, 11:33:53 PM »

Ruining neoconservatism for an entire generation helped.
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2015, 01:20:08 AM »

The 2006 and 2008 elections.
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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2015, 03:16:23 AM »

His crackdown in sex trafficking in Thailand was certainly a nice move. A certain diseased infested Forum poster from Pattaya was very concerned about it, as I recall. It contributed to his party switch which generated many entertaining troll posts for a brief while.

Runner up:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief
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« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2015, 10:30:19 AM »

Leaving office.
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