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Started by jimmy olsen, March 31, 2011, 02:06:17 AM

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Valmy

#16
March 31, 2011, 07:52:30 AM


This pie chart shows how much better things would have been if Ross Perot had won.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

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Brazen

#17
March 31, 2011, 07:59:15 AM
Victor Kiam.

Savonarola

#18
March 31, 2011, 08:40:08 AM
Robert Taft
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

jamesww

#19
March 31, 2011, 09:10:16 AM
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Morgan Freeman ?

Martin Sheen ? :unsure:

Gregory Peck pwns them both.

Good call, though Michael Gambon as LBJ trumps him.

Caliga

#20
March 31, 2011, 09:19:32 AM
Quote from: jamesww on March 31, 2011, 06:04:59 AM
Morgan Freeman ?

Martin Sheen ? :unsure:

Arnie, if only to see have seen all of those GOPtards do ballistic once he started enacting european communists policies.
You forgot: Bill Pullman.

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Queequeg

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March 31, 2011, 09:28:56 AM
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MadImmortalMan

#22
March 31, 2011, 10:50:14 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on March 31, 2011, 09:28:56 AM
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Barry Goldwater.
:D
YAY SEGREGATION!

:P He's a gay rights activist.





I concur with RFK. He would have been good.

I doubt there would have been much difference between an Al Gore Presidency and a GW Bush Presidency though. Instead of a failed SSA reform, we'd have had a failed environmental reform. Everything else would likely have been the same. Same wars. Maybe less international outrage over the wars due to the magic D.

William Seward instead of Grant would have been great.

If William Henry Harrison had actually been President for a significant amount of time, he'd have been a good one.

Wendell Wilkie was a civil rights activist before it was cool to be, and I think he'd have made a good President under different circumstances.

Having grown up in NY, I have to mention George Clinton. Not the funkadelic one, the other one.
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Caliga

#23
March 31, 2011, 10:54:26 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 31, 2011, 10:50:14 AM
I concur with RFK. He would have been good.
Much better than his brother was, in fact. :)

I know I wouldn't have agreed with a lot of his policies, but he would potentially have been the best President in American history in terms of speech delivery.  I don't know if you guys have ever seen the speech he gave when he found out Martin Luther King had been killed, but it was certainly the best and most moving American political speech I've ever seen, and I think compares favorably with any other great American political speech prior to television.
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Razgovory

#24
March 31, 2011, 10:55:01 AM
Hannibal Hamlin.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#25
March 31, 2011, 10:58:19 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 31, 2011, 10:50:14 AM
I doubt there would have been much difference between an Al Gore Presidency and a GW Bush Presidency though. Instead of a failed SSA reform, we'd have had a failed environmental reform. Everything else would likely have been the same. Same wars. Maybe less international outrage over the wars due to the magic D.

I dunno, seems Iraq needed a fair amount of PR buildup before we went.
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Razgovory

#26
March 31, 2011, 11:03:43 AM
Also I think Wendell Wilkie would have done well.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Caliga

#27
March 31, 2011, 11:35:12 AM
 :hmm:

I dunno if Dukakis would have turned out to be a good President, but I can confirm that he's a really nice guy who just seemed like a 'good' person.  When I was working on my PhD he was teaching at Northeastern, and one of my friends had him as a thesis advisor (I think he was in the 'Urban Studies' department which was right next to ours).  He used to come down and talk to us all the time about stuff.  He was just "Mike", not "Michael Dukakis", "Prof. Dukakis", "Gov. Dukakis", or anything like that.

I also used to see him in Boston's back bay train station fairly often as I think he took Amtrak to NYC a lot for some reason.  He didn't have a posse... just him and his suit bag.  When I was an undergrad, a group of my friends were riding the subway once and he got on and sat down next to them, and initiated conversation and talked to them about the Red Sox or something the whole time.

Also, he was good friends with the CEO at BIDMC (he used to work with him fairly closely when the CEO ran the Boston Harbor cleanup project) and I encountered him a time or two in the CEO's office suite meeting Paul for lunch or whatever.  He seemed to remember me from my NEU days.

One thing tho... he has a HUUUUGE head in proportion to the rest of him.  He looks like an alien :o
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Valmy

#28
March 31, 2011, 11:45:21 AM
Quote from: Caliga on March 31, 2011, 11:35:12 AM
One thing tho... he has a HUUUUGE head in proportion to the rest of him.  He looks like an alien :o

Maybe that is genetic and explains why ancient Greeks were so smart.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Brain

#29
March 31, 2011, 11:55:56 AM
Quote from: Caliga on March 31, 2011, 11:35:12 AM
:hmm:

I dunno if Dukakis would have turned out to be a good President, but I can confirm that he's a really nice guy who just seemed like a 'good' person.  When I was working on my PhD he was teaching at Northeastern, and one of my friends had him as a thesis advisor (I think he was in the 'Urban Studies' department which was right next to ours).  He used to come down and talk to us all the time about stuff.  He was just "Mike", not "Michael Dukakis", "Prof. Dukakis", "Gov. Dukakis", or anything like that.

I also used to see him in Boston's back bay train station fairly often as I think he took Amtrak to NYC a lot for some reason.  He didn't have a posse... just him and his suit bag.  When I was an undergrad, a group of my friends were riding the subway once and he got on and sat down next to them, and initiated conversation and talked to them about the Red Sox or something the whole time.

Also, he was good friends with the CEO at BIDMC (he used to work with him fairly closely when the CEO ran the Boston Harbor cleanup project) and I encountered him a time or two in the CEO's office suite meeting Paul for lunch or whatever.  He seemed to remember me from my NEU days.

One thing tho... he has a HUUUUGE head in proportion to the rest of him.  He looks like an alien :o

Did he drive his little tank? :)
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