Who's the best President we never had?

[garbon]

I hate professors like that. Let's not pretend we're on the same level.

Use of titles helps to make sure that people maintain appropriate behavior. I hated the over familiarity that some professors tried to foster by encouraging students to refer to them by their first name.

[Caliga]

I understood what you were saying, but I guess I'd rather have a prof act like that, as opposed to "YOU WILL ADDRESS ME AS HERR DOKTOR PROFESSOR, MAGGOTS!"

[garbon]

I never had one like that.

[garbon]

I don't think the garbon persona would recognise the difference between real and fake.

How could one put on airs without knowing the difference between real and fake?

[dps]

Winfield Scott
Tom Dewey

[Josquius]

RFK

[Ed Anger]

I understood what you were saying, but I guess I'd rather have a prof act like that, as opposed to "YOU WILL ADDRESS ME AS HERR DOKTOR PROFESSOR, MAGGOTS!"

Call me Mister Tibbs

[jamesww]

I don't think the garbon persona would recognise the difference between real and fake.

How could one put on airs without knowing the difference between real and fake?

You don't need to, as your shtick doesn't actually work. 

[garbon]

Are you sure you aren't talking about yours?

[CountDeMoney]

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.

Wrong. 
I think you forget Al Gore's intensely populist rhetoric against Wall Street and corporations that was such a centerpiece of his campaign which turned so many people off at the tail end of the dot-com surge...but nobody wanted to hear his fair warning, because nobody likes a Debbie Downer. 

And no 2001 outrageously bullshit tax cuts and other revenue stream cut-offs that were such important initial ingredients to the fiscal shit soup we're in now.

Oh no, things would've very much not have been the same.

*cue Hansy's ZOMG GORE WOOD'VE SURRENEDERD TO AL QAEDA schtick*

William Seward instead of Grant would have been great.

You gotta be shitting me.

[Eddie Teach]

If defining a shtick as working if it's believable than both of yours do.

[Neil]

How much freedom of action would Goldwater (or Gore, for that matter) really have had?  Didn't they both have an intensely hostile Congress to deal with?

[MadImmortalMan]

How much freedom of action would Goldwater (or Gore, for that matter) really have had?  Didn't they both have an intensely hostile Congress to deal with?

Yes. Seedy is right about the tax cuts though. I hadn't thought of that. Gore could have vetoed them.

[Sheilbh]

And no 2001 outrageously bullshit tax cuts and other revenue stream cut-offs that were such important initial ingredients to the fiscal shit soup we're in now.

This is true.

[jimmy olsen]

Joshua Chamberlain - War Hero, Governor, Professor of theology and linguistics. Knew at least 7 languages. Would have protected civil rights like Grant, but would have run a more competent and much less corrupt administration.