Most Overrated President

[Ed Anger]

Good one Dump Truck.

We need to break you from this nickname habit.

[CountDeMoney]

He wasn't Jimmy Carter.

In many ways he was.  The deregulation trend started under Carter and so did the arming of the Muhajeedeen in Afghanistan.

Hush, you. Let me hate on Jimmy in peace.

Fuck you, sweater vest monkey.  You come after James Earle Carter: Cold Warrior, you come after me.

[Razgovory]

He didn't attack a union.  He fired some federal workers who were striking illegally.

I don't believe that that's an answer Raz wants.

You were the one to characterize them as PATCO, which was a labor union.  I simply rolled with what you wrote.

[CountDeMoney]

Reminds me of the old Bloom County cartoon, where Santa fired all the elves.

[grumbler]

Reminds me of the old Bloom County cartoon, where Santa fired all the elves.

But Santa was the first to characterize them as elves, and the cartoon simply rolled with what he wrote.

[Scipio]

JFK.  I'm not sure it's possible to overrate Clinton, that whoremonger.

[jimmy olsen]

Jeffereson was pretty awful aside from the Louisiana purchase. Voted for him.

Wilson and JFK would get 2nd and 3rd place.

[Ideologue]

Good one Dump Truck.

We need to break you from this nickname habit.

I guessed he was referring to me, but I can't be sure and really I have no idea what that meant.

[CountDeMoney]

Good one Dump Truck.

We need to break you from this nickname habit.

I guessed he was referring to me, but I can't be sure and really I have no idea what that meant.

Dude, you dumped Korea.

[Razgovory]

I think she bounced back.

[PRC]

What was so great about the first term?

Inflation went from 13% to under 4%, Reagan hammered the PATCO fucks, income taxes dropped 40% at the top level and 30% at the lowest level, while increasing revenues, the Grenada invasion, and the whole "last pages of communism" stance including his handling of the cruise/Pershing deployment that would lead to the IRNF Treaty.  "Morning in America."

You can certainly blame his administration foir ignoring the problems with the S&L business (which would blow up in his second term) and the Lebanon miscalculation that turned into a disaster, but it was a great first term, by any standards.

Read some history.

What was great about the Grenada invasion?  Honest question, I know nothing about that event other than vaguely, perhaps mistakenly, recalling that OvB took part in it in some limited capacity. 

[Tonitrus]

It might just be that the best result to come from Grenada was making possible the film Heartbreak Ridge, irregardless of Mario Van Peebles.

[Ideologue]

Good one Dump Truck.

We need to break you from this nickname habit.

I guessed he was referring to me, but I can't be sure and really I have no idea what that meant.

Dude, you dumped Korea.

While I appreciate your historical revisionism, that's not how I recall it happening.

[Ideologue]

What was so great about the first term?

Inflation went from 13% to under 4%, Reagan hammered the PATCO fucks, income taxes dropped 40% at the top level and 30% at the lowest level, while increasing revenues, the Grenada invasion, and the whole "last pages of communism" stance including his handling of the cruise/Pershing deployment that would lead to the IRNF Treaty.  "Morning in America."

You can certainly blame his administration foir ignoring the problems with the S&L business (which would blow up in his second term) and the Lebanon miscalculation that turned into a disaster, but it was a great first term, by any standards.

Read some history.

What was great about the Grenada invasion?  Honest question, I know nothing about that event other than vaguely, perhaps mistakenly, recalling that OvB took part in it in some limited capacity.

The only things I know about Grenada I learned from that arc in Doonesbury where Duke set up the Baby Doc Medical School.

[MadImmortalMan]

That's a questionable claim as well.

Spending is the only thing that can lead to deficits. Logically. It's not questionable. Every Republican president since and including Reagan did it.