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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 3, 2010 22:38:24 GMT
I believe GW Bush was a lot more popular in his day than Lincoln. Makes sense when you consider the number of fatalities in the Union army on his watch.
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 4, 2010 8:01:10 GMT
I believe GW Bush was a lot more popular in his day than Lincoln. Makes sense when you consider the number of fatalities in the Union army on his watch. having only twenty percent of the people support you is NOT being popular lad.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 5, 2010 2:22:57 GMT
Jumbo we didn't have polls in Lincoln's day but I don't believe he could have pulled a 20% approval rating if they did. He was hated by 100 percent of the citizens in the southern states and more northern states mothers had lost their sons than in all of our other wars combined. He was widely despised in his day (and then they murdered him). GW Bush was considerably more popular than Lincoln.
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Post by beth on Apr 5, 2010 2:32:23 GMT
Legacy wise, I think Lincoln wins.
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Post by Ben Lomond on Apr 5, 2010 10:57:39 GMT
As an interested observer, the following would sway me somewhat.....
President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent. Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Mr. Bush's final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago
Q.E.D.
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Post by clemiethedog on Apr 5, 2010 11:00:46 GMT
"Jumbo we didn't have polls in Lincoln's day but I don't believe he could have pulled a 20% approval rating"
If that were true, he wouldn't have been re-elected.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 6, 2010 1:50:25 GMT
Climie said, "He was preparing to battle the Radical Republicans and their "bloody shirt" agenda, but he was shot before reconstruction started."
Excuse me Clemie. Lincoln was a Republican. Please don't make this stuff up.
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Post by clemiethedog on Apr 6, 2010 11:21:00 GMT
Climie said, "He was preparing to battle the Radical Republicans and their "bloody shirt" agenda, but he was shot before reconstruction started." Excuse me Clemie. Lincoln was a Republican. Please don't make this stuff up. The Radical Republicans were a group of Republicans who wanted to take harsh measures against the South, while Lincoln wanted to take a more conciliatory approach, the one used by Johnson. I am not making up this term. It's in history books (although in Texas those books are being re-written by a bunch of fascists).
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 11:48:23 GMT
Climie said, "He was preparing to battle the Radical Republicans and their "bloody shirt" agenda, but he was shot before reconstruction started." Excuse me Clemie. Lincoln was a Republican. Please don't make this stuff up. The Radical Republicans were a group of Republicans who wanted to take harsh measures against the South, while Lincoln wanted to take a more conciliatory approach, the one used by Johnson. I am not making up this term. It's in history books (although in Texas those books are being re-written by a bunch of fascists). das isn't keen on historical reality. he likes to make it up as he goes along
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 7, 2010 0:42:49 GMT
Suffice to say Lincoln was a Republican and he was despised both in the northern states and the southern states. I was historians who elevated him to the first rank of American Presidents. That's also how it is going to play out for GW Bush.
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 7, 2010 13:01:19 GMT
Suffice to say Lincoln was a Republican and he was despised both in the northern states and the southern states. I was historians who elevated him to the first rank of American Presidents. That's also how it is going to play out for GW Bush. i recommend that you ask your therapist for seroquel. that helps control your hallucinations, and will give you some semblance of reality
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 13, 2010 0:41:15 GMT
Wrongo Jumbo. Bush was one of our greatest Presidents. Your denials won't change that.
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Post by beth on Apr 13, 2010 1:52:07 GMT
No he wasn't, das. He's way far down on the list and wishing otherwise . . . even in Texas where re=writing history extends to school tests, isn't going to change anything. Bush was a puppet for Cheney and the rest of the PNAC to use as they desired. Obvious to everyone except those who will not see.
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Apr 13, 2010 23:34:06 GMT
Historians will evenually put GW Bush in the top ten Presidents (and possibly the top five).
Bill Clinton will forever occupy the bottom rung on the Presidential ladder looking up at Richard Nixon on the rung above. Nixon has the unpleasant view of Jimmy Carter's butt one rung above. I think it will stay that way for eternity.
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