worst president ever

funny story about Polk

It was Junior year history and my teacher was talking about how popular Polk.  He was acting it out, like he was some type of Polk fanatic, and he started to bow to the word Polk on the white board, and just as he bent over he said "everyone was like (bends over) Polk This and Polk that"

in short, he bent over and said Polk this, and the crowd erupted, he got pissed and through everyone out of the classroom.

[CHIZZY]

everyone thinks that the prosperous economy was Clinton\'s doing. Nope. It\'s a little thing called Reaganomics. Reagan\'s economic plan extended for 20+ years, Clinton just rode it uot and did nothing to keep it rolling.

I agree CHIZZY.

Now back to the Clinton years. Yes the media focused on oral sex in the Oval Office, but there were plenty of other more important issues. How about Hillary making $100,000 profit from a $1,000 investment? The list goes on and on. File gate . . .  etc, etc, etc.

Ace

And you\'re telling me Bush and Cheney haven\'t been making money hand over foot from what they\'ve been doing in the white house?

BTW, it was not Reaganomics.  Reaganomics doesn\'t work.

[videoholic]

Clinton was an emberassment, but my word, Carter was a total freaking dolt.  The country was in total termoil during and after that guy.  Ugh....

It\'s a little thing called Reaganomics. Reagan\'s economic plan extended for 20+ years - Chizzy

LoL @ Chizzy, yeah.. I\'m sure he meant to send the economy spiraling further and further into a ressession for 12 years until a Democratic President came along. Reganomics dosen\'t work.. or better.. it didn\'t work for the time it was implimented. All it ended up doing was giving tax breaks to the rich and causing inflation to spiral out of control. Not to mention help to triple the national debt from 1 trillion to over 4 trillion dollars. Of course.. that was all just part of his plan wasn\'t it?

There are two major things which helped to contribute to the economy we had..

1. Alan Greenspan\'s agressive slashing of intrest rates which stymied inflation.

2. The computer/technology revolution.

Of course you probably won\'t believe me. Who can possibly think that man who once said, "Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees." could possibly be full of shyt??

[Kurt Angle]

I voted Clinton. After all he "never had sexual relations with that woman, miss Lewinsky".

Back to Polk, maybe he saved us from war, but we could have easily won the war.

So was it wrong? Yes.  He instead lied and gave up on the entire territory all together.

Originally posted by SonyFan


As a president.. he did a fair job. Not bad.. not too good.. but average. He did a lot of good things, and he made a few f*ckups. (Like sending cruise missles to do the job of ground troops).

Call me crazy but wouldn\'t you rather cruise missiles then losing soldiers?

Originally posted by The Hurricane
Back to Polk, maybe he saved us from war, but we could have easily won the war.

So was it wrong? Yes.  He instead lied and gave up on the entire territory all together.

If England put their all into a war at that point, they would have crushed us.  Same thing with the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812.  Luckily, we got them to settle for a basic draw in 1812, when they never put everything into it, and in the Revolution they didn\'t take us seriously, then the French came.  This would have been different.  They weren\'t at war, and they would have crushed us.

Besides, we got more territory, and better territory.  And by the way, 54 40 or fight was a general democratic slogan, and was never promised by Polk himself.

Call me crazy but wouldn\'t you rather cruise missiles then losing soldiers? - Skyrider666

See.. the problem with cruise missles is that they fire.. and blow up. They don\'t chase the enemy.. they don\'t stick around to make sure the job got done.. they don\'t help the locals reconstruct their homes when one of em goes astray. Would you have felt satisfied if the only retaliation we put forth from 9/11 was to launch a volley of cruise missles into Afghanistan and then patted our selves on the back for a job well done.

They blow up the USS Cole.. we launch cruise missles.. they hide in Afghanistan and their network grows stronger

They blow up the US Embasy in Tanzinia(?).. we launch cruise missles.. they hid in Afghanistan and their network grows stronger

They ram jet liners into the World Trade Center.. we send in ground troops and special forces.. Afghanistan is no longer a hiding spot and their network (while operational) is in complete dissarray.

Had our military not f*cked up and bombed the wrong escape route out of Tora Bora.. we\'d have wiped out the entire Afghani central cell of Al Queda. Bush did it right.. but the military let them go. Clinton didn\'t even bother to TRY and do the job right. That was a f*ck up.. and if he had led our troops against Al Queda back in 1998, the events of 9/11 might not have happened.

Originally posted by The Hurricane

George W. is handling our world crisis, leave him alone.

Yeah by Starting even more World Trouble Spots

:rolleyes:

Originally posted by serrano007
They all suck. Where\'s Hitler when you need him? j/k

All kidding aside..and the fact he was a nasty person..hitler was actually a great leader.

Originally posted by luckee


All kidding aside..and the fact he was a nasty person..hitler was actually a great leader.

Yea, if he just wasn\'t into the genocide thing and didn\'t want to take over the world, he probably would be an alright leader.

Originally posted by Soul Reaver


Yea, if he just wasn\'t into the genocide thing and didn\'t want to take over the world, he probably would be an alright leader.

Too bad he was into that shit..he really turned germany around in a short period of time. I

 wonder if that was his plan all along.. or shortly after noticing how much power he had, is when he took a turn for the worse.