US PoliEra |OT12| The Moscow Project
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Trump ignores tact and calss as often as you flush your toilet.
John Quincy Adams went from Senator to President to Representative.
Probably the best of the Republicans that was still alive. We are quickly getting to the point where basically they are all trump shills
Unfortunately, it's probably been forced from the news for at least the weekend.
Yes, pretty extraordinary to see information of this type get leaked to the media. CIA mad.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-in...di-crown-prince-targeted-khashoggi-1543640460
Congrats to the bush campaign for making one of the racist presidential political ads ever aired in the past 50 years.
My thought is that if Mark Sanford can do it than McCaskill sure as hell can.
Throwback to when Bush lambasted Ralph Yarborough for voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when he was running for his Senate seat in 1964, but still got his ass kicked by Yarborough anyway.
George H. W. Bush was the first president I voted against, for Perot in '92 (I know, I know). As a Republican he wasn't the worst, and he did a fair amount of good as well. His conduct of the Gulf War stands in stark contrast to his son's handling of the Iraq War.
I will be forever thankful to Bush Sr. because I can do a spot on Dana Carvey impersonation of his impersonation of Bush Sr.
Gonna see a lot of crying from the white liberals and moderates over Bush Sr. and how he compromised and was a great guy and they miss him and blah blah blah while completely ignoring the virulent racism as always
Being the best modern republican president is like being Mississippi. You're number 1 in a lot of things but I wouldn't really brag about those.
Being the best modern republican president is like being Mississippi. You're number 1 in a lot of things but I wouldn't really brag about those.
I mean don't get me wrong I'd take him over Reagan, his son or Trump in a heartbeat but uh yeah, shares like ~85% of idealogical tenents with our current president. It's just he can read and isn't stupid enough to drop the dogwhistling
The Willie Horton ad alone should prevent people from just gushing about him, but they still will.
I just want people to be honest. Was he halfway decent? Yes, or maybe a quarter. But he still led a party of religious loony racist anti-choice zealots willingly and, as I said, used racism to win an election. Better than any who have followed him, but not a paragon of virtue.
Pretty much. I had to make another post to make sure my views on the man is clear.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that's the most "presidential" thing I've ever seen with Trump's name on it. So duh it's not from him.
WH Harrison is the hard one to hate since the only thing he really did in office was get sick and die.
G.H.W. Bush also headed the CIA at a time during which his organization oversaw the rapes and killings of people across Central America who just wanted to democratically elect their own leaders, even if those leaders didn't serve U.S. interests.
He's dead, and nothing of value has been lost. Good riddance.
He's dead, and nothing of value has been lost. Good riddance.
There's minimal foreign policy here. Almost all of it pivots back to domestic issues.
"Globalization has benefitted the wealthy elite." True, but the solution is to spread the wealth around here. That doesn't even have to involve other nations at all!
"Our recent wars have been shit." Yep, and as best as I can tell, the proposed solution is to withdraw from these regions (okay so far) and then..... nothing. Pivots back to domestic stuff, and a vague appeal to "diplomacy." Which is fine, but what kind of diplomacy? Some of these conflicts actually kinda force us to either pick a side or stay hands-off entirely. I'm willing to hear either out, but neither is really offered here.
I'm a bit surprised since I'd have pegged Warren as wonkier, so I was looking for more of a real pitch. But if she's running, maybe she'll put all that in her official stances and whatnot later. I just remember one of my issues with Sanders was that foreign policy is a big part of the job and his FP proposals were basically "what are the biggest nations in the region? Do diplomacy to get them to fix X issue in the region" and a lot of times, it just doesn't work like that. Even if I end up disagreeing, I'm still gonna be drawn to candidates that make an honest effort to argue their positions instead of phoning it in.
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