LBJ and Nixon

LBJ: Congress lived in fear of this man, he knew how to push buttons

Nixon: Enemies list, ugly guy physically, dead maker, petty, brilliant

LBJ: Civil Rights Bills, NASA, could be cruel, vindictive

Nixon: Opened China, Title IX (a big bill), NASA, ended our involvement in Vietnam, bills to help lower and middle classes, loved his country, somber

Since then:

Ford: Ineffective

Carter: Disaster

Reagan: Villain not because he wasn't nice (he was) but because of his lowering of taxes on upper classes, expansion of deficit, anti-union, anti working class, full of shit on just about everything, not bright, worked hard but got played by smarter GOP people

Bush 1: best POTUS since Nixon, fought a righteous war and made right call at end, economy tanked and he got voted out

Clinton: Find me someone who knows Clinton that likes him, really likes him, and I'll eat my hat. No way, no how. Hllary fell in love with him in college like a lot of women do, he rode that to the White House, look at his daughter, inept, got lucky with internet boom, arrogant and a sexual predator

Bush 2: Good man who had to make a deal to take Cheney in order to get support of GOP, look at his kids, trustworthy, funny, kind, not brilliant but smart enough, passed just about nothing important besides the Patriot Act

Obama: Disaster. Fucking disaster.


Al Gore losing the electoral college but winning the popular vote brings out an important topic: The flight of Southern Democrats to the GOP following the Civil Rights Era. If Gore can get 1/2 a million more votes than Bush 2 and still lose the electoral, how is that fair and just? The South holds the key to the presidency in every election, and I'm telling you that since the South became the most important place in America politically we have been fucked and have elected crappy Presidents. Look it up.