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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Like Obama? The man is about as center as it gets. He's worked with both sides a ton, tried to get them together a ton, and even when the parties locked things up, he still got things done. Actually, the man has gotten shit tons done with the amount of anti-obama everything that has come out.
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Sure, he sent guns to the Mexican Drug cartels, he sent drones to Pakistan after we killed Osama and the reason things are locked up is because of him.
Glad to have you back. I missed you. I'm going to stay out of the political debates on GFY. I have learned a lot from them, which is the best part
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Originally Posted by raymor
Nixon is an interesting case. Today, we associate his name primarily with Watergate. In his first term, his approval ratings were high, averaging 56%. (For comparison Obama is currently around 44%, Bush averaged 49%, Clinton 55%. So Nixon was considered as good as Obama is bad, and slightly better than Clinton.)
Surveys of historians suggest that Nixon was one of the brighter and more capable presidents but Watergate has completely overshadowed that. I suppose it goes to show it doesn't matter how smart you are or how well you do, if you can't be trusted that's all that matters. Nixon was probably smarter and more capable than 99% of us, but that didn't matter after he was dishonest. We could learn from his mistakes.
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Nixon was the best at foriegn affairs, loved the flash of his peace signs while we were fighting in Vietnam.
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that