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Name a recent president whose second term was more successful than his first.
My fertile mind | 11/14/12 | self

Posted on 11/14/2012 4:05:25 PM PST by Past Your Eyes

I've been around since Harry Truman's first term and have been trying to see how someone could make a case that any president during that time had better success in his second term than he had in the first one.
Truman? Nope
Eisenhower? Possibly
Johnson? Nyet
Nixon? Nix
Reagan? Show me
Clinton? HAH!
Bush? Hardly


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KEYWORDS: secondtermpresident; vanity
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1 posted on 11/14/2012 4:05:33 PM PST by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes

It has to be Jimmie Carter!


2 posted on 11/14/2012 4:07:18 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Your point is well taken. I believe Obama may be in for a tougher time than he anticipates.

I pray he is, anyway.

3 posted on 11/14/2012 4:08:04 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Past Your Eyes

I think the argument could be made that Clinton’s was. He had to take a hard right turn and run toward the middle, which he did - brilliantly (for a libtard). Didn’t we get the welfare reforms during his second term (albeit with a R Congress)?


4 posted on 11/14/2012 4:08:18 PM PST by RobertClark (Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)
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To: mountainlion

I say Carter, too.


5 posted on 11/14/2012 4:10:27 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Past Your Eyes
Obama, of course.

It's already been written.

6 posted on 11/14/2012 4:10:27 PM PST by grobdriver
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To: Past Your Eyes

Since Hussein’s goal is destruction and disintegration rather than anything positive, he could easily have a more successful second term.


7 posted on 11/14/2012 4:10:54 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: mountainlion

I like that answer! Why didn’t I think to put him on the list?
“;^o


8 posted on 11/14/2012 4:10:54 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: RobertClark
I thought Clintons right turn came after the 94 midterms, enabling him to cruise through his re-election as a moderate.

All I remember from his second term was perjury.

9 posted on 11/14/2012 4:12:20 PM PST by skeeter
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To: grobdriver
It's already been written.

What Obambam needs right about now to distract from Libya is his second, equally deserved Nobel Peace Prize.

10 posted on 11/14/2012 4:12:33 PM PST by JediJones (Newt Gingrich warned us that the "King of Bain" was unelectable. Did you listen?)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Clinton went for military homos and socialist health care his first term and failed...his second was nothing but scandals and his becoming a smegma stain in American history for his sick perversions.

The fact that he survived to complete his second term in spite of historical shame and impeachment made his second more successful than his first...

...oh, and Nixon won the Vietnam War in HIS second term before the Dems stabbed South Vietnam in the back and left them to perish once Nixon left.

11 posted on 11/14/2012 4:14:24 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Obama is Satan's evil twin.")
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To: mjp
Since Hussein’s goal is destruction and disintegration rather than anything positive, he could easily have a more successful second term.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's looking to ditch all of his appointees and czars for hard-left replacements right now so he can really get the job done. That's why some are being forced out by scandals and most others are rumored to be on the chopping block for one reason or another.

12 posted on 11/14/2012 4:14:56 PM PST by JediJones (Newt Gingrich warned us that the "King of Bain" was unelectable. Did you listen?)
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To: Past Your Eyes
President Ronald Reagan revitalized America during his fist term and exceeded his already impressive accomplishments during his remarkable second term:

Not only did President Reagan's policies ensure that every American who wanted to work was fully employed, but the overall economy was flourishing during the second part of his 8-year term. And there's the matter of his administration bringing the USSR to its knees. American Exceptionalism was restored by President Reagan during his first term and he took it to the next level after the landslide win of 1984.

13 posted on 11/14/2012 4:15:11 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Jimmy Carter


14 posted on 11/14/2012 4:18:25 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: mjp

And his third term will be even more destructive than his second.


15 posted on 11/14/2012 4:20:23 PM PST by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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To: Past Your Eyes; onyx

Ike.

July 7, 1958-Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the forty-ninth state.

And history was made. It was only a matter of time before Governor Sarah Palin would come along! :o)


16 posted on 11/14/2012 4:23:01 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
July 7, 1958-Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the forty-ninth state. And history was made. It was only a matter of time before Governor Sarah Palin would come along! :o)

And then in 1959, Hawaii became the fiftieth state, and then Obama came along.

17 posted on 11/14/2012 4:24:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Past Your Eyes

Well it wasn’t the goal of any other president to wreck our country. I am convinced that Obama will do quite well in achieving his goal second term.


18 posted on 11/14/2012 4:25:11 PM PST by lwoodham (I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
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To: mountainlion

This president has a habit of doing things other presidents have been unable to. He wasn’t supposed to get health care passed, he did, he’s teflon when it comes to scandals, and he wasn’t supposed to get reelected. If we start to relax thinking that he couldn’t possibly do anything worse than he’s already done, he’s going to stomp on us.


19 posted on 11/14/2012 4:26:15 PM PST by dmyhra
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To: Past Your Eyes

Name another president that lived deep inside the Affirmative Action Bubble.

Obama could Nuke NYC and still own their hearts and minds,

If the 911 NYC attacks occurred today, only one station would cover it.


20 posted on 11/14/2012 4:28:54 PM PST by NoLibZone (If the 911 NYC attacks occurred today, only one station would cover it.)
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