Gephardt: Bush Worst President of Last 5

AP ^ | Dec. 27, 2003 | TIM TALLEY

[Holden Magroin]

Also, I wish the media would stop calling Dick Gephardt the "Midwestern" candidate. He's from St. Louis, which is as Midwestern as Miami is Southern. The real Midwestern candidate is Dennis Kucinich.

[John123]

There is 2 things wrong with Gephardt's mantra of "Jobs, jobs, jobs."

First of all, unions decrease job opportunities. How? Unions are only interested in their own salaries and benefits. Union salaries are at a premium which increases employers' cost. If the additional cost of labor to produce a unit is too high, the company won't hire. Therefore, Unions decrease employment at the expense of other Americans.

The next point is that if Gephardt wants to repeal President Bush's tax cuts, he will increase unemployment. If consumers have less disposable income (money left over after the Government takes its share), they will spend less. If they spend less, there is less demand for products. Therefore, companies will have to fire employees to remain profitable in a slowing economy.

Just reading this article reaffirms my opinion that most, if not all, liberals were hiding in the bushes when God handed out the brains.

[bray]

Coming from Graftheart, that is high praise! To the Rats he and RR are the worst Presidents in the past 150 years. The DinoRats are having a bad decade!

Pray for W and The Election

[miltonim]

lol

[John123]

"I've served with five presidents and he is by far the worst.

Pretty strong words for someone whose party lost control of the House in 40 years.

I asked for and got two books on WW2 for Christmas. After reading them, I was just astounded how history tends to repeat itself if you ignore the lesson.

My opinion was that the root cause of WW2 was three things. The Great Depression, The Versailles Treaty and the Age of the Dictators. The tinder that started the fires was the appeasement of Germany's neighbors to avoid any type of conflict at the expense of many unfortunate people in Czechoslovakia and Poland.

United States wasn't immune to this. We were sick and tired of Europe's problems and WW1. Any polician that dared mention anything but neutrality would have been appeached. In fact, at one point, our Congress was actually thinking of an amendment to the US Constitution that we cannot declare war until confirmed by a majority vote by a nationwide referendum.

There are a lot of similarities between Hitler and Saddam. What would happen if Bush Sr. and Jr. didn't stop Saddam? The belated answer was, 50 million people should not have died if the world stood up to Hitler.

Saddam planned to conquer the richest oil regions of the world, he was pursuing nuclear weapons until Israelis bombed his plant, and Saddam shown the willingness to use biological/chemical weapons on the Kurds and Iranians.

What in God's name is Dick Gephardt and the other appeasers waiting for? An engraved invitation?

[daler]

Wasn't Jack London an avowed socialist?

[madison10]

Ohhh Gawd.

..and he's from my state.

How embarrasing

My sympathies...from the state with claims to Carl (Marx) Levin

[VMI70]

That kind of list can be posted about any President and is disingenuous in the extreme. If I were you, I sure would not cite Southack's work, if you can call it that. One of the biggest mistakes made around here is falling for the "party line" propaganda. This trash looks to come directly from Karl Rove and his very efficient spin machine.

[RoseofTexas]

I see the AP is more than eager to print such BULLSHIT!! I hope the AP agency goes up in flames!

[the invisib1e hand]

"I'm going to win the Democratic nomination and I'm going to beat George Bush,"

"I've served with five presidents and he is by far the worst. I'm nostalgic for Ronald Reagan,"

one good rant deserves another. There, there, son. take your medicine. It will all right.

[the invisib1e hand]

(taking baghdad faster than clinton took waco).

I laughed my gallows-humor laugh at that one.

[Defender2]

Redder than the Hair on his head, Dick Gephardt, Spouting his LOSER TRASHTRAP off again!!!!

[Southack]

"That kind of list can be posted about any President and is disingenuous in the extreme. If I were you, I sure would not cite Southack's work, if you can call it that. One of the biggest mistakes made around here is falling for the "party line" propaganda. This trash looks to come directly from Karl Rove and his very efficient spin machine."

What, pray tell, is "disingenuous" in the least about banning Partial Birth Abortion, cutting income taxes by more than $1.3 Trillion, killing the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, killing the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty, building our ABM defenses against rogue North Korean nuclear missile attacks, smashing the Taliban in Afghanistan, kicking Hussein out of power in Iraq, and convincing Libya to drop their WMD programs without firing a shot at them?

Just who do you think that you are to diss such positive, tangible, incontrovertible achievements?

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Dubya wasn't elected until the 21st century.

[VOA]

"Gephardt: Bush Worst President of Last 5"

If Gephardt didn't have the brains to say "Last 4", he shouldn't even be elected dog-catcher.

I repect Jimmy Carter's service in the US Navy (as part of that tough-guy Admiral
Rickover's "Nuclear Navy").

That's why I somedays think that the Democratic Party has collectively lost it's
mind and ability to reason from history.
This is obvious from their thought that despite a mostly admirable
record of military service and sacrifice...Wesley Clark is simply a
man who seems incapable of giving a straight answer and capable of lies as a civilian.
In Carter's case, they picked a guy incapable of being even a decent Commander-In-Chief.

[King Prout]

the way you look at the world strongly influences what you see, that's true.

[Godfollow]

He's also a miserable failure at making runs for the White House.

[King Prout]

whoa... good list.

[Once-Ler]

What, pray tell, is "disingenuous" in the least about banning Partial Birth Abortion, cutting income taxes by more than $1.3 Trillion, killing the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, killing the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty, building our ABM defenses against rogue North Korean nuclear missile attacks, smashing the Taliban in Afghanistan, kicking Hussein out of power in Iraq, and convincing Libya to drop their WMD programs without firing a shot at them?

The problem is you are using logic and your arguments are very effective at countering the far-right fringe's efforts to elect a 'rat as President in 2004. There ill conceived arguments against Bush Sr. and for Clinton worked so well in 1992 they didn't think they would have to work so hard to screw up the country again in the name of ideological purity. Please change your ways and try to level the playing field - stick to one sentence slogans that really don't say anything but imply what an EVIL man Dubya is. Say something like Dubya need to protect the 2nd Amendment but don't back it up. Hit and run, unsubstantiated slander does not need to be explained if you just repeat it over and over no matter how many times intelligent Freepers point out the error. Maybe you could just reply with a simple "Nuh-uh" instead of offering solid comprehensive refutations in logical and easily understood proper English.

[Southack]

"Bush has not done anything for the conservatives."

Did you SLEEP through Bush banning Partial Birth Abortion, killing the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, killing the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty, building our ABM defenses against rogue North Korean nuclear missile attacks, kicking the Taliban out of Afghanistan, kicking Hussein out of power in Iraq, dissing the International Criminal Court, and cutting income taxes by over $1.3 Trillion?!

See Post #55.