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Scholars rate worst presidential errors
AP/beaufortgazette ^
| February 18 2006
| ELIZABETH DUNBAR
Posted on 02/18/2006 12:20:02 PM PST by ncountylee
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To: ncountylee
Sounds pretty left - who are these "historians?"
To: ncountylee
Previous related thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564970/posts
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02/18/2006 12:23:55 PM PST
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ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Chi-townChief
Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair Absurd, as this ended up being a Non-Story.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:24:21 PM PST
by
Cagey
("Soldiers, keep by your officers. For God's sake, keep by your officers!")
To: ncountylee
The survey's top 10 presidential blunders were announced Saturday No mention of F.D.R. and he could have had all 10 of them.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:24:45 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: ncountylee
I wonder where they put Jimmy Carter's handling of the Iran situation(s.)
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:26:16 PM PST
by
Radix
(I really love the liberals, they put the FUN in funerals.)
To: ncountylee
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:26:53 PM PST
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: ncountylee
Bush I breaking his "No New Taxes."
To: ncountylee
What about FDR and
The Potsdam Conference???? He let the Soviets Partition Europe... Worst BLUNDER in human history... IMHO....well, Maybe next to electing Jimmy Carter and Bubba Clinton presidents....
Nah...On 2nd thought... I guess Potsdam ruined more lives...
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:27:51 PM PST
by
Bob Eimiller
(Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Leahy, Kucinich, Durbin Pro Abort Catholics Excommunication?)
To: ncountylee
They act as if Buchanan could have single handedly prevented the civil war, I think that's ridiculous. Probably the same with most of the rest of these "errors".
I hate it when people expect other people to be like God, all knowing, again, ridiculous.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:27:56 PM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: Bob Eimiller
What about FDR and The Potsdam Conference???? Yalta, not Potsdam. FDR was dead by the time the Potsdam conference took place.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:28:58 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
To: nuconvert; Radix
Where is Carter??? Carter belongs here!
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:29:19 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Cagey
-9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua. "Absurd, as this ended up being a Non-Story."
It also ended up being a success, as the Sandinistas were defeated in Nicaragua -- which was the objective of the exercise. Iran-Contra's presence on this list clearly reveals the agenda of these "historians".
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:29:53 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: ncountylee
9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.What a crock, but hey, it's sort of surprising that the list went all the way to #9 before the effects of liberal political bias crept into the poll.
To: jocon307
I didn't get that from this piece, about them expecting Presidents to be like God. They're just saying these were bad decisions, and they were.
I'm not surprised that what I consider the worst presidential decision of the last 30 years isn't there:
Jimmy Carter decides to let the Shah of Iran fall.
To: ncountylee
No mention of Clinton's selling of miltary secrets to the Chinese for political money.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:31:06 PM PST
by
ThePythonicCow
(The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
To: ncountylee
Wilson's shelling of Vera Cruz wasn't too good of an idea. It was at least as bad as the Iran-Contra affair; Wilson's actions didn't have any upside at all, even in the short term.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:31:10 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: ncountylee
How about JFK sending 14000 ground troops to Vietnam, thus starting the Vietnam War.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:31:55 PM PST
by
tkathy
(Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
To: ncountylee
-9: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.
Why is this listed? It worked.
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posted on
02/18/2006 12:32:20 PM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
To: ncountylee
Scholars= Those who can't.
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