Obamas SpeechFollow

That's insane. No president from the past 50-odd years (including Nixon) should even rank before people like Buchanan, Pierce, Harding or (Andrew) Johnson.

Edited, Sep 3rd 2010 9:07pm by Jophiel

Sorry, I was only ranking the last hundred years at the time.

Aside from Kennedy, who fits in quite nicely with the four you gave also.

(Nixon wasn't a bad president, just completely without any sense of ethics whatsoever. But at least you knew he was going to ***** you over.)

I'm still not convinced those are going to come out as screwed up in the end as is being assumed. Get back to me in about thirty-five years (that being about how long it's taken for Vietnam to get out of the hole that it's been in).

And JFK not because of Vietnam, but because of his complete ineptitude in handling things prior to that. If he hadn't been assassinated, there would have been a pretty good chance of full-on war against the USSR by 1980 (well, better than there was at the time).

Edited, Sep 3rd 2010 7:15pm by MDenham

Edited, Sep 3rd 2010 7:17pm by MDenham

You mean like getting us out of the cuban missle crisis diplomatically rather than starting a war with the USSR like his military advisers wanted him to? Or the part where he got the USSR and UK to sign the nuclear test ban treaty? Throw me a bone here, I'm a little rusty on pre-Nixon American history.

Stop. Doing. This.

Silly Shintasama. People other than Americans don't count when it comes to the opinion of the American president.

In fact, way more important is how Americans think that other countries perceive the president! (Nevermind that 20% of them still think he's a Muslim.)

Oh ****, they're going to have a field day when they realize how much Kenya approves of Obama. Also, this proves that in Soviet Russia, confidence have YOU!

Speeches are what politicians use to communicate with the uninformed or undecided. I listen to major addresses just to tune in but the choir isn't really the target audience.

No, really. He is.
I can't speak for all of the world, but where the papers were filled with negative articles on America and Bush they now have positive articles about Obama.

It could have been just about anybody though, after Bush we couldn't possibly get a much more negative view of the US.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Ok, so prove that he's viewed just as badly or worse than Bush among the rest of the world.



Edited, Sep 7th 2010 4:51pm by bsphil

If that's the case then why are nearly all of the conservative voting states receiving more federal tax dollars than they pay in, while the traditionally liberal voting states receive fewer than they pay in?