Dr Grump
Platinum Member
I don't think all democrats hold the view that just because Johnson was a democrat, he can kill as many as he wants. I just can't understand why anyone would say bush and reagan were worse than Johnson unless it's because they just hate repubs so much.
Honestly Elvis, anybody who saw any worth in Bush II as a president needs their head read. And if they think that Carter or Obama are worse than him, then they just hate Dems so much (IMO)...
I always thought Raygun was way in over his head, and I still remember how the rest of the world, and a great deal of Americans, couldn't stand him. What I find annoying (because it seems to happen so often in US politics -especially on this board with regard to Carter) is revisionism. Raygun was a shocker of a president who took credit for things he had nothign to do with.
People also tend to forget that the whole world was in the shitter in the late 70s due to Opec and the oil crisis and its knock-on affect. I lived in England at the time and unemployment hit a massive 3 million - there were strikes all over the place. Carter was a person of his time and had fuck-all to do with the economy back then, but he paid the price - and somehow revisionist history shows a guy who probably had Alzheimers in the latter part of his presidency as some stand up guy who people admire. He was an average president at best....