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Skriven 2011-04-07 05:52:52 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 16463 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Presidential lineups
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Replying to a message of Björn Felten to Richard Webb:

 RW>> But, back to Bob A.' and I and our pov here re presidents.
 RW>> Since Roosevelt minor every one has stepped far outside
 RW>> constitutional bounds, which was the point he's making.

 BF>    That's why we respect you two so much. You are more typical for the
 BF> average USAian than most of the other US participants in fidonet.

 BF>    Unlike what the stereotype claims, the average US citizen is *not*
 BF> an obese slob, happy to get his weekly dose of Bud, American Idol and
 BF> Survivor, it's someone who isn't satisfied with what the mainstream
 BF> media has to say, but rather Google for it, to get second opinions on
 BF> the matter.

There are a stupefying number of USAians who fit the description in your first 
sentence above.  See if there's anything on the INternet about Rep. Steve King
(R-IA), who happens to represent the congressional district I live in.  The man
is an unapologetic, homophobic, estremist right-wing kook - and he's in the US
congress.  He makes most of the Fidonet posters in the political echoes sound
like
left wing loonies.  Yet he keeps getting re-elected (without my help, of
course).

 BF>    It's unfortunate that it probably will take a century or so until
 BF> Richard Nixon will get the respect he deserves, but that's not
 BF> something uncommon in any country:

Nixon was a far better president than any of his successors except, perhaps,
Reagan.  Better than many of his predecessors, too.

Truman is one of the most under-rated men to have held the office, IMO.  The
man
was a Kansas City haberdasher before he went into politics at the behest of the
KC
Democratic machine.  He was picked as Roosevelt minor's veep because Roosevelt 
minor wanted to get rid of the one he had, and was not regarded as much of
anything
prior to that.  He had run a comptent Senate investigation a couple of years
earlier but
was considered a political lightweight.  Roosevelt minor kept him out of the
loop WRT
most of what he was up to - the Manhattan Project was a complete surprise to
Truman,
he had no idea it existed. About the only serious mistake he made was his
refusal to
accept Ho Chi Minh's government in Vietnam in 1945; that had repercussions for
decades
after the fact.

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