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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:25 AM
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Bush is a modern day Hoover. Which modern day dem could be our FDR?
In many ways Bush is like a more violent, less stable Herbert Hoover? Which Dem can be our Franklin Roosevelt?
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impeach the gop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:26 AM
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1. Dennis Kucinnich
That's my man :-)
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:27 AM
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2. Boy, don't pitch the easy ones
Wes Clark could, at least in terms of inspiring Americans to do better than they thought they could. A guy who leads by example, not by rhetoric.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:31 AM
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3. Is he a progressive?
Does he have a domestic policy, even?
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:38 AM
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6. Yes, and yes
But why find out, when you can make snide remarks, instead.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 01:24 AM
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9. Hey, I've laid off the candidates for two months now.
I'm sick of Clark supporters and their nastiness. Gore endorses Dean and they start in on Gore.

I LIKE Wesley Clark. I DON'T like saying bad things about him. But I am SICK of this SHIT. And while I've never seen you, personally, go out of your way to trash Dean, Clark supporters need to get some of their own back.

My apologies. I'm sorry.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:35 AM
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4. Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Clark, Gephart, Kucinich, Braun, Sharpton
Edited on Tue Dec-09-03 12:35 AM by WilliamPitt
if we pile on and push them in the right direction.
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abbyhoffman Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:38 AM
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5. Unlike Hoover
Edited on Tue Dec-09-03 12:40 AM by abbyhoffman
Bushie will win "re-election"
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 12:39 AM
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7.  bush was never "elected" in the
first place....Secondly.. bush ain't gonna steal another one. Got it?
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 01:19 AM
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8. Please....
Bush is no Hoover.

All hell broke loose on Hoover's watch, but Hoover himself was a pretty decent guy, and both Truman and Eisenhower tapped his other talents later on.

Aside from the obvious, Hoover had a fair record of achievement both in and out of office, particularly out of office. No, he wasn't a great President, but nothing like the POS we have now. He, at least, tried his best, although misguided.

Shrub couldn't stand in Hoover's shadow.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html

http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/31phoov.html

Engineer, author, humanitarian... failed policies as President... I would consider him much closer to Carter than to Bush.

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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 06:02 AM
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12. more like Harding or Buchanan
Thank Hoover for a number of things. All that comes to mind now was the organization of relief in Europe after WWI.


I just don't believe he had any idea how to grapple with the crash of the economic boom in the 20s and the stagnation and fiscal crisis which was more of a world wide situation. Hoover was more of a tragic figure in some ways. Bush does not even come close to him in stature. Hands down the chimp is the worst president in American history.

I like Clark but suscribe to the anyone but bush position.

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liberalcapitalist Donating Member (350 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 02:33 AM
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10. Kucinich
n/t
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-09-03 02:35 AM
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11. Kucinich
then Gore
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