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  BronxBomber6 months ago

  Of course, you saved the 'best' one for last huh RFE?

  ;o)

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    Radiofreeeuropa6 months ago

    timing is everything BB ;-)

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      BoxMonkey6 months ago

      " I am not a crook ", Rtchard M. Nixon .

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        icono16 months ago

        "I did not have sexual relations with........" B.Clinton

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          Shadowolf6 months ago

          ...me neither...

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          mesodude6 months ago

          ...but more than a decade later, you still lie awake at night mumbling, counting your fingers and thinking bitter thoughts like "Why that Monica chick and not me?!" ;-p

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  ADAGUY6 months ago

  Had to love those "special" ones that were in there. This is great!

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    Radiofreeeuropa6 months ago

    Well most had thoughtful things to say, some (and who can say why?), in recent times, were not the greatest orators or thinkers.

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  Beeboppin716 months ago

  Our modern day Presidents are such buffoons.

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    2sidestoeverything6 months ago

    I agree 100%.

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      Locky126 months ago

      Back in the day, people had more reverance for their president and their buffonish statements were not often repeated.

      I think Carter's greatest quote was "Malaise Forever".

      One of Reagan's greatest quotes was about democrats: "If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it, if it stops moving subsidize it."

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        Radiofreeeuropa6 months ago

        We could have an encyclopedia on Dan Quayle (though he was a Vice President.) "If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

        "I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future."

        "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

        "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

        "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."

        "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."

        "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."

        - Dan Quayle

        LOL- I guess he was just softening us up for Dubya.

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          Locky126 months ago

          My favorite Dan Quayle quote was:

          "Are we going to go forward in the future or past to the back."

          But then again Thomas Jefferson did say the office of the Vice President isn't worth a lick of spit.

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            jebusofborg6 months ago

            "But then again Thomas Jefferson did say the office of the Vice President isn't worth a lick of spit."

            But jefferson could not have imagined a "person" or a situation like dick cheney perpetuating the actual military industrial complex we have been warned about by another president.

            Halliburton and cheyney could not have created a better situation for themselves, "out of spotlight, off the radar, but wheeling and dealing like nobodies business." I would say he is much more powerful then GW bush, and i guarantee a whole lot smarter.

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            jebusofborg6 months ago

            Sorry for accidental posting comment twice...

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        blinkers6 months ago

        Locky12, I'm surprised you didn't recall another neat (but silly) line he had about the Democrats: "They've move so far left, they've left America."

        (Nowadays it's the PNAC-driven Neo-Cons who've "left America", but that's off-topic).

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          blinkers6 months ago

          This comment is so far from its intended position: the "he" referred to is former president Ronald Reagan, if that was not immediately obvious

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      Radiofreeeuropa6 months ago

      Yeah, he also said-

      "Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything."

      --Ronald Reagan, in Newsweek, April 21, 1980.

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        Locky126 months ago

        Considering the Iran hostage crisis and the failed military attempt to rescue, the gas shortages, double digit inflation and 7% unemployment of ol' Jimmy,

        I speak for the entire country when I say we are better off with the occasional misstatement from a man like Reagan.

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          mesodude6 months ago

          So we fast forward 30 years and what do we have under the wonderful GOP? Nine trillion dollars of debt (a record). The largest federal government in history. Epidemic home foreclosures. Infrastructure crumbling daily. An entire historic city *demolished.* A catastrophic failure of a "war" in Iraq, a half assed war in Afghanistan, an economy circling the bottom of the toilet, tens of thousands of Americans being held hostage in Iraq, home heating and gas prices at *record* highs. Enviromental destruction. INCREASED world terrorism. Total disgrace within the international community. Untold BILLIONS of dollars in Iraq and Katrina funding "lost". A tanking dollar. FEMA, Justice Department, EPA, FTC, CPSC (among others) thoroughly gutted and *destroyed* beyond all recognition. Yeppers, that Carter guy really sucked, didn't he?

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            Locky126 months ago

            He sure did. The BIG one.

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              jdhatl6 months ago

              Reagan was worse than Carter. Though nowhere near as bad as yr boy Bush. Carter was naive about things, and probably would have done things differently if he could do it over again, but Reagan was responsible for serious war crimes in Latin America in a foolish obsessive tactic of support for "anti-communism". Now almost all of Latin America has turned to the left. That's because they've seen just how morally bankrupt the US was during the cold war.

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                blinkers6 months ago

                Fair comment, there.

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                Sureli6 months ago

                This is true, agreed.

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              mesodude6 months ago

              And another con bites the dust...As usual when facts and reality slap you wingers upside the head, you squeal and then scamper back to the barnyard trough. Poor locky. ;-(

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                Locky126 months ago

                Jimmy Carter! Oh Yeah!

                Didn't he give away the Panama Canal?

                Wasn't it during HIS administration that Iran started saying "Death to America" and they placed the American Flag as a doormat to every school and government building?

                Wasn't it ol' Jimmy that we had gas shortages?

                Double digit inflation? 7% Unemployment?

                And a BRILLIANT speech about Malaise Forever.

                You're so right Mesodude, jdhatl and blinkers!

                How did Jimmy lose that 1980 election?

                Thank God Ronald Reagan came and booted his a$$ back to the peanut farm where he belonged. Go build some houses, Jimmy, you sure as heck didn't know how to run a country unless "into the ground" was a goal. LOL!

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                  Searchbeam6 months ago

                  Locky,

                  If memory serves, the only serious mistake Jimmy Carter made was to listen to Henry "the Horrible" Kissinger.

                  When Iran was in a turmoil and Shah had to escape, Henry persuaded Carter to give him shelter, for all the "good" things he did for us (such as protecting the interests of the Rockefellers, Henry's patrons and masters). Iran's religious leaders were trying to tell us not to give refuge to Shah, who had looted the country's wealth and created a dictatorship complete with death squads and secret prisons where Shah's opponents were jailed and tortured under the expert guidance of our CIA - ala Abu Gharib - with all the requisite instruments of torture. Under Henry's persistent pleading, Carter refused to listen to their plea.

                  The Ayatollah reacted in the only way he knew how - by taking hostages in our Tehran Embassy.

                  Interestingly enough, they were released the exact moment Reagan took oath of office. Some may say Reagan connived it.

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                  mesodude6 months ago

                  Your perspective is warped beyond the pale. Bush is THE worst President and the the most despicable creature (including vermin) to ever inhabit the White House. No one has or could possibly surpass him in terms of sheer failure alone. Will you cons ever learn that it takes way the hell more to make a Presidency great than tax cuts as far as the eye can see and low unemployment? Bush has virtually DESTROYED the planet during his 8-year reign of terror. It's only a sad, pitifully small band of Bushwipes who can't see this, Locky. So very sorry to tell you... ;-(

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                    Locky126 months ago

                    So very sorry to tell you that it takes YEARS to look back at a presidency and call what kind of administration it was.

                    Bush made his share of mistakes to be sure.

                    But he kept a promise to fight terrorism.

                    No, Afghanistan is no paradise, but terrorists can't operate there freely anymore.

                    Saddam will NEVER be able to build WMD's and keep an iron fist on Iraq anymore. The U.S. is better off now because of it.

                    It sickens me to know that if a democrat (especially someone as inept as Obama wins) he or she will just pull us out, thereafter there'll be a MAJOR slaughter over there and our new prez will just yawn and say it was all Bush's fault anyway.

                    I can tell you this: When historians look back at the Bush administration, they'll find he had the guts to do what he promised to do to make the country and the world a better place no matter what the Jon Stewarts and the Keith Olbermanns were whining about.

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                      mesodude5 months, 4 weeks ago

                      "So very sorry to tell you that it takes YEARS to look back at a presidency and call what kind of administration it was."

                      LOL...Of course it will take "YEARS"? After all, a Republican is in the White House and even though cons have been blasting Clinton for more than a decade and slamming Carter for the last 30 years, we're all supposed to ignore the undeniable evidence staring us in the face and suspend judgement. What a surprise. And what a CROCK. Do neocons just sit at home *DREAMING* this crap up?!

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  daducha6 months ago

  Thanks for sharing, reminds me of a David Letterman segment about US President's speeches. Of course, the dumbest one has to be from the dumbest one. Must be the times?

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  Charlson6 months ago

  "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

  Dwight David Eisenhower (1953â;;1961)

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  "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

  James Madison (1809â;;1817)

  So prophetic.

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    Radiofreeeuropa6 months ago

    Andrew Jackson's farewell address was also surprising. And so insightful.

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    mcgrievysr6 months ago

    My favorite is, "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world". Benjamin Harrison. John Hagee, Pat Robertson, George W. Bush et al. should have been good enough citizens to have heeded that.

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    pongping6 months ago

    'monied corporations and lobbyists'

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    Obaku6 months ago

    All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

    Washington's Farewll Address - 1798

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    GHOSTWHOWALKS6 months ago

    Yes very.

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