Isn't that basically what I just said?
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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4225
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4225
Re: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
All the Bidens? Silly Russian dupe. You may feel like addressing ajax in that manner, but I suggest it may be better to stick to reasonable responses that insist on addressing the key issues. Ajax is not the only reader of this board, and others inclined to his views may (some at least) be open to ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17013
Re: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD
Encouraging news! Biden Soars Ahead in New Poll as Trump Stumbles . A new poll released by Quinnipiac has President Biden leading a head-to-head matchup with former President Donald Trump by four points. In the latest poll, Biden leads Trump, earning 49% of the hypothetical vote compared to 45% for ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2347
Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Shortly after Trump left office, a historian named Stephen Kantrowitz neatly summed up the reasons for considering him the worst: He combined "Andrew Johnson's fierce racism, Warren Harding's blithe corruption, George W. Bush's callow ineducability, James Buchanan's refusal to confront the mortal p...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2347
Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Shades, I’m not sure that the list isn’t accurate (or even “accurate”) for what it claims to be. It’s a ranking of US Presidents by professional historians. It doesn’t claim to be anything else. If you presented me with a list of the best Rock and Roll songs, as ranked by professional musicians, I’...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2347
Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Interesting take, Shades. I wonder why you put the word accurate in scare quotes. Because criteria that might make a former president look good to one person might be the very same criteria that makes a former president look bad to another. Hence why it’s no more possible to make an “accurate” list...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
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Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Interesting take, Shades. I wonder why you put the word accurate in scare quotes. Anyway, if by "accurate," you mean accurate, I'd postulate the opposite. Generally speaking, in the age of the printing press, the closer we are to the time when the person served, the worse we are at judging the long...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2347
Re: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Is that the one where Mr. Shoot Somebody on Fifth Ave. takes his rightful place at rock bottom? Jep! That's the one! Click on the link and look at the various tables and scores. I found them very interesting. Most embarrassing to Trump, perhaps, is the fact that even William Henry Harrison (ranked ...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:04 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: 2024 Election Campaign MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17013
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:22 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2347
Latest Survey Ranking U.S. Presidents
Results of the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey This survey included widely respected historians and political scientists from a wide spectrum of political views from Democrats to independents, liberal to conservative. There was not as much disagreement between those of Democrat vs...