Drinkers make better presidents?

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_Panopticon
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Drinkers make better presidents?

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http://www.theofrak.com/2012/05/bad-omen-for-romney-drinkers-make.html

Perhaps there is some wisdom to the idea of electing a president you would like to "have a beer with."

Teetotaler American presidents — including George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, William Howard Taft, and Herbert Hoover — all turned out to be terrible.

By contrast, consider the accomplishments of moderate drinkers, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams.

According to an article in the New York Times:

“Sobriety, laudable in many respects, does imply rigidity of thought. The best presidents were open-minded, and generally open to a drink.”
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_Doctor CamNC4Me
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Re: Drinkers make better presidents?

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Oh, I don't know. If Mr. Bush hadn't gone into Iraq I think he might have had a successful Presidency...

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Re: Drinkers make better presidents?

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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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