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2012/08/23 02:50:42
Subject: Re:What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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. I want those spiffy Mesoamerican ruins
Always good to see another ancient civilization geek 
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2012/08/23 02:55:16
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Unnessesarily extravegant word of the week award goes to jcress410 for this:
jcress wrote:Seem super off topic to complain about epistemology on a thread about tactics.
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2012/08/23 04:15:13
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!
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Live Ork, Be Ork. or D'Ork!
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2012/08/23 04:19:42
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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I don't want Tatcher... Can we have Will and Kate instead? We need a cool celebrity couple we can look at and think "wow they're just like us!"
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2012/08/23 04:28:09
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Ike.
Quite simply the best mix of progressiveness and conservatism, Ever.
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2012/08/23 04:32:37
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Go nuts.
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Unnessesarily extravegant word of the week award goes to jcress410 for this:
jcress wrote:Seem super off topic to complain about epistemology on a thread about tactics.
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2012/08/23 04:34:52
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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5th God of Chaos! (Ho-hum)
Curb stomping in the Eye of Terror!
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 AustonT wrote:Ike.
Quite simply the best mix of progressiveness and conservatism, Ever.
^^ Ike... or Teddy then....
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2012/08/23 08:24:24
Subject: Re:What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Depraved Slaanesh Chaos Lord
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I vote for the dark horse, William Harrison
Because, who knows!?
He is the question of what is behind door #2.
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2012/08/23 10:48:37
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle
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 insaniak wrote:Sometimes, Exterminatus is the only option.
And sometimes, it's just a case of too much scotch combined with too many buttons...
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2012/08/23 11:22:05
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Enigmatic Sorcerer of Chaos
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Thomas Jefferson.
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2012/08/23 11:27:59
Subject: Re:What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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Jed Bartlet.
.... .. or maybe Lex Luthor, not sure the USA is ready for a bald president though.
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2012/08/23 11:47:05
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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i still want Sheriff Joe, i mean he has his own tank for the Sheriff Dept. and its a howitzer....
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2012/08/23 12:06:40
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Major
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Either Eizenhower, LBJ or Clinton.
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2012/08/23 12:53:44
Subject: Re:What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Dwarf Runelord Banging an Anvil
Way on back in the deep caves
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I like Ike. Or Harry Truman.
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2012/08/23 13:06:51
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
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Taft- A progressive trust-buster. Helped bring about the end of the Gilded Age. Plus, who doesn't want an obese President again?
Chester A. Arthur- He was so corrupt he made Grant look like an amatuer. Perhaps led to the rise of Progressivism in the US.
Eugene V. Debbs- Okay, not an actual president, but a candidate. He was a died in the wool Socialist and would actual provide a counter to the Right leaning swing of American politics.
Lot's of great answers in this thread by the way....
LBJ
Ike
Andrew Jackson
Teddy
FDR
Washington
Lincoln
They all would be pretty awesome.
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2012/08/23 13:09:32
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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I like Ike.
Sort of OT, but if term limits didn't exist, you have to think that Bill Clinton would still be President. I grant that environmental factors come into play with elections, and at some point Clinton fatigue woulda set in. But there wasn't a single candidate over the past 12 years that Bill wouldn't have thrashed in the primaries and general elections. The guy woulda been President for life.
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2012/08/23 13:18:09
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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2016, the Clinton/Clinton ticket.
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2012/08/23 14:52:57
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
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Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention.
JFK.... Over. Rated.
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2012/08/23 14:56:14
Subject: Re:What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Either Teddy or Nixon.
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2012/08/23 15:01:28
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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gorgon wrote:I like Ike.
Sort of OT, but if term limits didn't exist, you have to think that Bill Clinton would still be President. I grant that environmental factors come into play with elections, and at some point Clinton fatigue woulda set in. But there wasn't a single candidate over the past 12 years that Bill wouldn't have thrashed in the primaries and general elections. The guy woulda been President for life.
No. After the Lewinski fiasco he didn't have a chance. Automatically Appended Next Post:
Nixon is needed now. His mastery of international affairs would be excellent.
Reagan for domestic. Nixon for international realpolitic.
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2012/08/23 15:13:05
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Hallowed Canoness
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Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt.
Fixing America, one has the words, the other brings pain.
Epic buddy cop movie?
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2012/08/23 15:18:05
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Teddy.
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2012/08/23 15:23:59
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Pragmatic Primus Commanding Cult Forces
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 Frazzled wrote:gorgon wrote:I like Ike.
Sort of OT, but if term limits didn't exist, you have to think that Bill Clinton would still be President. I grant that environmental factors come into play with elections, and at some point Clinton fatigue woulda set in. But there wasn't a single candidate over the past 12 years that Bill wouldn't have thrashed in the primaries and general elections. The guy woulda been President for life.
No. After the Lewinski fiasco he didn't have a chance.
That's just untrue. His approval rating when he left office was in the mid to high 60s. That's without any kind of wartime boost. Pretty crazy stuff.
Lewinsky was already blowing over in 2000, as was the Whitewater non-scandal scandal. Besides, the most important question in an election is whether you like that guy more than the other guy. It's a head-to-head game, and Clinton woulda beaten anyone the GOP could have thrown at him.
Look at the current race. Obama is vulnerable thanks to a laundry list of reasons. But he's probably going to win just because Romney is a GOP John Kerry. It's the old outrunning-the-bear story.
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2012/08/23 15:24:43
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
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Frazzled wrote:
Nixon is needed now. His mastery of international affairs would be excellent.
I'm actually fairly confident that Nixon's approach to the present situation wouldn't differ all that much from what we're actually seeing, especially given some of Kissinger's comments over the last ~12 years. Though if we had Nixon instead of Bush, we probably wouldn't have invade Iraq or Afghanistan. Of course Nixon probably wouldn't have gotten elected either.
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2012/08/23 15:30:15
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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Yeah its got to be Teddy, he's the only fether my missus relatives don't complain about. 
Nixon!?
Is the world really so lacking in flagrantly racist anti-semites that we need to start bringing them back from the dead?
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels. |
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2012/08/23 15:33:12
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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gorgon wrote: Frazzled wrote:gorgon wrote:I like Ike.
Sort of OT, but if term limits didn't exist, you have to think that Bill Clinton would still be President. I grant that environmental factors come into play with elections, and at some point Clinton fatigue woulda set in. But there wasn't a single candidate over the past 12 years that Bill wouldn't have thrashed in the primaries and general elections. The guy woulda been President for life.
No. After the Lewinski fiasco he didn't have a chance.
That's just untrue. His approval rating when he left office was in the mid to high 60s. That's without any kind of wartime boost. Pretty crazy stuff.
Lewinsky was already blowing over in 2000, as was the Whitewater non-scandal scandal. Besides, the most important question in an election is whether you like that guy more than the other guy. It's a head-to-head game, and Clinton woulda beaten anyone the GOP could have thrown at him.
Look at the current race. Obama is vulnerable thanks to a laundry list of reasons. But he's probably going to win just because Romney is a GOP John Kerry. It's the old outrunning-the-bear story.
yep it was so awesome Gore lost to an amateur.
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2012/08/23 15:37:19
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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No they cant they can feth off.
Sensible British people are well aware of how awesome she is so were keeping her. 
I especially like how all the fethers who hate on the Queen go on about how they hate how people are in "awe" of her (I'm not), and then they go off and make a big sign to wave, and maybe buy a t-shirt, and some buttons, and then go and holler and hoot and cheer and shriek at slimy career politicians like they are rock stars even though we all KNOW they are all self serving scumbags!
So you can just move to France, ignore the monarchy, and gleefully start treating some effete, self-loathing, left leaning hipster douche-bag with a closet full of skeletons like a living God instead whilst I merely have a grudging respect for a dignified old lady.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels. |
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2012/08/23 15:42:08
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Blood-Raging Khorne Berserker
I don't even KNOW anymore.
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2012/08/23 15:45:49
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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 mattyrm wrote:
No they cant they can feth off.
Sensible British people are well aware of how awesome she is so were keeping her.
I especially like how all the fethers who hate on the Queen go on about how they hate how people are in "awe" of her (I'm not), and then they go off and make a big sign to wave, and maybe buy a t-shirt, and some buttons, and then go and holler and hoot and cheer and shriek at slimy career politicians like they are rock stars even though we all KNOW they are all self serving scumbags!
So you can just move to France, ignore the monarchy, and gleefully start treating some effete, self-loathing, left leaning hipster douche-bag with a closet full of skeletons like a living God instead whilst I merely have a grudging respect for a dignified old lady.
I like the Queen but i have a deep dislike for Thatcher... probably because of my family come to think of it...
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2012/08/23 15:51:45
Subject: What president from tlhe past do you wish was in the running for this election?
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Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who snickered at that.
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