What is the best thing that happened to you in 2008? (shows, quote)

Alpha Centauri · 01-07-2009, 02:20 PM

Global Warming has been considered an accident.
I thinks thats both funny and good.

sleepy jack · 01-07-2009, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

The president has never really been a "smart man's job"; some of the most intelligent (Coolidge, Harding, Taylor, Carter) have made some of the worst presidents, and vice versa. America has been much more acclimated to having inept presidents with competent advisors.

Of course, Bush has set records for new lows, but incompetence isn't his number one flaw.

Oh yeah, I forgot about all those idiot presidents that are considered the best. Like Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, etc.

lucifer_sam · 01-07-2009, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Oh yeah, I forgot about all those idiot presidents that are considered the best. Like Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, etc.

Jackson certainly wasn't an intelligent president (his campaign labeled him "a man of the people"). In the twentieth century alone, we had Clinton, Reagan, JFK, Truman, and Wilson fill out excellent years in office, though none of them were academically talented or particularly intelligent. I won't deny that Jefferson was a great leader and rather intelligent, but he was an outstanding exception.

Rubber · 01-07-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by toejamfootballs

I got my heartbroken, badly.

It's made me a stronger person and also really motivated me to improve myself.

Amen brah.

sleepy jack · 01-07-2009, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Jackson certainly wasn't an intelligent president (his campaign labeled him "a man of the people"). In the twentieth century alone, we had Clinton, Reagan, JFK, Truman, and Wilson fill out excellent years in office, though none of them were academically talented or particularly intelligent. I won't deny that Jefferson was a great leader and rather intelligent, but he was an outstanding exception.

I'm not even going to argue the intelligence or success of the people you mentioned because your own intelligence shows here. Woodrow Wilson wasn't academically talented? He was the President of Princeton genius.

Also smart generals tend to make good presidents. Also you're going to have come up with a better reason for Jackson's supposed stupidity than "man of the people" he earned that label for democratizing the elections.

lucifer_sam · 01-07-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Also smart generals tend to make good presidents. Just because Andrew Jackson was the first populist president doesn't mean he was Sarah Palin you know.

Like Ulysses S. Grant, you mean?

Dr_Rez · 01-07-2009, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Woodrow Wilson wasn't academically talented? He was the President of Princeton genius.

Correct me if im wrong ( i may be) but wasnt he also a teacher at Princeton and another prominent law firm in New York?

So yes

, he was smart.

And LS how do you figure all those others were not academically smart???

Black People Are Cool · 01-07-2009, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpha Centauri

Global Warming has been considered an accident.
I thinks thats both funny and good.

Nope we didn't it on purpose

and shhh but I gotta hunch that its all a big scam

GravitySlips · 01-07-2009, 09:43 PM

moving to student halls was undoubtedly the best decision i made/best thing I did all year.

sleepy jack · 01-07-2009, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Like Ulysses S. Grant, you mean?

My statement wasn't absolute, nice try. I said tend to. However I still feel smart people make better presidents than dumb ones. I'm sorry you find that objectionable.

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