last great (good?) republican president

[tylerdurden]

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Basically natedogg is saying that there have been no good Presidents at all (if we are using the two existing parties as reasonable equivalents to the various evolutions of the two parties over US history). That is absurd and I feel absolutely no obligation to provide a counterexample. This sort of blind allegiance to your ideology makes it pointless for me to even try to discuss it, hence the idiocy comment.

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Why is the argument that there have been no good presidents absurd? Some have certainly been "less bad" than others, but its far from a given that there absolutely *must* be a "good" one in the bunch.