tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post5501365405286106501..comments2023-11-03T03:45:54.322-04:00Comments on Fox Home: John Tyler, 10th POTUS, the Nixon of His DayFoxessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-43994311903108747182008-09-28T01:32:00.000-04:002008-09-28T01:32:00.000-04:00One of the amazing things about this country has b...One of the amazing things about this country has been it's ability to survive and thrive despite a lot of mediocre and poor leadership. If you assigned letter grades to presidents, who would get the A's? Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt for sure, but anyone else is arguable. Johnson, Eisenhower, Truman, Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt were capable to brilliant but all had flaws. Jefferson, and Jackson were certainly important. Monroe I think has a good rep, but I don't know much about him. I think Clinton might have accomplished some great things with a better Congress, but that's moot. Otherwise, you're looking at the mediocre, the weak, and the dangerous.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-70980631034146856432008-09-22T10:38:00.000-04:002008-09-22T10:38:00.000-04:00Thanks.Also for the record, which I'll get to late...Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Also for the record, which I'll get to later, that Mexican American War waged in Polk's administration? He was swept into office on the idea of that invasion.<BR/><BR/>But -- it was very much like Vietnam. The war went on far longer than anyone had imagined, and kept costing more and more, in terms of the economy and of lives. It got less and less popular. Thus Polk got a single term.<BR/><BR/>All these dorks were single term presidents. All of them from 1840 to 1861 lied about about their sincerity for preserving the union, while caving and catering and <I>actively</I> furthering the interests of the large southern slaveholders: Harrison (a Virginian elected on the basis of his fame as an Indian killer), Tyler, Polk, Taylor (born in Virginia, raised on a plantation in Kentucky, living in Louisiana and owner of a Mississippi plantation -- how many slaves died, do you think, clearing the Mississippi land to make ready for cotton? -- and another Indian killer), Fillmore (one of the primary architects of the Missouri Compromise that the southern slaveowners flouted immediately, beginning what the North labeled the War of Southern Aggression), Pierce (his political career was mentored by Scott), Buchanan (who was an out-and-out traitor to the U.S., giving aid and assistance to the south, transferring military supplies to them -- and in love with at least two of the scions of southern slaveholders). All of them were far better at playing politics than actually administering anything, except catering to the south.<BR/><BR/>Thereby, the resentment and anger of the North grew justifiably greater over all those terms. The south ever more arrogant and convinced they were always going be able to get their way. Very like the neoCONS and xtians rapturests of today -- they employ very much the same rhetoric too. They care as little for rationality, facts, fair play, honesty and justice as the southern slaveholders did.<BR/><BR/>Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680622593910991248.post-90918818860243167272008-09-22T00:47:00.000-04:002008-09-22T00:47:00.000-04:00Really interesting post.Your post should be printe...Really interesting post.<BR/><BR/>Your post should be printed as a blurb for the book.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.com