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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:35 PM Original message |
When Was The Last Time Our Country Despised A Leader Like This |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. If only because of current population levels... |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. hopefully we have learned |
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Jamison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe since Herbert Hoover? |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. I liked what Al Franken said about Nixon... |
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tinrobot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Hoover? |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. The past is remembered in sepia tones... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yep Hoover is the only one that comes close, but even he wasn't hated so |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. When they hoisted the Gadsden flag and said "FUCK YOU, KING GEORGE!" |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Lol. n/t |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 10:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
38. heh...thanks for getting it. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. The last leader to be despised like this was Hitler. |
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pattim (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. January 2009 |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Your post, in reply to mine, makes no sense. |
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pattim (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Sure it does |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. Hitler wasn't defeated by a vote by Germans. |
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pattim (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. And Bush won't be defeated by a vote by Americans. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. My point - Hitler was despised by decent Germans & most of the world... |
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pattim (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 08:07 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Just answering the question. |
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Robertwf (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
11. Nixon! |
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pattim (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
12. Depends on your crowd. |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Just as Hitler, in Nazi Germany, had the support of many 'patriotic'... |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. I have to agree with you, pattim. However, it's very possible that... |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. You can't compare the hatred of the right with the left |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 11:15 AM Response to Reply #27 |
42. Nice summary of the situation, Tactical Progressive. n/t |
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Lancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
14. Much of what you say could easily |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. Without the war, Warren G. Harding exhibited many of the crony-isms |
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Lancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Most of the scandals of the Harding Admin |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
20. Well, there is Clinton. |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I think that the right despised and continues to despise Clinton. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Lyndon Johnson, for many of the same reasons |
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ruggerson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. LBJ will be remembered most for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:54 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. They may well turn |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:37 PM Response to Reply #25 |
34. What do you think that the Democrats should do at this time? |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 08:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. If I really knew, |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 10:21 AM Response to Reply #22 |
39. Bill Clinton is seen as a likeable person, moreso than Bush IMO |
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catzies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:07 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. Perhaps, but recall how high he polled during that. A lot of folks just |
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Itchinjim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. As my late father said to me shortly before he passed away, |
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Sapphire Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. May your wonderful father rest in blessed peace : ) |
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cassiepriam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 05:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. My sentiments exactly. Your Dad said it perfectly. |
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Itchinjim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 12:12 AM Response to Reply #32 |
37. Thanks, but the old man never..... |
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AlphaCat (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-05 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
35. I, too, was a teenager during Watergate. |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
40. Benjamin Harrison |
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MN ChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 11:13 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Harrison was post-Civil War |
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kevsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
44. Abraham Lincoln, maybe. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
45. King George III |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
46. Carter, Nixon & LBJ all had lower approval ratings |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-05 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
47. maybe 'hold in contempt' rather than despise or hate or dislike |
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