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Fri Jan-23-04 11:37 PM
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Poll question: Favorite US President - 1837-1861 |
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Edited on Fri Jan-23-04 11:38 PM by ih8thegop
(D)-Democrat; (W)-Whig
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Sat Jan-24-04 12:19 AM
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Not because he was a good President (he wasn't); because, in a letter home to his wife from Veracruz, he wrote about getting high and said marijuana was the only damned thing that was any good about the Mexican-American War. Gotta like that. (And you DID say "favourite"...)
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Sat Jan-24-04 02:55 PM
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9. Pierce is a distant relative of the current resident in the White House |
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Oh his mother's side. Barbara Bush was Barbara Pierce when she married George H.W. Bush.
I guess it's not TOO surprising that Chimpy is related to an alcoholic and drug user (most definitely NOT that there's anything wrong with marijuana. :-))
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Sat Jan-24-04 12:25 AM
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2. Why are people voting for Polk? |
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He was an early version of W. He dragged the country into an unnecessary war in order to promote the interests of his slave-driving friends. And Pierce willfully ignored the expressed interests of the voters of Kansas in order to gain a territorial legislature and state constitution friendly to those same slave-holders, thus ensuring continued bloodshed in that territory over the issue of slavery's expansion. Only Taylor, in 1850, promised to have the backbone to stand up to the Southern oligarchs and their big money by vetoing the compromise bills of 1850, and for his pains, he died under very questionable circumstances.
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Sat Jan-24-04 12:29 AM
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3. Good question. Polk : Mexican War = W : Iraq 2003-4 |
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Among other things :puke:
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Sat Jan-24-04 02:50 PM
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8. Because he was in DIE HARD 3! |
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He just got my vote too.
He's Willis approved
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Sat Jan-24-04 12:58 AM
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4. Holy cow! look at that string of losers...... |
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and I thought the late 1900's was bad.
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Sat Jan-24-04 02:49 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-24-04 02:50 PM by ih8thegop
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Sat Jan-24-04 03:02 PM
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10. Well, 1864 -1884 wasn't a high point in the Presidency, either. |
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Andrew Johnson. Ulysses Grant. Rutherford B. Hayes. James Garfield. Chester Alan Arthur.
Not exactly distinguished.
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Sun Jan-25-04 06:05 PM
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19. Well, Johnson was, in the GOP's mind. |
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Sun Jan-25-04 06:15 PM
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20. all those republicans |
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tsk tsk.
Johnson wasn't bad, he just was a moderate in a party of radicals following on the footsteps of one of the nation's greatest
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Sun Jan-25-04 05:36 PM
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16. On the other hand, the presidents had very little power then |
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The country was growing fast, things were pretty decentralized, and most of the power was in the hands of either the states or the Congress.
The great names from that general period are those of people like Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, both of whom died in 1852, and both of whom tried but failed to win the presidency.
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Sat Jan-24-04 01:21 AM
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the golden age of the Presidency
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Sat Jan-24-04 01:24 AM
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Last of the whigs...
...and proud of it!
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Sat Jan-24-04 05:51 PM
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Keep the ball rollin' y'll. Too bad he died.
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Sat Jan-24-04 06:09 PM
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What do you find appealing about Old Tippecanoe?
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Sun Jan-25-04 05:05 PM
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15. He had the longest inaugeration speech, caught a cold during it and died. |
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Sat Jan-24-04 06:01 PM
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12. Whatever happened to the Whig party anyway? |
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I always found that highly amusing as a child.
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Sat Jan-24-04 09:09 PM
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14. I think wigs got out of fashion |
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It seriously started to get out of fashion at the turn of the century
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Sun Jan-25-04 05:56 PM
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18. John Adams's election theme song was "Dude look like a lady" by Aerosmith |
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Sadly Adams even in his wig looked like a stunningly ugly lady, so he was limited to one term, defeated by Jefferson, who, in a dress, would have made for a pretty hot chick in that Allison Janney sort of way.
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Sun Jan-25-04 06:16 PM
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21. They couldn't balance the N Whigs and S Whigs |
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and died out with the advent of the new progressive Republican party
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Sun Jan-25-04 05:52 PM
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17. Abe Lincoln's fave was Filmore. Abe gave props to Millard in 1861. |
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Millard was also the only one who was right on the slavery issue during those years--so it's not an accident that he had to Veep his way into the Oval Office. And the dude was a Unitarian.
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