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IMO, it has nothing to do with "reasonable and smart people" (by your tone, I assume you are refering to liberals). Americans prefer leaders to managers no matter their political stripe or implied "intelligence".
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We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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Which I've always disliked about our country, given that we fought so hard to get away from King George III.Originally posted by SpencerH View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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A good leader needs at least a glimmer of intelligence. This was lacking in Reagan. The only thing he did was "looking tough" on TV. And I am not talking about liberals / conservatives / socialists neither. I actually liked Bush the older and you can hardly call him a liberal now can you ?Originally posted by SpencerH View Post"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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Americans hate being leveled with, and told hard truths. Whenever some politician attempts it, he is smacked down, hard. Which is why Obama has mostly avoided it, actually (despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from dishonest hacks who portray him as "apologizing for America" and "blaming America" or "Hating America."). I have no doubt he knows about Carter.
Reagan fed our national mythology regarding how special and awesome we are (aka "portraying the US as still a great nation when a lot of people had lost faith"). He was rewarded for that with 2 terms. Almost everyone liked it, at least a little. Most American politicians do this, almost constantly. We must be told, over and over and over, that we're great.
There was obviously more to it than that (since he simply did, skillfully, what most if not all of them do). Reagan was wise enough to understand that someone who agrees with you 4 times out of 5 is your political ally, not your enemy. He was a good politician. He was not dumb. I think he was wrong about some things, sure, but that doesn't mean he was dumb.
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So you believe that one can become President of the USA without being intelligent? An interesting perspective.Originally posted by dannubis View Post
As for GHW Bush, actually he was fairly liberal IMO, just not as liberal as (for example) Obama.We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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WTF does it take for you to consider someone conservative? GHWB a liberal! What, exactly, made him a liberal?
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He raised taxes, you know.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Thanks Spence!
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So did Reagan
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Then he was a dirty li... lib.... liberal, too.
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Yes. I have living memory of 5 presidents: Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama. 2 of them were dumber than a cobble stone.Originally posted by SpencerH View Post"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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He's probably thinking of Medicare Part D and Department of Homeland Security with Faith Based Programs along with Bush's views on Immigration. Libertarian Republicans dislike the Bush Administration for all sorts of ideas of how he abandoned "conservativism" (recall Cheney was called "war criminal" at a recent CPAC by some libertarian Republicans).Originally posted by Arrian View Post“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Wrong Bush.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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No. He's talking about Bush the Elder. Not boy wonder.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Oh sorry, that's even more of an easy case to make then! Raised taxes, didn't really care a whit about social issues.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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