Tell me one thing...

[Wezil]

Mulroney - Managed to govern without being in contempt of Parliament

Trudeau - Charter (that should send some Conservatives over the edge)

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Carter - Appointed Volker
Screwed the Russians in Afghanistan via covert support

[MOBIUS]

Sorry Brits, Euros, and Aussies, but I do not know enough about your politics to know the big buttons, other than Thatcher in Britain. Feel free to make up your own villains and tel us one good thing they did.

Thatcher and Blair deserve their own plane of hell together for the rest of eternity.

[Guynemer]

Reagan tried to eliminate nuclear weapons.

[Wezil]

Reagan tried to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Better still - He tried to do it without resorting to using them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm probably a bit on the liberal side overall, but I find it rather easier to say something good about Reagan than Carter. I'm confused as to how to proceed.

This is a good question. As is the question of those who aren't sure which side they fit in anymore (can I be a moderate right winger if I'm for universal health care, reducing the size of the military, wanting to balance the budget by increasing taxes on the wealthier Americans rather than cutting services for poorer Americans, and banning the death penalty?), but I probably could say something good about both Reagan and Carter.

[DinoDoc]

You are American and a conservative, tell me one good thing that Carter did.

Stripped most collective bargaining "rights" from federal workers.

[The Mad Monk]

Carter: Camp David Accords

[Asher]

You are Canadian and a liberal (not the party) tell me one good thing that Mulroney did.

NAFTA

You are Canadian and conservative, tell me one good thing that Trudeau did.

The middle finger.

[Dinner]

The good thing Reagan did was he died.


On a more serious note he helped millions of illegal aliens move towards citizenship if they did certain things and that was a good thing.

[Jon Miller]

Reagan increased funding for the physical sciences... is pretty much the only president since Johnson for that to be true of.

Federal sciences funding as a percentage of GDP* started increasing significantly under President Eisenhower, from .73% in 1953 to more than double that percentage 1.69% in 1960. Funding as a percentage of GDP peaked in 1964, at 1.92 percent under then-President Lyndon Johnson (no doubt with heavy input from his predecessor, President John F. Kennedy, as budgets are set a year prior) The spending level was was 1.64% of GDP in President Johnson's last year in office, 1968. It went down slightly under President Richard Nixon, from 1.55% in 1969 to 1.15% in 1974; and down to 1.11% in President Gerald Ford's last year in office, 1976. Funding went down from 1.09% in President Jimmy Carter's first year in office, 1977, to 1.07% in 1980. But the number fluctuated a great deal under President Ronald Reagan -- starting at 1.08% in 1981, peaking at 1.25% in 1985, and ending with a net increase in 1988 at 1.18%. Funding proceeded to decrease again under President George H.W. Bush (1.10% in 1989, 0.96% in 1992); President Bill Clinton (0.91% in 1993 to 0.68% in 2000); and President George W. Bush (0.72% in 2001, peaking in 2003 and 2004 at 0.76%, and lessening to 0.71% in 2007, the last year for which statistics were available.)

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gra...#ixzz1GDooKS8Z

JM

[The Mad Monk]

The good thing Reagan did was he died.

...and one fine day, you can at least match him on that.

[Dinner]

Come on man. The smilie made it clear that was a joke.

[DaShi]

It's not that it was a joke, TMM is just upset that it was about Reagan. Apparently making such jokes about Trudeau is ok.

[giblets]

Reagan decided to cut and run in Lebanon.