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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:51:32 -0800
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:07:23 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>It confused Saddam Hussein too, who thought the Americans were his =
ally
>>>>until the bombs actually started dropping.
>>>
>>>But ... but ... but ... the Shrub /had/ to remove the blot on the
>>>family eschuteon from his father's failure to remove Saddam in the
>>>early 90s.=3D20
>>>
>>>His good buddies, the Republicans, told him so.
>>
>>With friends like that, who needs enemies?
>>
>>My suspicion is that his father will be known to history as one of the
>>best presidents of the 20th century in great part because he knew
>>when to get into a war and when to get out.  His son will be known as
>>one of the worse presidents because he didn't.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_U=
nited_States#Scholar_survey_summary
>
>Purportedly objective criteria:
>
>GHWB is around 19th or 20th best.
>Obama is 7th.
>Carter is 22nd.
>Nixon 35th
>Trump, 45th.   The bottom of the list.

As I said before, Trump made /every prior President/ look a whole lot
better. Even Tricky Dicky, who was shown to be telling the truth when
he said he was not a crook. Trump showed us what a President who is a
crook looks like. And we'll be getting another dose shortly.

Buckle up! Stormy times ahead!
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"