Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: 20 Jan 2025 00:35:35 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <%q9jP.50906$G93a.23994@fx05.iad> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="28278"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1657 Robert Woodward wrote: > >I don't believe that Trump made James Buchanan look better. Buchanan was incompetent and thought appeasement would keep the union together. In retrospect he was somewhat lacking in moral fibre although he should get some credit... but the same kind of credit that Chamberlain gets. But Buchanan was not mercenary and trying to get as much as he could out of the office. And he really did want to keep the union together even if he had no idea how to do it. On the other hand, Harding, whom I would say probably was the worst president of all time, was mercenary and in the office for the money he could get out of it. We have had some pretty awful presidents here and there... if Trump is trying to be the worst he has a good bit of competition. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."