04-28-2017, 06:27 AM
(04-28-2017, 12:33 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-27-2017, 10:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(04-27-2017, 12:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Another one term president failure was George Bush the first.
Gerald Ford also lost, although he was completing a term.
Dubya at least had some success in foreign policy. Big success. He just could never offer a credible Second Act.
Ford simply was an inept campaigner for President. He had never run for statewide office, and it showed.
Did I lose something here? George Bush the first would be 41? Dubya would be 43?
My goof. Senior moment.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.