Comments on: George, You Were No Herbert Hoover

New Republic: Both Are Failed Presidents, But Hoover Was Better Than Bush

[dwightdavid2]

You can''t read accounts of the relief effort in Europe at the end of World War I, which Herbert Hoover oversaw, without being impressed. Keynes said that Hoover saved millions of lives. Hoover was also sympathetic to Keynes''s approach to the Treaty of Versailles, I believe. All of this is in D Markwell''s book "John Maynard Keynes and International Relations". There is no doubt in my mind that Herbert Hoover was a person of greater intellectual and moral calibre that George W Bush...

[messiahx4eve]

Joe the wannabe-plumber dies and goes to heaven, as he arrives there, he notices there are clocks all over heaven. He asks Jesus what the clocks are and Jesus replies, "They are the clocks of truth in heaven & lies of h3ll, for every lie told, the big hand spins around once. Joe the plumber is curious about Insane McCain''s, Failin'' Palin''s, shrubbie''s & lil Dikkie Cheney''s clocks. Jesus sadly replies, "they never made it here, their clocks are in h3ll and being used as fans in the kitchen.

[ioweign]

Only problem with your Dad''''s theory is that He must have died before 1976. That''''s when Jimmy Carter was elected and the interest for a home loan went to 21.5%. Yes that''''s right 21.5%. The recession that followed during the first two years of the Reagan andminstration was backlash from that. What your father also failed to tell you Jr. is that Reagan turned the economy around. It was Bush I, Clinton and Bush II and **** senator elite number 1 that are responsible for the crapola we are in now.

Posted by bunwiper at 05:29 PM : Oct 22, 2008

Carter inherited Nixon going off the gold standard...

[adt13t]

demented ronnie spent like a drunken sailor
massively expanding the size of govt.
and of course the national debt (credit
card) which he passed to the next generation
to pay off
uncle demented ronnies fraudulent bedtime
stories so easily digested by the willfully
self deceived bend over pawn crib

[adt13t]

uncle demented ronnie expanded the size of government
(he promised to shrink it but failed)
and instead created a bubble by giving tax breaks
to the rich and massive deficit spending
proving trickle down was a charlatan hoax to
begin with

[marcosis78]

At least Hoover had the Dam built with his name. Bush isnt getting anything except the door and a library to chronicle his abomination...I mean presidency.

[roger3815]

Hoover would be a step up from Bush.

[ubrew12]

Good history lesson.

[observantx]

The real issue is that since Ronny Raygun, there have been no REAL Republicans. You know, small government, fiscally conservative, etc.

We now have "Republicans in name only" RINOs. Reactionary, fiscally irresponsible, government bloating, intrusive into our lives (what library books have you been reading?)(Ooooh, another juicy email!!). What''s most laughable is the "compassionate conservative" label they have tried to use. In no manner shape or form are they conservative.

Eisenhower, Goldwater and Rockefeller must be spinning in their graves so fast, they are a new source of free energy.

Obama looks more like a Republican than this current crop of Wall Street Socialists.

[brianbwb-2009]

"You dumb ars. It will implicate all of congress dems and repubs alike...except Obama whom didn''t vote for the war. He was just getting out of diapers then."
Posted by bunwiper

While that is not a bad idea, Congress was only acting on what the president told them, just as they made the unnecessary bailout based on Bush''s lie that the economy would collapse "within days".

Believing a treasonous liar is only stupid, telling the treasonous lies is a crime.