Republican Party, Teabag Party and the Libertarian Party absolutely SUCK!

[Henry Hawk]

. . .Cripes. . . Aren't you one of the people who were hoisting up a corporate CEO as a very viable candidate?   

Heck yes, I would MUCH rather have someone who has REAL life experience in owning and running a business, than someone who is/was a lawyer and a senator.  Someone who understands how government effects business...and what business need to expand and grow.  The economy must get fixed first and foremost, because everything else won't mean squat if we collapse.

[Exterminator]

Taking over a company, firing its workers and selling off its assets is pretty much the antithesis of expansion and growth.

[Palehorse]

Heck yes, I would MUCH rather have someone who has REAL life experience in owning and running a business, than someone who is/was a lawyer and a senator.  Someone who understands how government effects business...and what business need to expand and grow.  The economy must get fixed first and foremost, because everything else won't mean squat if we collapse.

Order   President   Previous occupation(s)
1   George Washington   Land Surveyor, Farmer/plantation owner, Soldier (General of United Army of the Colonies)
2   John Adams   Lawyer, Farmer
3   Thomas Jefferson   Land Surveyor, Writer, Inventor, Lawyer, Architect, Farmer/Plantation owner
4   James Madison   Farmer/plantation owner, Lawyer
5   James Monroe   Farmer/plantation owner, Lawyer
6   John Quincy Adams   Lawyer
7   Andrew Jackson   Soldier, Lawyer
8   Martin Van Buren   Lawyer
9   William Harrison   Soldier
10   John Tyler   Lawyer
11   James Polk   Lawyer, Plantation owner
12   Zachary Taylor   Soldier
13   Millard Fillmore   Lawyer
14   Franklin Pierce   Lawyer
15   James Buchanan   Lawyer, Diplomat
16   Abraham Lincoln   Land Surveyor, Lawyer
17   Andrew Johnson   Tailor
18   Ulysses Grant   Soldier, General of the Army
19   Rutherford Hayes   Lawyer
20   James Garfield   School teacher, minister, soldier
21   Chester Arthur   School teacher, lawyer, collector of tariffs
22, 24   Grover Cleveland   Sheriff, lawyer, assistant teacher
23   Benjamin Harrison   Lawyer, journalist
25   William McKinley   Lawyer
26   Theodore Roosevelt   Public Official, Rancher
27   William Taft   Lawyer, judge, law reporter, dean of law school at the University of Cincinnati
28   Woodrow Wilson   Lawyer, professor, president of Princeton University
29   Warren Harding   Newspaper publisher/editor
30   Calvin Coolidge   Lawyer, Vice President of Northampton Savings Bank
31   Herbert Hoover   Engineer, Investor
32   Franklin Roosevelt   Lawyer
33   Harry Truman   Farmer, Men's clothing retailer
34   Dwight Eisenhower   Soldier, General, President of Columbia University,
35   John F. Kennedy   Writer, Sailor (Navy Lieutenant)
36   Lyndon Johnson   Teacher, Public Official
37   Richard Nixon   Lawyer, Sailor (Navy Lieutenant Commander)
38   Gerald Ford   Sailor (Navy Lieutenant Commander), Lawyer
39   Jimmy Carter   Sailor (Navy Lieutenant),[1] peanut farmer,[2] writer
40   Ronald Reagan[3][4]   Actor & broadcaster, President of the Screen Actors Guild[5]
41   George H. W. Bush   Pilot (Navy Lieutenant, Junior Grade),[6] Businessman (Oil)[7]
42   Bill Clinton   Lawyer, Law lecturer
43   George W. Bush   Businessman (Oil,[8] baseball)[9]
44   Barack Obama   Public Interest professional, Community organizer, Lawyer,[citation needed] Law Professor,[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_occupation

Humm. . .  seems like you think the lions share of our presidents were the same then.

Interestingly, the two listing "business" as an occupation are responsible for the most irresponsible  administrations in history!

Fixing the economy means the repugnican party is going to have to say yes instead of no!

[The Troll]

Heck yes, I would MUCH rather have someone who has REAL life experience in owning and running a business, than someone who is/was a lawyer and a senator.  Someone who understands how government effects business...and what business need to expand and grow.  The economy must get fixed first and foremost, because everything else won't mean squat if we collapse.

  You always bring up the so called promises you said that Obama made.  Do you honestly believe that all of the promises that these Republican candidates have made will come true.  If you do you're completely nuts. 

  Bring back jobs good paying jobs, $2 gasoline, manned colony's on the moon, peace in Israel, balanced budget in 4 years, saving and improving Social Security and war with Iran, now I can believe the last one.  It's all and all that I can say is,


                                                     

[Henry Hawk]

Nope! But I think many of the ideas they want will create more jobs, lower gas, and at least USE a budget that MIGHT turn us back in the right direction.
the direction we are going now is NOT creating more jobs or lowering our gas....and we have had NO budget since the dems took over....and our deficit is doubling...
So.....It is time for the pendulam to swing back to the right...... 

[Exterminator]

40   Ronald Reagan[3][4]   Actor & broadcaster, President of the Screen Actors Guild[5]

I'd be interested in hearing what experience Henry thinks this clown had that qualified him to be the POTUS.

[The Troll]

I'd be interested in hearing what experience Henry thinks this clown had that qualified him to be the POTUS.

  It must have been that sliver split tongue (like in snake) and the Teflon overcoat he wore.   

[Exterminator]

Actually, being an actor uniquely qualified Reagan for the presidency so that he could play whatever role he was told to by his corporate puppeteers.

[Henry Hawk]

I'd be interested in hearing what experience Henry thinks this clown had that qualified him to be the POTUS.

Easy, he was a two-term governor of the most populated state in the nation.....where he turned a $194 million deficit into a $550 million surplus!!  There he learned how to work with democrats and became a powerful communicator.

a pretty gosh darn good resume'...

[Exterminator]

Easy, he was a two-term governor of the most populated state in the nation.....where he turned a $194 million deficit into a $550 million surplus!!

He did that by raising taxes several times, the first of which was a $1 billion increase ($17 billion in today's dollars) or the equivalent of one third of the state's tax revenues at the time.

[me]

Nope! But I think many of the ideas they want will create more jobs, lower gas, and at least USE a budget that MIGHT turn us back in the right direction.
the direction we are going now is NOT creating more jobs or lowering our gas....and we have had NO budget since the dems took over....and our deficit is doubling...
So.....It is time for the pendulam to swing back to the right...... 

Now HH don't you know that if ya just raise the debt ceiling and print more money we don't need no stinking budget?   

[Bo D]

He did that by raising taxes several times, the first of which was a $1 billion increase ($17 billion in today's dollars) or the equivalent of one third of the state's tax revenues at the time.

Hmmmm.... I wonder what the answer will be to that? 


As president, Reagan "raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office," including four times in just two years.

During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, "roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether."

Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/05/142288/reagan-centennial/?mobile=nc

[The Troll]

  You good people know that the Senate wrote a good bill to stop inside trading by the congressmen and congresswomen.  But guess what happen when it went to the Republican controlled House of Representives?       

  Do to the excess lobbying by K Street and others involved.  The Republican watered down the bill to the point where it doesn't amount to shit.  It's like putting one teabag into one gallon of hot water.  Good old Republican weak tea.  Don't you love the Greedy Bastards.   

[Henry Hawk]

The House bill passed with a 417-2 vote ....c'mon Troll.......it was two repubs that voted against it....ALL of the Dems voted for it.

now it will go back to a House-Senate conference, and they can fight it out....the way they should.

[Exterminator]

Hmmmm.... I wonder what the answer will be to that? 


As president, Reagan "raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office," including four times in just two years.

During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, "roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether."

Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/05/142288/reagan-centennial/?mobile=nc

Oh, see, you're talking about the 11 times he raised taxes as the president, I was still on his record of numerous tax increases as governor.  If we've moved on to his accomplishments at the national level, lets not forget funding and training Al Quaeda and the Taliban, illegal weapons sales to Iran and funding the Contras!  Such a national hero!