Quote Originally Posted by AKDoug View Post
We've had so many shitty presidents that it's a wonder we still exist. Actually, that gives me hope..
Honestly, with a few exceptions, the lives of ordinary people are almost never effected directly by who is president. Bush gave us that 89 import ban and Clinton f'ed shit up for 10 years. Obama was the first to REQUIRE we purchase health care or be fined. But really that's about it for most of us.

Sure Bush 43 was an incompetent F'tard and if you were deployed it was probably a shit show, but for everyone else it was just an idiot and nothing new. Probably better than the alternative idiot but that's about it.

Reagan rebuilt the military and ended the cold war, but it really didn't last very long. A few presidents later and we were on a aggressive posture with Russia again.

Clinton gave everything to the Chinese and moved most of our infrastructure to Mexico, even though NAFTA strongly suggested it would go to Canada. Lots of people felt that one, but he did it during a time of economic prosperity (which he inherited from Reagan / Bush "voodoo economics") and spread it out over time so not everyone noticed right away.

Every single one of them has their "bay of pigs" moment where they really ****ed things over as bad as they can get, a few of them have a "saved our ass" moment that few truly appreciate. We never seem to notice when somebody saves us from the brink of nuclear oblivion but we'd sure as hell notice if it all went wrong...but of course then it really wouldn't matter anymore.

Scary part is supposedly all these Presidents are among the best possible candidates for the job, ditto for Congress. I know some guys who install home security systems that could probably run the government more effectively.