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  • Blog Day Afternoon President Gas - Blog Day Afternoon
    Posted by Jeff (Monday April 28 2003 @ 08:26PM EDT)
    8. Richard Nixon was -- despite his claims to the contrary -- a crook. He shook down people for money, he engaged in petty crime and sanctioned felonious actions. I only wish I had lived through more presidential administrations so I could rank him even lower. On the bright side, my cynicism can be traced directly to the Nixon administration.

    7. Ronald Reagan sold US government property to a sworn enemy of the United States in order to fund a personal military endeavor in Central America. His policies of deregulation led directly to the shenannigans of Michael Milken, Ivan Bosky, and the savings and loan fiasco. Despite a huge government budget and the accumulation of more debt than all administrations prior to his own, Reagan was still able to convince Americans that he was the standard bearer of conservativism. (I never said he wasn't smooth.)

    6. Bush the Younger has single handedly destroyed the good will that emanated from the world toward the United States in the wake of September 11th. He has plunged the country into war based upon what now appears to be contrived evidence of weapons of mass destruction. If US spy satellites could spot this threat while the Iraqi regime was supposedly hiding them, then why can't they find them now that US forces are in the country and members of the regime are either imprisoned or in hiding? I can't wait until this shit is declassified.

    5. Bill Clinton ascended to the presidency yet he never forgot his roots: he was poor white trash from Arkansas. Yeah, he stuck his dick in an intern's mouth and he lied about it, but that was one lie in an ocean of tales. It's testimony to the prudishness of America that the lie which garnered the most attention was the one told about the intern's pearl necklace.

    4. Bush the Elder reminds me of the entry for planet Earth in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Mostly harmless. The elder Bush was bullied by Congress and frustrated accordingly. I believe he meant it when he told me to read his lips. The broken-promise tax hike was buried as a rider. The guy was only around for one term. Good enough for number four in my book.

    3. Lyndon Johnson was pretty much of a shit head but he did have the good sense to leave office after his first elected term. He inheirited the fiasco which characterized his presidency but he did manage to turn it into a full blown cluster fuck. But for all his shortcomings, he was condusive to the Civil Rights movement and for that he deserves the laurels of number three.

    2. Jimmy Carteris without question a genuinely nice person. The bane of his legacy is that Kissinger was also awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. If that doesn't cheapen the award, then I don't know what does. Carter was ineffective at times because he held too much integrity to play good Washington politics, but that's why I liked him so much. Carter ranks number two because he didn't malliciously lie to us.

    1. Gerald Ford was the only president never elected to the office. Sure his best effort to beat inflation was an attempt to make us all wear WIN buttons, but I'm pretty certain he never mallaciously lied to us. The best thing about the Ford Administration was that it was over in less than 3 years. Its most puzzling moment occured afterward when his wife sobered up and he stopped falling down.

    < Easter Seals | Son Of Sam Redux >

    By WarMongeringInfidel (Friday May 02 2003 @ 10:40AM EDT)
    Your an Idiot. I'm not going to waste time debunking each one. But I will anyway

    1. Nixon was not a crook. he only beef with the Guy I have is the politics he played with Vietnam and the price caps on economic goods.

    2. Sold US property? No different then mutual defense contracts in which we sell planes and tanks to our European allies. If your referring to the specific transfer of biological arms to Iraq, this is being denied and I advise you to provide proof before spouting off accusations.

    Have any proof it was a personal military endeavor?

    Policies of Deregulation? Go to hell. No one needs a govt minder nor do they wan't one. We don't want your tyranny and Reagan understood this. Establish a direct causality between Reagan and what happened otherwise you are just slippery sloping it. As though people don't have responsibility for their own actions, ha!

    As for the budget, he had a spending deal with the democratically owned senate at the time to limit spending. They broke it not he. Besides, read the constitution, only CONGRESS shall have the power to distribute taxed funds.

    Like your the authority of what constitutes conservatism. Ha. This guy was great and in reelection, 49 states and 80%+ of the population recognized it.

    Smooth, like in taking down the soviet union, reuniting Germany, and stomping out little nuisances like Kadife and that situation in Panama? Not to mention his brilliant economic policies which saved the ass of your worthless and criminal president Clinton? Don’t forget that these policies (tax cuts to the rich) quadrupled federal revenues over his administration for all your social programs, which is more then anything your dems have ever done. I find it offensive you think we are all stupid pea brained dolts who fall for a little acting job. If this is the case, how do you explain the voracious resentment towards anti-war actors and actresses now?

    6. Good will that never existed and that he helped to expose? As in the sneaky French, German, Syrian, and Russian business dealings which ran completely contrary to UN resolutions and sanctions. As in the German and the Russian and the French all spying on Blair and Bush for Saddam? As in the UN and the billion dollar embezzlement scheme for the supposed oil for food program? Why do you assume that when 2 countries have a conflict, you country is wrong. Especially when all the evidence runs contrary. Furthermore, in lue of the recent conflict, we now have ties with 15-20 new countries, including the soviet block countries. We loose two allies that never were for an additional 15-20. Sounds good to me.

    As for plunging the country into war, you mean him and 75% of the populace plunging also? The only people protesting it were at ANSWER sponsored events, which is an anti-US, anti-capitalism Marxist group, which is thoroughly discredited.

    As for finding WOMD and occupying the nation. It took 5 years before we pulled out of Germany, 7 for Japan, in the 80's and 90's we were still cleaning up Nazi war crimes and documenting evidence. If 20 years was ok back then, wait more then 41 days now. After all, Bush is an idiot right?

    4. Ah yes, the harmless bumbling fool who revolutionized warfare and saved a poor country from occupation. He even raised taxes to keep the budget balanced, but you still ring him for it. If he kept his promise, would you still horang him for it because of evil deficits?

    2. OIC, Kissinger getting the worthless award cheapens it, but having the Nobel committee give the award to Carter not for anything he did (ie arm NK with WOMD) but to protest Bush doesn’t it?

    1. Just got to love pure slander don't we. What’s the matter, couldn’t find anything real to gripe about?

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    By Jeff (Friday May 02 2003 @ 10:57AM EDT)
    I have no idea how old you are, but all of the above presidents who reigned during the years you idled in school have just received an 8 ranking by virtue of their failed education policies.
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    By Whoever (Friday May 02 2003 @ 11:22AM EDT)
    "Your an Idiot. I'm not going to waste time debunking each one. But I will anyway". With that statement it sounds like you're the idiot.
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    By Jeff (Friday May 02 2003 @ 11:34AM EDT)
    My favorite is this:

    Jeff (writing in support of Bush the elder): I believe he meant it when he told me to read his lips. The broken-promise tax hike was buried as a rider.

    And delusional's rebuttal:
    WarMongeringInfidel: He even raised taxes to keep the budget balanced, but you still ring him for it. If he kept his promise, would you still horang him for it because of evil deficits?

    Stick around for the encore:
    Jeff: The sky is azure.

    And delusional's rebuttal:
    WarMongeringInfidel: You complete moron! Anybody can see that the sky is blue!

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    By John (Thursday September 01 2005 @ 04:15PM EDT)
    "Smooth, like in taking down the soviet union,"

    Gorbachev and Yeltsin did that.

    "reuniting Germany,"

    Gorbachev and Germany did that.

    "and stomping out little nuisances like Kadife."

    I'll give you that.

    "and that situation in Panama?"

    That was on Bush's watch. Oh, and by the way, "that situation" was about a friend of Bush named Manuel Noriega, a paid CIA informant that ticked off his masters by trafficking cocaine and thumbing his nose at his former boss. There's also evidence that the U.S. Marines committed some awful atrocities against the locals when they went in there.

    Why don't you call back when you pass your Logic exam?

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    By John (Thursday September 01 2005 @ 04:27PM EDT)
    "1. Just got to love pure slander don't we."

    I don't think that word means what you think it means. Slander consists of "false statements injurious to a person's reputation." Let's go over it point by point:

    "Gerald Ford was the only president never elected to the office. "

    This is true, therefore not slander.

    "Sure his best effort to beat inflation was an attempt to make us all wear WIN buttons, but I'm pretty certain he never mallaciously lied to us."

    Opinion, therefore not slander. Actually, quite an endorsement of Mr. Ford's integrity.

    "The best thing about the Ford Administration was that it was over in less than 3 years."

    The length of time is factual, the worth of it is an opinion. Neither are slander.

    "Its most puzzling moment occured afterward when his wife sobered up and he stopped falling down."

    Funny, and true. Not slander.

    Now, let's go back to the definition of slander above. The key words are "false" and "injurious". None of these things actually are injurious to Mr. Ford's reputation. This line consists entirely of true facts and opinions. And if you managed to make it through fourth grade, you should know that opinions are neither true nor false. That eliminates all opinion from slander. That leaves only presented facts. All of the facts here are true, so kwitchyerbitchin!

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    By WarMongeringInfidel (Friday May 02 2003 @ 11:50AM EDT)
    Failed educational policies. You dolt, the president dosen't have anything to do with education besides pretending to. He can only ask congress to put funding in, which is a clear violation of the seperation of poers anyway
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    By Jeff (Friday May 02 2003 @ 12:40PM EDT)
    Hmmmmm. It's convenient to claim, "the president dosen't have anything to do with education besides pretending to" when YOU are a living embodiment of failed education policies. If that policy wasn't such a dismal failure, then you would have learned:
    • Secretary of Education is a cabinet level position
    • A prepositional phrase contains an object
    • A sentence contains a subject and predicate
    • Spelling
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    By Cherry Pie (Tuesday September 21 2004 @ 03:14PM EDT)
    What exactly does the phrase "President Gas" mean ? I have heard it used in many occasions. I being 16 years old am trying to understand. I have heard it in many punk songs also. Don't mean to throw a wrentch in the engine. Just wondering what it means.

    Thanks

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    By JM (Monday March 07 2005 @ 04:03PM EST)
    Good question Cherry Pie about the meaning of "President Gas". If only there was a simple one or two word answer :)

    My first memory of the phrase "President Gas" comes from the song of the same name by the Psychadelic Furs. This was released during the heavily conservative era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As a point of reference, GW Bush is much like Reagan in his heavy military spending, huge deficits, indifference to minority points of view, and unflagging support for American corporations.

    Rereading the lyrics to this song, I honestly can't tell exactly what "President Gas" means although it's obviously quite cynical with regard to politics. That said, I'll offer my own interpretation that it refers to American parochialism. Money comes first in America; anything else is a distant second. That's not always true of people you know personally, but it seems to hold true in public policy i.e. in politics. For what it's worth, this view is very consistent with Green Day's use of the phrase in "Holiday" on their very popular American Idiot CD.

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    By mike (Thursday July 26 2007 @ 08:44PM EDT)
    I live in sonoma county where every year top republicans get together in the woods and stratagize how maintain power and take the american people for thier money. I think that however jaded this blog seems it really is a natural reaction to the corrupt practices in washington today. If you want things to change then we ourselves are responsible for changing our own behaviours and must be willing to hold those in positions of power accountable . Start be saving gas. http://www.sonomabuzz.com It is the best way to tell our govenrment that we no longer wish to be taken advantage of.
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