docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2004-08-02 03:06 pm

These are the idiots that give the right wing a bad name.

These wastes of flesh recently polled themselves with the question, who are the twenty worst figures in history?



Honorable Mentions: Ted Bundy (5), Jane Fonda (5), John Wayne Gacy (5), John Walker Lindh (5), Joe McCarthy (5), Michael Moore (5), Boss Tweed (5)

17) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (6)
17) John Walker (6)
17) Lee Harvey Oswald (6)
17) Robert Byrd (6)
16) Aldrich Ames (7)
14) Richard Nixon (8)
14) Aaron Burr (8)
12) Al Sharpton (9)
12) Charles Manson (9)
8) Timothy McVeigh (10)
8) Lyndon Johnson (10)
8) Hillary Clinton (10)
8) John Wilkes Booth (10)
7) Alger Hiss (12)
6) Noam Chomsky (13)
4) Jesse Jackson (14)
4) Jimmy Carter (14)
3) Bill Clinton (15)
2) Benedict Arnold (19)
1) The Rosenbergs (15) & Julius Rosenberg (5) (20 total votes)


Any group of people who honestly think Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Jesse Jackson are worse than Charles Manson need to chlorinated from the gene pool as quickly as possible. Pathetic sacks of filth. God, I hate neo-cons.
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[identity profile] unixronin.livejournal.com 2004-08-03 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
First of all, the stupid list is just that: a stupid list. Don't get your pants in a wad over it. Neither the extreme right nor the extreme left would recognize a rational argument if it came up behind them wearing jackboots and bit them on the ass.

Second: Clinton's compulsive lying and influence-peddling did huge harm to the world's perception of the integrity of the Oval Office. Just because you don't like this doesn't make it untrue, any more than the fact the right wing doesn't like to hear the irreparable damage Shrubya has done to the world reputation of America as a whole makes that untrue. Deal with it.

Clinton had the moral integrity of a weasel. Two hundred years ago, if he'd made a bid for the Oval Office, they'd have tarred and feathered him and rode him out of town on a rail. I don't think for one moment this makes him one of the 20 worst figures in history, though I can quite see the possibility of other folks who don't take the time to think beyond their party-line dogma thinking so.

Third:
Hey, guess what... Every president we've had has lied to us, many of them about important things.
In case you were asleep from 1992 to 2000, Clinton DID lie about the important things. He whored out the influence of his office to Communist China in return for campaign funds, for crissakes. Congress just failed to impeach him on all of the important issues because they knew they were every bit as dirty and as corrupt as he was. The impeachment was more or less set up to fail.
Our government is full of liars, cheats, crooks, and scumbags. Pretending Bill Clinton was some kind of golden boy is sheer self-delusion.