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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:11 AM
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Hit this poll. Bush ranked in top ten "best" presidents?
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:15 AM
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1. It's a fococta list
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:17 AM by nuxvomica
Reagan is #2? In some ways, maybe, but not on a list of the best presidents.

edit: misspelled "fococta".
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:20 AM
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6. Isn't it fakakta?
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:20 AM by rucky
i guess it doesn't matter
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:25 AM
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10. I've seen it both ways
Who really knows?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:50 AM
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22. It is a fartada.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:02 AM
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24. An Italian omelette?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:30 PM
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31. mmmm... damn that looks good.
:evilgrin:
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:20 AM
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8. What language is that? n/t
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:27 AM
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11. It's supposedly Yiddish for "crazy" or "fucked up"
But it may be faux-Yiddish, like "gasechdegazoink".
I heard it used by Krusty on the Simpsons episode "Mr Spritz Goes to Washington."
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:29 AM
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18. From Yiddish Dictionary:
FERCOCKT: all messed up.

I think the spelling will vary, though.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:40 AM
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20. Thank you. That sounds more like it.
Having only heard it spoken, I've had a hard time googling for references and I've found more with that spelling. :thumbsup:
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:49 AM
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21. I think it's much more a spoken, than written language
But it's also fun!
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:00 AM
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23. Urban Dictionary: "Fakakta"
<Yiddish origin> A person or thing who is completely crazy/fucked up.

(example 1) I can't believe your brother drank his own urine. That fakakta kid will do anything.

(example 2) Their house in in this fakakta part of town. Let's just say that you don't want to raise your kids there.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fakakta&defid=2483149

Sounds FUBAR to me!
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:19 AM
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28. Thanks. n/t
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:16 AM
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2. The way I read the story, we can change the standings by
voting in the poll. Look at *'s bottom third ranking. They need a separate "worst President never elected" category for the shrub.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:18 AM
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3. St Ronnie of Reagan is SECOND?
:puke:
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:08 AM
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26. obviously, that poll was attacked by McCain supporters!!
Aol used to be hannitized. Now it's overrun with RINO's !!!12111!!!

LOL


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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:18 AM
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4. But 64% put him in the bottom third.
BTW: what is a "fococta" poll?
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:19 AM
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5. the Furor...
tapeworms, cockroaches and rightwingers have this in common- they're bugs
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:20 AM
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7. Well, 64% of AOL members voting rank him in the bottom third.
Where does George W. Bush rank among all U.S. presidents?
Among the bottom third 64%
Among the top third 23%
Among the middle third 13%
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:22 AM
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9. done n/t
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Clovis Sangrail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:31 AM
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12. it's a bullshit poll
unless I'm missing something you get to vote on a handful of presidents for 'best president' , and then on which 1/3 GW falls into.

Maybe the Harris poll was different, but the one at that site has no way of generating a 'top ten' of all presidents... it's just not possible.
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El Pinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:34 AM
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13. OMFG Did you see the second "Hot Seat" poll question on the right?
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 09:35 AM by El Pinko
It says:

Why do Democrats want telecom companies to be sued for helping intercept terrorist communications? They...

Don't want terrorists tracked

Aren't serious about security

Need plaintiffs' lawyers' cash

Don't like US companies

Have other reasons


:wtf: I had no idea AOL was such a wretched hive of right-wing scum and villainy.

there is NO CHOICE for the real reason for opposing retroactive immunity!

It's called the CONSTITUTION, DAMMIT!
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 09:38 AM
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14. I tried to vote, but
it came up Nader ...
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:02 AM
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15. What a crazy joke, even to mention that junior could run with the
top dogs is a joke.

God Bless Our Courageous President.........

GEORGE, you're a Son of a Bitch You're a Bastard. You're a jerk. You're a traitor and dictator.

Also a retard and an embarrassment. Your a drunken, drug addled punk. You're a sissy,
mamma's boy, and you're dumber than your daddy. You're a wimp like him too. Your mommy
must be a real Bitch to have raised up a bunch of leeches and parasites like she did. She's more
of a man than you or your dad together, and that's not a compliment!

You're a liar of the worst kind, and you're a two face liar. You are not a godly man at all, but a
hypocrite of rare distinction. you will go down in history as a failed moron like your dad, only
worse.
You've never read a real book in your life. You were an “F” student who got a “C” from your
daddy's contributions to Yale. You're a draft dodger and a deserter. You're a blowhard Prick, and
you can't understand reporter's questions. You've never had a real job, and wouldn't make it past
one month if you did have one. You'd be fired as an incompetent. You've had everything handed
to you, and you don't even appreciate what you've got. You're a snob, and an inbred effete flop.
Plus you have a stupid face. You look like an ape, and when you talk, you talk like an ape. you
don't have any real ideas in your head, and you have no knowledge of the world other than what
your told by your babysitters that your dad hired to surround you. You'd lose a debate with a 12
year old. You're vile and insipid, mundane and dim-witted. You're the dullest knife in the bush
drawer.

When god was handing out brains you thought he said trains and stood there waiting. You are
against a woman's right to choose, but you had one of your staffers pay for your girlfriends
abortion. You snorted up half of Peru and you smuggled drugs by the ton. You drank a river of
Jack Daniels and you lied about being sober.

You stole the presidency with your father's help and you skated through your whole life on your
last name. You knew 9-11 was coming and you went to hide on the pig farm to be prepared for it,
and didn't warn the victims. You let them die by the thousands and then stood there at ground
zero playing the hero. You promised you'd get the perpetrates dead or alive and then you utterly
abandoned the hunt. You are a Whore of the sleaziest kind, and you worship manna, not Jesus.
You defile the name of Christ, and you pretend to be a religious man. You know Jesus, wouldn’t'
bomb babies, but you tell the easily fooled born again that lie. You talk bad about Hitler, but it
was Hitler and your grandpa Prescott that made your family billionaires.

You took money from the bin Ladens to help your oil company and then you couldn't find oil in
Texas. You stole money from retirees and laughed all the way to the bank. You hugged the
widows of soldiers and 9-11 victim's families knowing that you could have saved them. You are
a heartless, cold, reptilian Cocksucker. You have no soul, yet you attend church and carry a bible
around. You stink, you Suck, and you make us all sick.

You will be remembered as the worst president the nation ever suffered through, and your name
will be synonymous with failure and greed and ineptitude. You have invited the world's ire, and
hatred have disgraced all the founding fathers and every citizen who ever gave their life for
democracy and liberty.

You're a confederate Asshole and a racist. You can barely hide your fear and loathing of black
people. You Pissed on the bill of rights and you Shit on the constitution. Your name will be
scraped off monuments and your statues will be toppled and broken up into gravel. You've
brought down hellfire on innocent people without so much as an apology. You now prepare to
bring suffering and agony to millions all for your billionaire, war pig pals. There is oil in your
veins instead of blood. I hope your happy George. You’re a real Son of a Bitch. Fuck you. Fuck
your dad, and Fuck your mom. Fuck your Nazi grandpa and your effeminate giddy father the CIA
monster. Fuck your brother Jeb, and Fuck your ugly wife. Fuck your whole family you have
Fucked America and now America is saying Fuck you George. Kiss my bitter patriotic Ass you
Son of a Bitch.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Abortion of Robin Lowman

The Democrats are very well aware of junior's girl friend and her abortion. In 1970 or 1971
junior was dating a woman named Robin Lowman (now Robin Garner). Miss Lowman became
pregnant by junior and he arranged for her to have an abortion. Which was illegal in the great
state of Texas in 1971. Not to mention that junior ran as a pro-life candidate for the presidency.
Robert Carl Chandler is a good friend of junior and a supporter from way back. Mr. Chandler
made the arrangements for Miss Lowman's abortion at the Twelve Oaks Hospital in Houston,
Texas. It is now call the Bayou City Medical Center. The source was threatened by Chandler
and another junior crony named James R. Bath. You may have recalled on the threads you've
read the last few days, as being junior's AWOL buddy from the the guard and junior's business
partner in oil dealings in Midland, and the BBCI scam. If not let me know and I'll hook you up to
a thread in General Discussions on DU.

Here is a dialog between Larry Flint and Robert Novak that appeared on CNN some time ago.

"Flynt : Well, during the impeachment debacle, we did an investigation which resulted in the
resignation of Bob Livingston and others and we have continued this investigation and for eight
months we've been looking into George W. Bush's background. And we've found out in the early
1970s he was involved in an abortion in Texas, and I just think that it's sad that the mainstream
media, who's aware of this story, won't ask him that question when they were able to ask him the
drug question without any proof at all, and we've got all kinds of proof on this issue.

Novak : Well, you're ...

Flynt : You know, the guy admitted he was a drunk for 20 years, and if the abortion issue is true
then that puts him lower on the morality scale than Bill Clinton.

Novak : Mr. Flynt, you said if it's true and you have no proof of that. I gather you are a very
strong ...

Flynt : The hell we don't have proof.

Novak : Sir, I gather you're a very strong Gore supporter. Is that correct?

Flynt : I'll vote for the lesser of the two evils. I don't like either one of them.

Press : All Right, Larry Flynt, a man who speaks his word, but we remind you they are Larry
Flynt's words and not ours. Larry Flynt, thank you very, very much for joining us.

This was followed by an online chat, in which Flynt went into greater detail :

CNN : Mr. Flynt, I would like to know how you plan to protect yourself from a law suit by
claiming to have the goods on GWBush.

Flynt : Because we have them and the truth is an absolute defense.

CNN : When and where are you going to publish information about George W. Bush?

Flynt : When I said that we had the proof, I am referring to knowing who the girl was, knowing
who the doctor was that pereformed the abortion, evidence from girlfriends of hers at the time,
who knew about the romance and the subsequent abortion. The young lady does not want to go
public, and without her willingness, we don't feel that we're on solid enough legal ground to go
with the story, because should she say it never happened, then we've got a potential libel suit. But
we know we have enough evidence that we believe completely. One of the things that interested
us was that this abortion took place before Roe Vs. Wade in 1970, which made it a crime at the
time. I'd just like the national media to ask him if abortion is okay for him and his family, but not
for the rest of America. We're not looking at it as a big issue, we're looking at it as a situation of
people not being told the truth. I think the American people have a right to know everything there
is to know about someone running for President."

So, that's the story : an illegal back room abortion arranged by the Republican party Presidential
candidate who ran on a pro-life ticket.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:05 AM
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16. Reagan above FDR?
Edited on Sun Feb-17-08 10:06 AM by onehandle
Idiots.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:15 AM
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27. He saved the world from Grenadian world domination
We'd all be speaking Grenadian if it weren't for him, you hippy.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:24 AM
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17. What? Not according to these numbers as of 9:25 a.m. 2/17/08
Where does George W. Bush rank among all U.S. presidents?
Among the bottom third 63% 66,368
Among the top third 24% 25,382
Among the middle third 13% 13,462

Note on Poll Results
Total Votes: 105,212
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:33 AM
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19. Best at what exactly?







That's a real knee slapper.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:




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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:04 AM
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25. Probably answered by folks who can actually name fewer than five
Someone ought to take that as a supplemental poll! I'd love to see a poll that asks people the names of their Senators and Congressional representatives. I wonder how many Americans could pass that one.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:35 AM
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29. Sad but true. At least three of them belong there, though.
Lincoln, FDR, Washington. They are my top three. JFK remains popular, and might have ranked highly had he lived. Reagan has no place there, and to be ranked above FDR and Washington - ugh.

George W. Bush is the worst president in U.S. history. I rank Andrew Johnson next, then Nixon third from the bottom.

I always had a soft spot for Chet Arthur (civil service reform) and Grant (sincerely tried to protect the newly freed slaves in the post-Civil War South). They weren't good, but they did a couple notable things, anyway.
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lisainmilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:40 AM
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30. Poll results so far...
Among the bottom third 63% 107,789
Among the top third 24% 41,738
Among the middle third 13% 22,135

Note on Poll Results
Total Votes: 171,662

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