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2005-02-13 Home Front: Politix

Newspaper poll ranks president second among most evil

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-02-13 7:31:32 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Their sample must be awfully screwed up to get Bubba in ahead of Stalin and Pol Pot, et al.

I didn't like Bill Clinton, but I dont for a moment believe he was "evil". "Amoral" comes closest in that when it came to decision making, he really didnt consider morality nor ideology, just what was in it for him. He was just in it for the fame, power and, ahem, all the "cigars" he could get. I'd bet that his only idealogical bends came from Hildabeeste's nagging.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-13 8:46:33 PM|| 2005-02-13 8:46:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe the readers didn't have a clue about all those foreigners?

Agree, evil is absolutely off the mark, and given the fact that he's married to Hillary I even cut him some slack for his morals.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-02-13 8:50:03 PM|| 2005-02-13 8:50:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 A second rate president - sure. Narcissistic - you bet. Evil - no. Clinton's policies were misguided. Clinton allowed evil to take root and gain a foothold in the Middle East and Asia. But no rational person could call him 'evil'.

Hitler was evil. Chamberlain was merely a fool.

Posted by AJackson 2005-02-13 9:20:18 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:20:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 My top three most evil pople of the millenium would be Hitler, Mao, and Stalin. And that would be based on the number of people murdered on their orders. Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Kim Sung Il, Napolean, Saddam Hussein for dishonorable mention. The rest of the list is just no account thugs.

Posted by AJackson 2005-02-13 9:24:25 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:24:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Then there's the view of the Simpsons (TV):

"Jimmy Carter?! He's history's greatest monster!"

Posted by AJackson 2005-02-13 9:30:27 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:30:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I didn't like Bill Clinton, but I dont for a moment believe he was "evil".

Neither do I. Bubba might have been conniving, oily, and despicable maybe, but not evil.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-13 9:37:18 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:37:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Something just struck me about this:

Could you see a similar immediate and out of hand dismissal for charges of being "evil" against Reagan or Bush on DU or other liberal boards?

Just goes to show you, who is thinking and being truthful (The Burg), and who lets their ideaology and hatred overrule truth and common sense (DU and Koz, et al).

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-13 9:55:07 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, AJackson, perhaps Mao, Stalin, and Hitler killed more because they had access to more power. Pol Pot had a much smaller, weaker state to work with, but he killed a greater percentage of the people under his power.

Personally, I think Lenin was more evil than Stalin. He killed more people per year, but was fortunately crippled early on. Stalin was willing to let the children of "traitors" live. Lenin gave written orders to kill them, too.

Of course, this is like asking whether Baal or Satan is more evil.

At first, I was going to ask where George Bush was, but them I remembered that Bush = Hitler, so his total would be lumped in there.

Posted by jackal 2005-02-13 10:13:23 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-13 10:13:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, come on. The New York Post and its readers must know better. As New York Post reporters Jack Newfield and Pete Hamill agreed, the list of the most evil people of the century or the millenium should be:

Adolf Hitler

Josef Stalin

Walter O'Malley

Posted by Eric Jablow 2005-02-13 10:17:02 PM|| 2005-02-13 10:17:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Look at the ultimate source. This is a photoshop job, not reality.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-13 10:21:11 PM|| 2005-02-13 10:21:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Their sample must be awfully screwed up to get Bubba in ahead of Stalin and Pol Pot, et al.

I didn't like Bill Clinton, but I dont for a moment believe he was "evil". "Amoral" comes closest in that when it came to decision making, he really didnt consider morality nor ideology, just what was in it for him. He was just in it for the fame, power and, ahem, all the "cigars" he could get. I'd bet that his only idealogical bends came from Hildabeeste's nagging.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-13 8:46:33 PM|| 2005-02-13 8:46:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Something just struck me about this:

Could you see a similar immediate and out of hand dismissal for charges of being "evil" against Reagan or Bush on DU or other liberal boards?

Just goes to show you, who is thinking and being truthful (The Burg), and who lets their ideaology and hatred overrule truth and common sense (DU and Koz, et al).

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-13 9:55:07 PM|| 2005-02-13 9:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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