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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 05:35 PM
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Presidential Morality
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Presidential Morality
By: G.G. Stoctay PhD (Historian)
Elmer Miller (Statistician)
Roy Cohan (Political Editor)

The conservatives have been making a fuss about what they call "morality" in politics. By that they mean sex. Like most neurotics, the conservatives are obsesses with sex. That's doubly true for the Christian-conservatives: sex and money.

With a statistician, our historian has made a non-partisan assessment of the 20 most recent US presidents. They assessed not just the presidents' sexual morality, but morality generally. In reality, sex is a trivial consideration in national politics. Most normal men (all the presidents so far have been men) have had mistresses and led active and promiscuous sexual lives. In the case of Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865, served 1861-1865), the first Republican president, his closet homosexual affairs are now well known. More damning, of course, is the slaughter of over half a million Americans which he caused.

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COMPILED OVERALL IMMORALITY
Worst First
Immorality in Declining Order
Numbers Are Relative Degrees of Badness As Averaged From
The Individual Charts
President Party Badness
Lyndon B. Johnson D 1709
George W. Bush R 1360
Herbert C. Hoover R 1233
Theodore Roosevelt R 1212
William McKinley R 959
Dwight D. Eisenhower R 859
Ronald Reagan R 766
Warren G. Harding R 745
George H. Bush R 664
Woodrow Wilson D 651
William Howard Taft R 535
Grover Cleveland D 505
Harry S. Truman* D 477
Richard M. Nixon R 441
Franklin Delano Roosevelt D 423
William J. Clinton D 332
John F. Kennedy D 280
Calvin Coolidge R 237
Gerald R. Ford R 153
James Carter D 76
AVERAGE
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS R 764
AVERAGE
DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTS D 557
Estimated Morality
Of Average US Citizen
Social Harm Not Included
552
*Truman's Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Is NOT Considered In This Average
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 05:42 PM
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1. sorry, but Lincoln didn't cause the Civil War
the Southern fireeaters in South Carolina started the War. In 1864, when it looked like McClellan would win the Presidency, Lincoln made a plan to step down early and let McClellan make a peace with the confederacy.

No, I'm NOT a Republican. But I AM and remain an ardent defender of the Union, as were my great great grandfathers. Personally, I feel the racist, elitist mentality of the Southern planter class is alive and well in the current Republican party. Lincoln's Republican party has been dead for a long time-it was killed off during the Gilded Age.
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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 05:43 PM
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2. Saying that Lincoln 'caused' the death of half a million is non partisan??
Yeah, right, let's get into that again.
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