What would you tell Herbert Hoover?

[listenup]

If he was reincarnated today as a president? ???????

[BurtWorm]

1. Thank GOD a grownup's back in charge!

[listenup]

2. That was fast

and good!!!! (you may have spelled god wrong though, not sure)

[BurtWorm]

3. I was being emphatic

and I'm an atheist, even!

[listenup]

4. I completely understand.

But, where does he fit in with the worst of them?

[BurtWorm]

6. He's probably just above Bush II

but that does make him better than Bush. Anybody but Bush, you understand. Even Hoover.

[listenup]

7. I kinda like that vacuum cleaner

it's almost impossible to not be drawn/sucked in.

yup.

[NWHarkness]

9. Hoover was a decent man

He was a lousy President, but he was a great humanitarian, heading food relief efforts both during the First World War and after the second, and did the nation a great service heading the Hoover Commissions in the 40s and 50s, which eliminated billions of dollars in government waste and led to the creation of the Depart of HEW.

Dubya isn't fit to shit his shoes.

[listenup]

10. That's new info to me

I'll have to look into his later efforts.

Do you have any links I could check out? Thanks!

[Chief]

15. Sounds a lot like Jimmy Carter...

Lousy President, but great humanitarian after he left office.

[dawg]

17. Carter was a better President than you give him credit for.

It was Carter-appointee Paul Volker, not Greenspan, who eventually tamed inflation. Many of the major weapons systems that the Russians proved unable to defend against, leading to the collapse of the USSR, were also developed during the Carter Administration. (e.g. Trident Submarine, MX Missile)

Also, despite the possible machinations of traitorous Republicans, Carter obtained the safe return of the hostages in Iran without making concessions to the Iranians.

[SoCalDem]

5. nice vacuum cleaner

:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Wasn't the JEdger Hoover?

As Miss Ernestine Tomlin would say "There's nothing like a Hoover when you're dealing with dirt!"

[jab105]

8. Why did you come back from the dead...

and become president again, go away already:)

[leftofthedial]

11. Herbert, get a new suit

that one smells moldy

[zbdent]

12. That his name will forever be associated with sucking

.

[trotsky]

13. Dear Mr. 2nd Worst President in History,

Please save us from the 1st!!!!

[wyldwolf]

14. Why did Archie and Edith Bunker sing we could use a man like you again?

"Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,

and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!"

Or were the just being facetious?

[TheYellowDog]

23. Man,

the LaSalle was a kickass car.

[dawg]

16. I would tell him that I admire him, and ...

that his reputation has been unfairly tarnished due to the depression. It wasn't Hoover's policies that led to the depression, that deserves to be laid at the feet of Coolidge and the Republican Congress. Hoover was reluctant to take drastic "New Deal" type steps to help families in distress, but he did reluctantly take a few small steps in the right direction. I think Hoover really was a true "compassionate conservative", unlike the current White House resident.

Were Hoover our president right now, we would be in much better shape as a nation.

[kodi]

19. herby baby, get ready to make changes to capitalism or risk losing it.

.

[cosmicdot]

20. I've been around many corners, and haven't found "prosperity" ...

and ask if he would provide new directions (without having to go through tunnels looking for light at the end) ... and, that I have never found a chicken in a pot ... but, in fairness, I'd tell him he underestimated the number of cars in every garage ... 'a' car in every garage would cut down on air pollution ...

[kathee]

21. "Dam" you

hehe....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

22. I thought he was

[Dogmudgeon]

24. I'd Tell Him ...

About Rock and Roll.

And Herbie would get seriously funky.

--bkl

[Lady Freedom]

25. I would say...

he needs DUCK TAPE!!!!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:YJnWammmS1UC:

[Interrobang]

26. I'd tell him thanks for the great medieval scholarship...

He did what is still considered to be an excellent translation of _De Re Metallica_, a book on medieval metalworking & mining (Agricola), and other similar things. He was a very, very smart man, and a heck of a scholar, but he was, if I'm told correctly, more interested in scholarship and engineering than all things presidential.

He had a good mind. I'm sure he'd be better able to figure things out now than the current crop of "geniuses" running the show right now.

[AlienGirl]

27. If he were reincarnated he probably wouldn't be President

And if he were President I wouldn't be able to tell him anything, since I don't have access to Presidents!

He's probably a fifteen-year-old JV girls' basketball player in Minot, North Dakota by now, and if so, I'd tell him, "Good game!"

Tucker