| Mr Khan said: It's a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Hoover would have been a tremendous president if he and Coolidge had switched terms (plus then people would've gotten a better look at how truly lazy Coolidge was. The man slept 12 hours a day not including naps, which i didn't think was possible for a healthy adult. Imagine if he had been given a crisis of any sort), Hoover was good at promoting business, and would have done well at keeping the boom times rolling, but he had no feel at all for Depression. But we can't afford those little what-ifs, can we? Judging presidents on their ideological merit is pointless at best, and revisionist at worst. We can only judge based on what they *did* |
I... couldn't disagree more.
To judge soley based on outcome is true pointlessness.
It's like having a shooting competition where I have a scoped sniper rifle, and you have a pistol... and saying I'm the better shooter because of it... even though my shooting style may of been quite off and saved by the scope.
