Kasz216 said:
Not so much forgetting as in general, not knowingabout grenada (was like 1-2) or the Charles Taylor thing apparently completely missed my radar somehow. while the Bush 1 Era... as far as Bush foreign policy all I remember is vaguely a "Dead or Alive" novelty Saddam Hussein poster and in general the iraq war, because that was right around the time where I knew who the president was and was paying attention but only had TV news to go off of since I didn't have a computer yet and only one newspaper. (Was around 10.) Bush's economic policy was always the more interesting part of it, since it seemed like he didn't do that badly and yet only had the one term.
Either way, the point still stands, War is actually sadly commonplace for US Presidents. I mean, i'm just assuming carter didn't have any armed conflict like wars. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he's probably the only one post WW2? Even Pre WW2 it's not like the numbers would be great presidents wise. Seems the US was always in a war, and when it wasn't it was committing genocide on the Native Americans, which i'd say counted. |
Perot. Perot's support primarily came from Bush's base, and even though Perot scuttled his own chances by pulling out midway and then pulling back in, he was able to sap enough support from Bush to give Clinton the win with well under 50% of the popular vote
Which was the first time 3rd party intervention had swung an election since 1912.

Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.







