Although it wasn’t the singular event that caused it.

The Betrayal of 1877, comparable to the Fall of Saigon and Democrat deals to get more money to pay for votes from it.

It’s like worshipping Hussein pulling out of Iraq, GB.

Jewish resistance to Jesus of Nazareth: Yeshua. Jewish judge resistance and hunting down of the Christians for violating man made Jewish ‘religious laws’, while calling for deaths of humans because they broke religious laws.

Old Nebu had a similar problem as current modern day Americans do.

“Hobbes” was my attempt at a joke. Maybe I need a smiley-face icon?

I think everyone knows you meant Coolidge.

An Eisenhower story that I have always liked: Eisenhower was preparing for a press conference and the staff was discussing how to answer a question they thought would be asked, but for which they had no good answer.

After a bit, Eisenhower told them not to worry; if it came up, he’d just confuse the reporters.

It did, and he did.

And a story on how he encouraged the Chi-Coms to sign an armistice in Korea: He brought in tactical nuclear weapons, and quietly let the Indian government know about the weapons, knowing they would pass the information on to the Chinese.

(At least some of the tactical nukes were in artillery shells!)

Now back to working on a post on the blessings that diversity brought to the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Of course I was referring to Calvin Coolidge. Did anyone else get the reference? Although Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes was a bit more like our current President. It was a dark day when Watterson stopped the strip.

The President from my lifetime I choose as one who as truly “Presidential” is, even though I didn’t vote for him, Ford. I wished that I had voted for him because he turned out to be the better guy in that he was truly concerned about uniting our country after a bitter era. Historians will, if they haven’t already, give him more credit than he has been given for uniting us when the US really needed it.

The second one I’ll choose was only a VP and a Presidential candidate – Walter Mondale. He was so-so as a VP and most likely would have been so-so if he won the Presidency. But, I do given him “good marks” because I remember his very dignified concession speech; especially when he went off script to chastise those Reagan Haters who booed when Mondale mentioned Reagan’s name.

Those Reagan haters were the forerunners of the Bush haters and, now, the Trump haters. But, Mondale chastised those booing reminding them that Reagan was elected and he is OUR president. Reagan’s failures would be our failure and Reagan’s successes would be success for us all.

Maybe it is just ol’ fashioned nostalgia on my part; but, I remember a more dignified, less bitter partisan, political arena when I was younger. I kind of miss that.

My understanding of the history is that George Washington could have been King, if he so desired. But he was adamant that USA not be a kingdom. On top of that, he went on to set the precedent (eventually enshrined in the Constitution in the mid-twentieth century) of no more than two four year terms.

Anyway, who can imagine any of our twenty-first century politicians turning down an offer to serve [actually, *rule*, not merely serve] as King?? (Don’t all raise your hand at once.) That’s one very good reason to agree with Yankee.