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- YodaJones, on 03/09/2009, -81/+312Hillary Clinton: Proving that change does not have to have anything to do with improvement.
- r0gue6, on 03/09/2009, -57/+226I think the GOP sent in their comment squad, lol
- kingofinternet, on 03/09/2009, -68/+205right wing circle jerk.
- DrJen, on 03/09/2009, -65/+170Go easy guys. At least she didn't hand out DVDs.
- alanocu, on 03/09/2009, -66/+155Hillary quotes from the past that still make me LOL:
"I''m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers!"
"We are the president!"
"God bless the America we're trying to create."
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good!" - bobburn1, on 03/09/2009, -34/+113American Democracy is older than modern European democracy. Democracy died in Europe for centuries. They like to compare their democracies to the democracy of Athens in ancient Greece, but there is no connection other than popular representation. That's not exactly a gaffe of any sort.
- inactive, on 03/09/2009, -31/+110And the morons are out in force today
- krisp9751, on 03/09/2009, -47/+124well...........
American democracy is considerably older than most European democracies. England has a long history of democracy. But it wasn't really until the 20th century that most major European countries got their democracies.
just sayin..... - ericrous, on 03/09/2009, -30/+90Modern representative democracy *IS* older in the U.S. than in Europe, idiots. Athenian democracy bore little resemblance to what we call "democracy" today (unless you want to abolish all Presidents and Prime Ministers and let the people vote directly on every law). It was the U.S. that pioneered the modern Enlightenment-era form. Democracy (in any form) had been dead in Europe at that point for over 2000 years.
- inactive, on 03/09/2009, -24/+65His name is Barack Obama, and he is your President. Suspend the racism, you jerk. (I won't even start on calling him the worst president by any measure before he's been in office more than a couple months.)
- ManUnitdFan, on 03/09/2009, -16/+57You guys are jokes. Are you really declaring Barack Obama the worst president in history 2 1/2 months into his first term? Based on what, exactly?
Make sure not to stand too close to the microwave with your tin foil hat on. - solecize, on 03/09/2009, -27/+66Just bury and move on
- inactive, on 03/09/2009, -29/+67Wow.
All this time I thought that Greece was in Europe.
Over 2000 years ago Plato lamented that Democracy was the best of the worst systems or the worst of the best systems...
Ya' learn something new every day, I tell ya'... - marksism, on 03/09/2009, -11/+47Yeah, but it's not been a constantly functioning government for 2000 years.
- Jashobeam5, on 03/09/2009, -24/+59Libs and even some independents still don't believe me when I tell them she said, "We are the president!" I have no idea where the, "Hillary is great" idea started, but it's really very sad.
- ChefGroovy, on 03/09/2009, -19/+54Ha yeah good point.
A volcano is change. A nuclear explosion is change. - evilsnoopi3, on 03/09/2009, -9/+43*hand to face
Ancient Greece (the distinction is important) is more related to modern West Asia (Asia Minor, Middle East, whatever you wanna call it) than modern Europe. Almost all European governments evolved from Roman Imperialism, Germanic Tribal Monarchies, and Papal grants (Holy Roman Empire anyone). However, England had a "modern" multi-party democracy beginning in the late 17th century with the Glorious Revolution. So I guess everyone is wrong.
As far as "worst president in history" that title currently belongs to Ulysses S. Grant. The American Historical Society (for good reason) waits 20 years before even beginning to evaluate the full impact of a presidency. So for everyone who says Bush is the worst president ever, you'll have to wait until 2028 before the historians will even agree to back you up. As for those who say Obama, well first let him finish his presidency, and then wait 20 years. - badqat, on 03/09/2009, -51/+84Has anyone considered that Hillary isn't used to the management style she's adopted Ii.e. its what Obama is allowing her to do) at DoS? And that she never will adopt to it?
I'm not sure the president is going to allow her the latitude she needs (i.e. ripping out testes, like she did to Bill years ago) in terms of management styles as to see her accomplish anything.
That being said, she's still a bit of an upper class twit. - Genesii, on 03/09/2009, -16/+46Maybe a historian might be able to inform me better, but I was under the impression that the U.S.'s democracy was, in fact, older than most European nations.
After all, wasn't that why Tocqueville's /Democracy in America/ was such a big deal? I can't imagine Europeans would have found his book very interesting at all if they already knew the benefits and pitfalls of democracy. - repins, on 03/09/2009, -13/+41the USA is not a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic...come on people this is Civics 101
- WraTH017, on 03/09/2009, -14/+42Let me know when you see Hillary trying to give a back rub to an unwilling foreign leader, and then we'll talk.
- ASSASSYN360, on 03/09/2009, -11/+37Now imagine her as President of the U.S.
- analogkid01, on 03/09/2009, -10/+33@Y0tsuya: It'd be more correct to say that if you don't like Obama, he's automatically The Worst President Ever. Can we give it another three or four years, then form a well-educated opinion about it?
- Koushiro, on 03/09/2009, -12/+31We didn't vote for Hillary.
- anotherjack, on 03/09/2009, -22/+40C'mon, give her a ***** chance. We need her to succeed at this. I don't even like her, and I wish her well.
- inajeep, on 03/09/2009, -1/+19Even if you were trying for humor, you went low and outside.
- mtjohnson, on 03/09/2009, -9/+27That's not very christ-like of you.
- hamobu, on 03/09/2009, -13/+29Hilary is a Mac! She is overhyped and under-performing.
- ralphodog, on 03/09/2009, -3/+19Democracies and republics overlap, they aren't opposites. The US is a representative democracy which is a type of republic.
- bobburn1, on 03/09/2009, -2/+18The Brits had a mixed democracy that was still largely dependent on a monarch when the US revolted and formed its government(s). However, but then again that's splitting hairs. Who cares really?
- etx28, on 03/09/2009, -7/+22Ok, so Greece was the first democracy, but that didn't last long. Our Representative Republic is the current longest operating democracy. And yes, we technically have a representative republic that is not a full-fledged democracy where everyone gets to vote on every single decision that comes up every single day. But taking that fact to argue that our government is not a democracy at all but merely a republic is semantic silliness.
- KSUdesigner, on 03/09/2009, -4/+18Actually, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a Representative Democracy. Your link even states that:
"the United States relies on representative democracy, but [its] system of government is much more complex than that. [It is] not a simple representative democracy, but a constitutional republic in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law" - cuzog, on 03/09/2009, -14/+28Such vitriolic hatred.
- marksism, on 03/09/2009, -12/+25This was a terribly written article.
I can't imagine WorldNetDaily writing something more biased. - DulcetTone, on 03/09/2009, -5/+18Dugg for not putting an apostrophe in DVDs
- inactive, on 03/09/2009, -4/+17Well, America was hardly a democracy when only land owning white male were allowed to vote (17% of population).
- ManUnitdFan, on 03/09/2009, -9/+22Please go look up words in the dictionary before you use them. There's really no excuse for not understanding what a bigot or racist is.
- z0rk, on 03/09/2009, -6/+18I'd rather not.
- Berkana, on 03/10/2009, -1/+13The Swiss have had a democracy since long before the US existed.
- inactive, on 03/09/2009, -6/+17Sure, but as a fiscal conservative my list for worst would be more like this:
1. GWB
2. Richard Nixon
3. Ronald Reagan
4. LBJ
5. Bush I
So yeah, keep letting your big government party pull your strings telling you that cutting welfare is the highest form of fiscal conservatism, while they piss more money then anyone. - TempusEdax, on 03/10/2009, -0/+11Iceland has been a democracy since the 13th century.
Just sayin. - PhotoJustin, on 03/09/2009, -3/+14So...King George was an elected leader who oppressed the American Colonies?
She is vaguely right and vaguely wrong. Kind of a dumb thing to say, unless she was referring to the EU as an overarching European Democracy.
Not her brightest moment, true. - jjones20, on 03/09/2009, -12/+23Why are you guys so surprised that politicians are stupid?
- pedro7, on 03/10/2009, -1/+12Not true. Iceland has the oldest parliament in the world, dating back to 930 AD. Since its inception the members of parliament we chosen peacefully and only had power if they had the support of the people in the region they represented. They voted on laws, acted as judges on trials, and until Norway took over Iceland the icelandic parliament was the only governing body on the country. There is a famous quote about Iceland form 1075 which says "They have no king, only law".
- johnn11238, on 03/09/2009, -16/+27Golly, so during a grueling, enormously well-received tour of Europe, giving speech after speech, meeting hundreds of diplomats, she called someone named Solono "Solana" and someone named Bonita "Bonito".
And she said European domocracy when she meant European Union.
Wowee, what an idiot. That's so much worse than anything Condi did... - scotsboyuk, on 03/09/2009, -0/+11A more accurate description would be that England has had a long democratic evolution. From the signing of the Magna Carta almost 800 years ago to the Reform Act in the early 19th century to universal suffrage in the 20th century.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -25/+36That's actually pretty funny.
You guys are welcome to stop the circle jerk any time though. - tkaStryc9, on 03/09/2009, -22/+32Starting by sending his lapdog over to Europe to mispronounce names and get her facts wrong? What's going be next, maybe she'll try to open a locked door, make some more idiotic remarks? But it's OK because she's not George Bush huh? Nice way to have a double standard.
- fuse13, on 03/10/2009, -3/+13so... Carter, who launched a failed rescue mission is the "terrorists buddy", while Reagan, who cut a deal with the Iranian revolutionaries is their enemy?
- jrbil29, on 03/09/2009, -23/+33"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good!"
This is trolling... taken completely out of context. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/marxist.as ... -
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