Reply #91: Yeah, I'm not sure about the GHWB praise.

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But I tell ya, he was a helluva lot more in touch with foreign policy AND reality, which has escaped his idiot son.

The more I read these insider accounts, the more I realize the TRUE power a President has. There has been so many times that people have suggested that the position was that of a figurehead, but until you get one like Nixon or George Bush, you don't realize how they can fuck up the entire country, and perhaps the world, with their failings. Nixon.. well at least he didn't come close to destroying the world or the country with his failings.