way more is at stake now than when Johnson was president.
Then, the the United States wasn't subject to virtual annihilation in the span of 10 minutes.
So, perspective and stuff.
That's extremely debatable. The perspective would have to include the fact that Johnson was impeached shortly after the event which nearly destroyed the Republic. His extremely poor leadership, corruption and abuse of power (which made Obama's current power plays seem like child's play) could have re-split the Republic. As well, when I was a child, we were much closer to annihilation than we are now. We had drills where we were taken down into the furnace room of our elementary school in case the Ruskies dropped the big one. And there were fallout shelter signs on various locations in the town where we shopped. I doubt many people under 40 even know where they used to be located or what they were. The kids who were a little older than me went through the Cuban missile crisis. So I can imagine they were really afraid of getting toasted by the Reds. No offense (as I don't know your age... and this
isn't directed at you personally), but the limp-wristed, weak-kneed, candy-ass millennials of today worry about little shit too much. And if I hear another one say, "I just wanna to feel saaafe", I'm going to bitch slap him or her. Yeah, give 'em something to really cry about. Little pussies. :crybaby: I could take a troop of Cub Scouts with [NOBABE]BB guns[/NOBABE] and conquer Harvard in about twenty minutes.
I have a great many issues with Obama (especially in his second term). But time will tell where he is ranked overall. And as time goes on, things tend to change, for better and worse, in may instances. But he has some heavy competition for
Worst of the Worst: Herbert Hoover, William Henry Harrison, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, George W. Bush, and James Buchanan.
By his current rankings, partisan hyperbole aside (from both sides), my guess is that he'll go down as a pretty mediocre and average President. Yes, he'll always be remembered as the first Black President and he'll get credit (rightly or wrongly) for being the President as we emerged from the Great Recession. Yeah, on that one, probably credit where little credit is due. He didn't have anything to do with monetary policy - and Reagan didn't either. But most Americans don't know the difference between monetary policy (and who controls it) and fiscal policy. All they know is who was sitting in the big chair when something good or bad happened.
BTW, anyone still around from my dad's generation would likely say that my generation was full of limp-wristed, weak-kneed, candy-asses too. So, there is that...
"Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
