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Inconclusive???? ARE YOU NUTS??? by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 09:18:35 PM EST

Obviously you didn't consult the blogtardosphere for their opinion. Or wikipedia. Like that's two separate groups. Anyway, I commend your dedication to knowledge, as well as your general awesomeness for writing this thing.

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The answer is obvious by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #22 Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 09:38:03 PM EST

The worst was William Henry Harrison. That idiot accomplished *nothing* during his presidency!
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Actually, he appointed one diplomat. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #23 Thu Jan 10, 2008 at 11:15:44 PM EST

So he got one thing done.

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There are those that would argue by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #25 Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 10:18:20 AM EST

that accomplishing nothing at all is more impressive than having every accomplishment you achieve turn into a steaming, rotting heaping mass of disaster.

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: The Slavitt arguement. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #27 Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 12:52:35 PM EST

That's the very argument of David R. Slavitt, the poet that wrote "William Henry Harrison" the epic poem that Harrison's administration deserves, nay, demands!
And Harrison would agree. He distrusted the office because he felt the concentration of power was dangerously corrupting. Harrison felt the president should exercise his powers as little as possible. The best president is the one that barely governs at all.
In a way, measured by the benchmarks of his own political philosophy, he's perhaps one of the most spectacularly successful presidents we've ever had.

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I know, I know. by Christopher Robin was Murdered (4.00 / 1) #24 Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 07:38:22 AM EST

I spent all that time among dead trees, "reading" these so-called books. Learning, is the term they used for it. Instead, I could have entered into a dynamic conversation with other citizens . . . sigh, when I think back on all the time I wasted . . .

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