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Originally posted by whodey
Here is your chance. List for us who you view to be the most lame and pathetic politican figures of our time......scratch that, of all time!!

For me, I think Neville Chamberlain has to top the list who was the author of appeasement to the Nazi war machine.

Of course, being a conservative I have to also point to progressive conservatives...as if that is ...[text shortened]... owever, he also got burned by the "W" legacy as the left successfully drug him down with it.
1. Tony Blair
2. Ronald and Nancy Reagan (for the war on drugs)
3. Lula
4. Fernando Lugo
5. Gordon brown

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Originally posted by generalissimo
1. Tony Blair
2. Ronald and Nancy Reagan (for the war on drugs)
3. Lula
4. Fernando Lugo
5. Gordon brown
I don't know about Brown. A month ago, I'd have agreed, but if he wins the election..! It's not likely, but it's more likely than at any time for months and months, and no longer crazy talk. If he pulls it off and wins an election while this unpopular I just won't be able to consider him pathetic.

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Originally posted by whodey
Here is your chance. List for us who you view to be the most lame and pathetic politican figures of our time......scratch that, of all time!!

For me, I think Neville Chamberlain has to top the list who was the author of appeasement to the Nazi war machine.

Of course, being a conservative I have to also point to progressive conservatives...as if that is ...[text shortened]... owever, he also got burned by the "W" legacy as the left successfully drug him down with it.
the liberals were going to go after whoever beat gore and kerry.

look how they're going after Palin! would it be different if she was a moderate?

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Originally posted by DrKF
I don't know about Brown. A month ago, I'd have agreed, but if he wins the election..! It's not likely, but it's more likely than at any time for months and months, and no longer crazy talk. If he pulls it off and wins an election while this unpopular I just won't be able to consider him pathetic.
is it just that they're getting close to the wire and the electorate's thinking, nah, we don't really want to elect a Tory?

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Originally posted by DrKF
I don't know about Brown. A month ago, I'd have agreed, but if he wins the election..! It's not likely, but it's more likely than at any time for months and months, and no longer crazy talk. If he pulls it off and wins an election while this unpopular I just won't be able to consider him pathetic.
If he pulls it off and wins an election while this unpopular I just won't be able to consider him pathetic.

That would say more about the british public than it would about Brown.

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
is it just that they're getting close to the wire and the electorate's thinking, nah, we don't [b]really want to elect a Tory?[/b]
maybe the Lib Dems will get lucky
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Originally posted by zeeblebot
is it just that they're getting close to the wire and the electorate's thinking, nah, we don't [b]really want to elect a Tory?[/b]
I think 'cultural memory' is playing a part - one of the fundamental projects under Cameron has been 'detoxifying the brand'. I think, as the election looms, the limits of that detoxification are being well played by Labour. Their own brand is toxic like nuclear waste, but they can still (!) tap in to that 'cultural memory'. The other strand of attack - which has some merit - is that the detoxification project hasn't been sufficiently matched with concentration on policy, and the attendant fear is that, if the new look doesn't mask the old Tories, it masks incoherent and ill-thought out policies designed to sound good rather than mean anything. Again, much the same is increasingly being said about Labour, but the attack is sticking.

It's going to be cynical, maybe even a little nihilistic, this election.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
[b] If he pulls it off and wins an election while this unpopular I just won't be able to consider him pathetic.

That would say more about the british public than it would about Brown.[/b]
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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Originally posted by DrKF
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Surely Labour must have other people who are capable of leading the party.

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Originally posted by DrKF
It's going to be cynical, maybe even a little nihilistic, this election.
If John Major could do it in 1992, then so can Brown!

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You can't get any more pathetic than William Henry Harrison. Elected President, gives his Inauguration speech in a rain storm, catches pneumonia and dies about a month later.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
You can't get any more pathetic than William Henry Harrison. Elected President, gives his Inauguration speech in a rain storm, catches pneumonia and dies about a month later.
That's more sad than pathetic.

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Lincoln's successor, Johnson, I think holds the title of most worthless president.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
1. Tony Blair
2. Ronald and Nancy Reagan (for the war on drugs)
3. Lula
4. Fernando Lugo
5. Gordon brown
I served in the USCG in the 80's. Dispite the large amout of coke siezed by the USCG, it was at best spitting in the wind as the drug runners had more personel on the job, faster boats and all. Their boats were stolen, the crews were just deported back home and 10 shipments passed by for about every drug bust.

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Originally posted by expuddlepirate
Lincoln's successor, Johnson, I think holds the title of most worthless president.
How about Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan?

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