{"id":47983,"date":"2019-05-21T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47983"},"modified":"2019-04-20T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:25:35","slug":"qotd-measuring-up-to-the-presidency-or-perhaps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/qotd-measuring-up-to-the-presidency-or-perhaps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Measuring up to the presidency &#8230; or, perhaps, down"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; let&#8217;s just look at the presidents of my lifetime: JFK: Adulterer, drug user, made his brother (!) Attorney General, shady mafia connections, stole election. LBJ: Adulterer, much cruder than Trump, started Vietnam War. Nixon: Honestly, better than LBJ but the source of the term &#8220;Nixonian.&#8221; Ford: Nice guy, failed president. Carter: Nice guy, failed president. Reagan: The GOP gold standard, but a multiply-divorced Hollywood actor whose administration was marked by nearly as much scandal-drama as Trump&#8217;s. (Just look up Justice Gorsuch&#8217;s mother). George HW: Nice guy, but longtime adulterer and failed president. Bill Clinton: I mean, come on. George W. Bush: Personal rectitude in office, though he&#8217;s been a bit of a dick since Trump beat his brother. Iraq War thing didn&#8217;t turn out too well. Mediocre judicial appointments and little attention to domestic reforms. Gave us TSA. Obama: Far more scandals, and far more abuse of power, than Trump. And does French forget that Trump was running against <em>Hillary?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Glenn &#8220;Instapundit&#8221; Reynolds, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/328226\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I LIKE DAVID FRENCH, BUT THIS IS AHISTORICAL BULLSHIT&#8221;, <em>Instapundit<\/em><\/a>, 2019-04-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; let&#8217;s just look at the presidents of my lifetime: JFK: Adulterer, drug user, made his brother (!) Attorney General, shady mafia connections, stole election. LBJ: Adulterer, much cruder than Trump, started Vietnam War. Nixon: Honestly, better than LBJ but the source of the term &#8220;Nixonian.&#8221; Ford: Nice guy, failed president. Carter: Nice guy, failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7,53,41,13],"tags":[158,669,1037,976,668,172,225,302,595,515],"class_list":["post-47983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-billclinton","tag-donaldtrump","tag-georgehwbush","tag-georgewbush","tag-geraldford","tag-jfk","tag-jimmycarter","tag-lbj","tag-richardnixon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ctV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47984,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47983\/revisions\/47984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}