Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "James Buchanan: Was This Man America's Worst President?" video.

  1. "Americans have conveniently misled themselves about the presidency of James Buchanan, preferring to classify him as indecisive and inactive... In fact Buchanan's failing during the crisis over the Union was not inactivity, but rather his partiality for the South, a favoritism that bordered on disloyalty in an officer pledged to defend all the United States. He was that most dangerous of chief executives, a stubborn, mistaken ideologue whose principles held no room for compromise. His experience in government had only rendered him too self-confident to consider other views. In his betrayal of the national trust, Buchanan came closer to committing treason than any other president in American history." ~Jean Baker, 2004
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  2. "Sure you did, Jim." ~Smartass
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  3.  @j.p.obregon1415  Well, his handling of COVID was rather sloppy, but a part of me wants to chalk that up to inexperience. And he could've pulled a Grover Cleveland and run for a second, non-consecutive term, but instead, he destroyed any hope he had of getting another shot at the White House.
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  4.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  I freely admit that I voted for him both times, but his tantrum after losing the 2020 election was just pathetic.
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  5.  @IanAlcorn  He didn't even have good intentions: he tried to protect the expansion of slavery. The guy was borderline, if not outright, treasonous.
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  6.  @wwc51450  Not a fan of Biden, but he does seem more proactive than Buchanan, for better or worse.
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  7. You missed a few things: * That ex-fiance who died? Well, her family blamed Buchanan for that and wrecked his legal career out of spite, necessitating his turn to politics. * Jackson made him the ambassador to Russia just to get him as far away from the country as possible, famously declaring that he'd have sent Buchanan to the North Pole if he could, "but we don't have an embassy there." * His trips abroad gave others the (incorrect) belief that he had some diplomatic/political know-how, to the point of where Ulysses S. Grant voted for him out of fear that his opponent would "cause a civil war." Hmm, why do I hear foreboding music in the background?
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  8.  @mcnultyssobercompanion6372  Of course it is. And I commend and respect your beliefs, as well. Personally, I'm more liberal than anything, but I liked his pro-Israel stance, plus I'm in the army, so his focus on the military was a personal boon.
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  9. Knew a guy named Buchanan (surname) at AIT in Pensacola, FL. Called him Bucky. During a midnight company-wide breathalyzer test, he tried to disguise his drunkenness by chewing gum. It didn't work.
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  10. The Greatest Civil War General You've Probably Never Heard Of
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  11.  @migueljonz3901  Nah, unless Trump tried to re-introduce slavery, Bucky is still worse. Although Trump's tantrum put him pretty close.
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  12.  @RickJaeger  And, as Simon points out, Harding and Hoover at least TRIED to do some good things (attempts to stop lynchings and humanitarian efforts, respectively); LBJ ratified the Civil Rights Act (though likely not for humanitarian reasons); and Nixon was nice to Native Americans (again, probably not out of the goodness of his heart).
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  13. Coolidge did okay, and he did try to help Native Americans and African-Americans.
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  14.  @darthbee18  At least Harding tried to defend African-Americans from persecution.
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  15.  @geoben1810  I'm aware of what fascism is, and I don't see fascism in Israel. It's had to fight for its own existence ever since it was created. And my pro-army statement is entirely economical. If I had a different job (and I wish I did, but a degree in History limits your options), I wouldn't have said that.
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  16.  @elagabalusrex390  He, like Wilson, was a doughboy: a northerner with southern sympathies.
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  17. Kind of surprised you didn't get more responses.
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  18. People like to say Lincoln didn't get any southern votes, but that's because his name was deliberately removed from ballots, so southern voters couldn't choose him even if they wanted to. It was another pathetic act of voter fraud by the southern slave-owners, and it failed.
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  19.  @michaelterrell5061  Kennedy had quite a few dirty socks in his drawer, especially with how crooked his old man was.
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  20. Another thing was an infamous argument between him and Douglas, during which Buchanan made some (thinly) veiled threats about those who take on the Democrats. Douglas sneered, "Jackson is dead."
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  21. ​ @jackhamilton9604 I don't know. Wasn't my idea.
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  22.  @maximustiberius3036  Wasn't Johnson targeted by the assassins, too?
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  23.  @BrianHartman  And that is your right. Honestly, I'm more afraid that the riot could set a precedent
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  24. ​@user-sp7rc9nu3z His parents weren't, though. And his grandson pissed on his beliefs by joining the Civil Rights Movement and openly insulting Joseph McCarthy.
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  25. He didn't. He tried to kiss up to the south and expected the north to just take it up the ass.
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  26. As much as I agree with you, he was also a competent general and legitimate badass, even if I find his morals reprehensible. He was interesting, but not in an endearing way.
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