Well, I apologize for over-extrapolating and place my acidic comment back in the ready-room for later deployment if needed.

It needs no pointing out that everyone from Washington and Lincoln on up in the history of prominent American politicians has been berated and bedeviled and defamed by critics. FDR was thought by some capitalists to be the devil incarnate and the anti-Christ, Lincoln and Washington were both pathetic losers in their respective wars until they won, and Clinton has been reviled despite his successes because (mostly) the Republicans despised him from themoment he denied Bush I his second term.


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