DBWI: Former President Geraldine Ferraro dies

Today, March, 26 2011, the death of former President of the United States Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY) has been announced. She was 75 and had been striving for years with blood cancer. What is your opinion about her?
 
The first female President, she was an inspiration to women's rights and liberals after she ended Reagan-omics after winning the 1988 election against George Bush.
 
I always did like her, and I wish she had won re-election over Dan Quayle in '92. President Quayle was horrible.

Anyhow, I think my favorite accomplishment of hers was UHC in 1990. An excellent feat, although it probably cost her re-election.:(
 

JoeMulk

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The way that she managed to heal the country after the tragic assasination of President Hart in 1986 was inspiring. It's thanks to her that Reagenomics was shoved onto the assheap of history.
 
One of the best damn war-time presidents we ever had. Can you even imagine if Bush had been in office when Saddam started up his shenanigans? :eek: Iraq would likely have carved up most of its neighbors by now if it weren't for President Ferraro.
 
She was an inspiration to the Italian-American Community. Her Vice President, Mario Cuomo, served as President in her footsteps from 2001-2009. While he served longer, she had a much more positive impact.
 
The way that she managed to heal the country after the tragic assasination of President Hart in 1986 was inspiring. It's thanks to her that Reagenomics was shoved onto the assheap of history.

The way that she managed to heal the country after the tragic assasination of President Hart in 1987 was inspiring. It's thanks to her that Reagenomics was shoved onto the assheap of history
 
She was an inspiration to the Italian-American Community. Her Vice President, Mario Cuomo, served as President in her footsteps from 2001-2009. While he served longer, she had a much more positive impact.

OOC: Impossible. The two persons on the same ticket can't be of the same home state, else they can't be elected in the following. That's why Nixon wanted to be registered in New York so he could chose Lt. Gov. Robert Finch from California, or Dick Cheney quickly changed his home state from Texas, where he had been living for years, to Wyoming, in order to run alongisde Bush Jr.

IC: Huh...I'm sure you're talking about Senator Andrew Cuomo, who was President from 2001 to 2009? Mario Cuomo was his father, he finally decided not to run in 1988, leaving the free field to Ferraro.
 
The way that she managed to heal the country after the tragic assasination of President Hart in 1986 was inspiring. It's thanks to her that Reagenomics was shoved onto the assheap of history.

Oh please, can we blot President Hot Pants out of our collective minds, please? :eek: As tragic as his assassination was, did he really need to stoop down to bunga bunga level?

As for Ferraro - I agree with everyone else that Ferraro was probably the best President we've ever had. It's a pity that she died.
 
As much as I like her, her policies really alienated the European's and looked as if she gave up on 40 years of US support and backing of Western Europe. This might sound a bit conservative but the it's the truth, although the Soviets didn't capitalize on this as much as they could have, the Europeans thought they had been just dropped off the US's geopolitical radar.
As this US - Euro split came along as some of the right calls it, she pulled back military forces and nuclear weapons from West Germany and the UK, even started to back out of NATO practice drills. They started their Economic, Political, and Military integration processes a few years later to deter the Soviets from moving on Europe.
This was the only thing I am unsure about her presidency but, although the conservatives would like you to believe otherwise, she pulled back military forces everywhere and cut down on the military budget that Reagan had increased a few years before. Without the huge threat from the US military the Soviets didn't feel so pushed into a corner and now we have significant trade relations with the Soviets today. Also the Kind of military-industrial complex we would've had if the regean policies would've stayed would've been enormous...
 
OOC: Impossible. The two persons on the same ticket can't be of the same home state, else they can't be elected in the following. That's why Nixon wanted to be registered in New York so he could chose Lt. Gov. Robert Finch from California, or Dick Cheney quickly changed his home state from Texas, where he had been living for years, to Wyoming, in order to run alongisde Bush Jr.

IC: Huh...I'm sure you're talking about Senator Andrew Cuomo, who was President from 2001 to 2009? Mario Cuomo was his father, he finally decided not to run in 1988, leaving the free field to Ferraro.

OOC: There is nothing in the constitution which forces the two people on the ticket to be from separate states. The issue is that the electoral college are required to cast a ballot for at least one candidate who is not from their own state, therefore in the cases you mentioned, California and Texas would be forced to split their ticket in the election. An obvious problem.

IC: I'm pretty sure Cuomo's canceling his candidacy in 1988 had a lot to do with Ferraro's lead over him in Iowa and New Hampshire, so it's hard to say that Cuomo's leaving really opened up the field to Ferraro.

Besides, at the time, all anyone outside of New York really knew about Cuomo was that he was appointed VP after Ferraro assumed the Presidency. He probably would have stayed VP as well, if it weren't for that electoral college issue.
 
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