The Vulture
Banned
Personally, I think Splinter would have made a great president. Sadly, he was ineligible due to being born in Japan. And a rat.
What have you got against Bryan? He seems a nice enough guy to me. And I doubt if remonetarising silver would have had any terrible consequences.
If you're bothered about his attitude to teaching evolution, that was widely shared at the time, and not a matter about which the Federal government had anything much to say. He could have done little to promote it from the White House, and probably wouldn't have tried.
Unfortunately, only a majority of the good citizens of Massachusetts and D.C. understood that...
What do I have against Bryan? Not much, apart from his being a fuzzy-minded sort who spouted popular but poorly reasoned pseudo-policies, that he was totally unqualified in experience in a responsible public position, and a terrible administrator to boot. Consider: during his tenure as Wilson's secretary of state, he did little apart from sending out biblical tracts by the ton. It took the efforts of a Robert Lansing (uncle to the two Dulles brothers) to begin to undo the harm Bryan did.
Bryan in the White House would have been as incompetent as Obama, Harding, or Carter.
President Schwarzenegger, of course
Bryan in the White House would have been as incompetent as Obama, Harding, or Carter.
Precisely. We also needed some not-dead-in-a-month ones.Alexander Hamilton. Henry Clay. Maybe Daniel Webster. We need more non-war hero Whigs.
To be fair, Bryan got tossed out of Wilson's administration specifically for pointing out that Wilson's actions were going to result in the US getting dragged into World War I, so I don't think you can really blame for that.Afaics, the worst that can happen is that despite his most determined efforts, he may be unable to keep America out of WW1. But then Wilson also failed at that, so it pretty much "all comes out in the wash".
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I rest my case.
He's always seemed more of a follower for me. IMO that's why he never pursued the Presidency (along with his wife's opposition).Soory for the bump but i heard people suggest Powell would of been a good President when it comes to the handling of 9-11