The Idiots of US History.

[Burchadinger]

Who do you guys think was the worst idiot of the US in its whole history?

[Maurepas]

Benedict Arnold, talk about backin the wrong horse,

[Something with wings]

the police officer who tried to arrest joshua norton

[Allbeama]

George W Bush.

[Risottia]

George W Bush.

At least he got elected. Twice. Which was what he wanted.

I nominate Gore, for not being able to get a single US senator to sign one of the numerous complaints filed by congressmen against the 2000 elections.

[Robustian]

Whoever this person is.... Isn't going to be famous for anything.

[Dashret]

John Quincy Adams. He ran against Andrew Jackson. Twice.

[Zeetopolis]

Most of the time, the stupid people don't last long enough to make a name for themselves.

Jimmy Carter could be it, what with the failure of Desert Storm and his sheer ignorance of how to deal with Russia.

[Dododecapod]

Most of the time, the stupid people don't last long enough to make a name for themselves.

Jimmy Carter could be it, what with the failure of Desert Storm and his sheer ignorance of how to deal with Russia.

Ah, Desert Storm was Bush Senior's (successful) war against Iraq. You're thinking of Carter's attempt to rescue the hostages, Eagle's Claw.

[United Russian State]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

[Libertarian Governance]

Baby George Bush

[Robustian]

Ok... The reason why the dumbest people aren't widely known and famous... Is the same as some advice given to me as a teenager back when I was a logger in Montana...

"There's not a lot of old loggers. There's alot more young loggers. There's some young and dumb loggers, but there's no old and dumb loggers. Either get smart or get out of logging, if you'd like to get old."

I was never once injured in the woods while logging. A couple close calls, though, none of which was anything approaching "mortal". My closest brush with death was from simple hypothermia, less than a mile from home.

[The Scandinvans]

Those who assume that the individual is not a sovereign entity unto himself or herself.

[Grave_n_idle]

This guy: http://cbs4.com/local/Worker.Killed.Man ... lash=false

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone you can really argue against it with.

[North Suran]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Laughable nationalist propaganda is laughable.

For someone so keen to distance themselves from the unsavoury elements of the USSR, you seem to be holding quite the blood-feud for Kennedy.

[The Black Forrest]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Hmmmm. Clinton was a Rhode's scholor. Obama a Constitutional Professor.

[United Russian State]

For someone so keen to distance themselves from the unsavoury elements of the USSR, you seem to be holding quite the blood-feud for Kennedy.

Maybe if he wasn't a dumbass and almost started world war three, when America had nukes in Turkey, I wouldn't have a "blood-feud " for him.

[Sgt Poke-A-Man]

This guy: http://cbs4.com/local/Worker.Killed.Man ... lash=false

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone you can really argue against it with.

How about the dude that severed his mantenna fapping too close to machinery?

[The Black Forrest]

For someone so keen to distance themselves from the unsavoury elements of the USSR, you seem to be holding quite the blood-feud for Kennedy.

Maybe if he wasn't a dumbass and almost started world war three, when America had nukes in Turkey, I wouldn't have a "blood-feud " for him.

Ahm? Eisenhower gave them to Turkey.....

[Grave_n_idle]

This guy: http://cbs4.com/local/Worker.Killed.Man ... lash=false

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone you can really argue against it with.

How about the dude that severed his mantenna fapping too close to machinery?

I'm not sure if that tops accidentally falling into a chipper and getting chipped.

[The Scandinvans]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Obama a Constitutional Professor.

Obama being a man who says the Constitution is a living document when the writers of it specifically declared that if people wanted it changed, just pass a damn amendment.

[Sgt Poke-A-Man]

This guy: http://cbs4.com/local/Worker.Killed.Man ... lash=false

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone you can really argue against it with.

How about the dude that severed his mantenna fapping too close to machinery?

I'm not sure if that tops accidentally falling into a chipper and getting chipped.

Well, I mean, the guy at least has an excuse... maybe he was walking backwards with wood piles and underestimated the distance he was walking and fell backwards into it?

On the other hand, masturbating near machinery is pretty much asking for Karma to answer back.

[The Black Forrest]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Obama a Constitutional Professor.

Obama being a man who says the Constitution is a living document when the writers of it specifically declared that if people wanted it changed, just pass a damn amendment.

Passing an amendment is a rather hard thing to do. As such the writers didn't declare it that way.....

[Grave_n_idle]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Obama a Constitutional Professor.

Obama being a man who says the Constitution is a living document when the writers of it specifically declared that if people wanted it changed, just pass a damn amendment.

"Living Constitution" scholars are hardly unknown. It's not that unusual for people to read the letter of the law, look at how the paradigm has changed, and figure that the Constitution would do such-and-such in spirit.

Example - free speech - should apply over phone-lines, yes?

Is it worth trying to amend the Constitution for that? No - speech is speech, even if telephones didn't exist when the Constitution was written.

[The Scandinvans]

John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Obama

Obama a Constitutional Professor.

Obama being a man who says the Constitution is a living document when the writers of it specifically declared that if people wanted it changed, just pass a damn amendment.

"Living Constitution" scholars are hardly unknown. It's not that unusual for people to read the letter of the law, look at how the paradigm has changed, and figure that the Constitution would do such-and-such in spirit.

Example - free speech - should apply over phone-lines, yes?

Is it worth trying to amend the Constitution for that? No - speech is speech, even if telephones didn't exist when the Constitution was written.

The application of the 1st amendment, in your opinion, is the assumption that modern inventions automatically entails the evolution of the Constitution. However, the more proper way, at least from my standpoint, that no matter how you read it freedom of expression applies to all realms, be it private of public engagements. As long as you don not compromise the property or person of other people you can express yourself freely, without being regulated by the government.

The assumption that speaking on the phone is not within the freedom of expression is a evolution of the Constitution in of itself.