Comments on: Bill Clinton Meets Lefty Bloggers

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:04:40 +0000

Who’s the last president to be elected whose name was widely and frequently misspelled?

I don't know about the latest, but here's some I'm sure people had trouble (or fun) with:

Fillmore
1850-53

Pierce
1853-57

Buchanan
1857-61

Garfield
1881

Coolidge
1923-29

By: The American Mind

The American Mind — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:15:42 +0000

Bill Bops with the Blogosphere...

You can't say Bill Clinton is a dumb politician. He met with a group of Lefty webloggers at his Harlem......

By: Cernig

Cernig — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:05:51 +0000

Makes you wonder what Bush will be telling the GOP's cadre of "conference-call" bloggers in 6 years time.

Regards, C

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:59:16 +0000

So on the one hand we are to think that a man who pleaded no-contest to perjury would be telling the truth now even if that contradicts what was done before.

I agree with all your assessment, but I think you could have at least mentioned the possibility that a man impeached (though not convicted) for perjury might just be lying and telling the lefty bloggers what he thinks they want to here.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:03:04 +0000

Probably Eisenhower. I was thinking Roosevelt, and remarking how "FDR" became his nickname for multiple reasons: distinction from Teddy, fits in headlines better ... and saves people from having to spell "Roosevelt"? With Eisenhower, there's "Ike," just as Giuliani is known as "Rudy." Doubt that non-tabloids would use either in a headline, though.

By: Conservative Outpost

Conservative Outpost — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:48:11 +0000

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By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:22:26 +0000

McG: Mostly, I mean the Democrats and their interest groups would have rallied to kill it with a Republican president. Dems get more slack on the social issues, like the Republicans do on crime and foreign policy.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:11:52 +0000

Conversely, a President (George HW/W) Bush could not have signed the Welfare Reform bill into law.

I think that's stretching just a tad. More accurate to say, "No President Bush could have signed the Welfare Reform bill without getting his chops thoroughly busted by the Washington press corps for typical Republican heartlessness." Maybe neither would have signed it in hopes of avoiding bad press, but if Bush 41 got the bill after, say, reneging on "no new taxes," the pressure from the base to sign welfare reform might have been hard to resist.

By: PSoTD

PSoTD — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:45:52 +0000

Probably Eisenhower.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:19:33 +0000

A good point. I've looked it up numerous times and still frequently misspell it, never remembering whether it's "iu" or "ui." He definitely wouldn't want to run as a write-in!

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:14:58 +0000

A President Guiliani, for example, could lead that effort and at least get a respectful hearing from the other side.

Who's the last president to be elected whose name was widely and frequently misspelled?

Hey, it's a factor.

By: bRight & Early » First Cup 09.13.06

bRight & Early » First Cup 09.13.06 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:40:42 +0000

[...] Outside The Beltway (James Joyner) Bill Clinton Meets Lefty Bloggers — "Liberals are angry at Clinton for enacting so little of their agenda, just as conservatives are angry at Bush. But politics is the art of the possible. Rantings of the critics aside, presidents are not dictators who can govern by fiat. There are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to criticize Clinton and Bush; that they were insufficiently ideological is not among them." [...]

By: The Newshoggers

The Newshoggers — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

is up in arms that "The most hateful, deranged creeps of the loony left blogosphere meet with President Bill Clinton in New York." (Yes, John, I guess he means you. When LGF calls you a hateful deranged creep you know you're on the right track!.) James Joyner has a more thoughtful reaction. I'm left wondering what Bush will be telling the GOP's own pet coterie of "hateful, deranged creeps" in eight years time. "I coulda been a contender if it wasn't for that Cheney fella"

By: » Gone Hollywood

» Gone Hollywood — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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