When was America great?

Jarod said:
To me the answer is that America has always had greatness, never perfect but always great because in part of the built in peaceful revolution mechanism in our elections and our nations ability to evolve.

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I agree with that.
 
Sailor said:
Not obliged. You better believe it. It is quite apparent you do not get out of your neighborhood much.
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unless you count 6 continents.........and having been, at one time or another, conversant in half a dozen languages........or having spent 6 years studying Latin 100s of years ago....


Other than that I'm totes parochial....
 
blackvegetable said:
unless you count 6 continents.........and having been, at one time or another, conversant in half a dozen languages........or having spent 6 years studying Latin 100s of years ago....


Other than that I'm totes parochial....
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Hablamos Español, tambien. Course anyone can look that up on the internet.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I apologize to God and the children of the world for the ignorance of posters such as yourself......if you know nothing about history why do you bother posting......
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What I cited were actual numbers....if you had any idea where you could find them, you'd be able to show me where my assertions fall short of The Truth......

But we all know you don't know squat......

here's a primer for ya...

https://www.forbes.com/2004/07/20/cx_da_0720presidents.html
 
blackvegetable said:
unless you count 6 continents.........and having been, at one time or another, conversant in half a dozen languages........or having spent 6 years studying Latin 100s of years ago....


Other than that I'm totes parochial....
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So you are still a neophyte then. At least you are honest.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
to be fair, you haven't cited any numbers yet......if fact you haven't even specified who you're comparing Reagan to.......if you're comparing him to Carter and claim Carter ranks favorably, you're obviously lying out of your ass.......
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I'll give you that my ranking was ordinal, but because I specified my criteria, you could have readily contradicted it - were it untrue....


Which you didn't.

Did you miss the link to Forbes? The one with the metrics based comparison of all Presidents since Truman?

Here is the data

https://www.forbes.com/2004/07/20/cx_da_0720presidentstable.html
 
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