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Posts Tagged ‘historians’

Historians Agree: McCain Is Doomed

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Hemingway's heroes were doomed losers, tooAccording to people who think and look at books and “write papers” for a living, John McCain cannot possibly be elected President this November, on account of History. You see, History tells us all sorts of things about how the popularity of the incumbent party and the outgoing president influence people’s election choices. However, it ignores the most salient point: the voting proclivities of a bunch of old Jewish ladies in Palm Beach County. There’s hope yet for John McCain, except probably definitely not! MORE »


61% Of Historians Say Bush Is Worst Ever

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

But most beloved by rabbitsA secret cabal of historians has reached the same conclusion as millions of Earthlings: George W. Bush is the worst president ever, or perhaps second only to James Buchanan. In a shocking survey by George Mason University’s History News Network, 61% of bespectacled stack-dwellers acknowledged that their many years of research, reflection, and professional inquiry pointed to the terrible and incontrovertible fact of George Bush’s assiness. Stinging invective from Professional Historians who all but call him a paint-spackled trollop, after the jump. MORE »