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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
That's a fair comment. But some of them are more "not nicer" than others... if you know what I mean. 
Let's take Lincoln. He wasn't perfect, but I don't believe he had a bad bone in his body. He certainly did not stomp all over people like Ford. |
yet he did restrict civil liberties way beyond any other president, past or present, and even had people arrested (most notably a supreme court justice) who disagreed with his decision for the war.
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Kennedy, on the other hand, is often described as a great American, yet he was a liar, a philanderer and (some could argue) brought the world close to nuclear war.
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It could also be argued that he prevented it by blockading russian missiles to cuba.
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Good and bad. Two sides of the same coin.
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couldnt agree more.
