Who is your favorite US President?

[Spamela]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: zendari
George W. Bush

haha Hes your hero isnt he you bastard

i remember Nixon having die-hard supporters even after his resignation.
kool-aid was around then, too.

 

[AdamSnow]

Clinton - Only cause he got blown in the oval office... Thumbs up to that.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: techs
Bill Clinton.

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Clinton - Only cause he got blown in the oval office... Thumbs up to that.

He's my favorite, but considering the presidents in my lifetime, it isn't saying much. We could have done without NAFTA or MFN for China.

 

[tommywishbone]

Cheney

 

[Strk]

Probably Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[Darkhawk28]

Mix FDR and Ike and that does it for me.

 

[Captante]

George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK & (believe it or not) Ronald Reagan.

 

[judasmachine]

Jackson was an antichrist type figure to many people. I think he holds the record for largest concentration camp. (AKA Oklahoma)

 

[Taggart]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Clinton - Only cause he got blown in the oval office... Thumbs up to that.

I think this deserves a big QFT, as anyone that says 'Bill Clinton is the greatest president!!' never provides reasons why.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: filterxg
TR was my favorite, Lincoln was the best, closely followed by Jefferson... last century in terms of importance (not personal pref) FDR, Wilson, TR, Truman, Regan.

JFK is the most overrated. His crowning achievement was the cuban missle crisis which which I believe many people could have solved (though not nixon). and he had more negatives than most. Bay of Pigs was a mess, but under his presidency the CIA got a reputation of meddling which is still hurting us (any dictator can say the CIA did something and the people rally)...though we aren't nearly as bad as we were then. I mean come on the CIA hasn't tried to overthrow a government via revolution since El Salvador/Nicaragua, and arguably hasn't tried to overthrow anybody since then. But JFK tried to overthrow 4. Oh yeah and he should get at least 10% of the credit for Vietnam. If he wasn't shot I think we would remember him as a mixed bag. Now RFK could have been great...

I don't know about the Cuban missle crisis...I think a lot of Presidents would have presided over the end of the world as we know it. Can you imagine Bush at the helm back then...?

 

[Dissipate]

They all sucked.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

FDR :thumbsup:

 

[dannybin1742]

I completely agree. I beleive democracy in America died with him that same day.

i agree too

 

[JackStorm]

Thomas Jefferson

Why? Because he was (In my mind)the father of liberty in the US and because he opposed a strong centralized government in favor of state rights.

Though the man wasn't without his flaws. But, then again, who is?

 

[compuwiz1]

[flame suit on] George W. Bush[/Flame suit off]

 

[BBond]

Herbert Hoover. He set the low water mark that allows us to judge just how bad George W. Bush (who has gone so far below that low mark) is.

 

[morrisbj]

FDR

 

[morrisbj]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
Gerold Ford has always been one of my favorites. His whole life was put under a microscope because of Watergate. No one who ever sat in that office has ever been so thourghly examined. And he was squeaky clean.

He also gave 48 hours to give up the Myaguez (sp?) or he would send in the Marines. At the end of the 48 hours, the Marines went in and took it back. Nobody else screwed with the U.S. while he was in office.

I also believe he made decisions based on what he thought was good for the country. He knew he would be condemned for pardoning Nixon, but he knew that the scandal would paralize the government if it continued to grind on. He willingly took it on the chin to get the country moving forward again. I can't imagine many other Presidents doing that.

Intriguing answer considering that Ford was one of the more loathed Presidents in history. However, I like the argument you make for him.

 

[morrisbj]

Originally posted by: techs
Bill Clinton.

Nothing quite like a President who can balance the budget, create a surplus, and still have time to get head from his intern on the side.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: morrisbj

Originally posted by: techs
Bill Clinton.

Nothing quite like a President who can balance the budget, create a surplus, and still have time to get head from his intern on the side.

Ok, and he also is the reason 9/11 happened and why we are dealing with the Islamic radicals. We should have taken out Afghanistan long before 9/11 happened. And what did Clinton did about the USS Cole incident?

I like Clinton but lets not overlook his catastrophic mistakes.

 

[morrisbj]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
They all sucked.

Then which one do you think sucked least?

 

[morrisbj]

Originally posted by: BBond
Herbert Hoover. He set the low water mark that allows us to judge just how bad George W. Bush (who has gone so far below that low mark) is.

I was hoping not to see a Hoover comment on here. I wanted to be the first.

 

[morrisbj]

Originally posted by: raildogg
Ok, and he also is the reason 9/11 happened and why we are dealing with the Islamic radicals. We should have taken out Afghanistan long before 9/11 happened. And what did Clinton did about the USS Cole incident?

I like Clinton but lets not overlook his catastrophic mistakes.

Clinton didn't make CATASTROPHIC mistakes. He made mistakes, but nothing on the level you accuse him of. What did you want him to do over the Cole incident? Sent 160,000 troops into a country that had nothing to do with it?

Look idiot, you can't just outright attack a country for what a terrorist who lived there did. The government didn't do it, some lunatic radical did it. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 except that OBL lived there. Nearly all the hijackers were Saudis (in case your little pea brain doesn't understand that, it means not Afghan). The only president who even had a chance to possibly stop it was Bush, but that memo he got wasn't exactly detailed, so I'm not going to be unreasonable like you and throw it all in his lap.

THINK and maybe READ A BOOK before you post your stupidity.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: morrisbj

Originally posted by: raildogg
Ok, and he also is the reason 9/11 happened and why we are dealing with the Islamic radicals. We should have taken out Afghanistan long before 9/11 happened. And what did Clinton did about the USS Cole incident?

I like Clinton but lets not overlook his catastrophic mistakes.

Clinton didn't make CATASTROPHIC mistakes. He made mistakes, but nothing on the level you accuse him of. What did you want him to do over the Cole incident? Sent 160,000 troops into a country that had nothing to do with it?

Look idiot, you can't just outright attack a country for what a terrorist who lived there did. The government didn't do it, some lunatic radical did it. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 except that OBL lived there. Nearly all the hijackers were Saudis (in case your little pea brain doesn't understand that, it means not Afghan). The only president who even had a chance to possibly stop it was Bush, but that memo he got wasn't exactly detailed, so I'm not going to be unreasonable like you and throw it all in his lap.

THINK and maybe READ A BOOK before you post your stupidity.

You're a retard. Get back when your temper cools down, E-thug.