And America's greatest President was...
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Greatest President?
Submitted by Actor212 (not verified) on 27 January 2007 - 11:42pm.
This is a no-brainer. Even the White House website admits that Bill Clinton had the greatest Presidency ever, despite his personal and political problems.
Eight years of the greatest economy the planet has ever known.
Eight years of peace.
Greatest. President. Ever.
Franky D forever
Submitted by The Masterpiece on 26 January 2007 - 3:07pm.
One thing as a Black Man I dislike are minorities who praise Abe Lincoln up and down. Franky D did so much more for minorities(meaning not just ethinicity or culutural,including class structure). Plus he was in office so long he was like a standard. Abe did not free the slaves.... OK read your history. Too tall in my mind to be Prez.My runnner up would be Bill Clinton then Thomas Jefferson only because he shot a man in the face for looking at his wife. So the story goes on the history channel if I saw it right that night.
The Masterpiece
"More blue less red please"
Well
Submitted by Bouldin on 26 January 2007 - 3:47pm.
If I had to choose, I'd say FDR, too, but there's a case to be made for Washington and Lincoln as well, and to a lesser extent for Jackson and TR.
A word for George
Submitted by yero (not verified) on 26 January 2007 - 5:00pm.
Okay, yes, George Washington was a slave owner. But he did one thing as president that we should all be grateful for: He stepped down after two terms. He refused absolute, indeterminate power. There was nothing inevitable about democracy at that point, and the fact that we basically have the system set up by our founders is pretty amazing.
for a website like this in
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on 26 January 2007 - 9:26pm.
for a website like this in NYC it should be FDR with no contest. But then really in the course of history there cant really be one best absolute president. You have to pick which did the most at a certain time marker. And I think that still would leave FDR, then Washington, then Lincoln.
Washington was present at the creation......Lincoln was present at the dissolution and FDR created the third chapter of the era of world democracy that we are still working with.
Don't forget TR!
Submitted by mole333 on 26 January 2007 - 10:12pm.
I voted FDR because I think overall he was the best overall. But I think given the American psyche, and for his creation of the progressive movement, and for his cajones muy grandes, I was tempted to say TR. In some ways I consider him America's ideal of a President...which isn't the same as the best.
Lincoln with FDR a strong second
Submitted by Liza Sabater on 27 January 2007 - 12:41pm.
Sorry, but Abolition trumps welfare all the way.
Both
Submitted by mole333 on 27 January 2007 - 1:03pm.
Truth is both, in different ways, saved America from near collapse, successfully bringing America through the two biggest crisis periods of our post-Constitution history.
Lincoln brought us through the Civil War and eliminated slavery, something no previous President had had the guts to do and it was probably thanks to the Civil War that Lincoln had the guts...so thanks South Carolina for giving Lincoln no excuse not to abolish the "quaint institution" the South clung so desperately to.
FDR brought us through the Great Depression, a crisis that led many Democracies and budding Democracies to turn to either communism or fascism. We walked the tightrope, led by FDR's wheelchair, to a balanced economy and kept away from the extremes. Then he led us most of the way through WW II.
Each of the two led us through almost insurmountable problems and by doing so saved America as a nation and/or as a democratic system. Both had flaws, no doubt. But both did great things without which America would not be what it is today.
What...How could you
Submitted by The Masterpiece on 29 January 2007 - 8:39pm.
You forgot one of the most important Presidents ever......Garfield one of the best.
The Masterpiece
"More blue less red please"
Can't Resist...
Submitted by mole333 on 29 January 2007 - 9:12pm.
"The divorce between church and state should be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state, or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community."
— -- James A. Garfield, Congressional Record (1874), 2:5384, quoted from Gene Garman, "Church and State Separation"
I am in love
Submitted by Anonymous Coward (not verified) on 29 January 2007 - 9:38pm.
How do you know so much about the US presidents? Is this like a hobby of yours?
Brain like an attic...
Submitted by mole333 on 29 January 2007 - 9:59pm.
My head is filled with useless trivia, rolling around like dust balls in an attic. I remembered coming across that quote somewhere and including it on Culture Kitchen. Hunted it down for this poll.
Now ask me about ancient Rome or the end of the Bronze Age and I REALLY have a head full of useless trivia. But ask me anything practical and I go blank.
What I want to know
Submitted by Bouldin on 29 January 2007 - 9:14pm.
is who's the idiot that voted for reagan? I know this is one of the right's pet agendas, elevating him to the sainthood and all that, but seriously...
People are such starfuckers
Submitted by Bouldin on 29 January 2007 - 9:54pm.
Talk about Presidential races or rankings, and everyone's interested. Talk about a race in their own backyard, one that will arguably affect them more, and you mainly get yawns.
It's like teenagers hanging out at boy band concerts, hoping for one night of lust, when they could be dating the cutie next door.
Boy Bands v. Boy Toys
Submitted by Actor212 (not verified) on 30 January 2007 - 9:51am.
That's probably because you've seen the cutie next door in his underwear already...
Info
Submitted by The Masterpiece on 30 January 2007 - 12:47pm.
No information is useless. Info like that usually gets you the hot college chick. If not its great at parties and events.
The Masterpiece
"More blue less red please"
Another great one that may never make any list
Submitted by The Masterpiece on 30 January 2007 - 12:56pm.
William Henry Harrison. Kept America free with his work in the war of 1812. Started the Whig Program caught a cold and died. First Prez to die in office. I think that was when Nyquil was first invented.
The Masterpiece
"More blue less red please"
Tough choices
But have at it. This should be interesting.