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| | Author | Messages | |
Reagan
Posts:737
 | | 07/16/2007 11:52 AM |
 Alert | Best:
1. Reagan (of course)
2. Washington
3. Lincoln
Worst.
1. Clinton
2. Bush ( with another 1+ to go, he will be worst very soon.)
3. Carter
4. Harrison, William Henry (served 31 days before dying in first month in office from a cold.) | |
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Reagan, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970 | |
| | LampLiteSniper
Posts:463
| | 07/16/2007 12:03 PM |
Alert | | Reagan sold weapons to Iran and Iraq during his time in office so im gonna have to scratch him, my vote for best President will have to be Andrew Jackson just on the simple fact that he liked to fistfight and had no problem taking his issues to the street. | | | |
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| | NEZ
Posts:515
| | 07/16/2007 12:04 PM |
Alert | Best
1--Thomas Jefferson
2--James Madison
3--Andrew Jackson
Worst
1--Harding
2--Coolidge
3--Grant | |
AmyG steals lil' nick nacks from your home.
Don't let AmyG in your house. | |
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| | staubach10
Posts:5
| | 07/16/2007 12:07 PM |
Alert | Reagan also cleaned up jimmy carter's mess, helped to end the cold war, made america feel good about itself again, and rebuilt the military. enough said.
Best - 1. Reagan, 2. Lincoln, 3. Washington/Truman
Worst - 1. Carter, 2. Harding, 3. Buchanan. | | | |
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| | NEZ
Posts:515
| | 07/16/2007 12:17 PM |
Alert | Here are some presidents everyone likes....but my reasons for putting them middle of the pack.
Washington--Federalist. Smashed Whiskey and Shay's Rebellions brutally. I find that highly hypocritical for a founder of the consitution.
Lincoln--Brutal, northern aggressor.
FDR--Ushered in era of over reliance on Federal Government. | |
AmyG steals lil' nick nacks from your home.
Don't let AmyG in your house. | |
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| | CrownNCoke
Posts:810
| | 07/16/2007 3:37 PM |
Alert | | Jeffrey McMahon...Enron pres | |
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung | |
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|  | Sinbad
Posts:3046
| | 07/16/2007 4:02 PM |
Alert | ***offical stop by***
I have read and understood the posting on this thread and have nothing to add.
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Just doing it one day at a time. Change is good and it should be looked upon as an improvment! not a problem.
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| | Reagan
Posts:737
| | 07/16/2007 4:11 PM |
Alert | Posted By Sinbad on 07/16/2007 4:02 PM
***offical stop by***
I have read and understood the posting on this thread and have nothing to add.
Well, thanks for stopping by and putting in your two cents! | |
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Reagan, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970 | |
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| | AzSandSlinger
Posts:585
| | 07/16/2007 6:03 PM |
Alert | you seriously put Reagan in front of Washington AND Lincoln??
IMO.. Washington and Lincoln (independently) did more for this country than 14,000 Reagan's could ever have wished to have done...
Reagan was good.. but on the level of Washington and/or Lincoln? Hardly..
-Shane | |
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Gen. William Thornson, U.S. Army | |
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| | lauralynn
Posts:24
| | 07/16/2007 6:17 PM |
Alert | Best
1. Reagan
2. Lincoln
3. Washington
Worst
1. Carter
2. Clinton
3. Kennedy | | | |
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| | Cactus Rob
Posts:1036
| | 07/16/2007 7:34 PM |
Alert | | Ten men have served as president during my adult lifetime, beginning with Dwight Eisenhower. Quite frankly, I've never noticed much difference. | | | |
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| | HiggsBoson
Posts:641
| | 07/16/2007 7:52 PM |
Alert | I'm interested for the reasoning for those that listed Clinton as one of the worst presidents? I wouldn't say he was great, but I'm trying to figure out how he would get ranked in the top 3 worst.
Jefferson is my favorite, and FDR I would say is the most overrated (but not the worst). | |
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.
-- Ludwig Von Mises | |
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| | ken
Posts:532
| | 07/16/2007 8:35 PM |
Alert | Best
1.) Lincoln
2.) Washington
3.) Reagan
4.) Teddy Roosevelt
Worst
Hard to rank... there are so many. In my lifetime I would have to say Clinton, but that is solely on how he disgraced the office of the President with the whole impeachment thing. If he hadn't had all the scandal he wouldn't have been that bad. As far as policy, he was sort of blah. Didn't do anything I really liked, but didn't really do too much to irritate me either.
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"Knowledge is often mistaken for intelligence. This is like mistaking a cup of milk for a cow." -- Unknown | |
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| | caveman
Posts:1078
| | 07/16/2007 8:48 PM |
Alert | | How is Clinton so bad? Compared to who we have now Clinton is a saint. | | | |
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| | HiggsBoson
Posts:641
| | 07/16/2007 10:11 PM |
Alert | | One good thing Clinton did is get successful welfare reform enacted. It didn't go nearly far enough, but was better than what the previous Republican administration accomplished. | |
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.
-- Ludwig Von Mises | |
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| | HiggsBoson
Posts:641
| | 07/16/2007 10:25 PM |
Alert | Posted By NEZ on 07/16/2007 12:17 PM
Here are some presidents everyone likes....but my reasons for putting them middle of the pack.
Washington--Federalist. Smashed Whiskey and Shay's Rebellions brutally. I find that highly hypocritical for a founder of the consitution.
Lincoln--Brutal, northern aggressor.
FDR--Ushered in era of over reliance on Federal Government.
Washington and the other Federalists used Shays to justify a stronger federal government. Its interesting, some of the parallels between that time and the current Bush propaganda machine that used fear mongering to convince people there are freedom hating terrorists behind every rock just waiting to kill us. Just like Shays the federal government (or what would become that) used those events to scare the public and politicians into handing more power to the federal government.
I think so many pick Washington as one of the best because he is (supposedly) so well known from all our years of schooling. I think we have to cut him some slack since he didn't have a bunch of Presidents before him to learn from (or blame)their mistakes. | |
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.
-- Ludwig Von Mises | |
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| | Reagan
Posts:737
| | 07/17/2007 5:03 AM |
Alert | Here are some of my grips with Clinton.
Not taking out Bid Laden on many oppurtunities. Bush can be faulted for the same thing.
Didn't deport known member of the 9/11 attacks before the attack. The Pentagon had many of them IDed and wanted to get rid of them because they knew something was going to happen. Clinton said no because he didn't want another Elian Gonzalez. The operation was called Able Danger, and this is probably some of the documents that Sandy Berger "accidentially" stole in his underwear.
Sold our space secrets to China. Before Clinton, they couldn't fly a missle straight, now they are in space thanks to Silly Billy. They also just finished their first nuclear submarine. Someone should investigate where they got those secrets from. Treason comes to mind.
Pardons for cash scandal. Much worse than commuting Scooters sentence.
The whole Monica thing. Not that he had an affair, its practically expected in DC. But the fact that he lied about it and had such a costly in-depth investigation continue on why he lied.
Let me know if you need more. | |
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Reagan, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970 | |
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| | Reagan
Posts:737
| | 07/17/2007 5:06 AM |
Alert | | Shane, I don't discount what Washington and Lincoln did for this country. I think you could put anyone of them in either spot, 1, 2, or 3. Reagan did a lot of things with this massive government that Lincoln and Washington never would have imagined could be so big. I think each where the best in their own time, and put into each others terms, they would have been good leaders. However, I don't think someone from the 1700's or 1800's would even know where to start with a government this size. | |
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Reagan, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970 | |
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| | ravensnest
Posts:120
| | 07/17/2007 9:19 AM |
Alert | By far best in mho Teddy Roosevelt.. He did so much for this country that still exists today. IF he did not step in on so many things this country would be very different today. Next in order Reagan, Jefferson, and Washington.
Worst Chester Arthur. Everybody forgets he was a president which says it all.. Then in order Harding, Nixon, and Taft. | | | |
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| | rattle2
Posts:132
| | 07/17/2007 1:50 PM |
Alert | Best:
Lincoln
Washington
G.W. Bush
Worst:
Clinton
Carter
Reagan
G.W Bush
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