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Who were the Three Worst/Best American Presidents of the 20th and 21st century...
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Travis O Johnson wrote
at 11:00 AM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT
My vote is as follows:
Worst: 1. Richard Nixon - even before his presidency, he was one evil mofo, nuff said 2. Herbert Hoover - the Great Depression, need I say more 3. George W. Bush, Sr. - often goes under the radar; but really, the Great Recession can be tied to his president Best: 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt - he didn't serve four terms for nothing 2. Eisenhour - ...I like to think that all his flaws can be tied to his evil Vice president 3. Harry Truman - Rarely made decisions based on his own merit and was a lover of peace |
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MadHat_Sam wrote
at 4:58 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT DC, limit on the function was 20th and 21st century so your best list fails. Also, while I can appreciate why you would find FDR distasteful, do you think the US quality of life would have been better had a Libertarian been in office and a path of non-intervention was followed? This goes for 1933-1945, so the not just WWII but the lead up to it as well.
Jpc, I always forget about Harding but yeah he was pretty bad. Skrum, ::rimshot:: |
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MadHat_Sam wrote
at 5:19 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT Also for Mr. Mod: http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/835/57932938642745472189732.jpg
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Cal Ripken wrote
at 5:48 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT oof grammar fail
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ryan=dicksizzle wrote
at 7:22 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT look at the centuries again dc
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Travis O Johnson wrote
at 7:36 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT Sam, Truman was the shit...
AND Generally, I don't believe in calling people outside of their desired name But DC...I'm making an exception. anyone that says Andrew Johnson was a good president is an id**t. Point, Blank, Period oh I just thought maybe you are being sarcastic |
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Travis O Johnson wrote
at 7:39 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT i forgot about Harding
he makes GWB honorable mention on my list now |
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deadcode wrote
at 11:05 PM, Thursday April 19, 2012 EDT I like Andrew Johnson. Without him we would have occupied the south after the Civil war. Wow if you think Iraq was bad, imagine being born into the world where there was a southern insurgency.
Also Andrew Johnson opposed the 14th amendment. |
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Definitely Veta wrote
at 2:09 AM, Friday April 20, 2012 EDT worst:
jackson reagan hoover best fdr lincoln teddy i'm not counting presidents that came in on the coattails of others like van buren who was awful and taft who continued the trust busting of teddy or even gwb and bush who came in on the coattails of reagan |
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Definitely Veta wrote
at 2:46 AM, Friday April 20, 2012 EDT re: andrew johnson
that's a joke right? if lincoln had lived we wouldn't have had such a ridiculous polarization that we have today between the former south/confederacy vs the former union |
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montecarlo wrote
at 3:33 AM, Friday April 20, 2012 EDT was listening to a neat npr interview of some author who recently penned a book about how lincoln was terribly unpopular in his day. and not just the south. apparently a lot of historians tried to paint him a lot more heroic than he was in his time.
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