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Best US President

Who Was the Best US President?

  • Abraham Lincoln

    Votes: 15 19.0%

  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Votes: 20 25.3%

  • George Washington

    Votes: 9 11.4%

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Votes: 5 6.3%

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Woodrow Wilson

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Andrew Jackson

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Harry Truman

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lyndon Johnson

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Other (please list below)

    Votes: 22 27.8%
  • Total voters
    79
ARealConservative said:
Grant's actions had no real future ramifications for the country so I don't find your criteria to be particularly useful in weighing the worst.
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Of course he did -- Reconstruction happened mostly during his Presidency.
 
ARealConservative said:
Grant's actions had no real future ramifications for the country so I don't find your criteria to be particularly useful in weighing the worst.

FDR has. the heavily divided political climate we see today was born out of his fundamental shifting of what the Federal government does.
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What good does spreading corruption throughout your Cabinet do?
 
rocket88 said:
Of course he did -- Reconstruction happened mostly during his Presidency.
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so explain it for me. expand on how his actions continually created problems 20-30-even 60 years after he was gone.
 
TurtleDude said:
For those of us who wanted the limited federal government the founders envisioned, FDR was the most malignant and pernicious president ever
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The Founding Fathers themselves took measures which increased the strength of the national government. The Federalist Party was built on the very idea of a strong national government. Even Thomas Jefferson, who was strongly opposed to the idea of a strong national government, took measures while president which were thought of as unconstitutional at the time and were also contradictory to his beliefs of limited government (see: Louisiana Purchase). Oh, and John Adams tried the very same court packing scheme that FDR did.
 
Not surprising that a conservative thinks that the president elected to the most consecutive terms in office would be the worst. They don't like democracy to function well.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Please tell me how is is "the worst president"..
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Because the FDA is evil, I ordered extra salmonella once at a restaurant and the FDA evidently has things things called "standards" that they enforce that wouldn't provide me with my desired form of food poisoning.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Please tell me how is is "the worst president"..
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FDR made the depression worse.

He created internment camps for Japanese Americans.

But the worst thing of all, is he doomed our future. We will eventually go belly up, and he will be the primary cause. His fundamental shift in what the federal government has the power do to is directly tied to the lobbyist business we have today, is the cause of the 15 trillion dollar debt, our changed view on foreign policy, and the bitter divide we see in political discussion today.

worst.president.ever.
 
digsbe said:
Because the FDA is evil, I ordered extra salmonella once at a restaurant and the FDA evidently has things things called "standards" that they enforce that wouldn't provide me with my desired form of food poisoning.
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mods trolling the board. love it.
 
OnWisconsin said:
Not surprising that a conservative thinks that the president elected to the most consecutive terms in office would be the worst. They don't like democracy to function well.
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I like liberty more then democracy.
 
I'm surprised Ike didn't make the list. Anyone who has read his speeches, especially his "farewell" address, knows this guy had and insight into an love for America that stands above any POTUS on that list. Heck, that's initially why I liked Obama as a candidate - his speeches were right out of the Eisenhower book. Unfortunately the difference seems to be that Ike backed up his talk.

Really, Ike brought a mobility to this nation that provided for us a freedom and prosperity unmatched by what we had before.
 
I think George Washington was our best president. He wasn't a stuffed suit. He was a tough man who lead hissoldiers into war for the sake of our country.

A leader should be willing to sacrifice himself for the betterment of his people; put his life on the line. You don't see presidents doing that too often these days.
 
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Medusa said:
ı havent much knowledge about him ,but many claim he was a sane president ,who assasinates a bad president?
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He was a loose cannon who almost started a mass extermination by going to the brink with Russia over something that we were also doing to them in Turkey. He also created disastrous social conflict and exclusion of our best because of his upper-class contempt for the majority.
 
haymarket said:
As are the most educated people in the land with graduate degrees.
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mostly teachers' degrees and law degrees. teachers tend to be bottom of the barrel academically.

People with the most coveted degrees-the MD don't tend to be Democrats and Oblamacare is making that even more true
 
SgtRock said:
Why is Andrew Jackson on the short list. Isn't he the president responsible for the Indian Removal Project. The Cherokee Nations trail of tears in 1838/39. This founder of the Democratic Party was a ruthless genocidal killer. As a General
his first effort at Indian fighting was waging a war against the Creeks. President Jefferson had appointed him to appropriate Creek and Cherokee lands. In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination.
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That criticism merely reflects the contemporary and temporary multiculturalist illusion about right and wrong conduct between natural enemies.
 
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