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Who is your favorite dead president?

Who is your favorite president from 1789-1845?

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Perotista said:
LOL, we did too. Sometimes you win by losing. The trick was unlike European Wars where if you captured a nation's capital, you won the war. We just moved ours around from place to place and as long as we kept ahead of you or was able to move it faster than you could find it....we won. Then there was always Andy, Jackson, although the war was over when he won his famous battle.
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Well I look at it this way you failed to attain your goal we went beyond ours, also certain groups got their revenge for the revolution.
 
annata said:
yes, as well as the father of the Constitution.

James Madison: Father of the Constitution
In 1787 and 1788, Madison authored, with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the Federalist Papers, a penetrating commentary on the principles and processes of the proposed Constitution.
In 1789, as a member and leading voice in the House of Representatives in the new Republic, Madison introduced a series of constitutional amendments that would form the basis of the Bill of Rights.
A few years later, he and Thomas Jefferson organized the opposition to Alexander Hamilton's administrative policies, thereby founding the first political party in America.
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Madison was quite a man, very short with a squeaky voice. He did indeed accomplish a lot.
 
Carjosse said:
Well I look at it this way you failed to attain your goal we went beyond ours, also certain groups got their revenge for the revolution.
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It all worked out for the best. I wouldn't change history if I could.
 
As а dead president, I prefer Obama. He remains alive? No problem, I'll wait.
 
beefheart said:


Polk, he did what he said he would, refused to run again, and died 3 months after he left office.
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That's who I was going to say. He said he would only be in office one term and he stuck too it and he got **** done during that one term.
 
I'm surprised and worried anyone voted for Andrew Jackson -- the man was literally a genocidal dictator, disobeying the supreme court, disregarding the Constitution, 'removing' the Indians and nullifying treaties left and right.

Probably about as close to 'evil' as any US president has been.

How can people vote for him?



PS I saw someone voted for him on the basis of his castration of the Bank of America. This would be akin to voting for Hitler based on his ban on smoking. It's absurd, and one policy you agree with does not negate the other truly abhorrent things he did.
 
The one who died of pneumonia a couple weeks after being inaugurated.
 
Tothian said:
John Quincy Adams.

The biggest opponent against slavery. Also took on the freemasons by helping to found the Anti-Masonic Party. he's the greatest President, along with JFK who also exposed the secret societies.
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@bolded: Didn't know that, will look into that, interesting.
 
Don't really have a favorite right now, but I suspect it will be Obama.
 
Perotista said:
LOL, we did too. Sometimes you win by losing. The trick was unlike European Wars where if you captured a nation's capital, you won the war. We just moved ours around from place to place and as long as we kept ahead of you or was able to move it faster than you could find it....we won. Then there was always Andy, Jackson, although the war was over when he won his famous battle.
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To be fair the reason the loss of a capital usually signified the end of a war in Europe was because the capital was usually the largest nexus of population and industry. Think of Paris, London, Vienna, etc and then think of Washington in the early 1800's. It's nothing more than a collection of hovels with the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Mansion---that's it. It was embarrassing but not crushing like the loss of those cities would have been. We also had the advantage of a highly decentralized form of government which allowed for parallel organization that could survive calamity to the federal government in one part of the country.
 
Sherman123 said:
To be fair the reason the loss of a capital usually signified the end of a war in Europe was because the capital was usually the largest nexus of population and industry. Think of Paris, London, Vienna, etc and then think of Washington in the early 1800's. It's nothing more than a collection of hovels with the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Mansion---that's it. It was embarrassing but not crushing like the loss of those cities would have been. We also had the advantage of a highly decentralized form of government which allowed for parallel organization that could survive calamity to the federal government in one part of the country.
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Yes, very true. Perhaps the British would have been better off going after New York or Philadelphia. But during the Revolution they captured those cities and it did them no good.
 
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