Who were your favorite presidents?
- Thread starter Magikrazy
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Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
Washington for his establishment of two-terms and his hatred of the two-party system.
Jefferson for Louisiana Purchase and helping stop Federalists from taking over the country.
Madison for writing a bunch of good Federalist Papers.
Lincoln for being moderate. Or rather as moderate as he could be, circumstances considered.
Teddy Roosevelt for his awesome progressivism and trust-busting. Also for being all-around awesome. How many people can take a bullet and then give a speech the next hour?
FDR... he did what he had to do. Can't say I support all the New Deal stuff, but really I blame LBJ more for expanding them far beyond what FDR envisioned.
Eisenhower is probably my favorite, because he was everything a moderate should be. Helped build infrastructure (that doubled as national defense), balanced the budget, made peace in Korea, and was really close to making peace with the Soviet Union. Alas, the U2 incident happened.
Reagan... well, he was good. Not as great as conservatives claim, but he was pretty good. His foreign policy worked really well, and he got the military and economy functioning again. Deregulation's also good, although it may have led to the 2008 crash (although really that's still the banks' fault for overpricing houses and giving out bad loans).
EDIT: also please tell me you people actually understand a little bit about the presidents you vote for
Jefferson for Louisiana Purchase and helping stop Federalists from taking over the country.
Madison for writing a bunch of good Federalist Papers.
Lincoln for being moderate. Or rather as moderate as he could be, circumstances considered.
Teddy Roosevelt for his awesome progressivism and trust-busting. Also for being all-around awesome. How many people can take a bullet and then give a speech the next hour?
FDR... he did what he had to do. Can't say I support all the New Deal stuff, but really I blame LBJ more for expanding them far beyond what FDR envisioned.
Eisenhower is probably my favorite, because he was everything a moderate should be. Helped build infrastructure (that doubled as national defense), balanced the budget, made peace in Korea, and was really close to making peace with the Soviet Union. Alas, the U2 incident happened.
Reagan... well, he was good. Not as great as conservatives claim, but he was pretty good. His foreign policy worked really well, and he got the military and economy functioning again. Deregulation's also good, although it may have led to the 2008 crash (although really that's still the banks' fault for overpricing houses and giving out bad loans).
EDIT: also please tell me you people actually understand a little bit about the presidents you vote for
SpinyMaster347
..and with that, pow! I'm gone
felipe calderon
wait this is american presidents? idk, obama
wait this is american presidents? idk, obama
Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
SOME PEOPLESuper Saiyan Shy Guy said:
They all suck.
fantanoice
I can see through time
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Ritsu
Lincoln is the best.
Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
it saddens me how little you guys know about us history
EDIT: unless you're not from the us, obviously. not really any reason that you guys should know
EDIT: unless you're not from the us, obviously. not really any reason that you guys should know
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i second thisYui Hirasawa said:
fuck y'all 'murican leaders, the best political leader was totes bob hawke
look at dem eyebrows
LOOK AT DEM
look at dem eyebrows
LOOK AT DEM
Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
Why did you guys vote for John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and JFK?
Magikrazy said:
My AP American History class had some project where we debated which president was the best, and I would always vie for Polk when he was up. I also played devil's advocate a lot and deflected criticisms from people like Bush and Nixon, and piled them onto popular ones like Lincoln and Washington.
Anyways along with Polk I legitimately like Obama mostly because of is social presence, it's utterly divine
Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
Ah, devil's advocate is always fun.Morty said:
And what's this about Polk that's so awesome? I don't seem to recall learning much about his presidency.
I think Obama's sense of humor is one thing that stops me from actively disliking him and pushes me into neutral. He's just really funny when he wants to be.Morty said:
Then I think about NSA stuff, and I am sad.
As for Polk it was something about the Mexican-American war and him starting Smithsonian, and generally how he was able to get things done without much fuss and without being too much of a fucker about it. I don't remember many specifics because the last time I actively read and learned about him was about 8 years ago.
As for Obama with the NSA, while it's all a sack of ass, one reason I'm not holding that solely over Obama's head is my firm belief that this isn't anything new. The only new things are the advances in technology; the US government has been shits about spying and privacy against its own people for like forever, getting tremendously worse with Bush Jr. and Obama I guess got sucked into that. What he can do is have a hand i undoing it and that'll really make him shine.
As for Obama with the NSA, while it's all a sack of ass, one reason I'm not holding that solely over Obama's head is my firm belief that this isn't anything new. The only new things are the advances in technology; the US government has been shits about spying and privacy against its own people for like forever, getting tremendously worse with Bush Jr. and Obama I guess got sucked into that. What he can do is have a hand i undoing it and that'll really make him shine.
DragonFreak
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly!
I like JFK, because without him, we may have never went to the moon...I think.
