Who is your favorite President?

[...of J.Temperance]

Who is your favorite President?

I've already voted, I have to vote FDR, but President Clinton is a very close second for me.

:popcorn:

[rsmith6621]

1. Mackinzie Alan

On Commander and Chief............

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Where's Chester Arthur? I actually voted for FDR.

:popcorn:

[...of J.Temperance]

4. Well ya know

I only had room for ten choices ;) FDR is winning!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Let's not forget Martin Van Buren also ......

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[...of J.Temperance]

9. Well

Yeah...

Oh I've made a SLIGHT adjustment to my poll, the people that have already voted WILL know what that adjustment is...but don't mention it...it's a test you see.

[SaveElmer]

3. I voted for Lincoln...but jeez...

How can you leave off George Washington!!!

[...of J.Temperance]

5. The poll only had room for ten choices

And that would have been eleven, so it would.

[iamjoy]

7. Better GW Than Andrew Jackson (eom)

[Swamp Rat]

8. Nelson Mandela

:)

[...of J.Temperance]

10. You

:)

[Dances with Cats]

11. I voted JFK but...

...I hope someone will put in for poor old Woody Wilson, he's currently pitching a shut out!, hehe.

[...of J.Temperance]

13. Well

Choice number two is also pitching a shut out...although choice number two is in my poll deliberately, because we're bound to catch "one of them" voting at some point...they'll never leave a comment though, they wouldn't dare.

[Dances with Cats]

14. I can't wait to catch some poor SOB....

voting for Smirk! I'll put my flamethrower on high, hehe. By the way, YOU'VE GOT MAIL.

[...of J.Temperance]

17. We caught one!!

Look..."it's" got a vote. They might have left a comment, I'm not sure, they could have because somebody got deleted!

[Dances with Cats]

19. We sure DID

and I posted a thinly viled threat. What was that DELETED MESSAGE all about???

[melody]

12. John Adams.

Everyone always forgets poor John.

[Hand]

23. Hear Hear!

Just finished David McCullough's biography of Adams--he was an extraordinary man and a true revolutionary patriot! :patriot:

[melody]

25. And the reason he was obnoxious and disliked is he was pro-Civil Rights

...at a time when many white people thought African people were subhuman. He also prized the
views of his wife and was for the emancipation of women.

If we had followed John Adams' example, we'd have steered around the Civil War completely. It
takes a person of great character to stare down the hangman and *still* stick to his principles.

*He* should have a Washington monument.

[Hand]

41. That, plus...

He kept the US out of a war with France and paid a big political price for it. He was the first one-term president. A little like Jimmy Carter :toast:, too smart and principled to survive that snakepit.

[melody]

42. He also lost because he had too much integrity to beat Jefferson's wiles

Thomas Jefferson knifed his old friend in the back and Adams refused to do the same in return.

I see a number of similarities with Jimmy Carter.

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[KC_25]

16. I voted for *

You didnt say favorite for good, bad or indifference, or favorite one to be.....left out because I am sure the Secret Srvice read this site...

[Dances with Cats]

18. You need to go read post #14....

n/t.....yet

[KC_25]

21. am I to be intimidated?

should I be scared? OMFG the DUers are going to hurt me...it isn't like I voted and ran

* is my favorite "President" to get rid of
* he is my favorite "president" to make fun of
* is my favorite reason to become active in politics

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22. Yes, I understood

:) I included "it" because I was hoping we might catch one of "them"...it's okay, I don't think you're one of "them"!

[Dances with Cats]

27. You say "the Du'ers"

Am I to assume you are not one of us?

[KC_25]

39. am I to assume that your post was a threat

implying that I am not one of you?

[Endangered Specie]

20. where is Carter?

[flaminbats]

33. Where did Wilson go?!?

I voted for Truman only because I didn't see Carter!! :crazy:

[Hippo_Tron]

24. Where's William Henry Harrison?

How about Rutherford B Hayes, Warren G Harding, James K Polk, Chester Arthur, Millard Fillmore. You are leaving out so many great options.

[intheflow]

26. I voted Jefferson, but Carter's a close second.

Jefferson because without his eleoquent writing, our government would not have had the flexibility to expand rights to blacks, Asians, women, and workers.

Carter because he is just amazing--a down to earth Renaisance Man who walks the talk.

[RB TexLa]

28. Millard Filmore

Really, I owe a lot to him. In college anytime I needed a quote for a speech or a paper I used President Filmore. He was all over the place on every issue, whatever I needed President Filmore seemed to have said it somewhere, I even game some of the quotes dates and locations.

[tinrobot]

30. The last Whig...

Millard certainly has the best name of any President.

[BuyingThyme]

29. Miranda.

[tinrobot]

31. Favorite or best?

My favorite is Jefferson.

Best is Lincoln.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Very tough

Even though I adore Kennedy and really like Clinton I choose FDR since he did so much for us as a nation.

[NNadir]

34. I don't know how anyone could not vote Lincoln. Washington is omitted

from the list and Kennedy included.

Washington established the office of the Presidency and did so as to create important precedents, the most important being a willingness, even an insistence on leaving office before dying. This is not remarkable now, but it was very remarkable in the 18th century. For that act alone, he dwarfs most Presidents except Lincoln.

Kennedy was a minor president, venal, warlike, and often incompetant. He almost stumbled into nuclear war. He was morally diseased at worst, indifferent at best. He lacked principles and mostly has benefited from being shot in time for his defenders to write an ex post facto description of his intentions. His actions while alive however are very different than these supposed intentions. The cant is that he would have withdrawn from Vietnam, but I don't think so. He was his daddy's boy and his daddy was very much a cold warrior. Had he lived, he would have been remembered most probably as a disaster. In fact, Kennedy was very Bush-like although unlike Bush he could deliver the lines of his speech makers with a modicum of diction and understanding of the script.

[WernhamHogg]

35. I voted Clinton

I voted for Clinton because Clinton has been the best president, so far, in *MY* lifetime. However, the people who have been president in my lifetime have been:

Raygun
Bush part I
Clinton
Bush part II

Needless to say, it's not even close. Clinton wins, hands down.

(Carter was president when I was born, but left office when I was
little more than a year old, so I have a difficult time counting him).

[insanity]

36. TJ

The man did so much for America. He wins just one the basis that he believed in indivual liberty enough to fight for the Bill of Rights and he wrote the Virgina Constituion, which was the first to guarnatee the seperation of church and state.

[sandnsea]

37. I have to go JFK

He ushered in a whole new era, he made people believe in themselves. FDR is good too, but there's some things about him that make me shudder a bit more than JFK ever has.

[Jamastiene]

38. How the fuck did Chimpy get two votes?

One thing I thought I knew for sure was that we all pretty much agreed on one thing, we don't like him. We may disagree about everything else under the sun and even beyond it, but I thought we all agreed on that much. Maybe, someone is joking. <rubbing eyes, looking again> You gotta be shitting me! Yeah, someone is joking.

[Zinfandel]

43. Always, a few Freepers lurking & putting in their two cents, to try and

distort.

That's what makes it fun...

But, we know they have no soul!

[newyawker99]

40. In order....

1. FDR

2. Jimmy Carter

3. Bill Clinton

[Jamison]

44. In this current day: Hugo Chavez

But my fav. all-time would be FDR.