Your favorite Democratic President of the 100 years

[WI_DEM]

Who is your favorite and if you wish to tell us why, please do.

[Bluzmann57]

1. FDR

While I wasn't alive then, my parents and grandparents were. He literally brought this country back from the dead. As I said, this came from people who were there.

[liberalitch]

2. FDR is the dem GOD....

But in my life time clinton was the best!

the world wasn't ready for Jimmy Carter!

[factroid]

3. best President

Well, that's a tough one, as FDR, for his day, was probably more progressive (i.e. instituted what helped the middle and lower classes) than Clinton, I think, given that Clinton signed onto NAFTA, WTO and the whole globalony network - exploiting foreign labor and shipping U.S. jobs overseas. As for the environment, of course, Clinton did fairly well, though did not do much to scale back dangerous nuclear power (with poor maintenance; and Gore reneged on Ohio also), military damage (killing whales with leathal sonar experiments, etc), and other problems. And Clinton bent over backwards NOT to scale back DOD pork! The %#@!!*! .

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[Ficus]

4. Debs, Thomas, Lafollette

oh wait, they aren't included. And, of course, they weren't Democrats, nor Presidents.

But, (I voted for FDR) we should remember that the New Deal policies that eventually became "Democratic" ideas were originally ideas of Eugene V. Debs, Robert "Fightin Bob" Lafollette, and Norman Thomas, to name a few.

[ACK]

5. FDR is my hero

Truman was cool.

Kennedy was a case of unattained potential of course.

Johnson will always be tainted by Vietnam.

Carter just let himself be framed as ineffective when he was turning the country to the right course on energy and other issues.

Clinton was a bit too centrist but what the country wanted at the time.

[Endangered Specie]

6. I gotta go with Carter, of course FDR being a close 2nd if not tied.

[belle]

7. FDR left the strongest legacy, and was certainly a great leader, but...

he does have a few serious black marks against him: the Japanese internment camps, for one.

Ultimately, I'd take Eleanor over all of them put together (and yes, that goes for Hillary, too). She was a wonderful person and a great leader in her own way. Responsible for more of FDR's more popular legacies than you'd think, and a definite humanizing factor: someday, if you're ever in that part of the world, go visit FDR's boyhood home and then her former home. It's like night and day. She was everything FDR, or at least his maternal influence, wasn't: warm, down-to-earth, generous...liberal. Best of all, from my POV anyway, she was One Of The Tribe.

[citizen snips]

8. Clinton then FDR at a close second.