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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee
(Post 1331029)
Um, no. Clearly superior off the top of my head:
Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Clinton, and (yes indeed) Obama.
I won't argue w/you on this, sort of like I won't be arguing about the sun rising tomorrow or the earth being spherical.
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Lincoln I will say was good but not as great as he is made out to be, Booth took him out so Abe gets points to his legacy from everyone.
I used to think TR was awseome but I grew up and realized he was pretty dangerous.A few good things , but not a great President.FDR did a great job as a wartime President but New Deal was really a failure(which is a whole other dicussion)
LBJ? Seriously, terrible.The Great Society and all that crap.Civil Rights Act, sure a good thing to make Jim Crow laws illegal and all.Of course as the Feds tend to do they went too far and put in things like Affirmative Action in , which is just reverse racism, no longer needed and violates other's civil rights, those contradicting the whole point of the bill.Ah the crazy things bleeding heart Liberalism will make you do.Terrible bill and a stain on America.Between his bungling in Vietnam, BS of the Great Society and the BS in the Civil Rights Act, Johnson was not a good President.
I actually agree that Nixon was a good President.Clinton, well he was an OK President but he failed in important areas and had no integrity(I do not care he got a blow job, but he got on national tv and lied.The guy could have said, I made a mistake, it's between Hillzilla and I, I did nothing illegal, the end. No No, Billy had to lie and cause the huge episode he did.Clinton also shoulders some of the blame for 9/11 throughout the 90's we were attacked multiple times...WTC 93, Embassy in Africa, USS Cole and all he did was lob a few cruise missles here and there and arrest a few people.Never did any sweeping actions to go after their base as Bush did in Afghanistan, which even most Libs I talk to have admitted the initial decision to go into Afghan was correct. Clinton also played around with Iraq and Sadam Hussein in the 90's, which is why Sadam did not really believe Bush would invade, he had years of jerking America around with NO consequences other than a few cruise missles and plane strikes now and then.The housing bubble began under Clinton although the Clinton years were mostly prosperous times for America.Also handled the situation in Bosnia well, believe he did some welfare reform.For the good things and bad together, Clinton was OKAY.Would take him back over Obama in a heart beat, least Clinton was no such an idealogue than he moved to the center a bit and cared what the American people wanted.
I have to say how dare you rate obama as one of the best.That hooligan has done nothing but divide this country after he was elected under false pretences(ran as a centrist who cared, who was above politics as usual.Many of us were smart enough to see the most Liberal Senator in the US Senate was not going to be a centrist President, but America was drunk.Kind of like if you would normally never sleep with a fat woman but got a little too drunk and made that mistake, then vowed to never do it again, pretty much the same thing:haha:
Again, how dare you rate him as a great President when he lies constantly, has taken the muslims side and shunned Israel.How dare you rate him as great when he defies the American people when all polls show most did not want the healthcare bill to pass, esp after all the corrupt deals.How dare you say a President who had people like Van Jones, Anita Dunne(admirer of Mao) How about the racism he exhibited in the whole white cop black professor incident? How about the arrogant comment he made at the healtcare summit that if the American people do not like us passing this bill "Then that is what elections are for" Obama is dangerous.Is he the antichrist? No, is he Hitler or Stalin? I do not believe so. This jerk has an agenda that is not in line with America and hopefully one day will be looked at in history books as the terrible "one night stand with a fat girl" that he is so far.
Finally, Reagan is the greatest President we have had in a long long time, far exceeds the ones you listed.Reagan defeated the Soviet Union after decades of proxy wars and letting them jerk us around.Helped defeat them in Afghanistan and won the Cold War. The economic policies were great cut in personal income tax, moderate deregulation and tax reform.After a recession, long period of high economic growth occured with little to no inflation.On the negative side you had the Iran-Contra thing, which I believe because Reagan was an honest man, he had no knowledge of but was a stain on his admin.Handled Grenada and Libya very well etc etc etc Finally, the man legitimately loved this country and had great sense of humor and outlook on life,.No bitterness like obama and his ilk.No association with nutjobs like Wright, Jones, Ayers, Dunne etc No wonder he left office with 64% approval rating.