Author Topic: Who are your top three American Presidents? (Read 1391 times)

Wiggs · « **on:** November 03, 2008, 10:39:15 PM »

Mine in order:

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. George Washington

FDR was fucking awesome! Created the New Deal and pushed through an incredible amount of legislation his first 100 days as president.
Created a minimum wage, child labor law, social security, regulated Wall Street, created the FDIC so it would end runs on banks, created thousands of jobs during the great depression. Created the United Nations, Regulated business so they couldn't get rich of the back of the working man, Helped farmers with Agriculture Administrative Act, (AAA), created a department (slips my mind) that built dams and created power plants. Him and his lovely wife Eleanor opened many doors for blacks and women.

Elected 4 TIMES!!!!!!!

Great war time president. FDR changed the way the office was looked at. He changed it from an exec position to a position of leadership The Greatest!!!

Eyeball Chambers · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2008, 11:06:44 PM »

1. George Washington
2. George Washington
3. ~~Ron Paul~~

Busted · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2008, 11:10:03 PM »

In no order,

Lincoln, Clinton, Kennedy

Wiggs · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2008, 11:16:08 PM »

Quote from: RonPaulFan on November 03, 2008, 11:06:44 PM

1. George Washington
2. George Washington
3. ~~Ron Paul~~

Ron Paul doesn't count who is your third?

Eyeball Chambers · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2008, 11:19:27 PM »

Quote from: Wiggs on November 03, 2008, 11:16:08 PM

Ron Paul doesn't count who is your third?

FDR!

Hedgehog · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2008, 11:33:23 PM »

FDR - no one else comes close.

Wiggs · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2008, 12:54:55 AM »

Quote from: Hedgehog on November 03, 2008, 11:33:23 PM

FDR - no one else comes close.

You are correct sir!

Buffgeek · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2008, 01:05:23 AM »

1. Washington - One of the only men in history given ultimate power to refuse and return it to the people. They wanted him to be king and he said no thanks. Father of our nation.

2. Lincoln - Risked destroying our nation in order to heal the wounds of slavery and ensure all men were treated as equals.

3. FDR/Reagan

FDR was a great wartime leader and moved us through the great depression, but many of the programs he implemented have begun to bankrupt us as a nation and the depression lasted longer that it should have due to many of the policies impemented to by his administration.

Reagan during the height of the cold war in the middle of the nuclear age brought an end to the cold war, brought us out of the resession of the 70s, overturned overtaxation and allowed our economy to flourish. Unfortunetly he ran the national debt up and that trend would continue until this day.

Wiggs · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2008, 01:24:56 AM »

Quote from: Buffgeek on November 04, 2008, 01:05:23 AM

1. Washington - One of the only men in history given ultimate power to refuse and return it to the people. They wanted him to be king and he said no thanks. Father of our nation.

2. Lincoln - Risked destroying our nation in order to heal the wounds of slavery and ensure all men were treated as equals.

3. FDR/Reagan

FDR was a great wartime leader and moved us through the great depression, but many of the programs he implemented have begun to bankrupt us as a nation and the depression lasted longer that it should have due to many of the policies impemented to by his administration.

Reagan during the height of the cold war in the middle of the nuclear age brought an end to the cold war, brought us out of the resession of the 70s, overturned overtaxation and allowed our economy to flourish. Unfortunetly he ran the national debt up and that trend would continue until this day.

The main reason Lincoln was so great was because he said "hell no" to those bastard southerners that wanted to secede from the union and was willing to fight in order to keep it this way. The end of slavery was a biproduct.

The programs FDR created were great for his time and many of them are still great. He balanced the budget during his time also. The only time he started to go in debt was when he started building up for WWII (understandable). Business men hated his guts and felt like he had betrayed them (rich, Harvard grads). You can't blame FDR for programs that were mismanaged after his terms. I also think the depression would have been shorter had other legislation FDR tried to push through been passed.

The True Adonis · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2008, 01:37:37 AM »

1. FDR
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. 4 way tie lol- Thomas Jefferson,George Washington,Theodore Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson

There are my top 6.

Hedgehog · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2008, 02:20:17 AM »

Quote from: Buffgeek on November 04, 2008, 01:05:23 AM

3. FDR/Reagan

FDR was a great wartime leader and moved us through the great depression, but many of the programs he implemented have begun to bankrupt us as a nation and the depression lasted longer that it should have due to many of the policies impemented to by his administration.

Reagan during the height of the cold war in the middle of the nuclear age brought an end to the cold war, brought us out of the resession of the 70s, overturned overtaxation and allowed our economy to flourish. Unfortunetly he ran the national debt up and that trend would continue until this day.

How can you put Reagan on the list, knowing he was so fiscally irresponsible?

How did Reagan think when he slashed taxes, without funding them?

Did he think: "Well... Maybe nobody will notice"

It's crazy when you think of it.

bigdumbbell · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2008, 05:19:08 AM »

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt

loco · « **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2008, 05:56:38 AM »

The United States president who took the nation to war, accused by some of inciting the enemy to attack, and was in office during one of the nation's worse economic crisis, criticized for his tax policies, called a dictator by some, called a "warmonger" by others, called a "fascist" by some, accused of racism by others.

240 is Back · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2008, 06:34:30 AM »

1. Cheney
2. Obama
3. Palin

OzmO · « **Reply #14 on:** November 04, 2008, 06:57:20 AM »

FDR
Lincoln
Reagan

PTB · « **Reply #15 on:** November 04, 2008, 08:55:51 AM »

Lincoln
FDR
Truman/Clinton

Hereford · « **Reply #16 on:** November 04, 2008, 09:02:00 AM »

1. Jefferson Davis
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Ronald Reagan

George Whorewell · « **Reply #17 on:** November 04, 2008, 09:39:44 AM »

Regan
FDR
Lincoln

stormshadow · « **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2008, 10:34:25 AM »

Quote from: The True Adonis on November 04, 2008, 01:37:37 AM

1. FDR
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. 4 way tie lol- Thomas Jefferson,George Washington,Theodore Roosevelt,Woodrow Wilson

There are my top 6.

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

-Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence

Wiggs · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2008, 12:10:42 PM »

Quote from: Hereford on November 04, 2008, 09:02:00 AM

1. ~~Jefferson Davis~~
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Ronald Reagan

~~Jefferson Davis~~ FAIL