Since there can only be 10 options, I picked the top ten highest ranked, based on an average of historical rankings on Wikipedia. If your favorite isn't on here and you don't want to pick one that's on here, then you can just post about the president of your choice. If you could explain why your pick is your favorite, that would be great.
Woodrow Wilson made the top 10? LMFAO! Ronald Reagan is obviously America's 20th century most favorite president. How can it not?
I didn't include Reagan because he was a liar, a terrible president, and a false idol!...Jk i love the guy. If you just read my original post you'll see why I included who I did. I'm starting to think it wasn't the best idea, but go ahead and say your favorite even if he's not on the list.
When people realize what he did to us, expect to see some bronze plaques stripped off of government buildings and sold for scrap. His brain sprang a leak before he was governor of California.
I voted FDR because he built America the Super Power and initiated the systems that kept the whole thing from collapsing cyclicly until some jelly-brained old fool from California started dismantling it. I am surpirsed that nobody picked Eisenhower, the last really competent POTUS the republicans had. Only one of them in my life time really understood military policies and strategy. Or ecconomics. Or human rights. Hell, the only one in my life time whose IQ I am certain was over 110.
I put Washington. He didn't have as much on his plate as modern presidents, but I think he did a good job of starting a new country. Being the first at something always has its challenges, and Washington was humbler than most people.
Our economy grew the most under Reagan, and that despite the malaise the worse president jimmy cawter put us in. Reagan also gave the entire nation a renewed spirit in that people started doing for themselves despite the previous 4 years under a miserable president and a recession. Reagan also put the former Soviet Union and its communism into the trashbin of history. He also managed to free the some 400 hostages from Iran on his first day as president; something that the useless jimmy carter failed to do.
I've read an autobiography (Presidential memoirs) or biography of every President... And this is how I rank them from most favorite to least favorite: 1. Andrew Johnson (D) 2. Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 3. Thomas Jefferson (R) 4. Herbert Hoover (R) 5. Calvin Coolidge (R) 6. George H.W. Bush (R) 7. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) 8. Bill Clinton (D) 9. John F. Kennedy (D) 10. Abraham Lincoln (R) 11. George Washington (No party) 12. Warren G. Harding (R) 13. William Howard Taft (R) 14. William McKinley (R) 15. Ronald Reagan (R) 16. Theodore Roosevelt (R) 17. George W. Bush (R) 18. John Tyler (R) 19. James K. Polk (D) 20. James Monroe (R) 21. James Madison (R) 22. John Adams (No party) 23. John Quincy Adams (R) 24. Andrew Jackson (D) 25. Harry S. Truman (D) 26. Benjamin Harrison (R) 27. Rutherford B. Hayes (R) 28. Gerald Ford (R) 29. Jimmy Carter (D) 30. Millard Fillmore (R) 31. Richard M. Nixon (R) 32. Grover Cleveland (D) 33. Martin Van Buren (D) 34. James A. Garfield (R) 35. Zachary Taylor (R) 36. James Buchanan (D) 37. Chester A. Arthur (R) 38. Ulysses Grant (R) 39. William Henry Harrison (R) 40. Franklin Pierce (D) 41. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 42. Woodrow Wilson (D) 43. Barack Obama (D)
I'd put FDR at the top of the list. I think a list of the worst presidents would include every prez since LBJ. With the possible exception of Obama. His term still has time to do something positive. Johnson; escalated the useless war in Vietnam. Nixon; opened up China to our job destroyers. Ford; Armed and abetted Indonesia's attacks on East Timor. Carter; Surrounded himself with incompetent and morally challenged Southern advisers. Reagan; Second worst ever. Too many warts to cover here. G.W. Bush; Why aren't Cheney, Rumsfeld and him in jail?
You sound like you are 15 years old. Other than assessing LBJ correctly, you come off giving praise to those who support our enemy ideologies of socialism/marxism and communism, i.e. FDR and obama. . Don't they teach history out there in Kallyfornicator? Oh, that's right too, Kallyfornicator is run by a bunch of libs--the reason that state isn't waiting for the next earthquake to sink it into oblivion--the lib politicians are doing the job right now.
I'm a bit older than 15. But your response sounds like something an uneducated adolescent would come up with. History lesson: Reagan gave us the largest tax increase in our history when he signed into law the income tax on Social Security. As governor of California he, for the first time in the states history, subjected unemployment compensation to state income tax. He also spent us into more debt and was contemptuous of the constitution with his illegal support of a terrorist organization, the Contras. What did Reagan do that was good? I mean real things, not the touchy/feely crap so many invoke when talking about the "Gipper".
Before I address any of your other nonsense, I would appreciate it if you were to read the following link in its entirety to set straight your misguided liberal fantasies about Reagan. http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/06/ronald-reagan-raised-taxes-11-times-the-real-story/
Hmm, let's see He ran on cutting the deficit and ballooned it to huge numbers. He promised to cut spending...instead he signed off on every spending bill with no threat of veto. He promised to cut the Dept of Energy and Education...and instead created a BRAND NEW Cabinet-level Dept. (Vets Affairs) He promised the "pro-lifers" anti-abortion Justices and gave them O'Connor and Kennedy. He promised the hawks he wouldn't sign any "worthless scraps of paper" treaties with the Rooskeis....and then signed the INF treaty with Gorbahev. And for a guy who ran on "getting tough with Iran" in the Fall of 1980.....he had his buddy Ollie North selling Iran MISSILES five years later. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0301.green.html
BTW, my vote was for Ike. Who was the LAST Republican President who was....honorable, moderate, and quite intelligent.
Just in case you missed the truth about Reagan and taxes, I'll be more than happy to leave you with the truth. After your mind is clear with Reagan and taxes, I'll be glad to address all of your other misconceptions about him. http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/06/ronald-reagan-raised-taxes-11-times-the-real-story/
I read the link.It was pretty much what you could expect from a heavily ideological site. Maybe I have not looked at Reagan from the point of view of the 1% like the author of the linked article. For instance....."Not only did the top individual income tax rate go from 70 to 28 percent!"...... does show that Reagan did indeed cut some taxes. When I compare lowering the top individual rate and instituting an income tax on Social Security, it's hard to see how Reagan looks like anything but a hired gun for the owner class. His administration was also good at raising fees. Navigational charts went from $2 to $15 overnight. The marine radio license was $15 and good for 5 years. They raised it $50 per year. ( after the marine radio tax was increased everyone just stopped renewing their licenses. Eventually the government gave up and declared marine radio ,VHF, required no license.) These are just the first fee increases that sprang to mind. Oh yeah, Ronnie was a snitch for the House UnAmerican Activites Committee during the McCarthy witch hunts.
Nice, this must have taken some work. Although I do find it odd that Clinton is near the top and Obama is at the bottom.
America is supposed to be about freedom - first and foremost. From that standpoint, every president from Teddy Roosevelt on has been a disaster. I absolve Taft, Harding, and Coolidge to some extent - b/c they weren't complete puppets of the bankers, but every other president since T. Roosevelt has been a disasterous traitor beholden to the anti-American, anti-freedom clique of international bankers. Some have been worse than others. The worst: 1. FDR 2. Wilson 3. Obama 4. G.W. Bush 5. LBJ 6. Truman 7. Nixon 8. Eisenhower 9. Clinton 10. Bush 11. Carter 12. Reagan 13. Ford Everyone on that list was/is a traitor to the cause of freedom. The President is not supposed to be an all-powerful, micromanager of the economy. The Constitution was designed to severely limit the powers of the FedGov to be at all involved in the economy or the daily lives of the citizenry. No one can argue that is the case today. Freedom is being deliberately strangled, and just as has been the case throughout history, it is being replaced with an oligarchical, top-down control system administered by the elites. It only took the international bankers 137 years to seize control of our money supply. They have been systematically dismantling America's Constitutional system ever since. We are now nearing the end of that process. No good thing can be said of Amerika today. It is a dying, puss-oozing sore of corruption and ignorance. Amerikans truly deserve to suffer the same fate as the citizens of a dying Rome from antiquity, 1930's Germany, Bolshevik Russia, and revolutionary China. To find the last decent president, you have to go back to our founding... don't know where I'd make the cut-off. Jackson did America a great favor by killing the attempts at a central bank, so that bought us time... really, from the time of our founding it has been nothing more than a slow bleed out for freedom.
The only decent and respectable one, obviously - President Carter. The rest have mostly been crooks, surely?
your funny.Reagan at that time was the most evil and corrupt president there ever was.He was the first politician to sign an abortion bill and allowed the government to murder over 500,000 babies.Not only that,it was his policys that led us to a trillion dollar deficti.the largets ever in out histoy.More than all the presidents ever COMBINED!!!! myself and others have educated you on this before but you bltantly ignore those facts living in denial which is no surprised based on your avatar.that is true though that no way in hell should Wilson be in there.Neither should Ike either.
Dam straight.stands up and gives standing ovation for rightly so leaving Reagan off.You just scratched the surface on that bastard Reagan. Like someone else said,Wilson should be left off as well though.that bastard signed the federal reserve act which is why the world is in the mess it is today.
