Happy Prez Day!
By Amit Singh | Monday, February 15th, 2010 | PolicyLove them or hate them, one thing that is so great about American presidents is how much we are allow to make fun of them. They even give us a day off to buy cheap furniture. So who’s your favorite and least favorite president?
Most Favorite: Jefferson
Least Favorite: Lyndon B Johnson
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9 Responses to "Happy Prez Day!"
Most Favorite: Thomas Jefferson
Least Favorite: Andrew Jackson
Most favorite:FDR
least favorite:GWB
Favorite: DDE (as much for what he did before becoming president than what we did while he was president)
Least: Obama. He’s way over-rated as a speaker. He’s in way over his head – his total lack of executive experience at running, well anything, shows everyday. His ideas are genuinely dangerous and his liberal instincts are wrong for the country. Massachusetts gave us insight into how the rest of America is thinking. Massachusetts!!! If McCain had won the presidency does anyone think the GOP would have won that race? No way. This fall will be a bloodbath for the Dems.
Laura, I am tending to look at Obama a little differently. He is turning out to be one of the best politicians for the opposition we have ever had because he is unifying Conservatives and Republicans more so now than in recent history, as well as destroying his own party. He is becoming toxic, and anyone in his party who wants to be re-elected is running the opposite way.
It has taken Obama and the shadow liberal extremists to frame and contrast the malaise that has been the Republican party with real liberal agendas, programs and of course, profligate spending, taxing and corruption.
All of these movements, organizations and characters would have never crawled out from under the rocks, or out of the sewers where they have been working for years unless Obama’s presidency hadn’t emboldened them to make their move. Obama is a lightning rod for these groups and we now have an idea of who they are, their roots and what they are trying to accomplish.
One example is Obama’s “shadow cabinet” of Czars who have turned out represent everything which we have fought against in two World Wars and the Cold war, not to mention other minor wars. These people view the current administration as giving them a license to try “experiments” with our government and society by tinkering with the fundamental, core Constitutional principles on which we stand.
Obama and his minions are revealing to us the shocking truth of how incredibly pervasive their cancer has spread through our government and our society.
“Most favorite:FDR
least favorite:GWB”
But steve… they had so much in common. They both vastly expanded the size of government, both created huge new entitlement programs, they both centralized greater authority in the hands of the executive, they both went forward with greatly expanding our foreign policies after the county was hit with a surprise attack, they both trampled all over the constitution, and both violated civil liberties in the name of national security.
I’m being a little sarcastic here… but they weren’t polar opposites either. LBJ and Bush probably is a much better comparison.
I think I can go with LBJ being the worst pres –though Wilson comes pretty close too.
Best pres is tough. I think Washington is not held up for really how important he was. Had he wanted, he could have become a Cromwell or Napoleon but voluntarily stepping down and limiting his power is what made the republic possible.
But my heart has also had a place for Cleveland and Coolidge. They only presided over peace and prosperity and generally left people alone (who would want that?). Its probably the reason why history doesn’t remember them much.
EJ-
had to take GWB because he combined the faults of my two next least favorites, the incompetence of Carter with the disregard for the law of Nixon.
Washington right up there for the reasons you mentioned. TR, probably our best progressive president. Jefferson, I probably admire more than any of our other founders, but as president he wasn’t really all that special.
Almost forgot. Special shout out to G.H.W.Bush. Wasn’t one of our best presidents. But if you look at his resume before he became president, has anybody ever been better PREPARED to be president?
Perhaps one of the most overlooked, yet one of the best Presidents of American History.
Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge lowered taxes across the board, however did so only while keeping spending flat (instead of say, the current plan of Cut Taxes now, get to balancing the budget later), opposed massive Government farming subsidies (which passed after he left office, only to due little to nothing to help farmers), fought for Civil Rights and tore down the influence of the Klan in Washington and extended citizenship to Native Americans, and also advocated for reforming International Foreign Policy with Europe to prevent the alliance break-down that paved the way for World War I.
Coolidge is often overlooked by modern politicians and people looking back, but he was clearly one of the best. Many of his policies have direct relevance today. Heavily focus on retiring the national debt, and lower taxes once you have made progress on that, fight for racial equality, help workers and the economy, but in ways that do not propagate a major spike in bureaucracy for little benefit, and work towards Diplomacy as the better resort to war.
Favorite (Modern Day): Reagan
Favorite 19th Century: Lincoln
Greatest In History: Washington (he set the precedent for all Presidents to follow; he was the indispensable man)
Least Favorite: Carter
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