The Greatest President of All Time

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sgtshock

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xChevelle24 said:
What is it that makes Abe Lincoln so spectacular? I never really got the point of that.

Sure he freed some slaves and won the Civil war. But after that he basically said, hey, all you southern guys are welcome back into our country, especially since you hate us.

No one has done what FDR did...which was bringing our country straight out of the depression and turning it basically completely around!
You say he freed the slaves and won the Civil war like it was no big deal. I think the 30,000 or so blacks living in America would like a word with you.

Secondly, Lincoln was damn smart to be gentle on the South after the war. His plan would have made reconstruction a hell of a lot smoother for the south, but then he was assasinated, and his succesor Andrew Johnson punished the south harshly. The result? The birth of the KKK and a hatred of the North that would last over a century.
 

j0frenzy

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shadowstriker86 said:
everyone knows its all about Reagan. He scared the crap out of everyone, including us AND it was the best time of our economy because he made it stable by cutting out wasteful government spending AND minimized government power, unlike obama who wants to spend craploads of government and taxpayer money and wants the government to have total control like in V for Vendetta. EAT IT you liberals! :D
Actually Reagan spent significantly more than any president before him, more than doubling Carter's highest budget by 1989. Additionally, he not only did not decrease government power, but increased it by creating a whole new department (Department of Education). More importantly, his economic plans were tried before, by Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. They got us into the Great Depression if you do not recall. Lastly, Reagan decided not to act for three years about a little thing called A.I.D.S. and did not use any of his bloated budget to increase spending for research that could have extended millions of lives and let A.I.D.S. get to the point of being an epidemic in the United States. So I think I can say that, no, it is not all about Reagan. Also, he appointed one of the dumbest Supreme Court justices in my opinion (Scalia).
Budget information at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/pdf/hist.pdf pg. 22.
I think my personal favorite would by FDR. Partially because of the whole World War II thing, but partially because he was the first president to realize that we do not have to live by the intent behind the Constitution because the framers had no idea what to expect. FDR was the first to really expand government to help people and change it in a significant way while staying inside the confines of the Constitution.
 

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Aptspire said:
JFK and Obama both rate pretty hgh on my list
the bottom of the list is GWB :(
I would think most reasoning people would want to give someone more than 3 months in office before declaring that person the best President ever.
 

McNinja

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There's a couple... Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Theodore Roosevelt, Reagan, I had hoped dearly for Obama, since everyone knoew he would be elected, but naaah.
 

Inverse Skies

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One for the Americans I see...

Although I guess I would have to say Abe as well. He had Marfan's syndrome which I always thought was quite interesting.
 

The_Prophet

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Bill Clinton. The guy that ordered the Mercifull Angel to come to Serbia and free us. God Bless him!

If you don't see the sarcasm in this "you probably need help dressing yourself".
 

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ph3onix said:
Bill Clinton. The guy that ordered the Mercifull Angel to come to Serbia and free us. God Bless him!

If you don't see the sarcasm in this "you probably need help dressing yourself".
Plus he got blowjobs in the oval office.