The Greatest President of All Time
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...You do know there was a war right? Based mostly on the Mexican government oppressing Texan settlers? The US didn't "decide it wanted Texas," in fact after the war with Mexico, Texas was it's own country for several years, until the US finally agreed too annex it for political reasons.Rutawitz said:
Little history lesson for you.
Basically, Mexico needed American settlers to help it colonize Mexico, to help stabilize their colonies, and help fend off attacks from native americans (whom the mexican's stole Texas from btw). So, mostly in hope of looking for a new life or in hope to escape large debts, American settlers began to settle in Texas. In many cases, only the man of the house came to the colonies initially due to it being dangerous from indian raids. Once the colonies were settled and safe from indian raids, their families would join them.
Well the colonization in Texas was going well, in fact much better than Mexico had assumed it would. American colonists were starting to outnumber Mexican colonists by a good margin. At this point, President Santa Anna came in to power, (he was like a Mexican Hitler) and started oppressing the American Colonists. Requiring them to convert to Roman Catholocism, pay unfair taxes, and then the final straw closing off American colonization completely, separating many colonists from their families who had planned on moving in to Texas once the colonies were safe. As you can Imagine, this didn't sit right with the colonists so they started to revolt. The war officially started when the Mexican Government, realizing the Texans were beginning to revolt, attempted to retrieve a cannon it had given to one of the colonies to help fend off indian raids. The colonists basically said, if you want it come and take it. And thus the war began.[/history]
Didn't Jefferson have slaves? How about Washington? Some could argue that FDR didn't cure the Great Depression, that was WWII. Apparently some people on this forum think you can compare Lincoln's handling of the Civil War similar to that of Bush's handling of Iraq (although I'd disagree). Each president did something bad, or you can argue that they did something bad.Rutawitz said:
Arguably, the bad blood between Mexico and the United States started much earlier than Polk's presidency. Technically, Texas had been a free republic prior to the U.S. annexing them. Mexico initiated that war, the U.S. just might have taken it too far, like usual.
All of that is true about Kennedy, but I could put other presidents before him, because they also dealt with some crazy stuff. I'd say he is about seven or eight on my list.
Here is a little history lesson on how diesel Theodore Roosevelt was. He was giving a speech for his campaign (I forget if it was for the first or second presidency or when he ran for a third time, but quite frankly that is irrelevant) and there was an assassination attempt. The hitman fired, and the bullet hit his chest. The hitman was dealt with by security and TR gave the rest of his speech. After someone told him he had been shot, he looked down at his chest and realized that there was blood everywhere. The bullet went through a 50 page manuscript, folded, in TR's overcoat, then it penetrated his chest. The manuscript prevented the bullet from killing him, however, TR lived the rest of his live with that bullet in his chest, like a real man's man.
Yeah, and when he died he was the most popular president of all time; lincoln was assassinated :]Rutawitz said:
Lincoln for the win. He had the courage to stand up to the South and force them to stay with the United States. He was also one of the most level-headed men in the office. George comes in at a close second for being a badass revolutionary.
And don't forget kids: Honest Abe's favorite sport was wrestling.
And don't forget kids: Honest Abe's favorite sport was wrestling.
