Your favorite U.S. PRESIDENT?

[Greg the Historian]

Please answer this question seriously and bring examples of that president.Thank you for sharing.

[Aberblue]

Originally Posted by Greg the Historian

Please answer this question seriously and bring examples of that president.Thank you for sharing.

In my lifetime - President Ronald Reagan.

In the Twentieth Century - President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

[oudi14]

Reagan. Without a shadow of a doubt. I wish we could have him back. He wouldn't take any crap from Islamic Jihadists.

As for FDR, I give him high marks for how he handled the depression, and most things else, but it still irks me that he didn't see Stalin for the Hitlerian monster that he was.

[John Farson]

In my lifetime - Bill Clinton. I'll hold out on a final opinion of Obama until he's completed his presidency.

In the 20th century - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

As for FDR, I give him high marks for how he handled the depression, and most things else, but it still irks me that he didn't see Stalin for the Hitlerian monster that he was.

And what would you have had him do, pray tell? Start a war with the USSR, right after WWII? And Yalta was pretty much about acknowledging facts on the ground, since the Red Army was already holding Eastern Europe at the time. Shitty, yes, but I'd say him and Truman handled it as well as any president could have.

Reagan. Without a shadow of a doubt. I wish we could have him back. He wouldn't take any crap from Islamic Jihadists.

I wouldn't be so sure. <cough, cough>1983. Beirut. Truck bombing. Running with tail between legs. <cough, cough>

[BlackWave]

Another done-to-death noob thread that should be in PC.

[Andrew Hudson]

Teddy Roosevelt

[Johnestauffer]

I'll go with Reagan - he stood up
Right now though we need an FDR to handle the financial/unemployment mess we are in.

[Odysseus]

In my lifetime - No one, they've all been mediocre or horrible. (Slick Willie, Dubya, a few days of Bush Sr.)

In the 20th Century - Reagan.

Now, why is this in Post-1900? Gagh, why do noobs never start out in ASB where they should?

[IchBinDieKaiser]

Well, I haven't lived through many. Bush Sr. - Obama. So out of the 4 I have lived through it would have to be either Bush Jr.(first term) or none of them.

My favorite in the 20th century would have to be Reagan.

My favorite over all is Jefferson.

[RogueBeaver]

SFG: As I said, a Noob FAQ subforum, which we maintain and read-only for the noobs. My contributions to the proposed SF are in my sig. There are three questions I get on RFK from noobs: Marilyn? WI he lives in '68? Was he a mythological hippie/Christ figure? Anyone who asks the latter gets Ignored immediately.

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by RogueBeaver

SFG: As I said, a Noob FAQ subforum, which we maintain and read-only for the noobs. My contributions to the proposed SF are in my sig. There are three questions I get on RFK from noobs: Marilyn? WI he lives in '68? Was he a mythological hippie/Christ figure?

I've always been partial to just having all the noobs start out on here from playing map games in ASB, as I did. (Voluntarily ofcourse.)

[RogueBeaver]

I lurked for six months before joining to learn the basics, especially the lingo. Still remember my first OP, which had nothing to do with the US: "WI Rajiv Gandhi won the 1989 election". That was after I'd spent a few hundred CAD on all my sources over a sixteen-month period. The first TL I read was Mav's Kings of Camelot.

[Noravea]

My lifetime... (1994-Present)

George W. Bush

Of All Time-

A tie between Washington, Lincoln, or Eisenhower

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Nickcvader

My lifetime... (1994-Present)

George W. Bush

Of All Time-

A tie between Washington, Lincoln, or Eisenhower

In an instant, you've lost all respect of your fellow AH members and of humanity as a whole.

[BrianP]

Warren G. Harding just kidding!

[RogueBeaver]

Your Majesty: At least he didn't say Dick Cheney is a role model for young people.

[The New Freedom]

In my lifetime? Barack Obama.

George H.W. Bush was President when I was born in 1991, and he gets the award for best Republican President of the past eighteen years, though that's not saying much. Bill Clinton comes at a close second, but I didn't name him largely because he went along with the deregulatory orgy the Republicans pushed in the nineties and failed dramatically on health care reform. George W. Bush is easily the worst President of my lifetime, while Obama has done more (albeit small things in themselves) to fix his mess than many give him credit for, despite my own dissatisfaction with him not doing enough.

Overall? Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt lifted the country up in the Depression, nearly beat the Depression (would have done so, too, if he hadn't decided to strangle the WPA in '37), established our social safety net, legalized labor unions and moved towards highly progressive tax rates that helped avert revolution at home and made our economy much more stable. Then, on top of all of that, he lead the country to victory over the greatest enemies of democracy western civilization has ever known before passing on. No one has had a greater impact on the modern U.S. than has FDR.

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by BrianP

Warren G. Harding just kidding!

Cocaine economics ftw!

Originally Posted by RogueBeaver

Your Majesty: At least he didn't say Dick Cheney is a role model for young people.

Nothin' wrong with shooting your friends in the face so long as you don't get caught. That's how Nixon won election.

[RogueBeaver]

Nixon didn't shoot anyone. Nor did he hunt animals. He won by Karl Rove, the lack of his best opponent, and the Southern Strategy.

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by RogueBeaver

Nixon didn't shoot anyone. Nor did he hunt animals. He won by Karl Rove, the lack of his best opponent, and the Southern Strategy.

He hunted the most dangerous animal of all...man*. And campaign information on the Democratic campaign.

*Where do you think all the Hippies went?