Which Roosevelt do you prefer?

[useful idiot]

We've got a large group on the forum that dislikes both, and I assume most who don't fall into that category like both of them, so my question to everyone is: which was better or who do you like more?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, although Teddy is great, too.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

TR was certifiably insane, while FDR was evil. How could one choose between them?

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I always wondered who would win in a TR-FDR matchup.

[Хahar 🤔]

TR is universally beloved.

FDR

[Mechaman]

TR was certifiably insane, while FDR was evil. How could one choose between them?

True, but I think I'll have to go with Teddy because evil is worse than insanity.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the best President of the USA. Teddy was just a Franklin lite and didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did.

[Mechaman]

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the best President of the USA. Teddy was just a Franklin lite and didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did.

Yes Teddy didn't throw hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans into concentration camps under the pretext of "war".
He also didn't cuddle with segregationists to get his agenda passed.
Or try to pack the Supreme Court.
You're right, Teddy Roosevelt didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did on his path to become the most beloved war criminal of the twentieth century.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Sorry, Teddy, I go with FDR

Mechman of course see one way. I see other way too: pulling a country out of depression, when it was on a verge of collapse.

[k-onmmunist]

TR was certifiably insane, while FDR was evil. How could one choose between them?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the best President of the USA. Teddy was just a Franklin lite and didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did.

Yes Teddy didn't throw hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans into concentration camps under the pretext of "war".
He also didn't cuddle with segregationists to get his agenda passed.
Or try to pack the Supreme Court.
You're right, Teddy Roosevelt didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did on his path to become the most beloved war criminal of the twentieth century.

Mech, I'm hoping you are on trolling mode now...

[Franzl]

certainly Teddy

[dead0man]

Teddy (sane)

[Mechaman]

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the best President of the USA. Teddy was just a Franklin lite and didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did.

Yes Teddy didn't throw hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans into concentration camps under the pretext of "war".
He also didn't cuddle with segregationists to get his agenda passed.
Or try to pack the Supreme Court.
You're right, Teddy Roosevelt didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did on his path to become the most beloved war criminal of the twentieth century.

Mech, I'm hoping you are on trolling mode now...

Sorry, just the facts.
If it weren't for the fact that you guys so wrongfully worship him I wouldn't say any of this, hell he's only mildly more likable than Wilson. Roosevelt may not have been a super racist segregationist, but most of his career he didn't have the guts to stand up to the racists and segregationists in his party, and that is shameful.
I believe that any true liberal should be disgusted at a president who would do something like throw innocent Amercians into concentration camps, but apparently I'm wrong. Pulling the country out of the Depression (and even that is debatable) should not be a good enough excuse to pardon FDR much less continue to praise him as the "best president" in our nation's history.

[Phony Moderate]

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

[Marokai Backbeat]

They're both amazing of course, and both of them are my top two favorites, but I have to give the edge to FDR simply because of all that he had to face and all that he achieved.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

They're both amazing of course, and both of them are my top two favorites, but I have to give the edge to FDR simply because of all that he had to face and all that he achieved.

Wow.

[k-onmmunist]

They're both amazing of course, and both of them are my top two favorites, but I have to give the edge to FDR simply because of all that he had to face and all that he achieved.

Wow.

Actually, I agree with Marokai again. Keeping the country in a depression for 10 years is a pretty hard achievement.

[Psychic Octopus]

Theodore Roosevelt, a great man, without a second thought.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the best President of the USA. Teddy was just a Franklin lite and didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did.

Yes Teddy didn't throw hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans into concentration camps under the pretext of "war".
He also didn't cuddle with segregationists to get his agenda passed.
Or try to pack the Supreme Court.
You're right, Teddy Roosevelt didn't achieve one tenth of what his nephew did on his path to become the most beloved war criminal of the twentieth century.

Mech, I'm hoping you are on trolling mode now...

Sorry, just the facts.
If it weren't for the fact that you guys so wrongfully worship him I wouldn't say any of this, hell he's only mildly more likable than Wilson. Roosevelt may not have been a super racist segregationist, but most of his career he didn't have the guts to stand up to the racists and segregationists in his party, and that is shameful.
I believe that any true liberal should be disgusted at a president who would do something like throw innocent Amercians into concentration camps, but apparently I'm wrong. Pulling the country out of the Depression (and even that is debatable) should not be a good enough excuse to pardon FDR much less continue to praise him as the "best president" in our nation's history.

Guy, it were the 30's and compromising with segregationist bastards was the only way to get anything (and he actually did nothing in favor of segregation, which would have been shameful). He hated them personally and politically, and wished to get rid of them.

[Magic 8-Ball]

I suppose FDR, even though he is overrated.

Has anyone read James Brinkley's The Imperial Cruise?  I haven't gotten around to reading it yet, but he makes the case that TR laid the groundwork for the Pacific Theatre during WWII.

[Bo]

Teddy by far.