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« on: January 30, 2011, 12:20:21 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 08:14:03 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 08:38:32 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 10:06:13 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2011, 10:41:55 PM »

Almost included them, but then I figured they would win in a landslide.
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2011, 01:59:47 AM »
« Edited: February 01, 2011, 02:02:27 AM by kawaii »
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover is the best ever, although Jefferson-Madison-Monroe and Cleveland-Harrison-Cleveland are also quite good.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2011, 10:01:26 AM »
Quote from: kawaii on February 01, 2011, 01:59:47 AM
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover is the best ever, although Jefferson-Madison-Monroe and Cleveland-Harrison-Cleveland are also quite good.

Throw in Washington and Adams and you'll get the best streak of presidents ever. (You probably don't like Adams for the Ailen and Sedation Acts, and while I'm not a big fan of them, we do need to give all of the first five credit)
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2011, 01:25:38 PM »
Quote from: Liberally Conservative on February 01, 2011, 10:01:26 AM
Quote from: kawaii on February 01, 2011, 01:59:47 AM
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover is the best ever, although Jefferson-Madison-Monroe and Cleveland-Harrison-Cleveland are also quite good.

Throw in Washington and Adams and you'll get the best streak of presidents ever. (You probably don't like Adams for the Ailen and Sedation Acts, and while I'm not a big fan of them, we do need to give all of the first five credit)

I'm not a big fan of the embargo and its enforcement acts, nor the bungling of the War of 1812. 
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« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2011, 01:33:45 PM »
Quote from: Liberally Conservative on February 01, 2011, 10:01:26 AM
Quote from: kawaii on February 01, 2011, 01:59:47 AM
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover is the best ever, although Jefferson-Madison-Monroe and Cleveland-Harrison-Cleveland are also quite good.

Throw in Washington and Adams and you'll get the best streak of presidents ever. (You probably don't like Adams for the Ailen and Sedation Acts, and while I'm not a big fan of them, we do need to give all of the first five credit)

Were the Sedation Acts an example of boring laws or our first drug laws? Tongue

More seriously tho, Jefferson was the worst president we had during the First Party System era.  He was also a failure as Governor of Virginia.  While Jefferson had some admirable qualities, he showed repeatedly that he was not really executive material.
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2011, 01:47:18 PM »
Quote from: True Federalist on February 01, 2011, 01:33:45 PM
Quote from: Liberally Conservative on February 01, 2011, 10:01:26 AM
Quote from: kawaii on February 01, 2011, 01:59:47 AM
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  Harding-Coolidge-Hoover is the best ever, although Jefferson-Madison-Monroe and Cleveland-Harrison-Cleveland are also quite good.

Throw in Washington and Adams and you'll get the best streak of presidents ever. (You probably don't like Adams for the Ailen and Sedation Acts, and while I'm not a big fan of them, we do need to give all of the first five credit)

Were the Sedation Acts an example of boring laws or our first drug laws? Tongue

More seriously tho, Jefferson was the worst president we had during the First Party System era.  He was also a failure as Governor of Virginia.  While Jefferson had some admirable qualities, he showed repeatedly that he was not really executive material.

I do think Jefferson is kind of overrated (in the since that what he did outside of his presidentcy is more notable) but how was anything he did worse than letting Washington get set on fire?
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2011, 02:09:31 PM »
If it hadn't been for the idiocy of antagonizing both France and Britain with the Embargo at the same time as he refused to fund any sort of a real Navy, Washington City might never have been burned.  Plus there's the fact in trying to enforce the Embargo he did more damage to the country than he did to France or Britain because of the shutting down of the internal coastal trade. The Embargo Acts were at least as hurtful to liberty as the Alien and Sedition Acts had been.  While Adams can be faulted for going along the them, he wasn't the driving force behind them as Jefferson was with the Embargo.

Besides, while we are talking about cities being sacked, Virgina's capital of Richmond was burned in 1781 by Benedict Arnold while Jefferson was governor of Virginia.
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« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2011, 07:46:43 PM »
The presidents you listed are actually among some of my favorites. 
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« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2011, 06:13:13 PM »
I voted for Nixon/ Ford/ Carter. Only one of those I like is Ford.
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« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2011, 12:19:03 AM »
Quote from: Le jeune homme français de l'Oklahoma on February 04, 2011, 06:13:13 PM
I voted for Nixon/ Ford/ Carter. Only one of those I like is Ford.
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« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2011, 12:08:33 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2011, 11:32:59 PM »
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  I'd throw Johnson in there.

11/22/63 to 1/20/81 was one of the worst periods in US history.
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« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2011, 11:18:38 AM »
Quote from: J. J. on February 05, 2011, 11:32:59 PM
Nixon-Ford-Carter, by far.  I'd throw Johnson in there.

11/22/63 to 1/20/81 was one of the worst periods in US history.

Although these things have two effects-

1) What happened during their period in office- They both had a mixture of failure and corruption.
2) What happened afterwards because of what they did during - H/C/H is much worse than N-F-C. At least you did well after Carter, right?
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« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2011, 06:04:11 PM »
Coolidge wasnt bad.
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« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2011, 06:56:14 PM »
Write-in: Wilson-Harding-Coolidge, o/c.

Thanks once more to PBrunsel for dispelling the Great Hoover Hoax *hughughug*
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« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2011, 07:27:11 PM »
Quote from: ilikeverin on March 07, 2011, 06:56:14 PM
Write-in: Wilson-Harding-Coolidge, o/c.

Thanks once more to PBrunsel for dispelling the Great Hoover Hoax *hughughug*

The man who signed the insane Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the middle of the worst economic depression in US history isn't so bad after all?
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