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Question: Who was the better president?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 
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« on: December 07, 2013, 06:38:34 PM »

FDR of course, but even this forum has those who would disagree. 
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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2013, 06:45:48 PM »

FDR of course, but even this forum has those who would disagree. 

Like me. Reagan all the way.
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2013, 06:50:49 PM »

FDR (normal)
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2013, 06:59:00 PM »

FDR of course, but even this forum has those who would disagree. 

Like me. Reagan all the way.
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2013, 07:03:51 PM »

It's a joke to pretend that Reagan is anywhere near as great as FDR.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2013, 07:06:49 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2013, 07:21:47 PM »

FDR, enthusiastically and unequivocally.
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2013, 07:22:24 PM »

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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2013, 07:34:17 PM »

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« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2013, 07:41:11 PM »

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« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2013, 07:45:52 PM »

Reagan, the lesser of two evils.
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« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2013, 07:51:34 PM »

The one who saved the world.
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« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2013, 08:08:15 PM »

They were each right for their times. But just as I gave Thatcher the edge over the Gipper, I give it to FDR because again, he had a harder slog and got more done.

Reagan's election was basically a fait accompli for a political shift that had been going on in America for over a decade. It started in the late '60s as a reaction to civil unrest and urban crime; it accelerated in the '70s as a reaction to capitulation in Vietnam and detente with the Soviets, to high taxes and to perceived moral decline.

FDR, on the other hand, had to very rapidly change the way American voters and politicians viewed government and what role it ought to serve in society. Keynesian economics did not emerge as the mainstream economic consensus until FDR's presidency; supply-side economics had been on the rise prior to Reagan's election. FDR's push to create new government programs was unprecedented; even the Democrats had as recently as 1924 nominated a candidate who was nearly as conservative as Coolidge. Reagan's push to reduce the role of government didn't start with his presidency; Jimmy Carter was arguably more of a privatizer than Reagan was and had Carter been reelected, there's a good chance that tax cuts and other "Reagan" economic proposals would have come to fruition anyway.
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« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2013, 08:11:46 PM »

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« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2013, 08:37:10 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2013, 08:46:58 PM »

FDR naturally, can see this being uber-polarising tbh.
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« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2013, 08:55:47 PM »

It's a joke to pretend that Reagan is anywhere near as great as FDR.
Exactly!
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« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2013, 09:07:06 PM »

 Both were terrible.
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« Reply #18 on: December 07, 2013, 09:39:10 PM »

FDR (normal)
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« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2013, 10:57:20 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2013, 03:49:28 AM »

FDR.
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« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2013, 06:13:27 AM »


Yeah Reagan.
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« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2013, 08:12:24 AM »

Hmmmm let's see. The nice looking and talking half-wit that hardly did anything of value (except drive up the national debt for no good reason) or the one that successfully brought the United States through the Great Depression and is responsible for the basic American welfare state.

Tough choice.
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« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2013, 08:45:39 AM »

I think FDR was our greatest President. I don't put Reagan anywhere near the top.
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« Reply #24 on: December 08, 2013, 09:21:50 AM »

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