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« on: August 17, 2004, 01:33:39 pm »
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This has probably been up before... but anyway.

I say John F. Kennedy.
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2004, 01:34:19 pm »
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2004, 01:34:43 pm »
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This has probably been up before... but anyway.

I say John F. Kennedy.
Well, with all that cant about him being one of America's greatest presidents ever, you're probably right.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2004, 01:35:36 pm »
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Ronald Reagan.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2004, 01:41:31 pm »
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Quote from: lidaker on August 17, 2004, 01:33:39 pm
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I say John F. Kennedy.
Well, with all that cant about him being one of America's greatest presidents ever, you're probably right.

I'd say he isn't even among the 15 greatest, but considering that he only had barely three years in office, he did good.
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2004, 01:46:41 pm »
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Kennedy is highest ranked of the ones who never served a full term.
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2004, 01:52:04 pm »
Ronald W. Reagan would be close...  but only because of his middle name.  The most overrated and indeed the worst president the United States has ever has was Woodrow Wilson.
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2004, 01:57:21 pm »
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Wilson, Truman or Andrew Jackson
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2004, 02:04:26 pm »
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Franklin Roosevelt

People tend to ignore that his heavy taxation of the rich actually helped prolong the Depression.
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2004, 03:16:06 pm »
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2004, 03:41:35 pm »
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I feel that Truman is rated about right. FDR is rated well in my opinion too. He wasn't the best, but he wasn't the worst. FDR did alot for this country. And if you disagree with that, at least he gave us hope.
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2004, 04:00:06 pm »
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1) FDR
2)JFK

JFK is absurdly overrated, but at least, unlike FDR, he didn't really do any harm.
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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2004, 04:45:49 pm »
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ANDREW JACKSON!!!
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2004, 05:51:45 pm »
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Right now it's Reagan by a landslide, but history will probably correct this in time. Eisenhower is getting to be pretty overrated too.
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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2004, 10:24:49 pm »
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bill clinton and ronald reagan
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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2004, 10:29:39 pm »
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Truman, Wilson, and Eisenhower
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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2004, 10:44:52 pm »
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Truman, Wilson, and Eishenhower

Oh I forgot Wilson - now he was awful.
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2004, 12:04:09 am »
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-Wilson
-Eisenhower
-JFK
-Reagan
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2004, 12:18:32 am »
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Reagan was definately the most overrated. This is the same man who told schools to give kids ketchup, because he said it would provide the veggie part of the "Balanced" school lunch. That sounds really redundant.
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2004, 01:18:19 am »
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Correct answer: Andrew Jackson.  Our worst President is often regarded as top 10 because he hated the rich.  Never mind that his policies hurt the poor more than the rich, his hatred endears him to leftist historians.  JFK is second most overrated.  He is often rated too high by the public, but he actually was a decent PResident, as opposed to Jackson who was not.

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Reagan was definately the most overrated. This is the same man who told schools to give kids ketchup, because he said it would provide the veggie part of the "Balanced" school lunch. That sounds really redundant.

In 500 years, what will matter more: Ketchup as a vegetable or the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact?
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2004, 12:47:03 pm »
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In 500 years, I'll be dead. I guess it really wouldn't matter. I just find Reagan's ignorance about things like that overwhelming. The same as I found Jimmy Carter to be utterly unfit to be President. I think though, by the time Reagn was President, the people were kidding themselves if they thought the Soviets wouldn't collapse soon.
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2004, 01:42:03 pm »
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I will always believe that SDI was not so much a new weapon, but a program to bankrupt the USSR. Smart move for Reagan. He was smart when it came to winning the Cold War.
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2004, 01:57:06 pm »
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 FRD, JFK
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2004, 02:54:42 pm »
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FRD, JFK

FRD?
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2004, 03:17:48 pm »
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Maybe he means FDR.
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