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« on: November 25, 2008, 04:53:52 PM »

I say,

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. FDR
4. Reagan
5. Eisenhower
6. TR
7. Truman
8. Clinton
9. Wilson
10. Jackson
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« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2008, 05:46:50 PM »

LOL at any of these guys approaching the Top 10
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« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2008, 05:57:04 PM »

1.   George Washington (Federalist, 1789-1797)
2.   Abraham Lincoln (Republican, 1861-1865)
3.   Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat, 1933-1945)
4.   Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican, 1801-1809)
5.   Theodore Roosevelt (Republican, 1901-1909)
6.   Woodrow Wilson (Democrat, 1913-1921)
7.   Harry S. Truman (Democrat, 1945-1953)
8.   Andrew Jackson (Democrat, 1829-1837)
9.   James K. Polk (Democrat, 1845-1849)

10.   Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican, 1953-1961)
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« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2008, 06:21:17 PM »

1. William McKinley
2. Chester A. Arthur
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Grover Cleveland
5. Calvin Coolidge
6. James Monroe
7. Herbert Hoover
8. Rutherford Hayes
9. Martin Van Buren
10. Ronald Reagan
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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2008, 11:18:16 PM »

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Franklin Roosevelt
3. George Washington
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Thomas Jefferson
6. James K. Polk
7. Harry S Truman
8. Dwight Eisenhower
9. Bill Clinton
10. John Adams
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« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2008, 10:06:45 AM »

1. Washington
2. Lincoln
3. F. Roosevelt
4. T. Roosevelt
5. Eisenhower
6. Monroe
7. McKinley
8. Clinton
9. Grant
10. ___   [Saving a spot for Obama.  LOL]

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« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2008, 10:49:00 AM »



Yeah, his #1 got a great going away present though.
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« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2008, 03:45:40 PM »



Yeah, his #1 got a great going away present though.

Too bad Jefferson Davis didn't get one, too.

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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2008, 05:50:01 PM »

1. Cleveland
2. Van Buren
3. Coolidge
4. Harding
5. Pierce
6. Jackson
7. Jefferson
8. Tyler
9. Buchanan
10. W.H. Harrison
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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2008, 05:52:16 PM »

Adams
Jefferson
Davis
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Wilson
Roosevelt
Truman
Johnson
Nixon
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« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2008, 09:08:25 PM »

In no particular order:

Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Ulysses Grant
William Henry Harrison
John Quincy Adams
John Kennedy
William Howard Taft
Warren Harding
James Madison
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« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2008, 09:25:05 PM »

Ulysses Grant
William Henry Harrison
William Howard Taft
Warren Harding

Interesting picks. Why?
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« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2008, 01:33:42 AM »

Teddy
Washington

The rest suck
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2008, 02:59:47 AM »

Ulysses Grant
William Henry Harrison
William Howard Taft
Warren Harding

Interesting picks. Why?

Indeed, very interesting selections. Why on earth is William Henry Harrison there? Who knows Harrison might be in Rob's list primarily due to his premature death a month after his inauguration in March of 1841. Just thinking out aloud folks. On a completely different matter, glad to see hardly any lists with Reagan in them Grin
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« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2008, 08:10:50 AM »

1. Abraham Lincoln (extremely talented... but also very lucky)
2. George Washington (excellent executive)
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Franklin Roosevelt
5. Theodore Roosevelt
6. Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. James Monroe
8. Woodrow Wilson
9. John Adams (really underappreciated)
10. John F. Kennedy

Could theoretically be on the list - but such extreme positive/negatives
- Lyndon B. Johnson - Great Society v Vietnam
- Richard Nixon - EPA, Detente v PARANOID WIT and abuse of his power
- Harry Truman - I just like him.
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« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2008, 11:40:26 AM »

1.  George Washington (NP-VA)
2.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D-NY)
3.  Abraham Lincoln (R-IL)
4.  Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY)

5.  Thomas Jefferson (DR-VA)
6.  Andrew Jackson (D-TN)
7.  Harry S. Truman (D-MO)

8.  Chester A. Arthur (R-NY)
9.  James K. Polk (D-TN)
10.  Dwight D. Eisenhower (R-KS)
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« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2008, 02:27:34 PM »

Jefferson
Reagan
Harding
Nixon
Jackson
JFK
Truman
Cleveland
Polk
Fillmore
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« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2008, 04:11:13 PM »


Bear in mind this was a very tough list for me, just because there haven't been many "good" presidents. I'd go so far as to say that only two presidents- Lincoln and Roosevelt- had a net positive effect on the country. The rest on this list are the "least bad," if you know what I mean. Anyhoo, in a nutshell...

Ulysses Grant: Support for civil rights
William Henry Harrison: Died before he could screw up (and seemed like a decent fellow)
William Howard Taft: Most progressive president between Grant and FDR. Unlike his lunatic predecessor, he actually fought the big trusts
Warren Harding: Pardoned scores of political prisoners (including Debs Smiley), oversaw perhaps the greatest per-capita decimation of the military budget in US history; and I have a soft spot for our first black president Wink
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« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2008, 03:24:08 PM »

Why is Jefferson #1???

1. Thomas Jefferson (D-R)
2. George Washington
3. Abraham Lincoln (R)
4. Calvin Coolidge (R)
5. Grover Cleveland (D)
6. Richard Nixon (R)
7. James Monroe (D-R)
8. Andrew Jackson (D)
9. Martin Van Buren (D)
10. Ronald Reagan (R)

Something like that.  Honorable mentions to T. Roosevelt, Polk, and Ford.
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« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2008, 01:08:23 AM »

Warren Harding: Pardoned scores of political prisoners (including Debs Smiley), oversaw perhaps the greatest per-capita decimation of the military budget in US history; and I have a soft spot for our first black president Wink

Harding doesn't make my top 10 (death & scandals hold him back), but he be in my top 20.

He brought peace, freedom & prosperity after the war, repression, recession & riots of Wilson.
He ended Wilson's segregation of federal offices & supporting anti-lynching legislation
He reduced taxes and reducing the government control of businesses instituted in the Wilson years
He appointed Taft, and others, to the SC
He pushed through the Budget & Accounting Act which created the more systematic federal budgeting system we are accustomed to today.
He brought about the Washington Naval Agreement which was an impressive naval arms control agreement
He signed peace treaties with Germany and Austria, which replaced Wlson's failed Treaty of Versailles.
He dealt successfully with Labor and Business regarding strikes and work conditions in the steel industry
He established the VA
Some strong Cabinet choices -- Hughes, Hoover, Mellon, Wallace, Davis, Weeks --  But also some bad ones -- Denby, Fall, Daugherty
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Nixon in '80
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« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2008, 08:06:54 PM »



Yeah, his #1 got a great going away present though.

I think we're all glad Andrew Johnson got to be President. Good plan, "the South"!

Anyway, my list goes:

1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. FDR
4. Jefferson
5. Truman
6. T. Roosevelt
7. Monroe
8. Eisenhower
9. Reagan
10. Nixon
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« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2008, 08:10:30 PM »

A fiscal conservative with FDR at #3 ? lol
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« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2008, 08:18:59 PM »

Well, this isn't "Presidents I am most in line with ideologically"...

FDR was an incredibly effective executive in both domestic and foreign policy.
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« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2008, 08:20:11 PM »

Well, this isn't "Presidents I am most in line with ideologically"...

FDR was an incredibly effective executive in both domestic and foreign policy.

So effective the court had to step in and stop him.
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« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2008, 08:22:16 PM »

Well, this isn't "Presidents I am most in line with ideologically"...

FDR was an incredibly effective executive in both domestic and foreign policy.

So effective the court had to step in and stop him.

And he almost got around that, too.

You haven't addressed my Andrew Johnson statement.
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