Who is Your Favorite President?

[Rick Nebiolo]

[ QUOTE ]
In the spirit of President's Day, I'm on Mountain Time, who is your favorite all-time president?

My vote would have to go to the People's Champ, Thomas Jefferson. I don't really know if he was that cool of a president, but Jefferson was an amazing thinker whose ideas were pretty revolutionary for the time.

One knock against Jefferson is his status as a slave-owner, but that's like ripping on a 17th century noblemen for marrying his cousin.

Also, he did sort of illegally buy Louisiana, but it's tough to complain about the end result unless you're Chief Sitting Bull.

I think if you were going to start a poll it would be more fair to divide the presidents by eras. Clinton would be my favorite recent president but only because I really hate all the other ones.

[/ QUOTE ]

In my lifetime Reagan.

Search 2+2 politics archives. Use AndyFox crossed with Jefferson. Andy loves Jefferson [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

~ Rick

[Riddick]

[ QUOTE ]
Jackson ranks up there for all the reasons already mentioned, plus he was a badass and from TN.


[/ QUOTE ]

i heard he shot a man in a bar fight. major props in my book.

[Borodog]

[ QUOTE ]
Seriously, Lincoln was the man.

[/ QUOTE ]

If by "the man" you mean "power mad bloody tyranical dictator", then sure.

I second pvn's nomination.

[jstnrgrs]

I'm supprised no one has said Polk yet.

[Zeno]

I sometimes have difficulty choosing between:

1. George Washington
2. Thomas Jefferson
3. Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln the Genius

I usually settle for George Washington. He was a stoic; thus, he outshines all the others.

-Zeno

[ALawPoker]

1.) Reagan
2.) Polk
3.) Lincoln
4.) Jefferon
5.) Kennedy

[pvn]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm supprised no one has said Polk yet.

[/ QUOTE ]

Definitely worth a mention. Anti-tariff, only served one term.

Not quite as good as Van Buren, though.

[Zeno]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm supprised no one has said Polk yet.

[/ QUOTE ]


Polk was indeed great. I think he was also a workaholic. Anyway, his brillance in starting the war with Mexico is something that really shines: Mexican War

It solidified US expansion to California and into the Northwest. But Polk did make a mistake and compromised at the forthy-ninth parallel and didn't heed the old Fifty-Four Forty or Fight battle cry A Missed War but there is nothing to be gained by remorse on that one.


-Zeno

[Randle]

[ QUOTE ]

Yep and thank god. The indians he killed off weren't exactly peace-nik-hippie-indians smoking pot and singing love songs. The Creeks Indians were one of the most blood-thirsty-murderous-scum indians on North America. Jackson ****ed them up. Why should Jackson apologize for being a better killer than the indians were? These indians used terror, torture, and murder to futher themselves. Excuse me if I don't cry for them. Also the British deserve some blame because they paid the indians for the scalps of American settlers (men and women) and many American indian tribes used scalp collecting as a source of revenue.

The Seminoles that attacked from Spanish Florida murdering settlers and then retreated to the "safety" of Spanish Florida. They soon found out that Jackson didn't care much about international borders and he exacted pay-back with COMPOUND INTEREST.

You are a victim of the political correct white-washing of American History. Jackson DESERVES his place on the $20 bill. He earned it. I wish we had an Andy Johnson to lead us on the war-on-terror. Those Arabs wouldn't last a year....

[/ QUOTE ]

What about the Trail of Tears? Are you excusing that?

[GBP04]

1) Jefferson

2) Washington



3) Polk