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View Poll Results: Who Was the best President of the 20th Century?
McKinley, William 1897-1901 0 0%
Roosevelt, Theodore 1901-09 2 5.41%
Taft, William H. 1909-13 0 0%
Wilson, Woodrow 1913-21 1 2.70%
Harding, Warren 1921-23 1 2.70%
Coolidge, Calvin 1923-29 0 0%
Hoover, Herbert 1929-33 0 0%
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1933-45 8 21.62%
Truman, Harry 1945-53 2 5.41%
Eisenhower, Dwight 1953-61 3 8.11%
Kennedy, John F. 1961-63 3 8.11%
Johnson, Lyndon 1963-69 1 2.70%
Nixon, Richard 1969-74 0 0%
Ford, Gerald 1974-77 0 0%
Carter, Jimmy 1977-81 2 5.41%
Reagan, Ronald 1981-89 11 29.73%
Bush, George H.W. 1989-93 2 5.41%
Clinton, William J. 1993-2001 1 2.70%
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Old 09-25-2005, 09:23 PM   #131 (permalink)
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My vote goes to Eisenhower, even though he was a Republican. He did a lot to expand welfare and critical infrastructure during the 50's, and he pulled us out of the Korean War.

I would have voted for FDR, but that whole internment camps for Japanese people thing is a little hard to ignore.
The expansion of welfare is precisely why I did not vote for Eisenhower. He was a great general, and a great man, but I'd only describe him as a decent president. Regan was the best president this country has ever had, at least in modern times.
I think he is one of the worst presidents we have ever had. There are so many fucked up things about the Reagan Administration, I'm going to have to put this in list form. Maybe I'll try to reduce it to the top ten, or something.

1. Ignoring AIDS. Seriously, that was just plain awful.

2. Trickle down economics: the only economic plan to favor the rich which actually sounds like pissing on the less fortunate.

3. The Iran-Contra Scandal. I don't think I even need to say more about that.

4. Wasting money on Star Wars, which every mainstream, respectable physisyst in America said wouldn't work.

5. he got rid of a federal program that gave employment and training to over 300,000 people in poverty, 'trimmed' medicaid rolls, cut a lot of children off of welfare, while cutting taxes for rich people.

6. His Agriculture Department wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable when providing school lunches for poor children. For a lot of disadvantaged children, their federally provided school meal is the only hot, complete meal they get.

7. He eliminated 300,000 people from Social Security disability payments.

8. He suggested that most homeless people are homeless by choice. Because obviously, a lot of people enjoy sleeping outside in the winter, and not bathing. Obviously.

9. Reagan was the father of a gigantic deficit.

10. Reagan stepped up tensions against the Soviet Union when the USSR was already in decline, from lack of well... basically everything. The USSR would have collapsed whether Reagan was president or not.

11. He supported blacklisting, and was an informant during the freaky McCarthy era.

12. Bombing Libya was a quagmire, and really didn't improve the Middle East's impression of America. It's only one tiny part of a number of things which have come back to bite us in the ass. Also see Iran-Contra.

I'm going to stop here, because I already have ten, and two for good luck. I could easily go on though.

HEAR HEAR! hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!

Reagan was a schmuck, plain and simple. He got lucky that the world wasn't blown to bits before he lost his fucking mind (literally).
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Ronald Wilson Reagan is the only American President who has lived during my lifetime that I would truly say I love. I would gladly have traded my life for his, if he could have had 20 more years of life. America could use a man like him today to lead us back into prosperity. He was the last truly great president this country has had.
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My favorite thing about Reagan was his speeches. One web page had a full list of Reagan speeches, and they were are all very interesting.
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I obviously could not disagree more. I think he was losing his mind while still in office.
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My favorite thing about Reagan was his speeches. One web page had a full list of Reagan speeches, and they were are all very interesting.
My favorite thing about Reagan was that he was a genuinely good person. How many Presidents can claime that? How many of us can claim that? How many people period can claim that? Not many...
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What?!? His acting seems to have worked in your case.
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Lucky he didn't blow up the world while acting for the cameras/American people.

If Reagan did anything it was to set this country back and make it afraid. Get under your desk RHS!
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If Reagan did anything it was to set this country back and make it afraid. Get under your desk RHS!
The poet called Miss Liberty's torch, "the lamp beside the golden door." Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight.

The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise every opportunity is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America.

Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the eighties unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan is the only American President who has lived during my lifetime that I would truly say I love. I would gladly have traded my life for his, if he could have had 20 more years of life. America could use a man like him today to lead us back into prosperity. He was the last truly great president this country has had.
My favorite thing about Reagan was his speeches. One web page had a full list of Reagan speeches, and they were are all very interesting.
My favorite thing about Reagan was that he was a genuinely good person. How many Presidents can claime that? How many of us can claim that? How many people period can claim that? Not many...
Yes, what a genuinely good person... Unless you're poor, gay, non-Christian, Socialist, any minority or a woman. In which case, back luck for you I suppose.
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