Defending the Truth

Who do you think was the best?

I'm glad you put a poll like this up. Didn't even think about that.

So far we have 2 correct answers

Could it really be true that of the 90 people who have accounts on this site, and of all the regular users, only 3 of us have an opinion on this subject? There are a lot of good men on the list, and a lot of real scoundrels, either way, I think they deserve more attention...

I really don't have much of an opinion here. But it blows my mind to think of the actor Reagan gaining as much respect as he has. I think the man was a villan. I guess the role of president was his best acting job.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt did more for this country than any other President in the 20th Century. He transformed the Presidency more than any other President too. Ronald Reagan? Good God no..

I honestly feel that Reagan was one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

And whereas I do agree that FDR was a good president, and that he did do a lot to revitalize the governement and the economy, it was most of his ideas that lead to the messes we are dealing with today. Many of his programs that were ideal for the time, were not meant to persist, but they did, and they are nothing but problematic now, because they were not designed for the long term. Welfare is a prime example of a part of FDR's 'new deal' that is long past it's prime.

Someone actually voted for Carter?!!!

WTF?!?!?!?!

I thought you would know it was me! It was tongue in cheek...
I really don't have an opinion and I didn't see the "not sure" choice.

LOL... That one definately escaped me...

Very Funny though, I hink I was blinded by shock...

For all you who don't know or who are old enough and have forgotten, after Ford and Carter, political scientists were wondering whether the Presidency was too big for just one man. Then along came the actor, Ronald Reagan. Thought to be dumb, he transformed the Country.

During the late 1970's this country had lost its momentum, its swagger, we were wondering if we were really great, we lost faith in ourselves. Ronald Reagan came along and said, no, our brighter days are still ahead of us, you ain't seem nothing yet. You know what, he was right. For those of you who wish to argue that he only played a role, and was handled by his advisors, my suggestion to you is to look at what he wrote in the 60's as the host of GE theatre, and for his radio show following his governorship and failed run for president in 1976. Many of the same ideas he had in the 60's and late 70's became the policy for this country in the 1980's.

78 consecutive months of peacetime economic growth. Lower taxes, more people moving up the socio-economic ladder. Yes the rich got richer, but so then did more of the poor, especially those who were actually working and trying to improve themselves.

He faced down the Soviet Union, and made them say I quit. He destroyed the Breshnev Doctrine and saw the wall come tumbling down. He say Germany reunited, and Poland free.

dmk