I have the day off, so I’ll get back to blogging tomorrow. For now, let’s celebrate how there are presidents or something. Name you favorite president, your most hated president, and the president you feel the least about one way or the other. I like Ronald Reagan, I don’t like Jimmy Carter, and I’m not actually even sure there was a president named Benjamin Harrison.
My favorite would be a tie between Lincoln and Reagan. James Buchanan was the worst President ever, although Obama has just about tied him, and will probably surpass him by the end of first and, hopefully, only term. I don’t know a thing about Chester A. Arthur, except that every time I hear his name, I think of Chester Tate from “Soap.”
Most favorite: President David Palmer. Least favorite: President Charles Logan.
The greatest president of the twentieth century is Ronald Reagan. Like Kennedy, Reagan lowered marginal tax rates and was resilient in his stance against communism. He, like J.F.K., also offered the country optimism and hope. Reagan, however, lacked Kennedy’s propensity towards philandering.
By far our worst president was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who many economists have said prolonged the great depression. He also ushered in unsustainable social programs, which paved the way for Johnson’s Great Society.
Reagan was clearly the best president of the 20th century. Lincoln the best of the 19th century. Ben Franklin was the best president of the 18th century, despite the fact that he was never actually a US president.
Best 21st century president is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Lincoln had the toughest job and was brilliant. Washington was a great leader and set the tone for the president of a republic, which has lasted until Good King Barack. FDR was first in war, worst in peace. Reagan was the best since Coolidge, and surpassed him. LBJ was a big fat Texas disaster. Always liked how Hayes made a promise to go one term and stuck to it; similarly, Polk. We could use another Polk right now.
Best presidential quote of the day, regarding Franklin Pierce, who like Buchanan sat around while the whole place went to hell, from a fellow New Hamshireite: “Up here, where everybody knows Franklin Pierce, he’s a pretty considerable fellow. But come to spread him out over the whole country, I’m afraid he’ll be dreadful thin in some places.”
No wonder the federal government still calls the holiday Washington’s Birthday. Who wants to celebrate guys like Pierce?
Favorite? George Washington, he’s one of the greatest men of all time.
Least favorite? The current occupant. He’s doing everything he can to destroy this country, although FDR is a close second. He ticked me off for the way he allowed Stalin and Churchill tell him how to fight WWII, thus killing too many people as he allowed Monty to attempt to upstage Patton (he couldn’t) and gave all of eastern Europe to the freaking commies.
One I care least about? Grover Cleveland, everything I know about him I learned from your book and I’ve forgotten that already.
Fictional presidents?
Favorite? Bill Pullman, sure the POTUS had no excuse to be in a fighter plane and his wife wasn’t all that hot, but he gave a good speech.
Least favorite? A tie between the tool from the West Wing and Michael Douglas from that lame movie. I was stuck watching both with leftist friends who thought they were “important” or something. They didn’t think it was funny that I kept laughing at all the wrong times.
One I care least about? Harrison Ford, mostly because I haven’t seen any of those movies. I just didn’t care enough.
Oh yeah — Wilson sucked. There, I said it.
“Presidents Day?” Never heard of it.
Veeshir’s got it right. Washington is much underrated as both president and general. We teach school kids that the Continental Army won the Revolutionary War because the Americans hid behind trees, and further that Washington pretty much walked his way through his presidency. Not true.
Ronald Reagan is the best of the 20th century. The thing missed by most folks is that Reagan intended to win the Cold War and had a strategy to do it. In the late ’70’s, economic analyses of the Soviet Union indicated that the USSR could not maintain both guns and butter indefinitely. The analyses pointed to a crumbling in the 21st century.
Reagan knew the Sov’s would be forced to choose, and they’d choose guns.
Says Reagan to himself, “Self, if the Sov’s are going broke, perhaps we push the arms race and push it in the areas that would force the Sov’s to make the greatest financial investments. That’ll scare the bejeepers out of them.”
Then says the Sov’s, “Curses! That actor cowboy geezer has beaten us.”
Ahh, presidents. How quaint. I remember when we used to have presidents. But, now we’ve evolved into a much more sophisticated culture. Thankfully, we now have an imperial ruler, who will rule over Amerika as a good and intelligent benevolent dictator for the rest of his life, praise be with him. Now, if anybody needs me I’ll be down standing on the line for toilet paper.
“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” That’s what LBJ said, but I sure as hell found myself over there anyway. Plus he and his pals gave us another tax wasting looser war…The War on Poverty. Because of the changes he and his rubber stamp congress did to the immigration laws of this nation…he was, as far as I’m concerned (if not the worst) the most destructive to this nation of any president ever. The current occupant is doing an excellent job of carrying on in the LBJ tradition. Give him a rubber stamp congress like LBJ first enjoyed and he may surpass him. Best president…Reagan.
My favorite President is Henry Harrison because unlike all the others he had the consideration the leave office before screwing anything up worse than it was.
Lest favorite was Wilson because he opened the flood gates to Socialism.
I don’t feel one way or the other about Garfield because I always think of the cat instead…
I’ll start with the worst, and I won’t hesitate to say the only pathological liar to be president.
The “Present Resident” is a much more accurate job title!
I think Kennedy was way over-rated and Harry S.Truman way under-rated. Even though a Democrat, he was a feisty short dude and did more than
drop the BIG ONE (or two). He used executive orders to end racial discrimination in the armed forces and created loyalty checks that dismissed thousands of Communist supporters from office. If we did that now all we’d hear would be the wind whistling down Pennsylvania Ave. Also he didn’t follow up on FDR’s
“Fair Deal” crap.
My favorite though (I didn’t know Alexander Hamilton all that well…) would have to be Reagan for going against the grain and being right more often than his nay sayers…plus he had a great sense of humor.
Worst — Jimmy Cahtah — 444 days which gave the muslim extremists in Iran the thought that we are a paper tiger, and led to the present day jihadi’s. Try to read interviews he gives the foreign press… What a spiteful little vermin of a man. Obambi is a close second, but his narcissism is what really makes him a real contender for the top worst spot.
Best — Reagan. I loved how he could communicate with the nation, despite the best efforts of the elitist, effete, socialist mainstream media.
there definitely was a benjamin harrison. the first pres to spend a billion bucks and dems crucified him. william henry harrison, on the other hand, lasted 32 days in office. other than die, he didn’t do much.
my favorite pres: TR
least favorite: BO
feel the least about: millard fillmore
@zzyzx: I can’t remember if I’ve said it before, but President’s day is a good day to do it. Thank you for serving. Thank you for carrying the American tradition of serving the office instead of its criminally nitwitted occupant.
Obamer is like LBJ in that he doesn’t have a clue as to what he doesn’t know.
My favorite of the 20th century is Reagan. Although I may be called blasphemous for this there is one thing he did that I disagree with, closing the machine gun registry.
My favorite president is Abraham Lincoln. He was the quintessential American. He preserved the republic and the constitution and he did it to the best of his ability. That’s all I can ask of any American presidency. His modern detractors are generally either in the mold of charlatan revisionist historians from the Mises Institute who do nothing but ignore and/or blatantly urinate all over historical documents or ticked-off Southerners with too much time on their hands. Both parties are, more often than not, incoherent.
My favorite Democrat president is Woodrow Wilson because he had the good sense to spare the country and go into a coma. Thanks, Woody.
I have a couple of most hated presidents, and even though he didn’t do as much damage to the country as some others, today I’ll go with Andrew Jackson. I hate that guy. To paraphrase O’Rourke, he was responsible for that bastard political party of rum, rebellion, and Hillary Rodham. He didn’t exactly give it its modern political stance, but he sure as heck gave it its tendency to run roughshod like a drunken yokel over the people and the law.
Frank, please moderate my comment. Thanks.
I’m also ashamed to admit that I live one county over from Buchanan’s birthplace. Why couldn’t that idiot have come from Maryland?
Central Pennsylvania made up for Buchanan with Richard Winters, however.
And, before I forget, Polk was horrible. As described vividly and emphatically in U.S. Grant’s memoirs, he ran an unjust war against Mexico almost exclusively for the benefit of slave-owners in the Democratic party. And during said war, he intentionally tried to sow disunion between Generals Scott and Taloyr because both were known to be possible Whig presidential candidates.
The politics of the Mexican War almost make Vietnam look clean.
Favorite President: Eisenhower (it’s close; I certainly understand the votes for Washington, Reagan, and Lincoln)
Most-Hated President: Lyndon Johnson – the Gulf of Tonkin lies and Medicare – the Barack Obama of his day
President about whom I feel the least one way or the other: William Henry Harrison
Best: Ronald Reagan and George Washington, with Calvin Coolidge as runner up (gotta love a president who keeps his mouth shut)
Worst: Three way tie between Barack Obama (what do you expect from someone whose initials are BO?), Jimmy Carter, and Franklin Roosevelt, with Lyndon Johnson as runner up
Care least about: William McKinley, who died of pneumonia he contracted because he got wet and cold during his inaugural parade
Only president to keep all his campaign promises: James Polk (go figure)
Favorite: Calvin Coolidge
Hated: Wilson (Buchanan probably was worse, but not as evil)
Indifferent: Tippecanoe cause he was not in office long enough to do much. (Wear your hat and mittens, kids) OTOH, Obama did a lot of damage in his first 32 days, so maybe WHH was too sick to do much.
I said McKinley. That’s wrong. It was William HARRISON. My bad! McKinley got shot by Leon Czogolz, an anarchist who looked like the guys that throw the round bombs with the smoking fuses that you see in Spy vs. Spy.
Favorite was Truman
Worst was Carter, but I expect obama to pass him
Many that I care nothing about one way or the other.
Worst: B. Hussein Obama
Best: Engelbert Dollfuss
not sure who my favorite one will be but I’m leaning towards the 45th one. Least favorite is Moochelle.
Carter gave us Iran but LBJ gave us the welfare state, you can always nuke Iran…….
I heard someone say something about ‘unintended consequences’, referring to LBJ and that POS Ted Kennedy….there was nothing UNintentional about it.
Gotta say John Adams. He was the first to lose an election. We would be a tyranny without him setting the tone for transition of power.
He may have done other cool stuff but nothing as important as that.
George Washington – far and away. Lincoln is second. No others come close.
It’s a crying shame that the holidays that formerly bore the names of these two worthies have been debased – diluted with likes of Obama, Clinton, Carter, and Johnson.
“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.”
– George Washington –
My favorite: Martin Sheen. I mean, he played Kennedy once!
FrankJ:
Favorite: Barak Hussein Obama
Most Hated: Richard Nixon
Feel the least about: William Henry Harrison
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
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James Knox Polk, greatest President of our grand old republic.
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#28 – Ed the Pastor,
Amen!
If Romney loses Michigan, some pundits feel Gingrich may make a third come-back, as the elite North-Eastern Republicans desperately search for the next Not-Santorum!
Best – President Of The United States Of America, Ronald Wilson Reagan!
Worst – o.
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. … It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.”
― G.K. Chesterton
4of7: Love the quote! Big fan of GKC, but never read that one.
I liked the fact that McKinley campaigned from his front porch. What a wonderful dream, to have a guy just come out and talk once in a while and go away again. What a grown-up way to select a representative. What a fine and dignified man. No wonder he was so popular. No wonder a lefty had to kill him.
George Washington, FDR (but just barely over Carter), and Garfield. I dislike him on principle, since he was a politician. But, on the other hand, he hated Mondays.
hwuu, yup. That was one of the hugest things ever.
I can’t think of another time before that when the leader of a country gave up power to his opponent.
I pick Washington because he had the chance to be President for Life or even King, but didn’t want it. Cincinnatus was a close second and possibly the other previous guy who stepped down, but he didn’t step down to an opponent, he just stepped down and let the Republic come back. For a while at least.
#36 – Mxymaster,
yep, I loves quoting me some GK Chesterton.
I can’t tell you where that particular quote is from, but I found it at a site called Goodreads.com.
I loves me some Andrew Klavan too, who has a similar way with a paradox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=ZPQtjJ55SMA (Liberalism Exposed)
Worst: Millard Fillmore, for signing the fugitive slave act.
This century, I would say the illegitimate child of Carter and Nixon currently in the white house.
Best: Lincoln.
Neutral: I forget because he had so little impact.
Thanx for the good words Burma…they are much appreciated. Back when I came home we had people like Monkey Faced Libtard waiting for us and to this day I still hate liberals and always will….z
On a lighter side, while there was a president named Benjamin Harrison, there never was a president named Harrison Benjamin.
Best – Washington
Worst – Duh…O
Could Care the Least About – Clinton
If you have your picture on money, you were awesome! That should be the mark of greatness! Except for the really cool Obama “Collector” quarters from the “National Mint” with the fun paper stickers of his picture pasted on them. They were the most awesome scam in the history of America!!!!
Best small, purple, miscellaneously ethnic president: Roosevelt Franklin
Favorite: Reagan
Least Favorite: Carter
Who?: Polk
Dream President: David Palmer. Definitely.
Best: Washington.
Fave: Reagan.
Major props: Coolidge.
Who? Ford
Worst: Obama. Would have been FDR, but he did manage to figure out that Nazis were bad… eventually. Credit ends there. This guy lets people puch us in the faces, then he apologizes to them!