Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 20, 2002 Who's your choice Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bps "The Truth" 21 Report post Posted February 20, 2002 Well...I've been pretty big on Theodore Roosevelt lately...I don't know why though. Lincoln is overrated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest KingOfMen Report post Posted February 20, 2002 POLK! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Juvydriver Report post Posted February 20, 2002 I had a discussion with a friend of mine a few months ago and we came up with our Top 5 Presidents. These aren't listed in order, it's just the 5 guys that we think did the best job: 1) George Washington 2) Abraham Lincoln 3) Theodore Roosevelt 4) FDR 5) Ronald Reagan Like I said, they are listed in chronological order. Juvy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 20, 2002 POLK! Very underrated. One of my favorites Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted February 20, 2002 Smartest?-Clinton, no doubt. Coolest?-Clinton, No doubt. Most popular?-Clinton, no doubt. Greatest?-Lincoln,no doubt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Roscoe P. Coltrane Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Andrew 'Stonewall' Jackson. He's a maaaaan'a man... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Marius714 Report post Posted February 21, 2002 What's up with the Clinton love fest Choken One? Clinton the smartest ever? He's up there but consider that Carter was a nuclear physisict or something like that, Engineering degree from the Naval Academy if I remember right. And most popular? Come on now, I bet Reagan got more votes than Bill ever did. He won his second term without a majority of the US population voting for him. As for being cool I gotta disagree, I thought he'd have been an excellent used car salesman when I met him. Bill was a guy who there is no middle ground about I'd say. Either love him or hate him seems to be the case. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sassquatch Report post Posted February 21, 2002 I know Republican Presidents have had some BIG problems in the past, but the one that will ALWAYS stand out as a true success to me is... Teddy Roosevelt. Honorable mention goes to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and John F. Kennedy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Actully, JFK was cooler then Clinton come to think it... By most popular I was refering to the approval rating he got. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Some Guy Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Lincoln is the greatest Prez there has been, based on his accomplishments (Winning the Civil War, freeing the slaves, etc...). Choken One, if we're going by approval ratings the most popular Prez is George W. Bush. He has currently the highest approval rating (85%ish)since they started them (besting his father's post Gulf War numbers) and has pretty much sustained it since Sept. 11 when it was over 90%. Clinton never reached higher than 65%ish. I find it kind of ironic that if Bush gets the economy going, keeps winning the war, and gets reelected that he is going to go down as one of the best, considering how his presidency started. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sassquatch Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Anyone have the numbers for JFK in his popularity poll for his term? I'm curious to see what his ratings were when he was Prez, considering all the shit he went through and how he overcame most of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Clinton is not the most popular president in history, by any meaningful way to measure that. He did not get a majority of the popular vote either time, and never had overwhelming approval numbers. Despite that, though, he was a savvy polotician, and his leadership skills ver very underrated. My vote went for "other," in this case, Ronald Reagan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Some Guy Report post Posted February 21, 2002 JFK barely "won" the 1960 election against Nixon. He became quite popular with women based on his looks and his family. I don't know his popularity % but I know he has become far more popular and romantasized after his assasination. JFK's greatest move was lowering income taxes form 90%+ to the mid-60%. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Some quick notes about some previous posts... Clinton the most popular? The guy won each term with less than half of the public that bothered to vote... Were there polls when JFK was in office... From what I read, there was some hanky-panky regarding the 1960 election, and Nixon, instead of getting a bunch of scumbag lawyers and old Jews who said they were disenfranchised simply bowed out and became president eight years later... Sh*t, I guess this means the Gores will occupy the White House in 2008 -- wonder what Hillary thinks about that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest J*ingus Report post Posted February 21, 2002 If you look at the ratio big promises/actual accomplishments, James K. Polk stands out from the crowd. He even refused to run for reelection, feeling that he'd done everything he'd set out to do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 21, 2002 I'd have to say Washington. He basically set up how the Presidency is run. Heck, he was the one guy who basically guaranteed that the transfer of power would be clean and bloodless when he stepped down. If he WANTED to, he could've had the power of a monarch over this country. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest LooseCannon Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Anyone have the numbers for JFK in his popularity poll for his term? I'm curious to see what his ratings were when he was Prez, considering all the shit he went through and how he overcame most of it. I don't have any polling numbers for JFK. I don't even know if they did that that much back then, but I do know that he was terribly unpopular in some areas of the country, especially the South. And even in the North-east, at the time, people were pretty split on him. People seem to forget how popular Eisenhower was when he was president. Everyone loved Eisenhower. He was probably the most popular president ever at the time of his presidency. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest LooseCannon Report post Posted February 21, 2002 The greatest presidents ever are Washington, Lincoln, and FDR. Just purely in terms of the humongous challenges they faced and how they succeeded in meeting them. Few others even come close. Honorable Mention: Reagan, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Spaceman Spiff Report post Posted February 21, 2002 Where's the Rutherford B. Hayes love? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted February 21, 2002 "Everyone loved Eisenhower. He was probably the most popular president ever at the time of his presidency." According to some articles I read, both parties were trying to court Ike and cash in on his name-value, much like a certain current Sec. of State a few years back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 22, 2002 My personal favorite is Ronold Reagan. But I'm on the James Polk bandwagon. While in office Texas became a state, and territory for all or parts of 9 states including California where added. Like Jingus mentioned he accomplished everything he wanted to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest imajackoff? Report post Posted February 22, 2002 Its gotta be Abe Lincoln. Kept the union together ,freed the slaves, and without a doubt would win a presidential battle royal. Abe has the size and he could also take it to the mat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bps "The Truth" 21 Report post Posted February 22, 2002 LINCOLN FREED NO ONE! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest LooseCannon Report post Posted February 22, 2002 While its true that Lincoln did not technically free the slaves, the fact that he was able keep the union together despite the fact that the nation was falling apart is a huge accomplishment, regardless of whatever poor choices he made in terms of generals early in the conflict. He was not seen as a legitamite pres by alot of people when he was first elected b/c the democrats had split their vote among three different candidates, and literally (err metaphorically) all hell was breaking loose as he took office. He had no time to become accustomed to the presidency or time to think even. He was thrust immediately into a crisis. No other president has faced as big of a challenge, except arguably Washington and FDR. And Polk? he added Texas and some other states to the union? Well la dee fucking dah. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tyler McClelland Report post Posted February 23, 2002 I'm SO glad nobody has outright said "George W. is the best!!" It's sickening how much they keep shoving Sept. 11 down our throats. I wouldn't put it past him to start a new conflict to keep his rating high. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted February 23, 2002 "I wouldn't put it past him to start a new conflict to keep his rating high." I'll laugh if Bush orders a bombing raid on the day he's forced via Supreme Court to relase those Energy Task Force records. It'll be Clinton all over again when he played War General during the Lewinsky mess... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tyler McClelland Report post Posted February 23, 2002 What... are you talking... about? Clinton... attacked... Iraq... because they were... being bastards! Yeah, that's it! Heh heh heh... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 23, 2002 I'm SO glad nobody has outright said "George W. is the best!!" It's sickening how much they keep shoving Sept. 11 down our throats. I wouldn't put it past him to start a new conflict to keep his rating high.>> It's not like Bush was doing poorly in the polls BEFORE 9/11. -=Mike ...He's been a rather consistently popular President. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Tyler McClelland Report post Posted February 23, 2002 Before Sept. 11, everyone still thought Bush was a moron... The polls were still divided because of the shaky outcome of the election. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
