Favorite Past President

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Like the "Worst president" poll, I'm interested in seeing who guys vote as your favorite president. Now, In the poll, I have listed my personal favorites from 1 to 10 as theirs 43 presidents and 10 maximum Poll Options.


I voted for FDR. He did many great things during the Depression, like putting many people back to work, by creating domestic programs and help get the American Economy stable again. Not to mention, his efforts in WWII. Great man.

My second vote went to JFK. With what he did in the Civil Rights Movement, and his work with Dr King, he helped bring Whites and Black together in his "New Frontier" platform.

Give us your input.

[EAsTon]

George Washington

He had the ability to take the country and turn it into what he wanted to. Instead he got advice from his fellow country leaders and always consulted problems, changes, and ideas with them.

Without GW there would be no United States. Our government wouldn't have made it with his dedicated leadership, and his ability too set an incredible foundation for everything in the US.

[hcky21rskor]

JFK!!

I think if it weren't for him it would have been a little more than just a cold war.

[Jimdalf]

I'm not much of a fan of FDR... he averted a socialist revolution during the depression, which is why we still have capitalism. He also procrastrinated far too much about moving the US toward a war footing, never mind his isolationism.

I prefer Lincoln. He plugged the leaks quite well.

[Cylon]

One of my personal favorites has always been Abraham Lincoln. Faced with a crucial situation while the country was still young in age, Lincoln stopped at nothing to bring the Union back together. He was definitely faced with a situation that could have turned America into something drastically different had he not intervened.

A book I read a while ago on Lincoln talked quite a bit on how he conducted himself at the time of the Civil War. It was interesting to see how much of a religious man he was, and the fact that he thought the Civil War was divinely justified as America was "paying" for its sins of the past (slavery). Much of his religious nature found its way into his Presidential Addresses, which are always intriguing to read.

[Mr~Pan]

Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Nuff said, best president, most dedicated, most accomplished.

[NUN-PUNCHER]

I really look up to Kennedy for the Huge Balls he showed during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Very Admirable. He spoke with force and The Commie's complied.

[Godmoney]

Abe Lincoln gets my vote!

I mean come on! He abolished slavery in the U.S.! That's huge... imagine how ****ed up we would be today if it never happened.