Who's the best US president of all time?

[antiimperialist]

Poll question: Who's the best US president of all time?

Who is in your opinion, the best president the United States has ever had?

[End Of The Road]

1. Wish you had JFK in there. nt

[antiimperialist]

3. Point taken. I just switched Monroe and JFK n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. No Jefferson option?

[antiimperialist]

4. Fine, I removed Madison n/t

[fenriswolf]

5. ok whos the joker that voted for reagan?

[Faygo Kid]

6. Lots of FReeper wannabes all over here today

Gonna be a busy day for the moderators.

Plenty of tombstones to go around, I bet.

[End Of The Road]

7. OMG, now it's three votes.

Who ARE those guys?

[jaysunb]

10. LOL ! my first thought.

:rofl: they must've thought the poll said WORST.

[hyphenate]

8. Go, Tom! eom

[antiimperialist]

9. I think psychologically, the fact that Lincoln was a Republican hurts him

Even though some people don't know that the Republican party was the equivalent of today's Democratic party. The party of change. The party of reason, while the Democratic party was the conservative, reactionary party. I have no problem with him having been a Republican.

[antiimperialist]

11. Amid tension between Obama and Hillary supporters, I doubt Bill will get many votes

The MLK/Fairy Tales incident is fresh in the minds of many.

[antiimperialist]

12. Reagan catching up with Lincoln lmao

I understand though. All Lincoln did was keep the nation from splitting in half and abolishing slavery.

[fenriswolf]

21. before lincoln the nation was already split, economicall,

agriculterally, politically, socially, etc basically two different trains of thought. not only did he prevent the us from splitting up he got us to finally join together as a unified country.

[Didereaux]

13. seems american history scholars in Du can be counted on one hand

[End Of The Road]

16. Since you mention it

I've got to say I've found this very scary in the last few days.

[fenriswolf]

19. since its all relative i want to know

how many american history scholars do you know? and what are their answers, I would be suprised if you know 3 and they all answer the same thing.

[Kucinich4America]

14. I see we have at least 4 freepers trolling here today.

And at least 4 DLC operatives as well.

[Didereaux]

26. I know, whats worse it is getting harder to tell them from the Kiddy Army

[Quixote1818]

15. I wouldn't rank Jefferson as the greatest president but many of his ideas

were brilliant and had the most positive effects on the country as a whole.

[Muttocracy]

22. Yes - big fan of Jefferson but not as president

As I recall the 3 things Jefferson requested be written on his tombstone were author of Declaration of Independence, founder of Univ. of VA, and author of VA Bill of Religious Freedoms (probably getting that name wrong).

And yes, I know he owned slaves.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. It's sad Washington gets so few votes

he defined the presidency.

[antiimperialist]

18. Didn't he own slaves? That doesn't help n/t

[Muttocracy]

23. I give credit to Washington for not turning it into more of an aristocracy n/t

[sandnsea]

20. More for Reagan than Kennedy?

That's a joke, right??

[kimmerspixelated]

24. Al Gore.

[Big Blue Marble]

25. It is really hard to choose between Lincoln and FDR.

IMO, in the prospective of history, they are the presidents that dealt with the greatest crises
in our national narrative. They both succeeded beyond any expectations at the time. They
both saved our country from unraveling. They were brilliant dedicated true patriots.