Posted on 02/18/2008 6:32:50 PM PST by traviskicks
are you being sarcastic?
yea, agreed. especially about the TVA, people were defending it on here on a thread not too long back.
My favorite quote from last year I actually missed it this year, until i reread it now:
“American liberty will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate his virtually unlimited exercise of power.”
I think this says a lot. It reminds me of this quote:
Lao Tse said that the evil leader is the one whom the people despise, the good leader is the one whom the people revere, but the greatest leader of all is the one who causes the people to cheer that “we did it ourselves”.
Ping to read later
Brilliant!!! The only president who comes close to that is Reagan. In his farewell speech he mentioned that he wanted his presidency to be remembered for making Americans feel pride in themselves. It was a homage to the average hard working guy. Not a big ego trip for himself. Contrast that to any democrat today and how he/she will get government to DO something FOR you.
We would have more great presidents IF voters would RESEARCH the candidates, rather than go by name recognition, or just vote for the candidates that the media puts before them all the time.
Have we no George Washingtons among us?
LBJ?
There are lots of great Americans out there capable of being a better president of the U.S. than these clowns we have running in 08.
Duh, you could not get an honest discussion out of liberals if you tried.
The one thing that makes great president is LEADERSHIP. Not welfare and other liberal big government causes, as liberals see things. Notice how in any discussion liberals never mention leadership, even when talking about their heroes.
At least conservatives can say they liked FDR for example, because he had leadership qualites.
“FDR was the WORST president in American History from the perspective of liberty:”
“LBJ?”
You saw the litany. FDR let Alger Hiss, a spy for Stalin, set up the United Nations. FDR started his term by recognizing Stalin’s USSR, and ended it by giving Eastern Europe to Stalin. LBJ fought badly in vietnam, but he fought. LBJ gave us abe fortas; FDR packed the whole danged supreme court - or tried. 90% of the alphabet soup agencies around DC sprung up under FDR. Before FDR the Federal govt was about 3-4% fo GDP. When he was done, the Federal govt was 25% of GDP!! FDR had 13 years, LBJ only 5.
Truman and LBJ were at least anti-communists, but FDR was about as clueless in dealing with them and/or was a symp. to such an extent that it hobbled us for years, and led to infiltration of the US Govt by soviet spies.
LBJ, Clinton, JFK, they all were pikers compared to the big cahuna of collectivist-liberalism-run-amok, FDR.
Grover Cleveland, Ronald Reagan, Calvin Coolidge were all good to great presidents. If those three arent in the top 10, they are not scoring it right.
McKinley, US Grant, and Harding are routinely under-rated.
I suspect G W Bush will be an underrated president too by the lib profs.
It is our Constitution, not theirs. It is our wall, between us, and tyranny, tyranny of the majority, and tyranny of government.
Anyone who does not know this, and honor it, is not a republican.
“I remember hearing someone go on and on about the virtues of Coolidge. I thought they were crazy. The only thing I knew about him was the “keep cool with Coolidge” campaign. He didn’t DO anything. Now I realize how great that guy was because he didn’t believe in a big government telling citizens how to live. And to show you how far we’ve come, the guy was from VERMONT. Land of the liberal nanny-staters.”
Under Coolidge the economy grew by about one third, kind of like the Reagan boom. And for the same reason - under Treas. Secty Mellon, the tax rates were cut significantly and the economy boomed under reduced tax burden.
Yes, Coolidge did something. He got the h8ll out of the way of the American economy and let ‘er rip.
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