[traviskicks]

Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents.



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[rmlew]

Neo-Confederates hate nationalists. Duh.

[acoulterfan]

I am surprised that he did not include Jimmy Carter with the others that he listed as the worst.

[squidly]

The government is too big nowadays for us to have a great president, no matter what party he may represent.

There are 15 Cabinet level Departments. There are 64 other executive branch agencies that report to the President, things as large as NASA, U.S. Postal Service, General Services Administration, and FCC, just to name four. There are a number of other boards, commissions, committees, and agencies that report to the President.

Nobody can manage all this crap, be his name Bush, Clinton, or Reagan. It's just too dang big.

[Blue State Insurgent]

W saved the world...top 10.

[WOSG]

FDR was the WORST president in American History from the perspective of liberty:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969198/posts?page=120#120

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b5e19d63af3.htm

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/kickler1.html

[tear gas]

Who can honestly say that ANY of the prior presidents were better than our current President Bush? I won’t say he’s greater than Washington and Lincoln, but he’s right in there with them.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Stuff from the Mises Institute is usually amateurish shilling for a utopian vision of the free market.

But this essay is actually quite reasonable.

Coolidge was indeed a great president. He fought long and hard to prevent the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

He ultimately failed, but at least he tried. Better than what can be said about the last series of presidents who were not only unable to eliminate unnecessary departments such as those of Education and Energy, but expanded them instead.

[mysterio]

I’d vote for another Jefferson. And not much less than that.

[Verginius Rufus]

Taylor was in office a year and 3 months before he died, whereas Garfield died in office after only 6 months...so if Schlesinger, Jr., omitted Taylor he should have left out Garfield too. His father's poll in 1962 had the top 10 (of 31, omitting W. H. Harrison and Garfield) as Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Wilson, Jefferson, Jackson, TR, Polk, Truman and John Adams, and had Eisenhower way down at 22.

(A poll of historians taken 20 years later put Ike at #9.)

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[samadams2000]

Have we no George Washingtons among us?

[television is just wrong]

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.

[KC_Conspirator]

I have a theory: left-liberal historians worship political power, and idolize those who wield it most lavishly in the service of left-liberal causes.

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.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The Constitution is now viewed as an impediment to their goals and ambitions. They will quote it when they need it, but wish it would go away when they don't.

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.