Top 5 Manly-Man Presidents (Vanity)

Pissant | 12/31/04 | Pissant

[pissant]

The top REAL MAN Presidents in our history:

5. Ulysses S. Grant: A serious General, a very smart man, and unafraid to take a swig of good whiskey.

4. Ronald Reagan: A lifeguard, football player, and unabashed commie stomper. Chopped wood in his seventies like a 20 year old.

3. Andrew Jackson: Indian fighter, fearless politician. Not named Old Hickory for nothing.

2. Theodore Roosevelt: Boxer, hunter, adventurist. Finished his speech with a bullet in his chest.

5. George Washington - True gentleman. Fearless in battle and explorer in his youth.

GWB gets honorable mention for having the fortitude to piss on the europeans and do the right thing in the war on terror. And for being a hot shot pilot in the Air National Guard.

[Eurotwit]

With a wife like his I think I would taken a closer look at Grant as well :-P.

Seriously though. This depends on what you think is manly. And in my book Licoln, is a TRUE man.

Happy new year.

[ShadowDancer]

5. Ulysses S. Grant

Great general. Horrid president.

[codyjacksmom]

Kind of figured, but I couldn't resist the tease. :)

[pissant]

He was president during an extremely difficult period of our history, so I do cut him some slack.

[Eurotwit]

I want to send every officer a case of what he was drinking.

[F16Fighter]

"Not to mention he had an annoying habit of considering his soldiers to be expendable."

Doesn't take much to shoot the wad of an overwhelming force -- then be called a "great General."

[ShadowDancer]

He was weak and ineffective over and over again in office. None of that detracts from his military career, though.

[Gunrunner2]

No kidding.

[Salman]

The only ones on your list I'd say yes to are Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, with honorable mention to Reagan. Where's Lincoln on your list? If I had to say five, in no particular order:

• Washington
• Jefferson
• Lincoln
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt

Honorable mention:

• Truman
• Reagan

I won't comment on George W Bush, because the story is still being written. Perhaps he will lead all the rest.

[Eurotwit]

But, he fought the English....

[F16Fighter]

"I want to send every officer a case of what he was drinking."

Lincoln himself was drinking heavily when he said that ;-)

[pissant]

It would have been tough to be a domineering president and try to heal the war wounds at the same time.

[pissant]

Jefferson, though I admire him greatly, was not a manly man. Much too refined. Now Ben Franklin, on the other hand, was a stud with few equals.

[pissant]

just keep your eyes off the torso area.....

[ShadowDancer]

It's not so much that as he was far too trusting and quite frankly, childlike, in many ways in his true nature. That doesn't make him a bad person, it just didn't translate into an effective president.

[SoDak]

I vote for Teddy Roosevelt. If he impressed hard-bitten NoDak and SoDak cowboys in the late 1800's with his toughness, and he did, he must have been the real thing.

[pissant]

I think frankly Grant didn't really want to be a politician. Kinda like Ike.

[pissant]

He was indeed.

[WestCoastGal]

"The real news out of Iraq is a trickle. The tsunami is 24/7. It's a good time to have some fun, and provoke some arguments (good natured, of course)."

It took a tsunami to get the MSM off of Rumsfelds back!

Since you're doing all these top 5 and 10 lists how about the top manly-man Secretaries of Defense?

[bvw]

Didn't know that. Micheal Smerconish's Philly Big Talker show mentioned the Mutter this week. I'll have to perambulate over there some day soon.