[Colonel Kangaroo]

The question was posed to freshmen Republican congressmen. Ronald Reagan was excluded to see who the new representatives liked second best.

Tables included at linked article.

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe the country was created to be a voluntary union of the several sovereign states. I think that Lincoln misunderstood this and used the tyrannical power of the federal government to create one centralized body which would be ruled from Washington.

I consider Lincoln to be a very bad president. He used force to impose the power of government on people who did not wish to be subject to that power. Not what this country was created for.

[JDW11235]

I say, “No thanks.” In my opinion, we’d all be better off had there been another option, other than Lincoln. Would that he’d have stayed a grocery clerk, rather than initiating the bloodiest war in American History, and doing more to destroy the sovereignty of states, and man, than perhaps any other man in our history, with maybe the exception of Wilson, or Obama (Both are debatable). But Lincoln did his piece, for sure.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

If I had a Wisconsin unionized teacher when I was growing up, I might have spelled "excluded" correctly in the title.

Then again, maybe not...

[WPaCon]

Lol at democrats putting Clinton first and not even having Washington in the top 5.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Sooner or later the contingent of FR neo-Confederates will show up dissing Honest Abe....Ten...Nine...Eight...

[NeoCaveman]

Rep. Chip Cravaack (MN-8) pointed to the economic accomplishments of the Coolidge administration to explain his choice: “During the Coolidge administration the federal budget shrank, the national debt was cut in half, unemployment stood at 3.6%, consumer prices rose just 0.4% and Americans personal wealth increased 17.5%,” he said.

Good answer!

[ml/nj]

On Presidents’ Day: Lincoln is King

REALLY sad.

I wonder when they think the government bequeathed to us by Jefferson and Madison disappeared, if they think at all.

ML/NJ

[Darkwolf377]

Some of the same people I’ve known who despise Lincoln for keeping the country together despise people who won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, are alarmed by the rise in illegal immigration and the idea that Mexico might try to take back some of the southwest, and consider Obama and the liberals “un-American.”

Oh, the irony...

[sten]

My President

You are missed now, more then ever.

[gunnyg]

If only all present “Americans really” understood the so-called civil war....

[rockrr]

What's not to love?

[central_va]

Best Presidents:

1. Washington
2. Davis
3. Jefferson