Your favorite U.S. President

[Reader of news]

What is your favorite President of the United States?

[nuconvert]

thought you might be going for entertainment value

[nuconvert]

Hard to say....still waiting for Bush's 4 more years......

[Xthe17th]

RE: Grima and Theoden

Thanks for the spelling corrections. I read the books long ago and am too lazy to look-up the names. Also, us engineers aren't known for our spelling ability. Anyway, I think my analogy to Karl & Dubya is fitting.

PS: I hope the directors cut of LOTRROTK shows what happened to Grima. They left out that and other scenes from the book...just showed the palantir (sp?) lying under water.

[vetvetdoug]

Reagan, Monroe, and Davis.

[Nanodik]

I totally agree with you but I still believe that TJ was at his best when he was more of an intellectual guide to the country rather than a politician.

[sweetliberty]

Gotta be Reagan, hands down. He was one of a kind.

[4mycountry]

Bush JR! (I wasn't around for Reagan. ^^)

[Biblebelter]

I will confine my selection to the last two centuries. No one compares with George Washington. My favorite President was Theodore Roosevelt because he understood that if the founding purpose of this nation was independence, then the individual's most productive response to independence was something called rugged individualism. But alas,that has been totally perverted because individual rights now trump individual responsibilities, and individuals cry out for entitlements rather than opportunities.

[gooleyman]

RunningJoke's choice: Grover Cleveland

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Good Anti-choice. That would be like me picking Clintoon as my favorite. (Now, let me go wash my hands with soap after typing those words.)

Grover Cleveland was the Billy Clintoon of that day. He couldn't keep it in his pants either. He ushered in a long, long Republican rule-time. It was almost a complete repeat of history 100 years later leading up to the 1994 election and the Congressional takeover by the Republicans. Cleveland practically destroyed the DemocRATS then just like Clintoon has done today.

Just before the 1994 election, I happened upon one of my old history books which contained the Republican Platform for that time (circa 1893). I was amazed as it could have been written almost verbatim 100 years later. I sent a copy of it to Rush, but never heard anything from him about it. He probably never saw it. I would have emailed it to him then, but Al Gore had just invented the internet and I didn't have it yet.

Back then (1894...etc.), they did it right. The Republicans took over both houses of Congress in 1894 and they threw Cleveland out of the Presidency in 1896. Republicans controlled the House, Senate and the Presidency well into the 1900's after that. I'm hopeful that the historical repeat continues.

[solo gringo]

Hands Down Geo.W.Bush Is my pick.I would have to say Reagan is my second choice.

[ForOurFuture]

Jefferson.

[beckett]

Lincoln.

[Reader of news]

Aaron Burr was Vice President (1801-1805), not President.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The ClintonNoids dispaired that 9/11 hadn't occurred on BeelzeBubba's wtch so he could have demonstrated his inherent greatness and leadership!

Chris Matthews, to his everlasting shame, actually gave voice to that sentiment publicly. It's almost too creepy to comment on.

[Paulus Invictus]

Old Grover is a favorite of native Hawaiians since he condemned the illegal takeover of Hawaii by the American-lead Hawaiian Republic. This was a group of sons of missionaries who, with the armed backing of American Marines and sailors, deposed the legal queen of Hawaii and jailed her. Cleveland correctly stated that it was an illegal takeover and ordered the usurpers to hand power back to the queen. They didn't comply and Hawaii became a US territory.

[ovrtaxt]

but I think the life of a politician was not for him.

Precisely. That's what made Washingotn great as well.

[Nanodik]

I don't think one can overestimate the virtues of GW.