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Your favorite U.S. President

Posted on 01/04/2004 7:53:14 AM PST by Reader of news

What is your favorite President of the United States?


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To: Monty22
thought you might be going for entertainment value
101 posted on 01/04/2004 9:14:54 AM PST by nuconvert ("This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.")
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To: F14 Pilot
Hard to say....still waiting for Bush's 4 more years......
102 posted on 01/04/2004 9:16:03 AM PST by nuconvert ("This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.")
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To: Burr5
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.

103 posted on 01/04/2004 9:16:04 AM PST by Xthe17th ("What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" - Grover Cleveland)
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To: Dubya's fan
Reagan, Monroe, and Davis.
104 posted on 01/04/2004 9:17:29 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Xthe17th
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.
105 posted on 01/04/2004 9:18:31 AM PST by Nanodik (Libertarian, Ex-Canadian)
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To: Dubya's fan
Gotta be Reagan, hands down. He was one of a kind.
106 posted on 01/04/2004 9:19:09 AM PST by sweetliberty (Controlling the ACLU by feeding it our liberties is like controlling sharks by chumming the waters)
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To: Dubya's fan
Bush JR! (I wasn't around for Reagan. ^^)
107 posted on 01/04/2004 9:22:15 AM PST by 4mycountry (If you're reading this tagline you have way too much time on your hands.)
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To: Dubya's fan
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.
108 posted on 01/04/2004 9:27:34 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: RunningJoke
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.
109 posted on 01/04/2004 9:31:18 AM PST by gooleyman
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To: Dubya's fan
Hands Down Geo.W.Bush Is my pick.I would have to say Reagan is my second choice.
110 posted on 01/04/2004 9:34:18 AM PST by solo gringo (Always Ranting Always Rite)
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To: Dubya's fan
Jefferson.
111 posted on 01/04/2004 9:35:10 AM PST by ForOurFuture
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To: Dubya's fan
Lincoln.
112 posted on 01/04/2004 9:40:09 AM PST by beckett
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To: JackRyanCIA
Aaron Burr was Vice President (1801-1805), not President.
114 posted on 01/04/2004 9:42:16 AM PST by Reader of news
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To: bandleader
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.

116 posted on 01/04/2004 9:49:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay are ead-day)
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To: Dubya's fan
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.
117 posted on 01/04/2004 9:50:19 AM PST by Paulus Invictus (4)
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To: Nanodik
but I think the life of a politician was not for him.

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

118 posted on 01/04/2004 9:55:17 AM PST by ovrtaxt (You got an extra Communist Manifesto? I'm like totally out of toilet paper.)
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To: ovrtaxt
I don't think one can overestimate the virtues of GW.
120 posted on 01/04/2004 10:04:23 AM PST by Nanodik (Libertarian, Ex-Canadian)
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