Your favorite U.S. President

[Reader of news]

What is your favorite President of the United States?

[koba37]

I like the guy, but I'd have to agree with you on the big government issue. I can't understand why anyone would put Reagan on the same list as two big government guys like Bush and Lincoln......

[stop_fascism]

Van Buren?

[bandleader]

Dear explodingspleen,I hadn't realized that Grover Cleveland was such a GREAT PRESIDENT!Now I shall have to read about his terms in office!!ThankYou!!!

[Pappy Smear]

I agree that Coolidge is da man. He seemed to sit back and let the people unleash their own potential. Jefferson was a great man, and the Louisiana Purchase was a brilliant move. Reagan did great, considering what he was given to work with.

I detest LBJ, and I agree with the posters that say FDR=Bush2. Good men, good leaders, but too much belief in big government.

Also give Clintoon his due. I never thought I'd see the day with a Republican House. The Toon made it possible.

[Xthe17th]

Jefferson was truly President of the United States of America. Bush (and definitely just about every president in the last hundred years) is/were President(s) of the People of the United States of America.

There's a big difference. It's why the best presidents are able to put principle over politics while the worst drift with the crazy polls and run their administrations the other way around.

[Burr5]

1. Lincoln. Gonads of titanium. No president has faced what he faced.

2. Reagan. Won his world war without hundreds of thousands of U.S. casualties.

3. Washington. A battlefield general who earned his status in ways recent presidents have not. Without his committment to democracy, U.S. history might have unfolded quite differently.

4. Theodore Roosevelt. Made America a global power. A liberal when being a liberal was cool. And neccessary.

There were probably a couple of others who did a decent job. ;)

[bandleader]

Don't forget when The ClintonNoids dispaired that 9/11 hadn't occurred on BeelzeBubba's wtch so he could have demonstrated his inherent greatness and leadership!!He(though reputed to be BRILLIANT),doesn't even know how to spell the word LEADERSHIP!!!As Margaret Thatcher observed,he governed by CONSESUS!!!!!

[bandleader]

RIGHT ON!Perhaps,Washington as well!!!

[stop_fascism]

Doesn't the War of 1812 bother you about Madison?

[bandleader]

Go in peace,You Are FORGIVEN!

[Burr5]

It's Grima, not Greema. I don't trust political analysis from people who don't read books, but get it all phonetically from the movies. LOL!

[bandleader]

Dear Doc Savage,I had quite forgotten(thankfully)about HildeBeast's manifold achievements as"Enabler in Chief"!Excuse me but I must visit the bathroom!!!

[Burr5]

P.S. : Theoden.

[bandleader]

"Walk Softly,But Carry A BIG STICK"!!!!!

[stop_fascism]

Can't judge W until his terms are over. I'd say:

1. Washington
2. Reagan
3. Polk
4. Coolidge
5. Grant

[bandleader]

It would appear SO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tiamat]

YES!

I SO had a crush on TR when I was younger! LOL!

Didn't matter that he had died decades before! <p. Tia

[mo]

Reagan...the one who finally ended WWII AND the Depression....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My favorite, David Rice Atchison. Was President for one day and slept through most of it.

[bvw]

President Adrew Jackson, "Old Hickory" said of Van Buren, "a true man with no guile."

Today the term "OK" has become part of many languages across the globe, It means "All in order", "reviewed and accepted" -- a term of a goodness, quality, truth.

Where does "OK" come from? From Martin Van Buren, who like Jackson, was given a nickname. Van Buren's was "Old Kinderhook" or "OK" for short. After the Kinderhook Creek he grew up along.

If Van Buren agreed to something it was "OK"!