He started from scratch as President, didn't have anyone to learn from and was one of the founders in drafting the Declaration and organizing a government under the constitution.
He then served 2 terms and left setting the example that noone should violated until 1940 with FDR.
I am surprised America survived Lincoln. (audio links on my profile page.) I hope America survives Barry Soetoro.
greatest? no way. That would be Jefferson.
poll lists :
Abraham Lincoln
great President ?
or greatest President ?
how about
not a great President ?
Deo Vindice
I agree that overall, Washington was the greatest. The greatest in modern times was Ronald Reagan, hands down.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He’s #4 on my list.
(j/k)
Why is Stephen Colbert writing this website's poll questions?
#1-George Washington
#2-Thomas Jefferson
#3-James Madison
All Virginians. Enough said.
Lord, I sure do miss the Commonwealth.
Harry S. Truman used technology to it’s very limit of destructive deterrence. He faced the hardest decision any president ever had to make and chose the right path. He had brass gonads. Obama would puss out on something that detrimental. Harry’s the man!
Washington was the greatest, but Lincoln and Reagan are not far behind. Lincoln’s greatness and contributions are hard to see for those whose vision is distorted by regional feelings, but the Confederate-secessionist movement represented a political and moral evil of such proportions that it threatened national existence. It was no honest expression of a legitimate popular discontent that Lincoln faced, but a brazen political power grab that would have thrown our nation into permanent anarchy and European domination. Lincoln’s extermination of this danger with doing as little damage as possible to the rule of law should earn the gratitude of all unbiased conservative Americans. In what he did for the nation, he truly was a second Washington.
? The British forces during the Revolutionary War were conscripts. Raw conscripts.
The British unit that came over for the War of 1812 (when the US invaded Canada) - they were much better: many were veterans of the Peninsular War.
But the redcoats who fought Washington were raw - Britain had no kind of military force until Sir John Moore's reforms kicked in, which was in the first decade of the 19th Century.
Unless Washington spent his time fighting Frederick the Great and his Prussians, he did not defeat "the best military in the world".
Bingo! Remember too in camp at Valley Forge when his officers wanted to revolt and march on Congress, he reprimanded them like a father such that he reduced them to tears
George Washington is the greatest president by miles and miles. He saved the republic and then set it on the correct course. Tyrants like KKK Woodrow Wilson and the fascist FDR soiled the office and set the stage for the current dirtbag Hussein.
I take second place to nobody in my respect and admiration of Abraham Lincoln. But I’ll also be the first to state that Lincoln takes second place to George Washington. Washington invented the office of the President, and without him as number one then I doubt we would ever have been around long enough for number 16.
Excellent video posted on youtube by the SouthernAvenger yesterday. Being Honest About Abe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMJKeg4qBQ
greatest president? nah, i’ll cast my vote for william henry harrison. he only spent 30 days in office. not enough time to screw up anything.
Grover Cleveland has always been my favorite, but Washington should be considered the greatest.
A poor President: Freed the slaves, started the Union on the road to socialism/central government controll.