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1 posted on
02/22/2010 8:03:19 PM PST by
Steelers6
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To: Steelers6
When George III heard Washington gave up power he commented he was the greatest man on earth. Napoleon commented at his downfall France wanted him to be a Washington.
2 posted on
02/22/2010 8:04:56 PM PST by
C19fan
To: Steelers6
I have to go with Ronald Reagan.
3 posted on
02/22/2010 8:07:09 PM PST by
GOPsterinMA
(Camelot sleeps with the fishes!)
To: Steelers6
And we know where he was born unlike a certain fake pResident..
To: Steelers6
I love George Washington. Every time I go back to NJ I try to take a trip through Morristown, where he was waylaid with the dreaded winter snows, worst in many a year that year. Yea, the devil did not want the birth of the nation, for we were a Christian Nation.
What a noble character. What a beautiful soul. Loved his wife, Martha, she was the lucky one. Not many men or women like him. I wish we’d get another.
And so, I’d like to ask you, what do YOU think of the stories of his seeing an angel?
I can believe it, but, well, they say it was written down well after his death.
7 posted on
02/22/2010 8:13:36 PM PST by
Beowulf9
To: Steelers6
1. Washington 2. Lincoln 3. Reagan
Washington established the republic, Lincoln saved it from a domestic tyranny and Reagan delivered it from an external tyranny.
To: Steelers6
Agreed! “Presidents Day” is only a politically correct excuse for the three day weekend for worthless, man-hating government employees and government-paid contractors: the voters of today and constituents of the two politically correct, anti-family, anti-American political parties.
George Washington’s Birthday: the day for good Americans to remember.
9 posted on
02/22/2010 8:15:13 PM PST by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: Steelers6
The achievements of this man, this unsurpassed man, are truly astonishing. Many will argue for Lincoln or Jefferson, for TR or RR...but all of these man, all of Washington's successors had his model to follow. Washington created the presidency - his style, his sense of national unity, his inherent understanding of the role of the president, his courageous actions in keeping the nation together during the rancorous early years of the republic. Indeed if you were take away all his pre-presidency achievements, and then strip away all his presidential ones as well, the single act of voluntarily relinquishing power when many were set to make him not unlike a king, is one of the most transformative single achievements of modern human political history.
10 posted on
02/22/2010 8:15:29 PM PST by
americanophile
(Good luck Team USA! Bring home the gold!)
To: Steelers6
We went from a man who couldn’t lie about chopping down a cherry tree to one who denies he had anything to do with ACORN.
11 posted on
02/22/2010 8:15:58 PM PST by
scott7278
("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
To: Steelers6
I agree. He invented the job, the title, the practices of the Office. He WAS the greatest President. And the dishonor done to him regarding his birthday [making it a three day weekend, and giving it a generic title], and his place in our history, is disgudting.
12 posted on
02/22/2010 8:16:50 PM PST by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Steelers6
From the great George Washington to Hussein Obama... how the mighty have fallen.
To: Steelers6
Washington wasn't too bad a president, but maybe people forget his heavy-handed repression of the Whiskey Rebellion or the fact that he pushed Jefferson out of the way and listened to the much more liberal Adams. He created a central bank as a result, in a most unconstitutional way, and Jefferson eliminated it when he assumed the presidency. Still, Washington had enormous character. He was hurting for money yet he refused salaries from the government.
I'm a bit of a fan of Grover Cleveland, shamefully underrepresented in the hall of presidents. He was a strict constitutionalist who vetoed every bill that deviated from a literal reading of the Constitution. He was a Democrat who fought with the liberal Republicans. Funny how things have switched.
When I think of both of these men, it makes me sick to think of Obama.
To: Steelers6
I agree that George Washington was the greatest American in history but going by what they did as President I think Abraham Lincoln narrowly beats him.
BTW, although James K. Polk is almost forgotten nowadays he too I believe was a great President-expanded America to make a two-ocean power.
To: Steelers6
He led from the from the front.
He put his fortune on the line...dont see gates doing that...
He bucked convention and use blacks portugese and jews in his troops... a real multicultural leader.
17 posted on
02/22/2010 8:21:49 PM PST by
Keith Brown
(Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
To: Steelers6
18 posted on
02/22/2010 8:23:09 PM PST by
greatdefender
(If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
To: Steelers6
![](http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hh/7/images/hh7a1.jpg)
Happy Birthday Your Excellency.
...and thank you!
20 posted on
02/22/2010 8:26:57 PM PST by
americanophile
(Good luck Team USA! Bring home the gold!)
To: Steelers6
By far the best president we’ve ever had, and one of the greatest people in all of human history.
21 posted on
02/22/2010 8:27:05 PM PST by
Wolfstar
(Note to rigid ideologues: Your own point of view in a mirror is quite a limited window on the world.)
To: Steelers6
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government”.
Thomas Jefferson
22 posted on
02/22/2010 8:28:33 PM PST by
woodro43
To: Steelers6
"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors." ....President George Washington
23 posted on
02/22/2010 8:29:50 PM PST by
tflabo
(Restore the Republic)
To: Steelers6
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments”
- George Washington
25 posted on
02/22/2010 8:37:41 PM PST by
woodro43
To: Steelers6
I agree. Thanks for making the point!
27 posted on
02/22/2010 8:45:42 PM PST by
Weirdad
(A Free Republic, not a "democracy" (mob rule))
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