<p>Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Jefferson…I like a lot of presidents…and Ulysses S. Grant knew one of my great-great aunts or something like that! They went horseback riding together and he gave her some kind of special riding crop, which my aunt now has in a case. I get it someday…woohoo.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m sorry, but your veto thing is really annoying me. Sure, he used the most of any president of that time, but he used a grand total of TWELVE. Spread over eight years? Doesn’t seem like that much to me. </p>
<p>Compare that to Cleveland (414 in his first term alone), FDR (635), or Truman (250), and it’s nothing. </p>
<p>Oh, I agree that he did bad things (mainly the Specie Circular/Vetoing the Second Bank Renewal and the Trail of Tears), but I admire him for being the first “Modern President.”</p>
<p>See, for today’s standards 12 vetoes isn’t a lot, but for a new republic, this was exerting way more power than Americans were used to. It seemed like he was decreeing legislation like a king, and compared to the other presidents back then, he was.</p>
<p>I can’t believe someone said Harding a few posts ago. He’s generally considered the worst president in US history. He had, um, libidinous tendencies, spent his days golfing, and sold off White House china and furniture. He was also completely controlled by his wife. I think he’s kind of a loser.</p>
<p>Andrew Johnson’s not too popular…and W isn’t earning too many popularity points either.</p>
<p>If it wasn’t for Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson would have been a great president. His social reforms, Great Society, did quite a bit for American society. Likewise, Truman was a good president, just during a time of immense international turmoil. Still, his Fair Deal sent America forward. Nonetheless, President Reagan is who I consider the best. He restored American pride and actually did something to combat Soviet Communism, and, though a bit painfully, strengthened our economy.</p>
<p>Great Society destroyed the black family and created the ghettos we have today. Every part of the Great Society should be abolished.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. Harding was about the most laissez faire prez in the 20th century, so I have to support him.</p>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt as well. I agree with many (but not all) of his policies.</p>
<p>Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and Theodore Roosevelt. I like Jefferson Davis alot too even though he wasn’t president of the United States of America, he was president of the Confederacy.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton… even though he lied under oath. Everybody makes mistakes. Maybe that didn’t show a lot of personal strength, but, after all, Newt Gingrich really wasn’t too nice, either, and without the whole Whitewater scandal (that most likely wasn’t one, anyway), none of this would have happened…</p>
<p>Bush Sr. and Reagan were the two best presidents this country has ever seen.</p>
<p>“Read my lips, No new taxes”</p>
<p>1 month later:</p>
<p>“More taxes!”</p>
<p>go back to brown, hippie.</p>
<p>But didn’t Bush Sr. leave a huge deficit?</p>
<p>Didnt Clinton fix that deficit and get some head while doing it?</p>
<p>Yes, and he did a very good job with it… now we just need someone to clean up after his son, too… how about Hillary Clinton?</p>
<p>By taxing heavily…be realistic, Hillary will never be prez. The American people are not that stupid to vote an outright socialist like that dyke into office.</p>
<p>Whats wrong with taxing heavily if it gets the job done?</p>
<p>Because some people work hard for their money and they don’t enjoy giving it away.</p>