<p>Favorite politician: Alexander Hamilton or Henry Clay
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : Theodore Roosevelt, Madison, or Woodrow Wilson
Favorite President: Toss-up between the two Roosevelts
Who do you think was the best president: Lincoln (maybe FDR)
Least favorite politician: Calhoun
Least favorite President (must be before Carter):Pierce and Buchanan
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Not Hamilton and Burr! I would say Daniel Webster and Jefferson
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: FDR
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson!
Who would be most pleased: Hamilton</p>
<p>Now criticize a choice the person above you made:</p>
<p>Feel free to add questions or only answer a few.</p>
<p>On Calhoun - he is way more intelligent than anyone ever has given him credit for since like 1840. Read is Disquisition on Government, and you’ll find that he was incredibly dedicated to minority rights, but that the necessity of slave labor for the Southern economy and his inference that African-Americans were better off under slavery than if they were free but unprotected led him to endorse the practice, as awful as it was.
He is probably the most underrated political mind of American history.
Also, Wilson was obnoxiously racist.
and I’m sad I can’t say Reagan for least favorite president
I love Hamilton also :b</p>
<p>Favorite politician: John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James B. Weaver, or Eugene Debs
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : from politics other than Calhoun and Clay, probably James Blaine. Of anyone it would have to be either Milton, Proudhon, Ben Jonson, William Blake, or Thomas Cole
Favorite President: John Quincy Adams
Least favorite politician: Joseph McCarthy and Strom Thurmond
Least Favorite President (must be before Carter): Grover Cleveland
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: James Joyce and John Milton would be fascinating, as would Pascal and Spinoza or Aquinas and Averroes. From politics, I’d have to say Andrew Jackson and either Jefferson or Hamilton would be very interesting
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Albrecht Durer or Francesco Petrarca
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Desiderius Erasmus
Who would be most pleased: Marcus Hanna perhaps</p>
<p>I was going for an American History survey from before 1946. I probably should have put that up. I like your choices though. I still don’t like Calhoun though. I also chose Wilson for reasons other than pure praise. I knew he was a racist.</p>
<p>Darn, before 1946? Can’t put Kennedy for anything, then.</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Thomas Jefferson, if he can be referred to as such Who you would want to meet (other than what is above): Franklin Roosevelt Favorite President: Favorite person who was president? Thomas Jefferson. Favorite president who was a person? Franklin Roosevelt Who do you think was the best president: Franklin Roosevelt Least favorite politician: American, and before 1946? I don’t know, probably Aaron Burr Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Before Carter? Nixon! Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Jefferson and myself Who would you want to be born again in modern times: American figure? Patrick Henry, I suppose, just because we need a fiery speaker again, and I should name someone I haven’t already. Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: “Jefferson!” Seconded. The rights of all people ensured by government? I don’t think so. Who would be most pleased: All those who wanted to abolish slavery.</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Huey Long, Eugene V. Debs
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : James Madison
Favorite President: Thomas Jefferson
Who do you think was the best president: Abe Lincoln
Least favorite politician: Barry Goldwater
Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Herbert Hoover
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Hamilton and Debs
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Benjamin Franklin
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: George Washington
Who would be most pleased: Hamilton</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Henry Clay
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above): James Madison
Favorite President: William McKinley
Who do you think was the best president: Franklin Roosevelt
Least favorite politician: Andrew Jackson
Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Andrew Jackson
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: FDR and Teddy Roosevelt
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Thomas Jefferson
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Andrew Jackson
Who would be most pleased: Jefferson</p>
<p>I don’t think Buchanan is as bad as people say he is. Had he responded to the South’s secession, it would have made it unpalatable for the upcoming Republican regime to be against it. That’s pure conjecture though.</p>
<p>Pierce attempted to reconcile with the South, and Buchanan was an utterly futile president, but I feel Cleveland pretty much degraded the position of the majority of Americans, which is worse than the little that Buchanan did to preven the Civil War</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Alex Hamilton…
Who you would want to meet: FDR, Teddy Roosevelts, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin (just not in Paris…
Favorite President: Teddy Roosevelt <3
Who do you think was the best president: FDR. But of course I adore Teddy…
Least favorite politician: John C. Calhoun (racism isn’t endearing)
Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Warren G. Harding. Had a brain the size of a cashew.
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Jefferson and Hamilton
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: FDR, ftw.
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: I agree with everyone-Jefferson.
Who would be most pleased: Also agree with Hamilton on this.</p>
<p>This was fun!
I love talking history for fun :)</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Stephen A. Douglas, Robert Taft, George Mason
Who you would want to meet: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry. Also Nixon just to hear the truth about Watergate
Favorite/Best Presidents: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson
Least favorite politician/President: Woodrow Wilson
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Ron Paul and FDR would be interesting, Camus and Sartre, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, also Genghis Khan and Napoleon (if they knew the same language) would be pretty amazing
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: James Madison to remind everyone about that important document he wrote…
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson
Who would be most pleased: Hamilton</p>
<p>I feel like I should attempt to justify Calhoun in order to preserve his legacy, because he was by no means a racist. It is important to recall that he went to Yale and was therefore Northern educated. However, because he was elected to represent South Carolina he had to act in their interests.
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<p>now of course we know that slavery was incredibly reprehensible, but at the same time, we saw incredible racism expressed by the KKK after the Civil War that was a) completely against Calhoun’s support of minority rights (as racism was accepted by the white majority - something Calhoun’s theories vehemently opposed) b) Perhaps worse than slavery, though the as long as we have our present, far more acceptable situation it is fine.
Calhoun also saw repeated revolutions in Europe from 1789 to 1830 to 1848 which he feared may spread to America if it were not made stable, and he saw the misdirection of a rich-poor hierarchy to a racial hierarchy as a way to stem this. This is the major flaw in his views - of course as an adherent of Herzen, Marx, Proudhon, and Bakunin I find these revolutions to be a good thing, but this also led him to, again support this far less fair system. Calhoun was a pragmatist who valued stability over morality, which I personally disagree with, but I must respect Calhoun nonetheless because he was willing to combat the party system.</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Alexander Hamilton
Who you would want to meet: Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin
Favorite/Best Presidents: T.Roosevelt
Least favorite politician/President: Jefferson, Jackson, Quincy Adams
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: The two Rooselvelts
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Hamilton.
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson
Who would be most pleased: Hamilton</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Theodore Roosevelt
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : Benjamin Franklin
Favorite President: Theodore Roosevelt
Who do you think was the best president: Lincoln (def. not FDR)
Least favorite politician: Bill Clinton (sorry world)
Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Buchanan
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: John Calhoun and Barack Obama
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Lincoln
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson
Who would be most pleased: Hamilton</p>
<p>Now criticize a choice the person above you made: ^ What do you have against Jefferson, Jackson, and JQ?</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Alexander Hamilton
Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : Abraham Lincoln
Favorite President: Reagan, Lincoln
Who do you think was the best president: Lincoln, Washington, Reagan
Least favorite politician: Aaron Burr
Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Grant
Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Reagan and Clinton
Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Lincoln
Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson
Who would be most pleased: Henry Clay</p>
<p>IMO, Jefferson wasn’t very initiative. Many things just came to him by chance/luck. Ex. Louisiana Purchase. I just don’t like this type of trait on a leader. I also disagree with his interpretations of the Constitution, government, and economy (hence why I like Hamilton better ). </p>
<p>Jackson: I dislike him the most. He’s just an uneducated hypocrite.
JQ: He was good at foreign affairs, but domestically he wasn’t.</p>
<p>Favorite politician: Ben Franklin Who you would want to meet (other than what is above) : Ben Franklin Favorite President: Toss up between FDR and Wilson Who do you think was the best president: Washington Least favorite politician: Aaron Burr Least favorite President (must be before Carter): Buchanan, probably. Not a big fan of Cleveland’s politics either. Two people you would want to watch have a conversation: Franklin and Jefferson Who would you want to be born again in modern times: Ben Franklin Who do you think would be most appalled with our modern society: Jefferson Who would be most pleased: Frankin, because it’d prove that he was right</p>
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