Who is the best or worst president ever and why?

[Hillbilly]

Thanks T-Bone for inspiring me.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

FDR worst President ever.

He removed the gold standard and established the Federal Reserve. The result has been ever increasing inflation and cost of living as the Fed tries to artificially control the economy with money that is not backed by anything but the good word of Uncle Sam. T. Jefferson outlawed a national bank because it would place to much power in too few hands, the Fed accomplishes the same thing.

He laid the groundwork for the sociallizing of America, every plank of the 1932 Socialist Party platform is now a part of our goverment due to FDR's programs, Social Security was just the beginning. A graduated income tax is another one of his "New Deals" for America.

I'm sure loads of you will jump all over this but I don't need to apologize for MY opinion.

Grumpy

 

[cowboydoc]

Grumpy,
I agree 100% with you.

As far as the greatest president ever I would have to say Washington. The man had nothing to go by. He didn't even want the job. He took a country with no money, no system, and many who didn't even want a country. Most of the people that were in the states were still divided at that time if breaking away from England was even a good idea. The US could have easily folded during those first years and yet he kept it together. He was tired and had said the war had aged him twenty years. He just wanted to go home but rose up to yet another challenge, after defeating the British, and started a country. After that for the most part it's been all downhill. Close second would have to be Lincoln in my opinion.

 

[scruffy]

IMO, When we reach the 'New Millenium', then we will have enough facts to possibly determine an answer to the question, in the meantime, the best we can say is: "To date, the best/worse president we have had is...."

 

[utahmule]

If you're ever out West Utah way stop by, 'cause you're my kind of people.

Eric

 

[glennmac]

I dont know the presidents of the 19th century well enough, but to me the worst of the 20th century was, by far, Clinton. Except for lucking into a good economy that he had no part in creating, he essentially did nothing substantive in eight long years. What he did do far more than any previous president is to disgrace and humiliate himself, the presidency and this country.

 

[ERNIEB]

I don't think that you can really say one was the best, or one was the worst. I would say, there were some good ones, some not so good ones, and a whole bunch inbetween. That being said. Some of the good ones were Washington, J. Adams , Reagan. Some of the not so good, U. Grant, Hoover, and last but not least, IMO, the most over rated, over hyped, A. LIncoln.
Sometimes it's a matter of perspective. Acouple of people have named FDR as one of the not so good. Now, My Dad loved FDR, and thought he was the greatest man who ever lived. He had only a third grade education and knew nothing of socialism, or any other ism for that matter. He came from a large family and grew up in the depression, and dust bowl of Oklahoma. Real poverty will bring things down to very simple terms. Along comes FDR and the CCC, my Dad gets 3 squares a day, not just clothes but new clothes, and a little jingle in his pocket to boot. What else would he think about FDR?


Ernie

 

[cowboydoc]

Just like Clinton gets credit for a good economy FDR gets credit for bringing us out of the depression. It wasn't FDR's program's that brought us out of the depression it was WWII. Very few historians will dispute this fact.

 

[StanInCalif]

Grumpy-
Not to mention paying people to have babies and to not work. His most famous saying was "Lay down your shovel, sit on your ass, and light up a camel; this IS the promised land". -Stan

 

[TBone]

Hillbilly, You're more than welcome. I vote for Richard Nixon.
TBone