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It's funny how we get the lib line: "It's 50 years before you can adequately judge a president" when we talk about Clinton or Obama, but they're all too willing to harshly judge Reagan. Typical lib bull shit.
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Most historians think Eisenhower is underrated.
Most historians are right on that.But shouldnt they then rate him higher?
He is rated eighth. Hard to be rated higher in a period of relative peace. Following FDR and Truman is tough also
Overrated to me means, credit and adoration given versus actual accomplishments? Kennedy. Has to be. Truman second, and Eisenhower third.
Most historians think Eisenhower is underrated.
And it's still there FDR rated by 238 historians and presidential experts as America's greatest president.
PS, also elected four times by the America people.
(Save a poster the trouble)
Of course historians, scientists, college professors are all commie-socialists and don't eat their veggies.
Presidential experts? Now that's funny, must be an eight year degree.
Hell yea....noted presidential scholars can't hold a candle to Republican revisionist history
It's easily FDR. Everything that is f'd up about our society is traced to him. And it was his policies that extended a recession into The Great Depression. And he was asleep at the wheel on Pearl Harbor. And his apathy led to Hitler's dominance and consequently millions in casualties. All of that, and the idiot "historians" and liberals celebrate him as the second best president when he's really the worst ever. You can't get more over-rated than that.
It couldn't have been Hoover's three years of inaction that extended the Great Depression?
Asleep at the wheel? He was trying to do everything short of war to rein in the Japanese. It was the local commander that was asleep at the wheel. He knew it and took off his stars immediately.
Apathy towards Hitler? He recognized the danger, but had to deal with people, including the Republican presidential candidate, who wanted to turn a blind eye to what was happening in Europe.
Actually, while I agree with you that FDR is NOT overrated, each of your statements is factually incorrect:
Hoover was not inactive, quite the contrary.
It couldn't have been Hoover's three years of inaction that extended the Great Depression?
Asleep at the wheel? He was trying to do everything short of war to rein in the Japanese. It was the local commander that was asleep at the wheel. He knew it and took off his stars immediately.
Apathy towards Hitler? He recognized the danger, but had to deal with people, including the Republican presidential candidate, who wanted to turn a blind eye to what was happening in Europe.
Actually, while I agree with you that FDR is NOT overrated, each of your statements is factually incorrect:
Hoover was not inactive, quite the contrary.
OK, bad actions. He signed a tariff that hampered international trade. He also did something that today's conservatives would have screamed about, raising corporate taxes and the top income tax bracket from 25 to 63%.
Actually, while I agree with you that FDR is NOT overrated, each of your statements is factually incorrect:
Hoover was not inactive, quite the contrary.
OK, bad actions. He signed a tariff that hampered international trade. He also did something that today's conservatives would have screamed about, raising corporate taxes and the top income tax bracket from 25 to 63%.
And then the stock market crashed. Hmmm
Other than the Interstate system, what'd he do?
It couldn't have been Hoover's three years of inaction that extended the Great Depression?
Asleep at the wheel? He was trying to do everything short of war to rein in the Japanese. It was the local commander that was asleep at the wheel. He knew it and took off his stars immediately.
Apathy towards Hitler? He recognized the danger, but had to deal with people, including the Republican presidential candidate, who wanted to turn a blind eye to what was happening in Europe.
Actually, while I agree with you that FDR is NOT overrated, each of your statements is factually incorrect:
Hoover was not inactive, quite the contrary.
OK, bad actions. He signed a tariff that hampered international trade. He also did something that today's conservatives would have screamed about, raising corporate taxes and the top income tax bracket from 25 to 63%.
Actually, while I agree with you that FDR is NOT overrated, each of your statements is factually incorrect:
Hoover was not inactive, quite the contrary.
OK, bad actions. He signed a tariff that hampered international trade. He also did something that today's conservatives would have screamed about, raising corporate taxes and the top income tax bracket from 25 to 63%.
It's always handy if you actually know what you're talking about.
It's true that Hoover did sign the Smooth-Hawley-tariff act, even though he opposed it. It was however very popular at the time.
For the rest is was refeering to his massive public works programs. Much like Obama today he believed in stimulus through investment in infrastructure projects (Hoover Dam, San Francisco Bay Bridge, Los Angeles Aquaduct, etc. . He also set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to help state and local government, railroad projects, etc.
I'm not claiming Hoover's policies were succesful (they were not). But he was very interventionist (much like the current administration).
OK, bad actions. He signed a tariff that hampered international trade. He also did something that today's conservatives would have screamed about, raising corporate taxes and the top income tax bracket from 25 to 63%.
It's always handy if you actually know what you're talking about.
It's true that Hoover did sign the Smooth-Hawley-tariff act, even though he opposed it. It was however very popular at the time.
For the rest is was refeering to his massive public works programs. Much like Obama today he believed in stimulus through investment in infrastructure projects (Hoover Dam, San Francisco Bay Bridge, Los Angeles Aquaduct, etc. . He also set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to help state and local government, railroad projects, etc.
I'm not claiming Hoover's policies were succesful (they were not). But he was very interventionist (much like the current administration).
During the campaign Roosevelt condemned the very spending programs Hoover had initiated that he expanded on while in office.
I vote for Obama. A very significant percentage of the population believes he will stop the rising of the seas, pay their mortgage and bills, and slash the deficit with a massive government power grab. Hell, for leading progressive idiots to believe in unicorns, he has been given a Nobel prize....
And yet almost all of written history treats him as though he "saved America".
NO, he saved the "union" at the expense of state rights. He consolidated powers through force and violence. rather than diplomatic negotiations. That's what tyrants do.
