Was FDR the best President in American history?

[elvis]

or how does he rank?

 

[Oddball]

Not only no.....HELL NO!

FDR ranks in the bottom three.

1) Wilson
2) Lincoln
2) FDR

 

[oreo]

or how does he rank?

I read a book called the "forgotten man" about the great depression & FDR. Overall--FDR very smart man--much more so than we have today--actually spent 6 months in office, prior to cutting 100 MILLION out of the budget--something that was huge in the 1930's.

Some claim that by his spending actions he actually ended up extending the Great Depression--others or should I say liberals & this administration that he brought us out of it.

My opinion after reading this book--we had our little pops in employment gains that were not prolonged--& then we they would see unemployment rise again. In reality the only thing that brought us out of the great depression was WW2.

 

[Modbert]

or how does he rank?

Left sided of the table: High Up.

Right Side: Bottom.

Moderates: Back and forth.

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[CrimsonWhite]

Not only no.....HELL NO!

FDR ranks in the bottom three.

1) Wilson
2) Lincoln
2) FDR

Really? You rank them lower than Grant, Harding, and Buchanan?

 

[Modbert]

Really? You rank them higher than Grant, Harding, and Buchanan?

Buchanan would be in my bottom three for sure. As would Harding. Though not sure about Hoover.

Dude's just being his usual self.

 

[elvis]

is harding toward the bottom because he got a girl pregnant?

 

[txlonghorn]

I thought Obama was

 

[Modbert]

is harding toward the bottom because he got a girl pregnant?

If by girl you mean America and by pregnant you mean the economy, then perhaps.

 

[Modbert]

I thought Obama was

You're confusing President with Messiah.

 

[txlonghorn]

I thought Obama was

You're confusing President with Messiah.

How? I'm quoting Chris Matthews

 

[Oddball]

Not only no.....HELL NO!

FDR ranks in the bottom three.

1) Wilson
2) Lincoln
2) FDR

Really? You rank them lower than Grant, Harding, and Buchanan?

Harding ruled!....Easily top 10!

He had an overall sum total cut in federal gubmint and held Friday night poker parties at the White House.

Teapot Dome wasn't his fault.

Grant and Buchanan weren't directly responsible for the deaths of 1% of the young men that Wilson and FDR killed.

 

[elvis]

Not only no.....HELL NO!

FDR ranks in the bottom three.

1) Wilson
2) Lincoln
2) FDR

Really? You rank them lower than Grant, Harding, and Buchanan?

Harding ruled!....Easily top 10!

He had an overall sum total cut in federal gubmint and held Friday night poker parties at the White House.

Teapot Dome wasn't his fault.

how did lincoln get so close to the bottom?

 

[Zander]

FDR is the reason we are going bust. Ponzi schemes like Social Security always go broke eventually.....

 

[Oddball]

Really? You rank them lower than Grant, Harding, and Buchanan?

Harding ruled!....Easily top 10!

He had an overall sum total cut in federal gubmint and held Friday night poker parties at the White House.

Teapot Dome wasn't his fault.

how did lincoln get so close to the bottom?

500,000+ needless deaths and millions of homeless and maimed.

Don't tell me it was over slavery.

 

[elvis]

Harding ruled!....Easily top 10!

He had an overall sum total cut in federal gubmint and held Friday night poker parties at the White House.

Teapot Dome wasn't his fault.

how did lincoln get so close to the bottom?

500,000+ needless deaths and millions of homeless and maimed.

Don't tell me it was over slavery.

i thought it was over the right to secede or not.

 

[Oddball]

There was that, too.

A voluntary union implies the possibility that you can un-volunteer.

 

[Bfgrn]

or how does he rank?

FDR...Number 1...

The New Deal ushered in an era where a middle class family could be sustained by a single provider without accumulating debt.

Then the 'family values' party gained control, and the family unit was destroyed. Kids now come home from school to an empty house.

 

[Oddball]

No better evidence exists that you are a fake "Goldwater libertarian", as Barry ran hard against the expansion of those Fabian socialist programs....Tovarich.

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[Xenophon]

FDR was the worst by far.

The dictator who stole the civil liberties of American citizens, engaged us in a World war we had no part in, forever ruined our time honored and sucessful way of governing and ushered in the nanny state.