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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Not at the Dinner Table => Topic started by: CrossEyed7 on January 18, 2009, 01:26:01 AM
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Pick your eight favorite presidents. Not just the ones who helped the nation the most or whose policies you most agree with or whatever. The ones with the most entertaining names. The ones with the most intriguing past. The most underrated ones. Any criteria at all. Because if everyone just picks Washington and Lincoln, it'll be kind of boring.
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I didn't know there were any presidents besides Washington, Lincoln, and Nixon. But I voted anyway.
Also, whudup with this poll expiring so early?
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Rutherford B. Hayes has the best name ever and William Henry Harrison was a real man.
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William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore.
Coolest Presidents, coolest names.
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Rutherford B. Hayes has the best name ever and William Henry Harrison was a real man.
A real man, but unfortunately, medical assistance of the time wasn't good enough for him. Very dedicated man. I'm still working on my decisions.
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I don't like posting on this board, but I like talking about our former leaders. So...
James K. Polk is a great president because he pretty much did everything he promised (to start, think Manifest Destiny).
FDR is a great president because he got us through what is often remembered as the world's darkest hour (or years, whatever floats your boat).
Harry Truman is great because he helped rebuild Germany with the Marshall Plan, got us through the Korean War, and didn't let people boss him around.
Dwight Eisenhower is a great president because he built up our defenses, contained communism, and built the Interstate Highway.
Theodore Roosevelt expanded America's influence beyond our borders (not everyone likes this, however).
I'm also a fan of Ronald Reagan. Not everyone likes him. However, I appreciate how he helped (with the aid of Gorbachev) bring the USSR down. He also boosted our defenses among other good accomplishments.
I also picked George Washington and Abraham Lincoln...pretty self-explanatory.
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A real man, but unfortunately, medical assistance of the time wasn't good enough for him. Very dedicated man. I'm still working on my decisions.
Wasn't William Henry Harrison the guy who died within a month of starting his term?
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Yes, because he talked himself to death.
Washington and Lincoln for obvious reasons. James K. Polk because They Might Be Giants made a song about him (this reason doesn't work for Harrison and Tyler because I liked Polk before I heard the song anyway). Theodore Roosevelt because he was a badass - just ask John Hodgman! (Or don't. Read More Information Than You Require instead, since it's all in there. Also most of the book is made up but Teddy was a cool president anyway.)
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William Henry Harrison's my favorite. Why? He's my ancestor.
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It's interesting to note that I know a few people related to presidents (for starters, a girl in my high school orchestra is related to Herbert Hoover).
I'm related to the (obviously non-president) dread pirate Captain Morgan.
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I'm probably very distantly related, mostly by marriage, to Kennedy, both Roosevelts, Bush, Obama, Cheney, Palin, Anderson Cooper, Princess Di, and a bunch of other people, though I haven't gotten the connections completely mapped out yet.
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I'm related to Buffalo Bill (the one who isn't the serial killer) and freakin' Lincoln, by marriage.
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Priscilla Mullins is my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-grandmother.
Getting on topic... I don't even know of 8 presidents I like. Reagan was the best, but I also voted for George Washington and John Adams.
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I'm just wondering how many people have chosen Obama, before his first day in office. In DC, it's nuts. Obama has garnered comparisons to some of the greatest presidents of all time and he hasn't even done hardly anything yet. I'm not bashing, I'm just stating my opinion that it is kind of weird to get this worked up this early.
Also: It is my belief that President Bush (and this is the last time I can call him that) did his best to keep America safe, at the expense of his popularity, in the years following 9/11.
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I'm just wondering how many people have chosen Obama, before his first day in office. In DC, it's nuts. Obama has garnered comparisons to some of the greatest presidents of all time and he hasn't even done hardly anything yet. I'm not bashing, I'm just stating my opinion that it is kind of weird to get this worked up this early.
Well, it's because:
1) He's black. Yeah. A lot of people don't want to look racist, or at least want to look "cooler" than McCain types, so they're being extra super inordinately happy about Obama's inauguration (true story: for a while, my friends assumed I supported McCain since I didn't wear an Obama t-shirt).
2) After Bush, anyone is better, except maybe a composite-clone of Richard Nixon's and Ulysses S. Grant's DNA or a homeschooled eleven-year-old.
3) He's a nice guy with a laid-back demeanor who's a change of pace from all the old guys before him; basically he's the least presidenty president we've had so far, and that's definitely a good thing.
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Obama (because he's not McCain or Bush Jr.) and Clinton (because of the the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal thing - although apart from the whole infidelity issue, I don't understand what exactly was scandalous).
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It's because he lied about it under oath.
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James Monroe isn't McCain either, but you didn't vote for him.
In fact, most presidents aren't McCain, now that you mention it.
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James Monroe isn't McCain either, but you didn't vote for him.
I like it how you assume that I'm American, when in fact I'm not (I'm British, FYI)
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...Wait, what? I was talking about this poll... and if I wasn't, then I'd mostly be assuming that you're not two hundred years old.