Favorite USA President

Hmmm...Does it have to be one who served during my lifetime and who I recall accurately? That would be hard. So I'll choose Abe Lincoln, if that's permissible under the ground rules.

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter - honesty, dignity, family values, peaceful, truthful, dedicated, thrifty - why or why can't we find another?

George Washington.

Because he had that cool wig, and more importantly, never told a lie.

My answer might surprise you. I'll say JFK.

Any president who banged Marilyn Monroe in the Whitehouse gets my vote. To anyone who wants to accuse me of a double standard - I say this: Monica is not Marilyn.

depending on what the meaning of "is" is!

Legal meaning of "is" - both female, over age of consent, and consenting!

Didn't Washington wear wooden dentures?

George Washington should be a "saint" to all Americans, sadly he's mostly forgotten.

No he didn't have wooden dentures, it's a myth.

But what he was, was a decent man who knew that power would corrupt him if he let it, so he did step down after 2 terms. Amazing.

Furthermore, he was a great Freemason and embodies those ideals.

If only more US presidents were Freemasons, the best having been Freemasons. GW, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln was to become one but was killed, Harry Truman, the Roosevelts.

And George Washington still was the best of all, and the best president.

Everyone should check out the "George Washington Masonic Memorial", it is a grand tower structure towering over 5 floors, grand collumns of marble, and stain glass windows which show reliefs of Masonic nature pertaining to GW, amazing memorial to an Amazing man.

Ole' Abe numero uno




My favorite is Lincoln for a number of reasons, three of which are:

* he signed a law designating the creation of the first national park in California, at Yosemite

* had a first class mind,

* the first president to warn of the dangers of unchecked corporate growth (re: military-industrial complex)

Franklin Roosevelt.

I agree with the thoughts about Jimmy Carter. He is/was one of the most under-appreciated great examples of a human being before, during and after his presidency.

I love Jimmy Carter the man, just not his presidency.

Andrew Jackson is anathema to me!



5PoF,

I cannot agree with you on Jackson's presumed greatness, this was the same man who whipped his own troops with a saber, who was an inveterate liar and cheat, who signed an order to banish the 5 Civilized Nations from their own lands, making sure that his fellow whites were awarded Indin' people's land after they robbed, raped and murdered numerous members of the tribes!
Jackson should have been arrested, tried and then hung by his filthy neck for his atrocious crimes against humanity!

As for Washington--gentleman farmer and racist--he was less than great! Like Jackson later on, he butchered large numbers of Indin' peoples [French & Indian War], had his own destitute troops shot or hung during the Colonial Rebellion, and personally led troops, along wth his wealthy fellow collaborator Hamilton, to search and destroy Western dirt poor farmers during the Whisky Rebellion--which was a euphemism for a class warfare

Alright, stop rewriting history folks and just pick one. Being president is a sucky job. Pick one and answer the original question.

Jimmy Carter,Ronald Regan

Oh, I dunno, cjhsa, some of the takes on history here are kind of fun. Especially the one on the superiority of US Presidents who were Freemasons. Who knew?

I agree completely. I don't believe this country would have come into existence at that time and in that way if not for Washington. Although he was a wealthy man, he spent eight years in the field, with almost non-existent supplies, and rather than surrender, as most would have early in the war, he refused to in any way negotiate with the British for terms. He didn't want to serve a single term as president and only did so when implored to. He was widely regarded as extremely eithical and fair by his men, by the foreign officers like Lafayette who assisted us, and by his fellow founding fathers. Also, it's kind of misleading to say that he butchered Indian peoples during the French and Indian Wars. The truth is that the British and their Indian allies fought the French and their Indian allies.

TR...Bully!