that is true about lincoln the only thing that i really see him doing is tryin his best to reunite the country, he actually had a pretty sucky life, i read about him, he was constantly depressed, and when just there was some light, the war ended n all, he gets shot, usually people like presidents who are assassinated, even though there were only 4, 2 of those we hold to be the best, but in truth they didnt do that much to be hailed as like president gods
The 'first-rate, second-rate man' in the lead, huh? The man who destroyed more freedoms by suspending habeas corpus than Bush could ever hope to do so?
Heh, but even so, Lincoln was an amazing man- I see his story as not dissimilar to Schindler's; he achieved so much in SPITE of the bad things about him, and that is highly laudable in his own way. And he has some liberal and inteligent quotes that you might not think possible for a Republican of his era.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by manny321
[B]i never cut down a cherry tree George washington my fav!!!! Bush is the worst pres since nixion.
Yeah Washington by far was the best and actually its neck in neck between the bushs and Clinton as the worst president.They all are neck in neck as the 2nd worst most corrupted president ever after Nixon of course.
The Republican party, in its infancy, was the Democratic Party of today. The two parties have totally switched positions since the 19th century, Wilson was the last old Republican president, and FDR was the first new Democrat president. Look at the old republican ideal, and then the new Democrat ideals, and you'll see they a quite alike, and vis versa. And the areas that each party appeals to have switched places as well. While the Democrats owned the south and the Republicans north way back when, now the Republicans own the south and the Democrats north.
Quite strange the way politics works, eh? Shows just how much you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Reagan wasn't evil, I'll be the first to say that. No, not evil. Just a crazy, senile, forgetful relic of the Cold War.
Ah....It sounded like you were condeming both the Republicans of his era and the current Republiucans, and now I am throughly confused....
Still no votes for Truman? Does no one know who he was or are you all mad because he dropped the atomic bombs, killing about 1 million, as opposed to half the population of Japan and about 5-7 million American soldiers?
People simply dispute if it actually did save any soldiers- highly debated area. More people than not around here tend to condemn than praise Truman for that.
And my point was that Lincoln's rhetoric is commendably fine and moral in a way we would recognise today, which is uncommon for people of his era in politics.
Eisenhwoer was probably one of our best Presidents to... 😕
Nixon did nothing that any other politicain was doing at the time other then that he got caught.....
Reagen turned the economy around ....
Licoln sent a bunch of people to war and was too worried about being popular to free the slaves and give them rights properly.
Washington set all the Precidents and is the model for which ALL Presidents henceforth are measured.
Bush will be measured from a overall total many years from now... he is leading in probably one of the most diverse ears in our history.
Kennedy... did....well.... really.... he didn't do anything other then a bit of recognition of the civil rights issues which in actuallity Lyndon Johnson pushed forth....
They have almost all been crazy.Even JFK was only over obsessed with his image more than anything else, and lincon was a hypocrite. Washington was a traitor to hiss own people, clinton was a pervert, nixon was a liar, mccarthy was a paranoid b*****d, eisenhowwer was a nutcase.
Nutcases become the leaders of the most powerful nation in the world.
This only happens in America.
No offense.