The "Best" President?
By newtondak
@newtondak (3946)
United States
June 17, 2008 7:35pm CST
It was necessary for many of our Presidents to deal with great trials - war, depression, national disasters - of all the U.S. Presidents, which one do you think had the greatest impact on our country during his term in office?
Our next President will need to "step up to the plate" quickly after taking office. The war in Iraq, continually rising gas and food prices, and projected major shortages of commodities due to floods and droughts will all be situations that will need to be addressed. Are either of the candidates up to the challenge?
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@Bertman410 (302)
• United States
18 Jun 08
Two presidents come to mind when I think of the "Best". The first would have to be of coarse the first president George Washington. The second would have to be the president that changed America forever and that would be Abraham Lincoln. There are a couple more but these two are the ones I think were the best of all time.
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@newtondak (3946)
• United States
18 Jun 08
I think George Washington probably had the roughest road to travel - every President since that has had an example to follow and there was a government in place for them when they took office. You might way that Washington "started from scratch" when he took office!
In the same way, Lincoln traveled a road that no President before him had traveled - and one that was so unpopular that our country fought itself for the only time. You wonder how much more he would have accomplished if his life hadn't been taken.
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@honeydew82174 (1720)
• United States
21 Jun 08
I think Bill Clinton was the greatest president in the United States. He work very hard so all Americans could have prosperity. Yes, Bill did have some bad things and some wrong doings, but overall I must say he did a very good job at running this country.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
20 Jun 08
I would say the best was Ronald Reagen. His policies helped (I say helped because the president's policies are only part of any equation), brought on the longest sustained growth in our history. His policies defeated the Soviet Union, brought down the Iron Curtain and freed millions of people all over the world.
Of course it didn't come without cost, but it all happened. I can't think of any president whose policies brought more people to freedom than his.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
23 Jun 08
Whoever our next President is had better be up to the task because does he have a job to do! As for who our best President has been, I'm going to take a beating for this but I have to say Bill Clinton. I can only go by what I lived through and what I've seen my friends and family live through. He made a personal mistake and was impeached for it but overall we had nothing but peace of prosperity in the nineties, the best times I've experienced in my adult life. Probably going back through history, our best President would be Lincoln because what he did certainly had a huge impact on our country and on many lives since then. It's hard to imagine what life would be like today if he'd never have been President.
Annie
@newtondak (3946)
• United States
23 Jun 08
President Clinton was never impeached. There was a time when some were calling for his resignation and threatening impeachment, but it never happened.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
23 Jun 08
I won't give you a beating for it, but I will rebut a bit. Bill Clinton was claiming credit for the economy... even before he even submitted his first economic policies. By the time his economic policies did go into effect, we were headed for a recession... which he was never able to help get us out of.
True, we had prosperity during his administration, but even his strongest supporters couldn't even say what policies of his were instrumental.
As for me and my family, his administration saw us in some of the worst financial times of our lives. I was literally working 6 jobs at one time because of his disastrous military drawdown policies. He gutted the Army and dictated national guard standards to the states. What this did was transfer active duty soldiers to the national guards. Do you know that people going from active duty to the national guard AREN'T counted in unemployment statistics? That's right, he was able to fire a few hundred thousane people without it reflecting on his statistics. It is also the very reason reason why the National Guard is needed so heavily in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anytime you have 50% of your infantry and 75% of your artillery in the National guard.. it isn't going to be left alone come wartime.
Also, while he did do a good job (and I supported him) in his attacks on Iraq to enforce the ceasefire, he then turned around and supported the useless UN's openly accepting of bribes from Hussein to change the "food for oil" policies. He never once spoke out against Hussein getting more allowances while he was obsviously misusing the funds he was already getting... or is building 30 palaces the size of the mall in DC part of what the useless UN considers "humanitarian needs".
Clinton was a sad joke who only amounted to a hill of beans because he inherited the ecomonic benefits of preceding presidents.
