Hope you are kidding about that. But my fav presidents are Lincoln, Reagan, and perhaps gw bush. Lincoln for doing the right thing even with a good part of the nation not with him. Reagan for the economy and playing a huge part in the cold war. He did not take crap from people. Bush for doing the right things. But the way his admin went about things are questionable and have seriously scarred his rep.
Bill Clinton, simply because he was very interesting...nothing boring about Billy Boy! That's one reason I wanted Hillary to win. The Clinton years were very entertaining, peaceful, and prosperous.
I do not like Clintn because he sat about and let us get attacked several times by terrorists and his response was to just fire missiles at random locations and often this was just to get the focus off the fact that he was a sick individual. Every person is entitled to their sex life but this man is just sick and has a long history of sexual harrasment and etc. Also ty whoever for the negative rude rep. Much obliged.
I'm throwin' Harry Truman in the mix. Had one of the toughest decisions of any President, and helped restore America's stature in the free world with the Berlin Airlift.
I'd agree with you here - though I am in disagreement with the use of the bomb, I think Truman has been given the short shrift by history.
I find George Washington the most interesting. Apparently, he was a stereotypical haughty and reserved Englishman, with a stiff upper lip.
How can your favorite president be someone who is not even president? Didn't you understand the question? You asked it, right?
And you'd rather have a president who bombed and killed MILLIONS of innocent civilians in retaliation for 3,000 lives? Sorry, I don't agree. #1, congress would not have authorized a war for those bombings during the Clinton years. If you think differently, you're wrong. The Republicans were in charge of Congress, and they weren't about to make Clinton, who never served in the military, a war hero. His military advisors advised him against a war, and he listened, because he admitted he was no national defense expert.
I am pretty sure that none of our bombings have killed anywhere close to MILLIONS of people. Nice try but you are wrong. But I am also glad to know that you would rather have us get attacked by people and leave it to somebody who would rather sit back and do nothing while attacks continued.
Yes, age, experience, 26 years as a Senator, a long military career, and work in the private sector... Compared to... um K.
Clinton bombed civilian targets in Serbia. He brought in NAFTA which has been strip mining the industrial base and shipping it to Mexico. His inflationary policies (revising the CPI) led to the Dot Com Bust. He established the practice of kidnap and torture (extraordinary rendition) with the CIA. He was the first President to mass wiretap the citizenry and their communications. He burned down Waco, and possibly violated Posse Comitatus. His sanctions on Iraq killed 500,000 children under the age of 5 from dehydration and starvation. How he is anyone's favorite president (cheap gas for teh w1n! ) is beyond me.
You seem to know quite a bit about presidents and what they do. So correct me if I am wrong but didnt clinton have a thing with selling nuke technology to sevaral nations as well? I thought I heard this before
Mia: When did McCain work in the private sector? My fav: Lincoln: Confronted secession and restored the unified nation. Ended slavery. Big big issues. Virtually none bigger. I find history's treatment of Truman interesting. He had poll ratings similar to Bush.....very low for a very long time. He decided against running for President again in 1952. I presume it was because his poll ratings were so low. He faced huge issues; became President during WWII, decided to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan, the Korean war, fired the extremely popular WWII hero MacArthur for insubordination, decided after much debate, questioning and conflicting and emotional advice to recognize Israel as a state. Many decades after his term ended historians give him high marks. Very interesting. Guerilla: Blaming Clinton for the dot com bust once again shows that your politics guide the endless rantings about economics....yet they aren't based on reality. Just political hatred. The dotcom bust resulted from too many companies with too much money that created a hiring bubble....hence a bust when the businesses failed. Why did they fail? No revenues. Look it up.
Upon retiring from the Navy, McCain was Vice President of Public Relations for Hensley & Company, prior to running for public office.