who is your favorite president?

[ChaosControl]

Jefferson.

 

[Truth Warrior]

The final one.

 

[DJ24966]

Ron Paul... wait... he isn't president... but who cares

 

[werdd]

The final one.

lol .

Obligatory copy and paste?

 

[fletcher]

William Henry Harrison probably did the least amount of damage, so I'll go with him.

 

[Stary Hickory]

Thomas Jefferson by far, although I like Andrew Jackson as well

 

[psalm82x3]

Recently, Reagan and JFK. Wish I could say Bobby Kennedy too, but he got shot before making it to office. Lincoln sort of makes this list too, although he was not my favorite president, he was still a decent if flawed man. Sucks to have integrity. God help us.

Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

 

[user]

Recently, Reagan and JFK. Wish I could say Bobby Kennedy too, but he got shot before making it to office. Lincoln sort of makes this list too, although he was not my favorite president, he was still a decent if flawed man. Sucks to have integrity. God help us.

Matthew 10:16 I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

And you've been here since Dec 2007?

 

[psalm82x3]

And you've been here since Dec 2007?

I'm an OG baby. Just when they count me out, I come back swinging. I first learned about Ron Paul from our mutual interest in Austrian economics in 06 or so. Anyways, those three presidents Lincoln, JFK, and Reagan all have in common at least two things. They opposed central banking and got shot. I'm just saying. It does not take a conspiracy nutjob to put that together.

Not that I am implying causality, just an odd coincidence. Look into it for yourself, and make up your own mind.

Also, check out the 82nd psalm through verse 5.

Psalm 82
A psalm of Asaph.
1 God presides in the great assembly;
he gives judgment among the "gods":

2 "How long will you [a] defend the unjust
and show partiality to the wicked?
Selah

3 Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

4 Rescue the weak and needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

5 "They know nothing, they understand nothing.
They walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

 

[trey4sports]

ill stand up for Reagan and JFK as well. Reagan to a greater extent than JFK.
JFK drafted an executive order which would have printed up bills backed by silver!
while Reagan didnt exactly create massive change he did shrink gov't slightly as well as adopt supply side economics which is much friendlier to liberty than Keynsian

 

[Unspun]

In no particular order, Coolidge, Cleveland, Tylerl

I pretty much agree with this.

I liked Jefferson's rhetoric, but as president he expanded government a great deal. So, with exception of letting the Alien and Sedition Acts expire and the abolishing the national bank, he did nothing spectacularly great during his presidency,

 

[rajibo]

It was Jefferson until I read Ivan Eland's critique of him in his new book. He's still my favorite founder, but it seems most of our founders were all most respectable before and after their presidencies.

I guess I'll just say my favorite president is now Zaphod Beeblebrox.

 

[user]

he did shrink gov't

No, Reagan made the government bigger.

 

[DAFTEK]

No, Reagan made the government bigger.

Are you confused?

 

[rajibo]

Are you confused?

http://www.mises.org/article.aspx?Id=1544

 

[Mini-Me]

Whenever I think about this question, it always reminds me of just how little time we ever spent learning about the good Presidents back in school. I honestly can't make an educated decision without rereading everything about American History. Coolidge and Cleveland were certainly well above average, and so were Jefferson and Jackson (at least by today's standard), barring a few notably exceptional decisions for each...but I'm sure there were some other overlooked Presidents as well. Giving a definitive answer would require a history refresher!

 

[user]

Are you confused?

No.

 

[Kludge]

Really, most of them have been pretty shitty, many with selfish motives destroying any good they may have done.

Grover Cleveland is my favorite president. He was firm and cordial with other nations, but non-interventionist, favored free trade, and is relatively without blemish regarding humanitarian tragedies committed.

Second place goes to Calvin Coolidge, for his humble domestic policy. He was an Anti-Federalist who opposed excessive taxation and economic regulation by the federal government. He also FINALLY extended citizenship to Indians, which had been long overdue.

Third place goes to Hoover, but I don't like him. However, I don't dislike him. He had good domestic policy, especially with regards to Indians, but he started to fall apart once the media was in a frenzy over the depression and Hoover started signing in "Government Can Fix It" economic laws.

As for the rest of them, I believe they did more harm than good.

 

[Jeremy]

Really, most of them have been pretty shitty, many with selfish motives destroying any good they may have done.

Grover Cleveland is my favorite president. He was firm and cordial with other nations, but non-interventionist, favored free trade, and is relatively without blemish regarding humanitarian tragedies committed.

Second place goes to Calvin Coolidge, for his humble domestic policy. He was an Anti-Federalist who opposed excessive taxation and economic regulation by the federal government. He also FINALLY extended citizenship to Indians, which had been long overdue.

Third place goes to Hoover, but I don't like him. However, I don't dislike him. He had good domestic policy, especially with regards to Indians, but he started to fall apart once the media was in a frenzy over the depression and Hoover started signing in "Government Can Fix It" economic laws.

As for the rest of them, I believe they did more harm than good.

I don't understand how you can put Hoover at 3rd when he contributed to the Great Depression.

 

[Kludge]

I don't understand how you can put Hoover at 3rd when he contributed to the Great Depression.

Easily. The rest sucked even more. Jefferson had fairly decent economic policies, was anti-intervention, but his treatment of non-Whites (slave owning and Indian removal) in the United States was disgusting, far worse than any decrease in the standard of living or increase in taxation. Did you know that Jefferson's quote regarding watering the "Tree of Liberty" was used when talking of crushing a tax rebellion?