Post your favorite president

[Clodius Albinus]

... the man who perhaps singlehandedly soured de Tocqueville on American politicians. (Though Jackson's fellow Tennessean and frequent antagonist David Crockett didn't do much to enhance the reputation of American officeholders, either.)

And here I thought deTocqueville was rather upbeat in his conclusions.

He was, but about the genius of the American political system and the ingenuity of her people, not the statesmanship of her politicians. Indeed, one of his central observations was that the founders' most brilliant stroke was to create a system that could thrive even amidst the blundering, corruption, and incompetence of politicians -- and especially frontier politicians.

[Jugglah]

Ronald Reagan, for sure!

However, my favorite piece of president trivia would have to be the fact that Andrew Jackson accidentally invented the phrase "OK", because when he would check papers or bills or whatever (being the country hick that he was), he would write OK as an abbreviation for "Oll Korrect", meaning, of course, "All Correct".

[American Eagle]

Without a doubt, Ronald Reagan. Lincoln was great, some of our founders were great, and some great ones were scatters throughout. But Reagan was so amazing,

"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn — without diminishing the value of all human life." - Reagan

- that is so true.

[Baragon]

I'm surprised I haven't heard JFK or Roosevelt (F, not T.) on here yet...

[GlennAdams]

Theodore Roosevelt!! He's the man but hes so overlooked... Well, hes my 2nd favorite. Abe's the bestest.

[King Butter Turtle]

You guys are all picking serious presidents. Don't you appreciate a president that puts a mechanical bull in the whitehouse, walks around with a racoon on his shoulder, responds to some one telling him that she bet a man that she could get more than two words out of him with "you loose", or pushing the call button and hiding from the whitehouse aids? My kind of president is the kind who is waken up in the middle of the night to find out that he's president, get's sworn in and goes back to bed.

[Over the Rainbow]

Ronald Reagan..and George Washinton..I don't like Lincoln because he was for the north in the civil war

Uhm? So you'd rather our country have been separated into two smaller, warring nations, which in all probability means that Britain would have come back to strike against each, and take them back over again, which means that we would now be under the rule of Britain?
(yay for run-on sentences)
*ahem*

Hillary Clinton is my favourite president

Darn Yankee!

[The Top Crusader]

Taft was awesome... he couldn't fit in the White House bathtub!

[Over the Rainbow]

Taft was awesome... he couldn't fit in the White House bathtub!

Yep, and he always referred to himself as a "large party". He was the largest president ever, weighing over 300 pounds. The smallest and shortest president ever was James Madison, our fourth president, who weighed as much as me, 100 pounds.

[Laurie]

Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

[Samwise]

George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Ronald Reagan off the top of my head.

[Perron]

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are a couple of my favorites. And Theodore Roosevelt.

[Kairi]

Sarah Palin!


OK, ok, presidents who have already served: Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln.
Oh, and Calvin Coolidge was cool too.

[King Butter Turtle]

Sarah Palin! and Calvin Coolidge was cool too.

ditto

[mdetective12]

Abraham Lincoln, FDR, TR and lots more!

[Amethystic]

Larry the Yodeling Monkey! He was 1st president of the Society for Primate-Performed Arts. Hey, you never said what type of presidents!

Besides him... Abraham Lincoln a.k.a. Siv.

[amyinodyssey]

My Family visited Mt. Rushmore a few years ago and there was something there that allowed you to vote for your favorite American President of all time. I voted for Calvin Coolidge.

[KODY 105]

Here's a name no one has mentioned yet: Harry S Truman. Yes, his middle name is simply "S". His parents tried to appease both his grandfathers by using their initial of "Saul" and (some-other-s-name). I appreciate his presidency because he allowed the USAF to drop the nuclear bombs that ended World War 2. If he hadn't done that, like so many people today wish he did, then World War 2 would have killed many, many more people than it did. Huzzah for President Truman!

[Samwise]

Here's a name no one has mentioned yet: Harry S Truman. Yes, his middle name is simply "S". His parents tried to appease both his grandfathers by using their initial of "Saul" and (some-other-s-name). I appreciate his presidency because he allowed the USAF to drop the nuclear bombs that ended World War 2. If he hadn't done that, like so many people today wish he did, then World War 2 would have killed many, many more people than it did. Huzzah for President Truman!

I don't know about you but dropping nukes and killing thousands of men, women, and children (albeit for the cause of "greater good") does not exactly appeal to me as my favourite President.

[Donna Blackbeard]

John Adams!

Only 'cause his wife is an Abigail. One of my siblings names!