Who is/was your favorite President? Your least favorite?

Question

Are there any reasons why?

Answer 1

Favorite: FDR, because of WW2. Second: Bill Clinton. Why? reduced deficit

Least: GWB. Why? Iraq war and expanded deficit.

Answer 2

Favorite: Gerald Ford, FDR Least: IDK

Answer 3

Favorites: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, & John F. Kennedy

Least Favorites: Richard Nixon, Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush,  

Answer 4

Jimmy Carter - best

Ronald Regan - worst

Answer 5

Favorite:Reagan, I love him for some reason. I have a funny story about him and something that happened to me in Germany...lol

Least:Jimmy Carter...ugh, talk about ruining the country

Answer 6

George Washington.

He was a successful leader, who brought the country through its hardest stages.  I also admire him, because as a general he actually fought "knee deep in blood" with his troops.  Something modern

presidents have all failed to do.  And yes, I consider him fighting with troops as president, because as Commander in Chief of the Continental army he was the single most important man in the army.  I also appreciated his ideals of staying removed from foreign wars and affairs, and his view on no political parties.

My least favorite would have to be John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

He is mainly recognized as great because of his assassination, and the creation of the Peace Core. But he got us involved in a long, bloody, conflict in Vietnam that was neither wise, right, or the American Way. He also barely escaped nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. He maddecisionsr descisions in office. He changed America for the worse, turning us into what we are today, world police that get involved in another countries right to sovereignty to protect our interests in the world.

Answer 7

Favorite: FDR - New Deal started us out of the depression and rallied the country together during WWII

Least: G W Bush - economy is in the dumps, housing crisis, rising gas / energy prices, tax cuts for the wealthy not the middle class, failure to aid New Orleans (one of our most historic cities), started a war of aggression against Iraq, failed to finish a war against Afghanistan, increased national deficit, arrogant and brutish toward the rest of the world and tried to put nation's focus on non-issues like g*y marriage instead of real issues like the economy.  

Answer 8

Favorite: FDR because of WW II and New Deal

Least favorite: W, because of his permanent lies and complete lack of intelligence

Answer 9

Favorite: FDR and truman they helped during ww2

Least: George bush, He is a retart he started this war and we won't be out for a while

Answer 10

Thomas Jefferson was the best, he opened up the entire western part of the country.

Lincoln was the worst, he did not need to invade the south and cause all that death and destruction, there is nothing in the constitution that says a state can't secede.

Answer 11

Favorite:  Washington, he could have been a king but rejected that notion and held firm to his belief that the revolution was about liberty not him gaining personal power.

Least favorite:  LBJ, started the Vietnam war even though he knew the Maddox was not attacked, worse he announced to the world that the U.S. was bombing North Vietnam in retaliation even before the order was given for bombing to commence causing pilots to fly right into an ambush.  His "Great Society" has been a very costly failure for this country and continues to be.  He essentially started the foolish mentality in government that if there is a problem it can be solved by spending more and more money on it.

Answer 12

Favorite: FDR by a mile. Brought the US out of the Depression, helped us take over WWII and gave the country hope are some of the reasons I like him.

Least: George "Dubya" Bush. He is arguably the dumbest person to ever graduate from an Ivy League school. All I have to say is move over James Buchanan, "Dubya" is now the worst president in US History.  

Answer 13

Favorite:  Ronald Reagan. He changed the world we live in and, other than Jesus Christ, provided true freedom to more people in more countries than anyone throughout the human history of the world.  He led simultaneously with compassion and discipline and we are the better for it. May another one soon come along.  

Worst - Clinton because of no respect for the office, and for encouraging the financial wheeling and dealing that made him popular but put us into the financial quagmire we're in today.  Second worst, Jimmy Carter, for deposing the Shah of Iran - our strongest non-Israeli ally in the MidEast - and allowing the entire age of terrorism to spark under the Iranian clerics that replaced him, and now pervade many of the Muslim countries, whether Persian, Arab, Pakistani, Afghani, etc., etc., etc.  He introduced measures that caused the worst inflation and interest rates/economy that our country has seen since the Great Depression. He remains a misguided soul to this day with his irrational and uninformed comments on national politics and world events.  A classic example of a nice, popular guy who was clueless and with little productivity in the Presidency.  Obama is looking a lot like a replay on that theme.  We can only hope and pray that he does not get elected. As far as imbiciles who almost threw us into World War - JFK and LBJ are at the top of the list.  If you need more background as to why, read Robert McNamara's confessions on all of the sickening things that those two did while they were in office that put their country at risk and destroyed lives.

Answer 14

Favorite-Washington. Why? He could have been king, but said no. He set up much of how the government runs today, kept us out of war and most important of all, if it weren't for him, there probably would be a USA.

Least Favorite-Hoover. We were thrown in the Great Depression because of him.