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J_Jammer
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 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: Favorite President |
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My favorite President is Abraham Lincoln for many Presidential reasons, but mainly for personal reasons.
| The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln wrote: | | While a fine writer, Lincoln was never a good speller, nor did he ever get around to memorizing rules of punctuation. ("With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it's a matter of feeling," he told a friend in December 1864. "But I must say that I have a great respect for the semicolon; it's a very useful little chap.") For the sake of clarity, I have corrected some of his punctuation and misspellings. |
The reason I really like him is that he proves that to be a great writer doesn't mean you have to be great speller or with grammar.
I know people that are great at both who are not great writers. It is not something that goes hand in hand.
It's why I like Ernest Hemingway.
What President do you have as a favorite and for what reasons, other than political, do you have?
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MyTurnToFlogMolly
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Off the top of my head, I'd say Harry Truman. While he did some f***** up things (dropping nukes), there isn't a single president that did ALL good. On top of that, he became president even though he was just a commoner and never graduated college. He was vice-president for less than three months when FDR died, thereby inheriting World War II, and in the end did a damn fine job.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: Re: Favorite President |
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| Quote: | | What President do you have as a favorite and for what reasons, other than political, do you have? |
I've always liked Teddy Roosevelt for a number of reasons, but mostly because of his senses of adventure and humor. A Medal of Honor recipient, he also ventured down the Amazon at a time when many Americans had never heard of it. No other president before or since has done most of the stuff Teddy managed to do, and even if you don't agree with his politics, you have to admire the guy's courage.
p.s. I like Abe and Harry, too, and even voted for Jimmy Carter thereby ensuring his defeat for reelection by "The Great Communicator," whom I also like (no one I vote for ever wins...).
p.p.s. I chanced across this by accident while researching something on FDR:
Roosevelt was born in New York City, son of a well-to-do importer who devoted much of his leisure to helping wayward children. As a boy, "Teedie" developed many of the traits that, with his storied energy, were to make him a forceful political leader. He mastered a variety of subjects; he loved manly sport; he had a snobbish sense of superiority and, with it, his father's charitable commitment; he was confident of his rectitude; he loved to preach and write. At 18, he published the first of his 38 works, a scientific catalogue on summer birds of the Adirondacks. At Harvard he boxed, joined the most fashionable clubs, and graduated in 1880 in the top 15 percent of his class.
So blessed was Roosevelt with success that it is easy to forget the handicaps he overcame. He was blind in one eye, yet was a prodigious reader and author. He was sickly and asthmatic, and his heart was so weak that his doctors feared that his compulsive exercising would kill him. He bore with stoicism the immeasurable tragedy of losing, at 25, his wife and his mother on the same day. He had great qualities of courage and determination. He was an unabashed self-promoter, but, then, there was much to promote. He was a genuine reformer in the New York assembly and a real hero on San Juan Hill. He had enemies and rejoiced in them; some of them thought he was crazy. McKinley's man Mark Hanna tried to block him from the vice-presidential nomination in 1900, wailing, "Don't any of you realize that there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?"
Jingoes, Goo-Goos and the Rise of America's Empire. Contributors: Warren Zimmermann - author. Magazine Title: The Wilson Quarterly. Volume: 22. Issue: 2. Publication Date: Spring 1998. Page Number: 42
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No one you ever voted for won? Are you stating you're a bad luck charm? 
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| J_Jammer wrote: | | No one you ever voted for won? Are you stating you're a bad luck charm? |
I guess I've always liked the underdog, but it would be nice to back a winner for a change (I thought Carter would win reelection hands down). I even volunteered to help out in a reelection campaign for a long-time Oklahoma congressman once several years ago, figuring what the hey -- the guy can't lose and after he's reelected, there may be a juicy job offer in it for me. Shortly after I joined the campaign staff, he was implicated in a scandal (unrelated to me, I assure you) and lost big time. I suppose I'm probably more of a "death knell" than a "bad luck charm."
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Maybe one day you'll be on a winner's side in a political way. 
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| Andrew Jackson, only president to have get the United States in a era where we had ZERO national debt |
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| pHuffy wrote: | | Andrew Jackson, only president to have get the United States in a era where we had ZERO national debt |
What did he do to accomplish that?
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Teddy Roosevelt, for sure. PBS's National Parks show last week won me over.
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It's hard for me to pick a single favorite so I'll give my 4 that are tied for #1:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
All were great leaders, and all had great character / were great men.
If anyone takes a trip to Gettysburg, I recommend touring the Eisenhower farm, where he resided post-presidency. It's pretty awesome. |
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