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Ok sheeple...easy question...do some research and answer as to whom is the bigger demagogue.

2007-05-14 17:03:32 · 18 answers · asked by guyin559 2 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

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Does is really matter.... JFK didn't really do much... Bush has made some critical mistakes, FDR had hints about pearl harbor didnt follow, Lincoln... uhhh...ummm didn't want to ban slavery until the middle of the civil war??? < i dont have a good reason for this one

2007-05-14 17:11:33 · answer #1 · answered by annoyingdude99 3 · 1 0

Lincoln and FDR were two of our greatest Presidents.
Lincoln was a little slow coming out against slavery but in the end got it right. FDR did more for the middle class than any President with Social Security and his Job-Creating Public Works Programs. His worst moment: internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. JFK was a great speaker and led us to land on the moon before the USSR. He also supported dictatorships in Central and South America and got is into the Viet Nam quagmire which LBJ and Nixon escalated.

Bush, I honestly can't think of one good thing he's done save maybe throwing out a first pitch after 9/11-but that didn't make up for the My Pet Goat episode as the moments ticked away as America was being attacked.
Why is Bush the worst?
1) Used information he knew to be false as justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq;
2) Has spent almost a half Trillion Dollars of the American peoples money on the Iraq War and Occupation;
3) Authorized the torture of prisoners of war;
4) Authorized wiretaps on U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant;
5) Suspended and denied the historic Writ of Habeas Corpus by ordering the indefinite detention of
so-called enemy combatants without charge and without access to legal counsel;
6) Overstepped Presidential authority by signing statements used to ignore or circumvent portions of over
750 Congressional statutes he brought into law.
7) Withdrew the United States from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 with Russia/USSR.
8) Instituted Tax Cuts where over 50% of the cuts went to the wealthiest 10% of Americans and 15% of the cuts went to the richest 0.1%!

2007-05-14 17:51:12 · answer #2 · answered by Richard V 6 · 0 0

Only one in the group, Bush. All the others sure had their faults, but none were stupid, the other three were far from it. Lincoln was not the greatest of leaders, but he managed to get something done for the blacks, even though it really wasn't what he wanted in theory, he did more than he intended, and it worked for the best. FDR will always go down in history as one of our best and strongest presidents. Ok, his personal life was a bit strange, but who are we to judge, they both did a lot for our country. Eleanor, in her own right did more than any other wife before her. JFK had the brains, just didn't know how to use them. Lousy president, probably wouldn't have gotten re-elected, but he died and was made a martyr. his biggest problem was women in the White House, he and Clinton would have made a great team, only at least Kennedy knew how to use his Secret Service better. But he didn't do anything too bad, even if he did get us involved in Viet Nam, he left it to Johnson to do all the dirty work. So, leaves you with Bush as the only one who really made all the mistakes in office. That is the mistakes of being a president, not personal mistakes.

2007-05-14 17:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 3 2

-Vote one million you do not think of Lincoln became into unpopular? His election on my own divided the country to the factor that the South seceded! Even interior the Union, he continually had a bevy of critics. no be counted if it is people who believed he became into too careful or not careful sufficient, Lincoln became into continually criticized for the time of his presidency. in certainty, if it weren't for the severe protection stress victories in 1863 and 1864, George McClellan could have crushed him interior the 1864 Presidential Election. -otto What a perfectly witty fact! crammed with stable data and diagnosis! yet heavily, in case you heavily study his fact, you will possibly locate it to be remarkably precise. Take, as an occasion, President James Buchanan. Elected in 1856, his term in the present day preceded the Civil conflict, and an excellent form of have faith that his inactiveness allowed the divisive sectionalism of our united states of america to fester to the factor the place outright secessionism got here approximately under Lincoln's administration. as a effect of his passiveness, maximum historians rank him as certainly one of country's worst presidents. -grant (under) honestly, Truman left workplace with the conflict in Korea unresolved. It took Eisenhower's negotiation skills to end that conflict.

2016-12-11 09:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by caren 4 · 0 0

Adu Nidal, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussien, Colonel Khadaffi, ......and on and on...Now you might what to rephrase that question. Who was the bigger Hero? Muhammed Atta or Jesse Jaskson? Silly, you calling people "sheeple" when you are so willing to go to the slaughter....like a sheep.

2007-05-14 17:58:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Far as I am concerned all of them are great presidents. Why would you consider any of them to be a villain. What I can see is that you liked Saddam, you support slavery, you wished the Axis had won WW2 and you think the Soviet Union should have won the Cold war.

2007-05-14 17:13:59 · answer #6 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 2 1

Oh, FDR without a doubt!
1: The New Deal was a disaster and prolonged the depression, focussing on Reform instead of Recovery
2: He managed to cause a recession DURING a depression, otherwise nigh impossible
3: He gave up Eastern Europe to "Uncle Joe" Stalin in exchange for free elections (only one, commies got 17%, good enough for revolution!
4: He helped orchestrate Pearl Harbor intentionally with an oil embargo that left Japan no choice
5: He deliberately pulled us into the economy of warring nations with his lend and lease system
6: He made secret pacts with England to overthrow Naziism!

2007-05-14 17:13:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3 4

FDR. He created the "big government will take care of you" attitude that now pervades the senate and congress. He literally stepped all over the Constitution to create the government welfare programs that exist today.

2007-05-14 17:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by nomad74 3 · 0 1

I like Lincoln BUT the Civil War was a sin on the American way of life. And set us back as a united people. Thanks a lot Abe.

2007-05-14 17:20:55 · answer #9 · answered by caciansf 4 · 1 0

Seems like a rigged question to me. Surely you can find a less contrived way to criticize President Bush.

2007-05-14 17:08:06 · answer #10 · answered by carlos705 3 · 2 2

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