Best President ever?

FDR - WW2 & financial recovery

JFK - Civil Rights Act - unfortunately, signed by his replacement the year after he died

Reagan - Cold War, economics

Clinton - Balanced budget

It doesn't matter who built on the past successes of others.  The fact is that they picked up the ball and kept moving forward to get something accomplished.

 

 

 

yeah ive read that quote. Again part of a smear campaign by leftist hostorians to discredit Lincoln.

Gore Vidal wrote an entire book depicting Lincoln as a ruthless bloody dictator.

 

All miss the Forest for the Trees!

 

Lincoln was a man. A fallablabe, imperfect man. He was born in a racist country, raised and educated in racist times. And certainly harbored racist views himself.

what was remarkable about Lincoln was how he grew as a man and a leader, especially through his Presidency. What is commonly referred to as 'rising to the occassion'

 

feeble cherry picked quotes do nothing to diminish his stature.

 

 

He was in office at the right time, but also had a policy that complimented the time and he absolutely hit it out of the park. Frankly, anyone after Carter would have been a godsend. People think Bush Jr. was bad, but most people from our generation don't remember how god awful Carter was. Also, most people don't remember that Reagan was also a controversial president until he left office. The respect this country has for him is mostly post-presidency. The economy, regardless of what people say, was worse in the early eighties than it is now. After the fall of the wall, things turned quickly, but it was his economic policy that spurred the computer boom. That spurred the stock market and the economy. etc. etc. etc.