Favorite US President EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Keba]

Woodrow Wilson ...

Not really rational, my first ever thesis written was on his points and the League of Nations, so I just like him.

That and he was a bit of a pacifist, only going to war when he had to.

[Grey_Fox]

Err...

Wrong forum perhaps?

Anyways, Wilson wanted to get into the war, the only problem was he had to convince the American public, which was rather easily done considering the Germans were sinking British ships that had a fair number of American civilians on board.

[ShadesPanther]

nyways, Wilson wanted to get into the war, the only problem was he had to convince the American public, which was rather easily done considering the Germans were sinking British ships that had a fair number of American civilians on board.

Well sorta, but the Zimmerman Telegram really swung it.

As for favourite President....
Freddy Roosevelt I guess but it's close

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

To quote Gigagia, SCC:

I want to say, that I think the greatest US president ever is the great George W. Bush. He is so wonderful, I would nominate him for a third term if I had a chance.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

He was being sarcastic. The man's a Liberal.

[AntiochusIII]

As for favourite President....
Freddy Roosevelt I guess but it's close

Freddy? I've never heard of FDR being referred to as such before. Or are you talking about Teddy, Theodore Roosevelt?

[Reverend Joe]

Freddy? I've never heard of FDR being referred to as such before. Or are you talking about Teddy, Theodore Roosevelt?

Theodore! He's my favorite. A real socialist who put the leashes on the trusts, was one of the ealy conservationists, and yet also reaffirmed the Monroe doctrine, and set America on the road to imperialism, bigtime. We lost that later, when we stopped focusing on the idea of being a true emire, and instead propped ourselved up on the pretentious pedestal of "world peacekeeper". Teddy was also a monster of a man, figuratively speaking; he was a latter-day renaissance man, keeping active and vigorous into his later years, before his expedition into the Amazon basin shortened his life so severely.

The Great White Fleet, anyone?

[Atilius]

Abraham Lincoln.

Written shortly after the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in the summer of 1863:

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then be proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue and clenched teeth and steady eye and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation, while I fear there will be some white ones unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.

His sense of the sublime was matched by his appreciation of the ridiculous:

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

[dracosean]

my favorite president would have to be for teddy.

[rotorgun]

Definately Abraham Lincoln. I don't know of any other President, except FDR perhaps, who was more eloquent, longsuffering, and steadfast to his obligation to the United States. He could say more in one paragraph than a multitude of books could convey. We could sure use someone of his character in the white house now. Our debt to him is immense, for only he could envision the final victory and national reconciliation following the War between the States.

PS: @evil maniac from mars- I've heard it said...George W. Bush is analogous to a mail clerk who somehow became the CEO of a major corporation, who should have never left the mail room. As for me I would vote for PM Tony Blair before I would for George W. Bush.....no offense intended to our British or European freinds out there.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Reagan.

[ShadesPanther]

Freddy? I've never heard of FDR being referred to as such before. Or are you talking about Teddy, Theodore Roosevelt?

I meant Teddy

[Don Corleone]

I liked TR too, but I'm going to have to take issue with Zorba on defining TR as a Socialist. He actually limited the power of unions as much as any corporation. Despite TR's shameless self-promotion in this area, the true "Trust-buster" was his handpicked successor, WH Taft.

TR didn't believe in price controls, unemployment, welfare, abortion (yes, it was an issue, even back then), universal suffrage or any of the other left issues of his day. Calling him a socialist... well, I suppose you can define the term 'socialist' as you see fit Zorba. You're the first I personally have ever seen use the term in this setting. Populist, sure. But Socialist?... Hmmm....

[yesdachi]

Well, they say bigger is better so I’ll vote for Taft.

But honestly Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose boldness has always had a real appeal to me (perhaps because we haven’t had a president like that since). I’ll also give props to Ronald Reagan, who I think really helped to shape the US into what it is today.

[Strike For The South]

Robert E Lee LBJ. IVE BEEN TO HIS HOUSE!

[screwtype]

Woodrow Wilson ...

Not really rational, my first ever thesis written was on his points and the League of Nations, so I just like him.

That and he was a bit of a pacifist, only going to war when he had to.

You obviously didn't learn much about him in that exercise then.

[Goalie]

Eisenhower rules!