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Three favorite, three worst favorite presidents.

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miksirhc Posted: Sat, Mar 22 2008 11:02 AM

Just curious.  Short explanations would be nice.

I'm not lazy, I just have a high time preference.
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shazam replied on Sat, Mar 22 2008 7:31 PM

Favorite:

1. W.H. Harrison That which governs best which governs least

2. Grover Cleveland Most libertarian president we've had in post-Founding Father era; supported gold standard, frequently vetoed unconstitutional bills

3. John Tyler Stopped Whigs plan for a central bank

 Least Favorite:

1. Abraham Lincoln Shattered states' rights (particularly those of secession and nullification); violated habeus corpus; established mercantilistic dictatorship; launched unnecesary war against Southern civilians (killing 600,000 people); launched genocidal raids against Native Americans to make way for national railroads; set precedent for subsequent presidents to violate the Constitution

2. Franklin Roosevelt Made fascist economic policies to further worsen the Great Depression; established federal ponzi scheme (known as Social Security); provoked Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor with sanctions; enforced peace time military draft (not that a wartime military draft is any better); places Japanese Americans into internment camps; allied himself with Joseph Stalin; denied Jewish immigrants fleeing the Holocaust entry into the United States

3. Woodrow Wilson Signed Federal Reserve Act; Supported 16th, 17th, and 18th Amendments; used sinking of a British ship to get America into WWI; enforced military draft; paved path toward world governance with League of Nations

Anarcho-capitalism boogeyman

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