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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (32972)	7/5/2010 3:17:07 PM
From: grusum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

i'd say no president has been perfect. reagan had his warts, but i liked him best of the recent presidents. he had the correct beliefs in limited government, but as with i believe every president in modern times, even he didn't understand what a free market is and how it works. but mostly he made good decisions. his biggest gaff, to me, was giving amnesty to illegal aliens. most people on this thread probably didn't like president kennedy. i thought he was a good president. i disliked 'teddy' as much as liked the president though. listening to the debates on youtube, i would have voted for nixon. yet kennedy was the better president. he lowered taxes showing good instincts. nixon chose expediency over principle when he took us off the gold standard. those two would be my modern favorites. coolidge pursued conservative policies, so i liked him too. after reading and learning a little, i no longer have a high opinion of lincoln. i believe the states had the legal right to secede. and i believe we would have been better off today had they succeeded in doing so. the evil of slavery was peacefully on the way out thanks to conservative whites speaking for blacks who had no voice back then, and could not do it by themselves. the civil war was not necessary. we could have formed military and other alliances among sovereign states back then for common defense and trade. my favorite president was jefferson, followed closely by washington. jefferson feared tyranny more than anarchy which is exactly where i stand. too many laws will smother honesty and honor, both of which are necessary to a strong nation.