Washington through Jackson were pretty damn good, but Madison should have been more prepared for 1812.
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If FDR is one of our best presidents for beating the great depression why did he preside over more years of depression than any other president? If he is the best president for winning ww2 then why isn't stalin an even better leader for inflicting far more damage with far fewer resources than the americans and uk combined? If he is a superior president for beating the germans while not being a ruthless leader who stomped on liberites as Stalin did then what about his decision to imprison americans for having japanese ancestory? What makes FDR even a mediocre president?
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I have to say I'm especially surprised to see imran rank FDR so high.
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Originally posted by Geronimo
If FDR is one of our best presidents for beating the great depression why did he preside over more years of depression than any other president? If he is the best president for winning ww2 then why isn't stalin an even better leader for inflicting far more damage with far fewer resources than the americans and uk combined? If he is a superior president for beating the germans while not being a ruthless leader who stomped on liberites as Stalin did then what about his decision to imprison americans for having japanese ancestory? What makes FDR even a mediocre president?
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but what we have to look at is whether another president could have speeded the U.S. through the great depression. FDR pushed his socialist policies through because we were desperate. FDR's greatest asset was the fact he offered hope.
As for WW2, you can't fault FDR completely for this. He's a president, not a general. The fact is the U.S. had an army the same size as Portugal's. There was no way we could achieve the success of Stalin in less time. And it is congress who appoints the military, not the president. The fact is, it took us years to build up sufficient force.
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The fact is the U.S. had an army the same size as Portugal's. There was no way we could achieve the success of Stalin in less time.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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FDR also did an Executive takeover of the Judicial.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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Yep, although in fairness, Lincoln was the first to come up with that particular strategyFollow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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Originally posted by Geronimo
If he is the best president for winning ww2 then why isn't stalin an even better leader for inflicting far more damage with far fewer resources than the americans and uk combined?
1. Stalin wasted many human lives rather inefficiently (not that efficient waste of human life is that much better).
2. Stalin has never been US President.
If he is a superior president for beating the germans while not being a ruthless leader who stomped on liberites as Stalin did then what about his decision to imprison americans for having japanese ancestory?
There's awful and then there's really awful. Compared to what Stalin did to Germans, Poles, Finns, and others, Americans of Japanese descent were merely tickled by public school kids.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com
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Well, compared to what Stalin and Hitler did, slavery in the US wasn't all that bad either. That's why you look at the act itself, not the act relative to acts other people have done.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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So he did.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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Originally posted by David Floyd
Well, compared to what Stalin and Hitler did, slavery in the US wasn't all that bad either.
Actually, I'd say that slavery was that bad.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com
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Originally posted by David Floyd
Yeah, he should have given diplomacy more time rather than listening to the hawks in the Senate, who really just wanted to invade Canada. The Brits were ready to give in until the US declared war.
Waiting another month would have seen the Brits stopping their policies of capturing US sailors, but then again the US would never had asserted itself. Without the war US growth in territories and world power would have been stunted.
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Well, I was referring to the fact that we had an incredibly small navy.
Without the war US growth in territories and world power would have been stunted.
I just don't really see what the War of 1812 did to expand US power in the long run.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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Madison should have had a plan to deal with the British and not just declared war without being prepared to fight one of the best armies in the world.Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveDaDouche
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In my lifetime, teh Reagan and Clinton were the best.
The were both good leaders, although teh Reagan was in a class of his own.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln
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