Favorite US President?

[UrbScotty]

[SmileyBoy]

1. Oh, you're doing mediocre presidents, huh???

I'm gonna say Tyler, because he campaigned well.

[mobuto]

4. LMAO

Tyler didn't campaign at all, and was one of the most unpopular presidents in history. I think he got a bad rap.

After he left office, the former President returned home to his Virginia plantation. He was exceedingly unpopular there, and his Virginia-aristrocrat neighbors thought they could insult him by electing him county commissioner for roads - not exactly comperable to his former office.

To their astonishment, Tyler enthusiastically agreed to the charge.

What they forgot - and what he knew - was that an old provision of the law establishing the post allowed the commissioner to impress any county resident to work on road maintenance. So he was able to force these millionaire gentlemen slave-owning farmers to slog through mud grading old roads and chopping trees.

I love irony.

[JohnKleeb]

2. None of the above, I could care less

[rbnyc]

5. Haven't you been paying attention to the pet peeve threads?

That's couldn't care less.

;-)

[JohnKleeb]

6. no

Whatever I am not known for my grammar. :hi: but thanks
I dont give a damn, so I didnt vote for either.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Tyler was a traitor

Totally pro-slavery; joined the Confederate Senate as an ex-president. Nice house, though (I have visited it), and president with most children, 15 by two wives (randy old bastard).

[mobuto]

7. Confederate House of Represenatives, actually

but as President, he really wasn't so bad.

He opposed the Bank of the United States, and fought for squatter rights. He promoted and signed into law what would become the prototype for the homestead act, The Log-Cabin Bill, which allowed any settler to occupy 125 acres, and only later pay $1.25 per acre for it. He diffused a perilous dispute with the UK by acceding to the Webster-Ashburton treaty. And he generally pissed off the Southern aristocracy.

I think the guy molds well into the pattern of Southwestern Democrats (even though he was from the East) before the war. He looked out for the interests of poor whites. Yes, he should be faulted for not caring about Native Americans or African Americans or Mexicans and for opposing the power of the Federal Government, but at least he cared about one disenfranchised group. In his time, even that much was pretty rare in Washington.

[UrbScotty]

8. Hardly any votes for the only Democrat listed

:shrug:

[joeybee12]

9. "We are the totally forgettable, sometimes regrettable, caretaker

Presidents of the U.S.A.!!!"

[jeter]

10. This poll is proof that name recognition means everything

Because John Quincy Adams was a disaster as a President. You can call him the Shrub of the early 19th century. Without Iraq though.

He was "elected" without the popular vote and only on his pappy's name. He represented old aristocratic interests, unlike Andrew Jackson, who would become the "people's President."

This poll only shows me why the national polls are so sckewed. It's because people know Bush and not the others. So they say they will vote for him and not the others.

Thanks.