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Post by El Zilcho on Nov 23, 2008 17:31:17 GMT -5
My vote goes to Theodore Roosevelt.
He was an amazing person.
And he had a great mustache.
I left out a few who I thought who were generally the worst presidents EVAR.
10 internets if you can name them.
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Post by despommes on Nov 23, 2008 17:56:40 GMT -5
Jimmy Carter ftw.
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Post by El Zilcho on Nov 23, 2008 18:20:19 GMT -5
....I was actually going to leave jimmy carter off.
I was actually just going to leave most of the presidents past Franklin Roosevelt off.
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Post by despommes on Nov 23, 2008 19:10:53 GMT -5
That was a mistake you handily avoided. Good work, sir.
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Post by jolie on Nov 23, 2008 20:18:15 GMT -5
GREAT THREAD
my vote for worst goes to mr. ronald reagan
hayes, cleavland, arthur, harrison etc. werent that great but nothing compares to my dislike of regan. bush runs a close second though, and andrew johnson, lincoln's successor, sucked too IMO. I heart lincoln though.
and while I like TR for being a bamf/all around great president and jimmy for being a peace advocate, I think they both had flawz (specifically jimmy, a lot of his administration was a big mess but hes such a nice guy you can forgive him)
SO
after much thought, my faves are FDR and bill clinton <3
I also want to give a special shout out to LBJ~ besides vietnam (which is clearly a huge problem) lyndon johnson had great domestic policy. we probably wouldn't be where we are today with obama if it hadn't been for him.
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Post by El Zilcho on Nov 24, 2008 1:54:08 GMT -5
Bill Clinton: fairly good president, moral degenerate.
- My biology teacher.
What do you dislike about Reagan so much. REAGANOMICS.
People call me that. Sometimes.
Little known fact: Theodore Roosevelt built the Panama Canal with his bare hands. Before swimming to Colombia, he wrote the Panama constitution, threw it to them from the US, swam to colombia and used his mastery of karate to keep from interfering with the creation of the republic of panama.
After completing that task, he did front flips all the way to panama, and used his diamond fingernails to dig the canal.
THAT IS FACT.
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Post by ray m. on Nov 24, 2008 13:18:16 GMT -5
i voted for andrew jackson. he was the doo doo
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Post by jolie on Nov 24, 2008 17:20:30 GMT -5
i voted for andrew jackson. he was the doo doo FACT FACT FACT okay he and regan tie for my least favorite I pretty much hate reaganomics and all of his other policies. my ap us teacher was a "huge advocate of the reagan presidency" so the entire time we studied the 80s I was usually angry. |
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Post by ray m. on Nov 24, 2008 18:13:35 GMT -5
no i meant i voted for andrew jackson as the best. he was the shizzle, he kept the states together when NC wanted to separate, he extended voting out to the common man, he killed the bank of america, he was shot mad times, and he totally kicked britain's ass in new orlean's.
he also was america's first "common man's" president.
only flaw with him was that he was a racist.
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Post by El Zilcho on Nov 25, 2008 0:04:03 GMT -5
True dat holmes. Andrew Jackson was almost as much of a bad-ass as Theodore Roosevelt.
Except not as....awesome, or mustachioed, or righteous.
He did love dueling some motherf**kers though.
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Post by sara on Nov 25, 2008 10:21:42 GMT -5
abe lincoln's hauling butt! Ironically, I believe Phil was Abe Lincoln for halloween this year too. hah
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Post by drew on Nov 25, 2008 14:59:56 GMT -5
I voted for Jerry Ford because he never was supposed to be President.
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Post by tiger suit on Nov 25, 2008 18:30:09 GMT -5
abe lincoln's hauling butt! Ironically, I believe Phil was Abe Lincoln for halloween this year too. hah that is so boss. |
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Post by ray m. on Nov 25, 2008 18:31:59 GMT -5
today i found out the term "the big cheese" was coined from a gift that was once given to thomas jefferson. someone gave him over a thousand pounds in cheese so he became known as "the big cheese"
at least that's what some website told me. i actually don't think it's totally true.
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Post by sara on Nov 25, 2008 19:07:06 GMT -5
today i found out the term "the big cheese" was coined from a gift that was once given to thomas jefferson. someone gave him over a thousand pounds in cheese so he became known as "the big cheese" at least that's what some website told me. i actually don't think it's totally true. hahah! |
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Post by jolie on Nov 26, 2008 19:39:02 GMT -5
dudes- andrew jackson was, to quote my social studies teacher "mr. racist." he kicked out the indians while simultaneously f**king up our economy. seriously, we were in such trouble economically after his reign.
also I wish I had spent halloween with phil- I was dressed as ben franklin so that would have been so awesome.
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Post by ray m. on Nov 26, 2008 23:51:51 GMT -5
he f**ked the economy to kill the bank of america which in the end, saved our economy. yeah he was racist, but without him, obama wouldn't be president today. extending the vote to common (male) citizens was the first MAJOR step to equality in america.
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Post by sarahw on Nov 27, 2008 0:02:58 GMT -5
For Halloween my friend Melissa went as Sara Palin, and our friend Alex wore a McCain shirt with McCain crossed out and Palin's name written over it  There we go, another rap/hip hop artist: MC Cain. I voted Thomas Jefferson because I think he was pretty awesome. He was for limiting federal power and keeping as much of it in the hands of the states. He was a scholar and a musician. |
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Post by ray m. on Nov 27, 2008 0:08:53 GMT -5
me and my friend are making a rap video about thomas jefferson and thomas paine for our APUSH project. we are going to do it the the melody of Wu Tang Clan's "C.R.E.A.M."
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Post by El Zilcho on Nov 27, 2008 0:59:42 GMT -5
I was going to rap about teddy roosevelt for www.myspace.com/breakfastpizzasauceWhat? Shameless self promotion? Also, without Thomas jefferson, macaroni and cheese would not be near as popular. It's a dish he picked up while in france, then he made a a machine for making the noodles back in America. Also, I think he served ice cream too at the white house dinners. Just droppin' some culinary knowledge on y'all |
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