Best Democratic President?

A fellow DU'er just pointed out to me that the first return on Google for "great president" is our friend, *.

Lets vote on the best democratic president, and Google bomb that suckers Whitehouse web page!

Edited to add a few I missed.

James K Polk

or

Thomas Jefferson (technically)

or

Andy Jackson

There ya go

That'll be the day...

I forgot to add Al Gore :)

I voted for FDR primarily because he was at the center coalition shift that started the process of making the Democratic party what it is today. I admire certain other Democrats and their policies a bit more (LBJ's Great Society programs, for example), but no Democratic President since FDR has done as much to form the nation's vision and push that vision into the mainstream of political life.

Woodrow Wilson, one of the other choices, represents what the party once was and what the Dixiecrats tried to maintain. Wilson's many wars of opportunity in Central America and the philosophy behind them are strikingly similar to the PNAC vision of today. In fact, some of his post-war policies, aided by the imperialistic visions of the allies, helped create the world's messes of today. IOW, I hardly consider him a Democrat in the terms I use when thinking of Democrats.


IMO...

Do you all know how to google bomb?

A great president during a very difficult time. I went ahead and added him to my signature links. I'll update it if he doesn't win, but in the meantime wanted to show my support.

His people saw him as a 'class' traitor..he must have been good !

I loved JFK & Bill C. but FDR set up the USA for decades of prosperity

You would think they could come up with a better nominee than him for great president.

Raygun?

nt

I know Bush is there!

old routine of claiming Lincoln was a member of the modern day republican party. On this other board I visit, someone mentions all the time about it being the party of Lincoln.

They can't. That's the problem.

Ever notice how they try to co-opt Dem presidents sometimes by saying "Well, but they were conservative democrats."?

I would have expected him to be a solid 2nd behind FDR.

It's looking like FDR is the man.

I'm still curious to see what everyone thinks.

To see Carter tied for third...

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

tell me what to do and I'm there.

Whatever word or words you want to bomb you use as the words that are highlighted as your link words. For instance, miserable failure will lead you to the whitehouse biography of bush. Great president will lead them to the FDR page of whitehouse presidential biographies. The link for HTML lookup table will give you all the info you need for format. Anything else you need just ask.

Bump

I didn't know they could be that long. I'm going to have to get to work.

But I'm not bitching.

:puke: Man was vile in so many ways...

and FDR won it.

He did some crazy shit by liberal standards (the fifth columnist show trials, court packing, etc.) but most of it was in the name of winning the liberal battle against home-grown fascism and the corporatocracy.

America would have been a dramatically different place had he lost that battle (our society would be poorer, there'd be a permanent underclass, and we'd have been a banana republic by now, having gone the same way as ever other plutocracy in the history of the world).

FDR was, almost without a doubt, the best president we've ever had. He made America what it was from 1945 to 1972, and he made it what we're all fighting to hold on to since the corporations/Republicans began their push for total control since 72.

Truly compassionate person and poised President.

:)