Pick your favorite president from the given quote.

TruthIsAll

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Sun Jun-20-04 05:46 PM
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Poll question: Pick your favorite president from the given quote.

The last one has famous three quotes. I couldn't choose just one. They are all equally inspiring.

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Cheswick2.0

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Sun Jun-20-04 05:49 PM
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1. kick

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olddem43

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Sun Jun-20-04 05:51 PM
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2. I picked Abe, the last honest Republican

Edited on Sun Jun-20-04 05:52 PM by olddem43

although I like Harry for best of the 20th Century.

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theo4487

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Sun Jun-20-04 05:52 PM
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3. Teddy Rosevelt?

Edited on Sun Jun-20-04 05:53 PM by theo4487

I don't consider him a dishonest Republican

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louis c

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Sun Jun-20-04 05:58 PM
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4. The Modern Day Republican Party

started with Taft and evolved into what we have today with Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. I don't think Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt would call themselves Republicans today, do you?

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olddem43

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Mon Jun-21-04 10:48 AM
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9. I have never considered Teddy R. a Republican

Because, as you will recall, he quit the party because they had become too corrupt, and ran as a 3rd party candidate. He would certainly be a Dem if he were alive today.

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louis c

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Mon Jun-21-04 05:14 PM
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14. I certainly agree

He gave a voice to the working class. That's why I said Taft started the modern day Republican Party.

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gibbyman

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Sun Jun-20-04 06:24 PM
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5. Who made the

Quote,Are there any blacks in Brazil? What a stupid pilot. There should be limits to freedom ?????????? don't think I every heard that quote

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progdonkey

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Sun Jun-20-04 06:43 PM
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6. unless you're joking, it's Bush

It's a mixture of three quotes. When shrub went to Brazil (a country that is something like 60% black), he asked the Prime Minister the first sentence.

"What a stupid pilot," is a paraphrasing of his stated response to seeing the first plane fly into the tower (which of course is impossible).

"There ought to be limits to freedom" was shrub's response when asked about the free press and investigations by journalists into his background.

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MrSlayer

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Sun Jun-20-04 06:46 PM
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7. FDR but the quote has been Bushed.

You forgot the "is fear" part.

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alejandrofromcuba

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Sun Jun-20-04 07:09 PM
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8. good presidents

I think Lincoln was the first decent R and Teddy R was the last. Teddy did not like the direction the party was headed--but he lost control over it---that was the end of the R party.

Teddy was pretty cool--got the environmental movement started and did some major trust busting. He was a bit hawkish for my tastes--but that was the mind-set back then. After him--the R's really went downhill. From Lincoln to Teddy R--I probably would have mostly voted R if I had of been around.

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gottaB

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Mon Jun-21-04 12:19 PM
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10. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary

for a^ one people to ~~advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to~~^dissolve the political bands which connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the ~~equal and independent~~^separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them ~~to change~~^.the separation

yada yada yada--everybody know's this is just a rough draft, right?

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Kid_A

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Mon Jun-21-04 12:26 PM
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11. Clinton's quote should have been

"There is nothing wrong about America that cannot be fixed by what is right about America"

I probably got the wording wrong, but that's one for the history books.

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gottaB

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Mon Jun-21-04 12:32 PM
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12. Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal

You were close. "Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/clinton1.htm

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LTR

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Mon Jun-21-04 01:14 PM
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13. I picked Truman

FDR's quote rings true today (especially if you've seen "Bowling for Columbine") but Harry Truman realized that somebody must accept responsibility for actions. Hence "The buck stops here".

Truman did some things that were not very well liked, and had to fight a lot of infighting from his own party (from the far-left Henry Wallace faction to the far-right Strom Thurmond faction), and also had to deal with McCarthy breathing down his neck. But he was a fighter, and fought for what he deemed fair and right.

He had terrible ratings during his presidency, but is often ranked high in historical polls. As he should.

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TexasSissy

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Mon Jun-21-04 05:24 PM
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15. It was tossup tween FDR & Lincoln. I went w/FDR.

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DaveSZ

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Mon Jun-21-04 05:31 PM
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16. FDR

:)

His cousin Teddy is a close second.

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