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Best U.S President ever

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IrishLiberal posted on Sun, Oct 25 2009 8:26 AM

Who was it?

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William Henry Harrison. In office 32 days--not long enough to do any damage.

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Thomas JeffersonSuper Angry

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Being the best piece of crap is still crap.  So they all sucked.

At most, 5% of the population would need to stop complying to bring down the government.

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Felipe replied on Sun, Oct 25 2009 10:34 AM

Jefferson

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Andrew Jackson?

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." ~Dream

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There was a big list of "Top 5 Presidents" a while ago, you might want to search it

Van Buren, Jackson, Jefferson did best

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

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Ron Paul.

(wishful thinking in full effect)

Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid

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Andrew replied on Sun, Oct 25 2009 1:46 PM

Al Gore..hehe

Democracy is nothing more than replacing bullets with ballots

 

If Pro is the opposite of Con. What is the opposite of Progress?

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Andrew Jackson?

Ever hear of the trail of tears? Jackson might have helped to fight off a central bank but he was responsible for genocide and threatening the U.s's entire system of checks and balances.

All the statists and Keynesians will look up and shout "Save Us!" and I'll wisper "No." 

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What about Grover Cleveland or Calvin Coolidge?

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IrishLiberal:
Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland for most libertarian president IMO. Watch out with Jefferson and Jackson. Make sure to separate what they said from what they did.

But they're all pretty bad.

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Esuric replied on Sun, Oct 25 2009 4:30 PM

WARREN G. HARDING

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William Henry Harrison. In office 32 days--not long enough to do any damage.

This has always been my answer as well.

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Seph replied on Sun, Oct 25 2009 7:07 PM

The Late Andrew Ryan:
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Andrew Jackson?

Ever hear of the trail of tears? Jackson might have helped to fight off a central bank but he was responsible for genocide and threatening the U.s's entire system of checks and balances.

Which is actually less than most presidents did, sadly. 

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