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View Poll Results: Who should we honor during President's Day?
George Washington!!! 23 52.27%
Thomas Jefferson! 12 27.27%
Ronald Reagan! 9 20.45%
Abe Lincoln! 15 34.09%
George Bush (Jr. and/or Sr.)! 4 9.09%
Bill Clinton! 3 6.82%
Jimmy Carter! 0 0%
FDR / Dwight Eisenhower! 6 13.64%
Calvin Coolidge (the Roaring 20s)! 2 4.55%
JFK! 5 11.36%
Barack Hussein Obama, II. 3 6.82%
Other President(s) from 1800-1900! 0 0%
Other President(s) from 1901-1919! 0 0%
Other President(s) from 1961-1977! 0 0%
NONE of them! They ALL sucked! 3 6.82%
ALL PRESIDENTS, PAST AND PRESENT! 12 27.27%
Other / I do not know! 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 44. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-18-2010, 06:59 AM
 
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Who should we honor during President's Day?

I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.

So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???

Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??

Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???

"Presidents Day" used to be two separate days honoring Lincoln and Washington. With the advent of Martin Luther King day, Lincoln and Washington's birthday was lumped into "Presidents Day". I think we should go back to the old way, as Lincoln and Washington certainly trump MLK in the scope of US history.
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Old 02-18-2010, 10:24 AM
 
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For me, it's to honor the office of the President.

It's a crappy, mostly thankless job and someone's gotta do it.
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Old 02-18-2010, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Originally Posted by CommonSense1 View Post
Who should we honor during President's Day?

I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.

So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???

Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??

Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???
I voted for Lincoln and Washington, the only real heroes of the group. I remember getting out of school in my first years of teaching for those two men's birthdays and then one day someone decided to cut the number of school holidays in half by including them on that day. I still think that we have to allow something special for them in that one created the US, or, at least without him the Constitution would not have been successful. In Lincoln's instance the United States was maintained whether he freed any slaves with the proclamation, and he didn't free one slave with it, the nation came out of that divisive war still in one piece.
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Old 02-18-2010, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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Washington was our first, so he should be honored. But I voted for all of them.
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