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What an interesting thread. My first thought was Clinton, then the second thought was Teddy Roosevelt. And I agree JFK was well loved...but, I'm going to go with Clinton. And the reason is that he always made me feel like I'd love to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the guy, and it wouldn't be intimidating. He had/has such a comfortable way about him. And I always understood what he was trying to tell me. He didn't talk down to people, and he didn't try to impress with vocabulary. I never felt like he was "spinning" information to talk without saying anything.
Reagan - always seemed so fake to me. And it was apparent, so quickly, that the guy had Altzheimers and that his wife was covering for him. Reagan's best skill was finding incredibly capable "managers" he delegated to. Nancy's best skill was keeping him in office, even after he didn't even know where they were half the time. Sad. I never got any warm and fuzzies from Reagan.
I, personally, have always loved Jimmy Carter, too. He's always seemed like such a sincere, honest, caring man, as well as being very capable. He wasn't good at charming his critics or the masses, though, like Clinton.
The media keeps telling me that Clinton had charisma, but he turned my stomach so much I couldn't see it.
I guess some might say Castro, Mao, Hitler, and Stalin had charisma also.
They too had their cheerleaders.
The Media Driven Presidents.
We are told so-and-so was charismatic and this other person is beautiful and pretty soon we all start to believe it.
Michelle Obama is beautiful. Clinton was charismatic.
Fact is, Michelle ain't all that pretty and with her perpetual scowl can be downright unattractive.
And if Clinton is so charismatic, how come he never got 50% of the vote?
It's like asking a room full of cheerleaders who the best team is.
What an interesting thread. My first thought was Clinton, then the second thought was Teddy Roosevelt. And I agree JFK was well loved...but, I'm going to go with Clinton. And the reason is that he always made me feel like I'd love to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the guy, and it wouldn't be intimidating. He had/has such a comfortable way about him. And I always understood what he was trying to tell me. He didn't talk down to people, and he didn't try to impress with vocabulary. I never felt like he was "spinning" information to talk without saying anything.
Reagan - always seemed so fake to me. And it was apparent, so quickly, that the guy had Altzheimers and that his wife was covering for him. Reagan's best skill was finding incredibly capable "managers" he delegated to. Nancy's best skill was keeping him in office, even after he didn't even know where they were half the time. Sad. I never got any warm and fuzzies from Reagan.
I, personally, have always loved Jimmy Carter, too. He's always seemed like such a sincere, honest, caring man, as well as being very capable. He wasn't good at charming his critics or the masses, though, like Clinton.
I think the one with the most charisma was the one that is from "my" party. My party always has the most charismatic, most loveable, and most perfect Presidents. The "other" parties Presidents on the other hand were evil incarnate, and should probably be stricken from the public record (I mean unless we want to show how evil their policies were, then we'll remember everything about them).
Alot of people speculate that Reagan had Alzheimer's in the white house, personally i dont think he did.
Wasent diagnosed until the mid 90's and the guy was said to been comprehensive until 2001.
OMG, were you old enough when he was in office to see him on TV regularly? He'd say things to the press or look confused when they'd ask him a question, and Nancy would grab him and whisper in his ear, and he'd say something else. They just didn't admit he had Altzheimer's until they couldn't cover up for him anymore.
It was no rumor, you could see it with your own eyes. We all knew he was losing it. Didn't matter how they tried to spin it.
But, as I say, he was a master at finding good people to run the White House without his help. And Nancy kept things in order.
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OMG, were you old enough when he was in office to see him on TV regularly? He'd say things to the press or look confused when they'd ask him a question, and Nancy would grab him and whisper in his ear, and he'd say something else. They just didn't admit he had Altzheimer's until they couldn't cover up for him anymore.
But, as I say, he was a master at finding good people to run the White House without his help. And Nancy kept things in order.
He was losing his hearing and could not hear people well hence the referenced whispering or confusion. and his dependence on wife and advisors.
ALZ may have been a factor during his presidency or not, we wouldn't know. But the difficulties with loss of hearing are known.
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